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Poppy seed 4 oz. specific weight' 
0922 forms liquid soap. 
Aracliis or groundnut 8 ounces, 
fine eatable oil, citron colour, keeps 
well and makes good soap. 
Sesamum or Benny seed 3| oz. 
fine sweet oil, limpid and nutrient, 
but becomes easily rancid. 
Pumpkin seed 5| ounces, sweet 
oil, not siccative. 
Cornus berries, 4 ounces. 
Moringa, or Ben oil, 6 oz. white, 
concrete, made by heat, smells 
like noyau. 
Euphorbia lathyrus seeds, 8 
ounces by ether, 7 by cold ex- 
pression; medical purgative. 
Croton tigiiu m seeds 9 ounces, 
green, drastic. 
Helianthus or Sunflower 6 oz. 
sapid sweet oil* 
Cyperus esculentus roots $ oz. 
Datura seeds 2-| ounces, medical. 
Grape seeds 1 J ounces, by boil- 
in £\ . 
Ricinus or Castor oil, 5 to 6 
ounces made cold, 7 ounces warm, 
12 ounces with shelled seeds. 
Sassafras seeds 2| ounces white 
oil, medical. 
Beech nuts 6 to 7 ounces, sweet, 
clear, inodorous; gets better by 
age to the reverse of other oils. 
Xanthium or Burr seed, 4| 
ounces, sweet oil; gives a fine clear 
light. 
Flax seed 3| ounces, yellow 
brown, siccative, fetid. 
Walnuts 8 ounces, lemon colour 
oil, thick, siccative, makes a soft 
soap, gives 12 ounces when nuts 
dried in ovens. 
Pine seeds (Pinus pinea, P. 
cembra) 5 oz. sweet oil of good 
flavour, good to eat. 
Almonds of stone fruits, plumbs, 
peaches, &c. 3 ounces. 
Mustard seeds 3J oz. yellow, 
sweet, odorous, good soap. 
Lauras or Bay tree berries 7\ 
ounces green oil, the seeds Ij 
ounces’ of concrete greenish oil. 
Hazlenuts 7\ ounces, sweet thin 
lemon oil. 
Thus it will appear that in the 
United States we might make an im- 
mense quantity of oils, from the 
most oily substances common with 
us. Groundnuts, pumpkin seeds, 
sunflower seeds, hazlenuts, wal- 
nuts, beechnuts, &c. for all the need- 
ful purposes of salads, cooking, 
burning in lamps, soap making, &c. 
it industry was not palsied by 
ignorance. \ 
Mr. Recluz has omitted the cot- 
ton seeds, which afford nearly 50 
per cent, of good burning oil, and 80 
per ce n t. when she! 1 ed . We m ight 
make millions of gallons of it in the 
south* and sell it to profit at 25 
cents the gallon; His experiments 
on the Sesamum are at variance 
with those made elsewhere; our 
Benny seed has afforded 80 to 90 
per cent, of oil, arid keeps well 
many years. 
His experiments on volatile oils, 
will be noticed hereafter. C. S. R. 
9. Confirmation of the Important 
Discovery of the property of 
Sxjlphuh in treks, to destroy all 
Insects preying on them. 
Farmers and Gardeners ought to 
hail with rapture a safe, certain, 
easy and unfailing mode of driving 
away or destroying all the insects, 
bugs, caterpillars, lice,, ants, which 
prey upon trees and often kill 
them. 
Numberless have been the means 
proposed or devised to get rid of 
these troublesome guests, most of 
which are dirty f cost) ty* or o na vailing. 
Our farmers appear to have given 
up in despair the hope of preventing 
the deadly attacks of curculios on 
the roots of peach trees* and # the 
f r u its of the p 1 u m b t re e. Yet an 
efficacious mode is said to have been 
found several years ago in France, 
perfectly efficacious and applicable 
to all cases and all trees. The man 
who discovered it, deserved a 
splendid reward, yet his name has 
not even reached us. But we claim 
the honor to have been the first 
to make known the process in 
America, in 1823 in Kentucky, and 
