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in Austria, and a trial of his method on a grand scale, which was made at the Impe- 
rial manufactory at Schlogelmuhle, near Glognitz (Lower Austria), has completely 
demonstrated the certainty of the invention. Although the machinery, arranged as 
it was for the manufacture of rag-paper, could not of course fully answer the require- 
ments of Herr Diamant, the results of the essay were wonderfully favorable. The 
article produced was of a purity of texture and whiteness of color that left nothing 
to be desired ; aud this is all the more valuable from the difficulty usually expe- 
rienced in the removal of impurities from rags. The proprietor of the invention is 
Count Carl Octavio Zu Lippe Weissenfeld, and several experiments give the fol- 
lowing results : — 
"1. It is not only possible to produce every variety of paper from the blades 
of Indian Corn, but the product is equal, and in some respects even superior, to the 
article manufactured from rags. 
" 2. The paper requires but very little size to render it fit for writing pur- 
poses, as the pulp naturally contains a large proportion of that necessary ingredient, 
which can at the same time be easily eliminated if desirable. 
"3. The bleaching is effected by an extraordinarily rapid and facile process, 
and, indeed, for the common light colored packing paper the process becomes en- 
tirely unnecessary. 
"4. The Indian Corn paper possesses greater strength and tenacity than rag 
paper, without the drawback of brittleness so conspicuous in the common straw pro- 
ducts. 
" 5. No machinery being required in the manufacture of this paper for the pur- 
pose of tearing up the raw material and reducing it to pulp, the expense, both in 
point of power and time, is far less than is necessary for the production of rag paper. 
"Count Lippe having put himself in communication with the Austrian Govern- 
ment, an imperial manufactory for Indian Corn paper (maishalm papier, as the in- 
ventor calls it) is now in course of construction at Pcsth, the capital of the greatest 
Indian Corn growing country in Europe. Another manufactory is already in full 
operation in Switzerland ; and preparations are being made on the coast of the 
Mediterranean for the production and exportation on a large scale of the pulp of 
this new material." 
New Upright Tomato. — A tomato has been introduced by Messrs. Vilmorin, 
& Co., of Paris, which is described as growing quite upright and requiring no arti- 
ficial support. It branches less than the common sorts, does not bear so freely, but 
its fruit is larger and more regularly formed. Seeds of this variety have been re- 
ceived from Messrs. Vilmorin, for distribution among the Members of the Botanical 
Society of Canada. 
Vilmorin's Double Zinnias. — A new race of Purple Zinnias, quite double, have 
been introduced by Messrs. Vilmorin, the seeds of which had been received from 
