October x, i8go.] 
THE TROPJCA1- AQRIGULTURTSTi 
303 
A Peolific Tubee. — Some time ago a Montroae 
gentleman received from a friend in Minnesota, 
United States, a potato which, for curiosity, he 
planted whole. On being dug up it was found to 
have yielded no fewer than forty- six potatoes. — 
Invtrness Courier. [The other day at Albion estate. 
New Galway, we saw between 20 and 30 potatoes 
gathered from one stem. — Ed. T. A.'] 
MINOR AILMENTS AND THEIR CURES. 
I 
Ague. — Ague, or intermittent fever, is a common 
ailment and results from the decomposition of 
vegetable matter. It is what is called a periodical 
complaint, the attacks coming on at stated intervale, 
the patient meanwhile being to all appearances 
perfectly well. An attack of ague is usually divided 
into three stages : the “ cold ” stage, during which 
the sufferer shivers violently ; the “hot” stage, in 
which he or she complains of a burning heat ; 
and the “sweating” stage, in which the patient 
perspires profusely. 
This complaint untreated, shows no tendency to 
get well. Its medicinal treatment is perfectly 
simple, and in acute cases there is no difSculty 
in obtaining relief. An excellent remedy is quinine, 
which is best administered in the form of Tabloids 
of Bisulphate of Quinine, each containing five 
grains. It is customary to administer three of 
these Tabloids between two successive attacks of 
the disease. 
Anjemia. — This is the medical term for poorness 
of the blood, a condition which occurs most fre- 
quently in young and badly nourished females. 
There is always more or less pallor of the face 
and lips. The appetite is poor ; the patient has 
great difficulty in doing her work ; has puffiness 
about the face, legs, and ankles ; the circulation 
is weak ; and not infrequently palpitation of the 
heart is a common symptom. 
This condition goes on progressively increasing 
unless remedial treatment is resorted to. A most 
useful preparation of iron, which is the best re- 
medy in these oases, is the Wyeth Dialysed 
Iron, ten drops of which are usually administered 
on a lump of sugar five times daily. It has a 
great advantage over most other preparations of 
iron from the fact that it does not tend to consti- 
pate. A course of this treatment, extending over 
three or four weeks, will usually effect a cure. 
To prevent a return of this complaint Elixoid 
of Oalisaya Bark will be found useful, a table- 
spoonful or more being taken three times a day. 
The patient should take plenty of exercise in the 
fresh air and should be well fed, a little stimulant 
in the form of stout being taken at meal times 
only. 
Burns and Scalds. — One of the best remedies 
for a burn is Oarron Oil, a mixture of equal parts 
of linseed or olive oil with lime water. Another 
admirable remedy is bicarbonate of soda (cooking 
soda), a small box of which should always be kept 
at hand lor immediate use. Cover the burn with 
it, and bind up with a dry and soft pocket-handker- 
chief. Haiieline may be applied to the part to 
allay pain ; it also promotes the healing of the 
injured surface. — “ lleallii," London. 
2;u cwt. Tellicherry }'eppor aud aoi cwt. Calicut Native 
Coffee. Cor Hamburg, 1,015 cwt. Tellicherry Native Coffee 
and a, 785 owt. Pepper ; 1,117 cwt. Calicut Plautation Coffee 
and 1,100 cwt. Pepper. For Rotterdam, 200 cwt. Tellicherry 
Pepper. For Bremen. 2-50 cwt. Tellicherry Native Coffee, 
and 200 cwt. Pepper; 21 cwt. Calient Plantation Coffee, 
12 cwt. Native Coffee and 404 cwt. Pepper. For Hongkong 
5 cwt. Calicut Native Coffee. For Odessa, 184 cwt. Tellicherry 
Plautation Coffoe, 101 cwt. Native Coffee and 1,100 cwt. 
Pepper. 
The Ttmbee Teees of New Zealand are mostly 
pines, and very slow of growth, especially the 
kauri pine, which only grows in the extreme north 
of the North Island. I saw a kauri sapling (in a 
government garden in Wellington) which is thirty 
years old and which is not more than twelve feet 
high . — Dunedin Oor. 
According to a note in the June issue of the Revuo 
tie V Horticulture Beige et Etrangere, there is in the 
gardens of the palace at Versailles an orange tree 
more th»n 450 years old. It is said to have been the 
first introduced into France, and is known as the 
“Grand Connetable.” The seeds from which it grew 
were sown at Pampelune about 1416 by Eieiior of Cas- 
tile, wife of Charles the Third, King in Navaare. Later 
the tree was brought to Chantilly, then to Fon- 
tainebleau, and finally, in 1864, was added to the col- 
lec'ion of Versailles. The handsomest Orange-trees, 
grown in tube in France, are those in this collection 
and in those of the gardens of the Tuileries, aud 
of tlie Luxembourg Palace in Paris. The gardens 
of the Palace of Compiegne still contains fifty large 
specimens, brought there during the reign of Napoleon 1, 
There are also collections of these ouriou.s old Orange- 
trees supposed to be several centuries old in a number 
of private gardens belonging to various French chateaus. 
They are always carefully tended, aud produce year after 
year surprising crops of flowers and a good deal of 
fruit, considering how long their roots have been cramped 
within narrow quarters . — Garden and Forest. 
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To United Kingdom 
„ Marseilles ... 
„ Barcelona 
„ Genoa 
,, Venice ... 
„ Trieste 
„ Odessa 
„ Hamburg ... ... 
„ Antwerp 
„ Bremen 
„ Havre ... 
„ Rotterdam & Amsterdam 
„ Africa 
„ Mauritius and Eastward 
„ India 
„ Australia & New Zealand 
,, America 
„ Stockholm 
Total Experts from 1st Jan. 
to 25th Sept, 1890| 
Do 1889 
Do 1888 
Do 1887; 
Coustautinople 2li‘i lb. Tea. 
