EXCELSIOR 
83.00 PEII YEAR. 
Single* ,\o., Eight Cents, 
•II Pnrlt How, New York. 
82 llnlinlo 8 (., Ruclienter. 
NEW YORK CITY ANI) ROCHESTER. N. Y, 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871. by i). 1 ). T. MooitK, in the oflice of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.] 
and plants by it. The leaf is composed of 
three oval leaflets, and is a rich green. The 
blossom is a regular pea blossom, an inch 
and a. half in diameter, 
of the peculiar shade of 
lilac or purple of the 
Wistaria. It blooms 
singly, opening about . 
It bloomsherc through- 
out June and July. I 
tried to press a bloom 
to send with the seeds, 
texture are so delicate 
N’iav - Yorki:i: ttliom 
baskets, I have' been 
told, grows wild about. 
Wilmington,N.C.,and At 
probably in many other wkmm 
places where frost is 1'i/vlgasrePJflfe 
very light. About here 
1 have found two kinds 
resembling jt, growing f|e 
wild. I am no botanist 
so cannot describe the 
varieties correctly, hut Wumffi tUmT' |ffl>'■ 
the stem is not so sucu- mV. 
lent us the first kind, 
and the leaves are nr A 
smaller and not so close WlttKHmNkL '9Hfl| 
together. One kind has M/WMlHBb A 
a tiny white blossom; fWAjc 
the other, a blue one, a yffljmvm 
little larger; while the -ijm/ 
kind we use for Ims- Iw 
kets lias no blossom, at. tob 
least I liavo not seen ^ 
any in my year’s watch- » 
ing it, though 1 liave 
heard that it has a i aM 
small, purple bloom.— 
.r, K.W., Charlotte,N.C. 
The Partridge Pea 
referred to is probably 
Cen trosema I 'try in tea ; 
but we will sow some 
of the seeds received, 
and if they grow we 
shall be able to deter¬ 
mine the species with some degree of cer¬ 
tainly another season. We have many 
beautiful trailing plants well worthy of the 
most careful cultivation and Ibis, we pre¬ 
sume, is one among the number. The other 
plant referred to we cannot even suggest a 
name without specimens of leaves or flowers. 
THE CLOCHE. 
agating, instead ofllieordinary hot-house bell- 
glass. In England those sell at from Is. to 19 . 
Gd. each ; in Paris, at 8d. each. Fig. 2 shows 
the Cloche, as used in 
a propagating house. 
We call the attention of 
American gardeners to 
these conveniences, and 
liavo no doubt they 
^ may ultimately be slip¬ 
s'. plied cheaply here, if 
pjtfv there is a demand for 
roSa&vN them. 
lormtliurf 
erbsman 
This invention for gardeners is 
BEGONIA SUBPELTATE ALBO RUBRA. 
Among ornamental foliaged plants the 
Begouia family still holds the first place. 
Grown either in the house or planted out. of 
doors, the tine foliage of some varieties and 
good blooming qualities of others, make it a 
class of plants not easily to be dispensed 
with. At a time when beautiful - leaved 
plants were but little esteemed, the well- 
known Begonia Rex bad many admirers, 
and together with its improved varieties, it 
lias accomplished more in the way of 
creating a taste for fine foliage than any 
other plant. At present the varieties of 
Begonia arc numerous, and many possess 
peculiarities which make them distinct and 
desirable. The varieties, of which the an¬ 
nexed eul is a very good representation, is a 
hybrid, and of recent introduction in this 
country. The leaves are. of medium size, of 
a dark red color, silvered on the upper side. 
The flowers are rose-colored. Like other 
Begonias, it is easily propagated, and should 
be in every collection. w. c. b. 
Rochester, N. Y., 1870. 
Remedy fov llollew Horn. 
Take one pound of bittersweet root, one 
and one-third pounds of tobacco; boil in 
chamber lye; add one pound of lard; sim¬ 
mer down to a salve. Shave the hair off be¬ 
tween the horns; apply to the bead, rubbed 
on well; put two thicknesses of woolen 
cloth from horn to horn; tie on with a string. 
I have used this kind of salve occasionally, 
over forty years, for hollow horn. Have 
cured cattle that bad not been able to get 
up in four days; also, garget in cow’s udders, 
chapped tents, or any kind of sores. Apply 
a little to horses’ ears, and the flies will be 
very careful not to trouble them. — s. h. m. 
I iiave never known the following to fail 
even in the worst of cases:—My plan is to 
fasten the animal in a stable, or where it can 
be held, and take a middling-sized gimlet 
and bore through both horns on the under 
side, about two inches from the head, into 
the hollow. Animals will never be obliged 
to liav» their horns bored but once unless 
tliej 7 get stopped up. 1111011 they should be 
bored out again, and they will never be 
troubled with the hollow horn unless the 
holes get stopped.— Farmer. 
