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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOB. 
SOUTHERN SEEDLING APPLES— No. 7. 
CULLASAGA APPLE. 
This Apple was raised from the seed of a Horse Apple, by Miss Ann Bryson, of N, C. It is an apple of first rate 
quality ; of a pleasant sub-acid flavor, and highly aromatic — fully as inuch so as the Spitzenberg or Newtown Pippin. 
It is of good sir^e, frequently large ; keeps well, and is recommended by a Committee of the Southern Central Agri- 
cultural Society, as first-rate, and worthy of the attention o" every fruit-grower, 
J. Van Buren. 
jg. ClarJcsville , Ga., 1855. 
A NEW PLANT— CHINESE SUGAE CANE. 
A PLANT, bearing a close resemblance to Indian corn, has 
been introduced into France from the north of China. It 
is called Holcus saccharatus, or Chinese Sugar Cane. Ex- 
periments made in France indicate, it is said, that it will 
yield more sugar, to the same extent of land, than the 
sugar beet. It is there attracting great attention from dis- 
tillers. We are not aware that it has been tried in this 
country, but it would, doubtless, succeed well in the 
Southern States, and deserves to be tested, if only for fod- 
‘-anici Farm Journal gives us the follow- 
exchanges advise us of a new plant under 
!, being introduced into France from the 
, which promises to be of considerable 
value. A pamphlet has been published on the subject by 
M. Louis Vilmorin, of Paris, who is considered high au- 
thority, from which it appears that the juice of the Holcus 
furnishes three important products, sugar, alcohol and a 
fermented liquor analogous to cider; and that it may be pro- 
fitably cultivated for sugar in any region between where 
the sugar cane ceases to thrive and the forty-fourth de- 
gree of latitude, and that elsewhere it will be profitably 
cultivated for its alcoholic products. 
“He obtained from stems, from which the peel had been 
I stripped, at the rate of fifty- five to sixty per cent, of juice. 
I The upper joints and spikes were only cut off, but by cut- 
j ting off more and subjecting the stems to a better process 
1 of crushing, he thinks that seventy per cent, of juice 
could be obtained. The quantity of stems employed, 
large and small together, was 553 lbs., giving twenty-three 
gallons of juice of the density of 1,052, The quantity, of 
sugar from the Holcus is estimated higher than fi'om the 
beet root, but involves more labor and expense to extract, 
and the quantity of spirit exceeds that from beetroot by 
about sixty gallons per acre. The amount of juice yielded 
from an acre is about 1207 gallons. 
“The refuse also consists of excellent fibre, easily ex- 
tracted and easily bleached, and worth at least SSO per 
ton to the paper makers, and probably much more. 
“A more detailed account of the process of cultivation 
in France is about to be published.” 
Good Advice. — The Albany (N. Y.) Knickerbocker'^ 
says: 
“The best cure for hard times is economy. A shilling’s 
worth of white beans will do as much feeding at fifty cfs' 
worth of potatoes ; while six cents’ worth of Indian meal 
will make as much breed as fourteen cents worth of flour. 
Besides this, it is twice as wholesome. Almost every 
family in town could cut down their expenses one-halfif 
they only chose to do so.” 
