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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Efiardy ©ottoja.—The Lebanon Demokrat 
Pa., states that Dr. Reinhard, a German Physician of Lan¬ 
caster Co., has found a species of cotton plant in Brazil, 
which thrives well in a climate as cold as that of Penn¬ 
sylvania. Dr. R. predicts that in a very few years plenty 
of cotton will be grown in the State of Pennsylvania. 
Of tune Cottosa Plaiai referred to last 
month, we have little to say in answer to the numerous 
fetters received. We only intended to place before the 
public Mr. Kendall’s own statements and put him in com¬ 
munication with those disposed to investigate the subject. 
■A plant having the merits he claims for this, is worth 
‘looking after. It seems rather singular, however, that we 
■have not long since heard more of it, if it grows so abun¬ 
dantly on the much frequented coast of South America. 
making' ©lotla Noaa-iiiiSamaafole. —The 
‘recent burning to death of 7 females in Philadelphia, by 
their clothes taking fire from a gas light, recalls attention 
to the importance of rendering non-inflamable the light 
fabrics worn by ladies or children who are in any way 
exposed to fires or lights. Any cloth, even the most deli¬ 
cate cambric or gauze, is not injured in the least by dip¬ 
ping it in a weak solution of chloride of zinc, or sulphate 
of ammonia, or tungstate of soda. If thus dipped before 
drying the fabric may be burned to a crisp, or entirely de¬ 
stroyed in the flame of a lamp without bursting into the 
least flame. These articles, particularly the first two, can 
be obtained very cheaply of any druggist. The last 
named is rather the best of the three, but more expensive. 
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Cheap SSojae-madLe Eiailbellislun.esa.ts 
lor the Bloaase in Wimtea - . 
We do not refer now to furniture, paintings, 
Looks, engravings, or anything of that sort; but 
rather to floral embellishments. The many 
colored leaves which strew the ground in Autumn, 
iif gathered and pressed and varnished, may he 
'wrought into beautiful wreaths and bouquets, 
which will hold their colors all Winter. Fasten 
nem leaf by leaf to a piece of Bristol board with 
■gum arabic, in such order as female taste will 
^suggest, and the effect will be very pleasing. 
Many Autumnal flowers may be treated in the 
‘same way. When the bouquet is completed, in- 
■sert the Bristol board in a gilt frame, cover with 
iglass, and you have the effect of a fine painting. 
Much use can be made of another class of 
(flowers, which go under the general name of 
‘“everlasting flowers,” or immortelles, as the French 
‘have it. These are employed for filling vases 
tto adorn mantels and tables. They have some 
‘advantages over common house-plants, in that 
they need no watering, are not hurt by frost, 
or infested by insects, and are sure to blossom 
all the while. They retain their colors for sev¬ 
eral years. Who does not want a bouquet of 
everlasting flowers ? We must try to get seed 
enough for our Winter’s distribution, so that all 
who desire may have a supply of these flow¬ 
ers next Autumn. The golden everlasting flow¬ 
er, glossy and brilliant, is one of the com¬ 
monest. Sow the seeds early in May in any gar¬ 
den soil, and they will mature before frost. 
They should be gathered before the seed vessels 
are quite mature, or the blooms will fall in 
pieces when dry. There is a white variety of the 
same species which is quite desirable. 
The Globe Amaranth, (Gomphrena globosa,) is 
another first rate Winter flower. The varieties 
are numerous—white, pink, purplish crimson, 
striped, and orange. These will also grow from 
seed in any warm spot. But the seed being 
covered with a tough shell, needs to be soaked a 
few minutes in scalding water before sowing, or 
in tepid water for twenty four hours, otherwise 
it will not certainly vegetate. Cut the flowers 
as soon as they are fairly matured: if left longer 
they will lose their brilliancy. 
Beside these, there are some newer sorts of 
everlastings, such as the Xeranthemum , white 
and purple, the Acrolineum, white and pink, 
very delicate and beautiful. 
The foregoing may be worked up into bouquets, 
using with them some of the ornamental grasses, 
such as Breza maxima and minima , whose pendu¬ 
lous and graceful spikelets will contribute much 
to the finish of the whole. Some of our wild 
grasses found on the borders of grain fields, 
have feathery plumes which may well be added. 
It is not too late now to provide all or nearly 
all of these plants. The pressed leaves and flow¬ 
ers first referred to above, may hang upon the 
walls of parlor or chamber; the others wrought 
into bouquets of various styles, may occupy vases 
on the mantel and bracket and on the side table, 
and with their perennial freshness cheat the 
long Winter days of much of their dreariness. 
Prices of “ Breadstuffs ’’—All Classes 
Interested. 
This is a subject that comes home to every 
one. The cultivator who derives his living 
from the soil, is of course directly interested. 
He may not raise wheat, corn, or rye for mar¬ 
ket, yet the values of most other products of the 
soil are governed by the market value of the 
great breadstuff cereals—wheat and corn. 
The mechanic, the manufacturer, the factory 
operative, the merchant, the day laborer, the 
needle woman, are all interested in the supply 
and the price of these leading products of the 
soil which constitute the staple food of all 
classes. And j list here we must correct a false 
impression. There are probably fifteen or twen¬ 
ty thousand persons engaged in other pursuits 
than agriculture, who take and read this journal 
for the benefit of their gardens and households. 
