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clusters of threes and tours. The best speci nens were 
those of Doyenne d’ Hiver, Duchess d’ A ngoulcme, Beurre 
Clairgeau, Belle de Berry, and Belle Angevine,” 
“Another method of grafting, exhib'ted nt the same 
time, reads as follows : — 
“ Connected with the fruit department, was a series of 
fruit trees in pots and tubs, for the purpose of exhibiting 
the different methods of grafting, budding, pruning, train- 
ing, &c., which afforded much interest, and were closely 
inspected by both practicals and amateurs To me some 
of the manipulations appeared ingenious as well as effec- 
tive. One curious mode of grafting is interesting in a 
physiological point of view. It consisted ot the leaf on 
an orange tree, which had produced roots from the foot- 
stalk, after which the parenchyma was cut from each 
side of the mid-rib near the centre, when a scion was 
grafted on the latter, which was bushing into a regular 
and vigorous plant. I understood the person to say that 
these scions were covered with mold, into which they 
soon rooted, when they had both the advantage of their 
own roots, and those of the stock on which they were 
grafted.” 
Grow and Eat Vegetables. — One of the strongest 
arguments in favor of the culture of vegetables and truit 
and their consumptian in the family, is the fact tiiat such 
consumption prevents disease We are by no means 
strictly vegetarian in theory or practice, hut we know by 
experience, that fruit even at large prices, is cheaper and 
far more profitable to purchase than the services of a 
physician, and that if the former are not consumed as an 
article of eve'-y day diet, the services of the latter will be 
required We have seen it asserted recently by a medi- 
cal writer, that the introduction of the tomato upon the 
table has reduced the severity of certain types of summer 
diseases to a noticeable extent, and yet in a book, not a 
dozen years of age, we saw it asserted that this same to- 
mato is “ a most unhealthful and innutritions fruit.” As 
soon as we learn how luxuriously we can live with no 
increase of cost, and a great increase of health, by the 
consumption of the products of our garden, more and 
better gardens will be found on every homestead. — Eme- 
ry's Journal. 
THE VINTAGE AND FItUITS OF ITAEY. 
A correspondent of the Providence Journal writes as 
follows : 
We are apt to associate none but poetical ideas with a 
vintage and wine-making in Italy, but what intensely 
patriotic American who has seen both, will have the 
courage to say that these are all more poetical than a New 
England harvest of Indian Corn, pippins or pumpkin 1 
It is distance, the atmospheric medium of three or four 
thousand miles through which we gaze, which greatly 
aids the charm. In spite of all the poetry of grape-gather- 
ing and grape-eating, even in Italy, we find that the se- 
cond good-sized bunch will set the teeth on edge. In our 
untraveled innocence, we imagine that the clusters which 
we see in our hot houses and horticultural exhibitions but 
imperfectly typify the ponderous development and luxuri- 
ant abundance of this fruit in grape-growing countries. 1 
have not yet seen, either in the markets or grape yards of 
Southern Europe anything that would compare with the 
fruit displayed at our annual shows. 
Not only in the large grape yield, but in other kinds of 
fruit, this will be a bountiful year in Tuscany. Figs, 
pears, and peaches are in uncommon abundance ; indeed, 
the last named are about as plenty, good, and cheap as 
with us during a favorable season in New Jeisey. Of 
fresh figs, fifteen to twenty can be bought for a crazia, a 
little more than our cent. The olive yield does not pro- 
mise so well as u^ual, which may otdige the Florentines 
after this to pay a little more lor the oil they burn in their 
lanps and eat on their salads 
FRUIT BENEFICIAIi TO HEALTH. 
A noted author, speaking of the utility of fruits for 
food and the preservation of health, says: 
“The fruits of various climes should be regarded as one 
of the most valuable gifts which Divine Providence has 
bestowed upon man ; and the cultivation of them should, 
on all accounts, be promoted ; not merely as a source of 
luxury, but as a substitute for pernicious meoicine, and 
as a delicious healthy, and most nutritious article of food. ’ 
Another celebrated physician says that “thoroughly ripe 
fruit, eaten with bread, is the most innocent of aliments, 
and will even insure health and st.ength.” Volumes of 
similar extracts might be adduced, but the following will 
suffice : “One of the best aliments, and the best ad ipted 
to the different ages of life, is that whu h fruits afford, 
d hey present to a man a light nourishment, of easy di- 
gestion, and produce chyle admirably adapted to the func- 
tions of the human body.” 
The writer of this has himself experienced, as he be- 
lieves, much benefit from the use of good fruit, and of the 
opinion that for the preservation of. health it is of more 
benefit than any quaniity of drugs a person may chose 
to consume Calling, at one time, upon a physician for 
medicine to remove cosiliveriess, he knew none equal to 
good, ripe apples The prescription met wnha cordial 
reception, and nas been many times tried with go*d suc- 
cess — Main e Fa / vier. 
BLACK TONGUE IN CATTLE. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — In the September 
number of your valuable journal there is a recipe for the 
cure of the Murrain, Black Tongue, &c. 
Will you or some of your correspondents communicate, 
through the medium of your paper, what are the first 
symptoms, and in what way does the Black Tongue af- 
fect cuttle Is it contageous ] Is it pioduced from any- 
thii'g they eat I Are cattle that are pastured in fields, 
and those that range the woods, all subject to iti Is the 
Murx’ain and Black Tongue one and the same thing I 
There is a disease among the. cattle in this region of 
country, and we do not know what it is. When first 
taken, they are stiff in their limbs, and walk lame; they 
seem to have a good appetite, and will lick salt 'reely. I 
have not seen one that has died from the disease, but un- 
derstand a good many are dying through the countiy. 
Tours with respect, W. 
Broulchaven^ Miss.^ 1858. 
[See article from Velerinary Journal in present num- 
oer.— Eds ] 
Longevity of vtuLES.— Says the Lancaster (Pa.) Ex- 
aminer, we have numerous reports of mules attaining 
the age of forty, fifty (»r sixty years of age, and Col Mid- 
dleton of South Carolina stated some years ago that he 
had on.e at work on his plantation eighty years old ; and 
we have seen an account of a mule in Ireland, certified to 
have been at work since 1707, making over one hundred 
and fifty years old This, is of course, a very uncom- 
mon age, but, we are satisfied that with proper u>age,, 
mules would commonly attain to about forty years, being 
serviceable to the last, and this should be counted as one 
of the elements of their valu^*. 
A Fact for Farmers — li you invest money in tools, 
and then leave them exposed to the weather, it is the same 
us loaning money to a spendthrift without security — a 
dead loss in both cases. 