Take strong spirits of camphor, pour it 
in the hollow on the top of the head. If 
not very bad, that will cure it. If that don’t 
start it, take a gimlet and bore the born 
about three inches from the head, and put 
about half a teaspoonful of camphor gum in 
each horn. If that don’t warm up the horns 
in two hours, you need not try anything 
else. Make some wooden plugs and put in 
the boles when you get the gum in. I have 
cured very bad cases, so that in two days 
they were as well as ever. The better way, 
however, is to apply the remedy on ilie first 
symptoms; then a little ori the head will 
start it.— James Harris, Chautauqua Co., 
N. Y. _ 
Cow SiiekliiK Herself. 
Will splitting a cow’s tongue to keep her 
from sucking herself injure the cow; if go 
will you please give tuc a remedy through 
your columns? Quite a number of cows in 
this neighborhood have cont racted the habit. 
—L. B. Eton bo rough. 
No humane person would slit a cow’s 
tongue if it would prevent her suck ing herself, 
which it will do only so long as it is sore. 
A Rural correspondent says a good, light 
curb, smooth at. the ends of the rings so as 
net to chafe, put on just after the cow calves 
and taken off as soon as the cow is put on 
fall grass, breaks the habit. 
TIGRIDIAS AND 
TUBEROSES: 
To Keep In Winter. 
When Tigridla and 
Tuberose bulbs are 
taken up in autumn 
they contain a large 
amount of moisture, a 
, V, portion of which must 
i'.vm be expelled to insure 
their safety during 
winter, Tigridias arc 
1 particularly liable to 
S^Vy'-A become moldy, unless 
\ thoroughly drh"' and 
Wy * y,| then they should not 
{foy.iij be kept in a damp 
place, or stored in large 
quantities together, un- 
less they are spread 
®M\', Iju upon shelves. If the 
|Jjjy 1 grower has blit few 
bulbs he may leave the 
stems on them, and 
jM/ then tic in small hunch- 
JJr es and hang up in a dry, 
warm room. 
Very few cellars are 
sufficiently dry or 
warm lor either Tigri¬ 
dias or Tuberoses, and 
many thousands are 
annually lost by en- 
deavoring to keep t hem 
in such a place. They 
0 may, however, he 
stored in an ordinary 
warm cellar if brought 
every week or two and 
placed where they will 
become warm and dry 
before returned. 
We throw out these hints at this time for 
the purpose of putting those, who have those 
bull is, on their guard against loss. Our own 
memory needs a Jog of this kind occasional¬ 
ly ; only a few days since we found that our 
own Tuberose and Tigridla bulbs had com¬ 
menced to mold. 
No one bush of flowers has afforded me as 
much pleasure as a bunch of pansies. They 
are gold colored. A few da} r s since I picked 
eighteen perfect blossoms, and there was as 
many more not so perfect. These flowers 
were from an inch and a-half to two inches 
across. This is the third season this bunch 
has blossomed, and it was never nicer than 
now. Last July it had nearly a hundred 
blossoms on, but they were small and infe¬ 
rior. I cut it down to within three inches of 
the ground, and uow the new branches are 
doing finely. I think it a very good plan to 
cut down pansies in the summer, (for the 
blossoms will be small,) and not let them ex¬ 
haust themselves by excessive blooming. 
We do not miss them when the garden is 
gay with bright flowers, but when our floral 
beauties have mostly deserted us, we can de¬ 
pend on the pansies. Loretta E. Knapp. 
PARTRIDGE PEA. 
I inclose 7vitb this some seeds of a vine 
which we call “ Partridge Pea,” which is 
wild all about here and in other places 
through the South, but which I think is 
pretty enough to form an addition to any 
flower garden. The vine is a delicate-look¬ 
ing one, an annual, grows about three or 
four teot high,.perhaps more if trained on a 
ticllis, and prefers to ramble over the bushes 
BEGONIA SUBPELTATE ALBO RUBRA 
praised by our English friends, and it is as¬ 
serted there is not a gardener who would not 
adopt and use it, if he could see what is ef¬ 
fected by its aid. .It is a huge bell-glass, 
made of cheap but clear glass, by which the 
market gardeners of Paris, Mr. William 
Robinson says, are enabled to supply the 
enormous demand for finest and 
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tendcrest lettuces. Almost every 
French garden contains them in 
greater or less number. They 
are not only used in lettuce cul¬ 
ture, but in forwarding and pro¬ 
tecting early and late crops, in 
seed-sowing, in propagation by 
cuttings. Huge cut tings of such 
plants as Finises, &c., as well as 
those of smaller tender plants, 
are rooted under these glasses. 
It is regarded far more handy 
and useful than the hand light 
for the open garden, and quite 
equal to the most expensive large 
bell-glass for the hot-house, cost¬ 
ing less than either. We give an 
illustration (Page 20) of a Cloche, 
such ns is in use in the French 
market gardens. Those most used 
are sixteen inches in diameter. 
There arc smaller sorts, how¬ 
ever, much used in-doors for prop- 
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