THE SOUTHERN 



Richmond, who will furnish us each month with 

 the appropriate practical horticultural reading for 

 the season. We cannot speak of the accomplish- 

 ments of Mr. Eggeling, or his fitness for the post 

 we have induced him to assume, for we have just 

 confessed ignorance of the things he deals in. But 

 a very slight acquaintance has impressed us so fa- 

 vorably with him that we have felt no scruple in 

 soliciting him to aid us in this minor, but most im- 

 portant and interesting, department of rural eco- 

 nomy. 



With this announcement of another new feature, 

 and we hope improvement, in the Planter, and this 

 introduction of Mr. Eggeling we leave him now 

 and hereafter to speak for himself. We hope and 

 believe he will do it satisfactorily. 



SEEDS FROM THE PATENT OFFICE. 



Those of our friends who have not been supplied 

 with samples of the above seeds according to their 

 requests by letter are informed that the supply was 

 exhausted almost as soon as it was announced. 

 We have written for a fresh batch, but having failed 

 thus far to hear from our application, we fear we 

 shall get no more. We could distribute a bushel 

 if we had them. By the way, it was a misprint to 

 speak of Mr. Peabody of The Soil of tlic South, as 

 remarkable for his success with the cranberry. It 

 should have read strawberry. Of this fruit Mr. 

 Peabody raises and sells with directions, we believe, 

 for management, perhaps the most prolific straw- 

 berries in the world. The only instance of success- 

 ful cranberry culture in the South, except in the 

 mountains beyond the Alleghanies, that we know 

 of is that of Mr. Riddle, about six miles from Rich- 

 mond, on the Chickahominy, who has lately em- 

 barked in their culture. He exhibited samples at 

 the Fair last fall, and tells us that the average 

 acreable value of his present very small plat was 

 about eight hundred dollars. 



P. S. Since writing the above we have received 

 several packages and distributed nearly the whole 

 of their contents. 



A CERTAIN CURE FOR SCROFULA. 



Our friends of the faculty will bear witness that 

 we rarely trespass on their domain by publishing 

 " infallible recipes." We arc afraid to do it. We 

 know too' well how little we know to tamper with 

 life and health and feeling by such a course. Be- 

 lieving, religiously, in what a dear friend of ours 

 calls "the triumphs of medicine," ayd in good 

 nursing, we generally pass by the ten thousand 

 " cures" we see in the papers, sorry for those that 

 out them out, and grieving for the patients they 

 are to be tried on. But scrofula is n, privileged 



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question, that is to say, any one is privileged to 

 " discuss" it if he can. 



Like the watch of the portly gentleman in the 

 Pickwick Papers, which every pickpocket in Lon- 

 don had had a pull at, thousands have tried thei: 

 hands, ineffectually, on scrofula, and it has resisted 

 with equal stubbornness the assaults of the quack 

 and the "triumphs of medicine." Whether it is 

 left for Mr. Longworth and Captain Harkness to 

 extract it from the system by a final " cure," we, of 

 course, cannot say. But we would advise, if suc- 

 cess in what " he undertakes " be the object of 

 the "famous Millionaire," that he should confine 

 himself to his Catawba wines, though his Cham- 

 pagne is none of the best. There at least, except 

 perhaps before a jury of teetotallers, he cannot be 

 convicted of malpractice. 



A Certain Cure for Scrofula. — Nicholas 

 Longworth, the famous Millionaire and wine 

 grower of Cincinnati, publishes the following cure 

 for scrofula : 



Put two ounces of aquafortis on a plate, oil 

 which you have two copper cents. Let it remain 

 from eighteen to twenty four hours. Then add 

 four ounces of clear strong vinegar. Put cents 

 and all in a large mouthed bottle, and keep it 

 corked. Begin by putting four drops in a tea- 

 spoonful of rain water, and apply it to the sore. 

 Make the application three times a day, with a 

 soft hair pencil, or made of rags. If very painful 

 put in more water. As the sore heals apply it 

 weaker. 



I request editors, in all parts of the Union, and 

 abroad, to copy this, and to republish it quarter 

 yearly; it may save many lives. 



N. LONGWORTH. 



Cincinnati, Ohio, November 18, 1854. 



P. S. Captain Harkness, of our city, the first 

 person cured by this remedy, applied it without 

 water and he informed me that he thought it 

 would burn his leg off ; but the next day it was 

 cured. His was a small sore, and had been 

 attended to for months by one of the best phy- 

 sicians, without any benefit. 



PAY UP ELEVEN THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED AND 

 NINETY-ONE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS. 



On the first day of February the dues to the 

 Southern Planter amounted to $11,691 50. Since 

 then we have received, including new subscribers, 

 about three hundred dollars, or one-fortieth part of 

 the debt, and the payments of January and Febru- 

 ary are generally heavier than in any other months 

 of the year. Now we ask our subscribers, in all 

 candor and good nature, if they think this is right? 

 We arc compelled to trust them, and we do not re- 

 gret that necessity, for we suppose we have the 

 most solvent newspaper list in the State ; but we 

 do regret that so many worthy and substantial men 

 should, from mere carelessness or indolence, put 

 ofi'tho payment of a sum of.money, small in nearlj 

 every individual case, and, therefore, of little mo- 