One of this class, in a letter before us, says : 
“_The Agriculturist seems to be always jubi¬ 
lant over any rise in the price of wheat, flour, or 
corn. Docs the Editor have any sympathy for that 
large class of his readers who are compelled to pay 
the increase in price from their scanty earnings ? 
This year we, factory operatives in this town, made 
up a club of 130 subscribers for the Agriculturist , 
and we have been applying its hints and sugges¬ 
tions in our little garden plots, and have gained 
much therefrom, in pleasure at least. But what 
shall we think of the constant rejoicing of our 
editors over the rise of a dollar a barrel, or more, 
on the flour which we must buy, or starve....” 
Our correspondent takes a short-sighted view. 
Let us look into the matter a little. Suppose 
that from the surplus wheat crop of the present 
year, including that left over from the previous 
crop, we can spare from the whole country say 
60,000,000 bushels, and that the demand be 
sufficient and the price high enough to cause 
its exportation. Without this demand and in¬ 
creased price abroad the grain would of course 
remain upon our hands. The exportation of 
this wheat (or its equivalent in flour) brings 
back in some form, about seventy-five million dol¬ 
lars ($75,000,000). Is it not obvious that this 
positive addition to our wealth must be felt 
throughout all the ramifications of business. If 
the farmers receive half of it, and the dealers 
and employees on our lines of transportation, 
storehouses and ships, receive the other half, 
they have just so much more money to pay for 
manufactured articles, etc. This will necessarily 
create more trade, and increased demand for the 
labor of manufacturing operatives. For example: 
early in the present year many of the factories 
of New-England and elsewhere stopped work, 
or run but half time, and the incomes of 
vast multitutes were reduced half or more. But 
the foreign demand for breadstuffs has quickened 
the whole business of the country, and it is safe 
to say that the manufacturing classes are now 
getting double the work and pay that they 
could possibly have done but for the increased 
foreign demand and higher prices of breadstuffs. 
But how much is the manufacturing laborer 
taxed by the higher prices ? A family of four 
persons ordinarily consume about one barrel of 
flour in three months. The rise of even $3 per 
barrel in the price of flour, is only a tax of $1 per 
jjionth upon such a family, while the increase of 
$3 per barrei on the flour made from 60,000,008 
bushels of wheat, would be a real gain to the 
country of thirty-six million d Tars ($36,000,000!) 
Wc think these figures will convince not only 
o..i particular correspondent, but all others, (hat 
in this great agricultural country, we are all, 
no matter what individual callings may be, 
specially interested in having the price of our 
agricultural products range at the highest 
possible figures, provided the high rates be not 
the result of a short supply from crops here, 
but of a large foreign demand. After this 
showing, we trust even our manufacturing read¬ 
ers will have a livelier interest in the facts and 
figures relating to the breadstuff commerce 
both in our own and foreign countries. We con¬ 
gratulate ourselves on the fact that for months 
past the Agriculturist has been in advance 
on this subject. We have endeavored to inspire 
hope for the future, at least, by constantly 
showing that there would of necessity be a 
short foreign crop, and a consequent demand 
upon this country. In this, we have not 
rejoiced at the losses of our transatlantic breth¬ 
ren, but we have seen in it a new evidence of 
the over-ruling hand of a kind Providence. 
This country is involved in one of the most 
important struggles in the history of the world 
—a struggle to establish whether or not a re¬ 
publican representative form of government is 
adapted to the wants of the great family of 
man. It is a question in which not we alone 
are interested, but it directly concerns the people 
of all the world, and unborn millions after us. 
If the experiment that has been going on here 
for 85 years past should or could now piove a 
failure, when, or where would another be made ? 
We are daily more and more impressed with 
the kindness of that Providence, which has so 
ordered that other nations who are almost equal¬ 
ly interested with ourselves, and who can now 
afford it, should come to our assistance. Direct 
aid or intervention in our affairs would be 
neither desirable nor expedient; but no more 
effective aid could have been given than the 
sending us a hundred millions of dollars for the 
surplus produce which have been kindly be¬ 
stowed upon our country by Him who send- 
etli the early and the latter rain. 
■ f i n t a o r.n » * 
Prospects of Farmers—The Produce 
Markets—The Great Foreign Demand. 
The activity in the New-York Breadstuff 
Markets, referred to in our last, has continued 
without abatement. The exact figures and sta¬ 
tistics will be given in our Market Review, not 
yet made up. As the future market here will 
be so largely df^iendent upon the course of 
trade in Europe, it will interest our readers to 
learn further concerning the foreign grain pros¬ 
pects. The important summary of the Bread¬ 
stuff trade for the last Grain year, which we gave 
last month, has been widely copied. We there 
stated, with the reasons for the ass< rtion, that 
“ there is, and is to be for some time to come, a 
heavy demand upon our markets to supply the 
deficiency of breadstuffs in Great Britain, and 
especially in France, and to some extent in 
other parts of Europeand that “ all the sur¬ 
plus we can well spare at anything like present 
prices will be called for abroad, even if to be 
paid for in gold.” But these strong statements 
feebly expressed the actual condition of the 
foreign demand. On the very day our article 
was written, Sept. 16, the London Mark Lana 
Express, the highest authority on such matters fix 
