THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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and mashed, or cooked as turnips, they 

 make a sauce for human food, esteemed 

 excellent by most who have tried them. 

 The Jerusalem are finer for pickles than 

 the common, as the former is smooth and 

 uniform shaped; while the latter rough 

 and unsightly. The Jerusalem, in shape 

 and look resemble small sweet potatoes. 

 So great is the yield, and so profitable for 

 swine, that they are fast being introduced 

 into general culture in North Carolina. — 

 In the Western and more Southern States 

 their culture has been on the advance for 

 several years past. It appears from ex- 

 periments stated in various periodicals, 

 that this esculent flourishes any where in 

 the United States. But I hasten to close 

 with a passing notice of one more item, 

 viz : 



3. TheOkra. This plant, recommended 

 by Mr. Ellsworth of the Patent Office, to 

 have seed as good for coffee as the Java, 

 I cultivated for that object. Most of my 

 family and those here trying this American 

 coffee, prefer it to the Eastern, And it is 

 certainly more healthy. With a few seed 

 obtained from the Patent Office and else- 

 where, I have made several bushels. The 

 result of my experiments as to yield, is 

 that an acre in good tilth will yield about 

 25 bushels of seed, which at 60 lbs. per 

 bushel, is 1500 lbs., which at ten cents 

 per pound, is 150 dollars. To get the 

 seeds from the pods, 1 pass the latter 

 through my corn sheller machine. Beat- 

 ing the pods as wheat, will answer the 

 same end. But all, most respectfully sub- 

 mitted by yours, and the public's humble 

 servant, 



Sidney Weller. 

 Brinkleyville, Halifax Co., N. C, Dec. 3. 



POTTING PLANTS— INTERESTING 

 EXPERIMENT. 



At a late meeting of the Natural His- 

 tory Society of Brooklyn, Mr. Brigham 

 stated the successful result of an experi- 

 ment he had been making for the purpose 

 of potting plants which had been reared 

 in the ground, in order to obviate the in- 

 jurious consequences of the wilt when 



transplanted in the usual way. The Ad- 

 vertiser says : 



" His experiment was upon the chry- 

 santhemum, or artemesia, around which 

 he made a small incision directly under 

 the branches, and then enclosed the trunk 

 in a mass of compost contained in a flower 

 pot, which he severed for the purpose, and 

 bound firmly together. The stalk of the 

 plant was then cut off below the vessel, 

 and in three weeks an innumerable quan- 

 tity of rootlets shot out from the above 

 incision, and took vigorous hold in the 

 soil, while the plant was preserved in its 

 pristine freshness, and unfading bloom. — 

 Mr. B. stated that he had no doubt most 

 plants might be treated successfully in the 

 same way ; at all events, this was a sub- 

 ject upon which the amateur florist might 

 experiment with pleasure and profit. It 

 was mentioned that the Chinese dwarfed 

 their fruit and other trees in a similar man- 

 ner ; whereby they have full crops of fruit 

 upon trees three or four feet high. Mr. 

 Brigham admitted that he had derived 

 the idea of his experiment from the lec- 

 tures of Fletcher Webster last season be- 

 fore the Institute on the subject of China." 



PICKLES. 



A correspondent of the New England 

 Farmer, gives an easy and efficacious 

 method of pickling cucumbers, which he 

 learned from an old sea captain in the 

 West Indies. The recipe is very simple, 

 and the superiority of pickles cured by its 

 directions, has been tested by many years 3 

 experience. They are neither affected by 

 age, season or climate. The following is 

 the recipe : 



"To each hundred of cucumbers put 

 a pint of salt, and pour in boiling water 

 sufficient to cover the whole. Cover them 

 tight to prevent the steam from escaping, 

 and in this condition let them stand for 

 twenty-four hours. They are then to be 

 taken cut, and after being wiped perfectly 

 dry, care being taken that the skin is not 

 broken, placed in the jar in which they 

 are to be kept. Boiling vinegar (if spice 

 is to be used it should be boiled with the 



