miscellaneous. 
WHAT OTHERS SAY. 
Select List of New, Rare, or Valuable 
Plants of many Hinds. —The following new, 
rare or valuable plants are taken from the 
catalogues of the season, which have been no¬ 
ticed from time to time iu the Rural New- 
Yorker. They are only those which seem to 
us worthy of special uotice. 
New Abctilons (Tor bedding, for the sit¬ 
ting-room or green-house). 1. Anna Crozy— 
An elegantnew Euglish variety, with immense 
globular flowers of a very soft rose color. It 
blooms freely and continuously all the seasou. 
35 cents. 2. Arthur Belsham—Flowers, large 
and of good form, clear crimson, without 
markings on outside ; brilliant and attractive, 
of vigorous habits Distinct, 35 cents. 3. Blau- 
dii—A magnificent flower of a deep yellow 
color, richly veined with dark crimson, and 
reticulated with light crimson. Blooms freely. 
Fine. 35 cents. 
New Agbratum—“ Queen." This is as near 
as can be described, a silver or a gray, quite a 
new color, not easily defined, and when plant¬ 
ed in a mass (it averages 10 to 12 inches high) 
it has a good effect. Blooms most profusely 
far into November in Engl aud. 
Grand Duke Nicholas. —A new Hybrid 
Perpetual Rtse introduced from Paris; grand 
size, very full form, perfectly double, exceed¬ 
ingly fragrant; color, dazzling crimson, bright¬ 
ly flamed with intense scarlet. 
Diana. —Cupped form, large, very double 
and fine; beautiful, deep pluk, changing to 
clear rosy flesh ; petals prettily bordered with 
purplish crimson. 
Mrs, Laxton. —Extra large and fine ; per¬ 
fect shape, very full and fragrant; deep rosy 
crimson, beautifully flamed and shaded with 
bright scarlet. 
New Rose, “ Perle des Jardins.” The bud3 
of this Rose are nearly equal to those of Mai e- 
chal Nkd, but as it is a true Tea bush Rose and 
not a climber, it is more valuable for general 
purposes; blooming freely when planted out 
from young plants the first season, which the 
“Mardehal Niel" will never do. Color deep 
yellow ; buds large, full, and finely formed. 
Tea Rose, “Niphetos.” This is the Rose 
par-excellence. Color of the purest white ; 
large, full, fragrant. It grows dwarf and com¬ 
pact, and flowers in great profusion, nearly 
tea rose niphetos—fig. 119. 
every shoot producing a bud. It is now grown 
almost exclusively as being the best White Tea 
Rose, either for wiuter or summer. Ever in 
bloom, und possessing all the qualities in a 
Rose. (A'ce Cut). 
George Peabody. — Extra large flowers; 
fine capped form ; very full and double; splen¬ 
did glowing crimson, changing to purplish 
scarlet; exquisitely Tea-scented; a superb 
Rose. 
Jules Chretien, New Hybrid Perpetual. 
—An exceedingly beautiful flower, very bright 
crimson shaded with purple; very large, full, 
and of tne finest form, among dark brilliant 
Roses this is the finest A vigorous grower and 
free bloomer. A superb Rose, 
Ruellia Macrantua.—A Brazilian plant. 
Flowers freely, of a tine violet-carmine, a 
pleasing color. This plant is of free growth 
in a warm house, flowering profusely. One 
of the finest wiuter-bloomtug plants of recent 
introduction. 
New White Hydrangea, “Thos. Hogg.”— 
It has now been very generally distributed 
over Ihe country. To those who have not yet 
obtained it, we would say, that the flowers are 
pure white, often measuring 10 inches iu di¬ 
ameter; the plant, when fully grown, coveriug 
a space of live feet iu diameter—making it a 
valuable plant for cemetary decoration or 
other purposes. It is hardy with a flight 
protection of leaves in winter, 
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New Coleus—Dreer's Hybrids.— The color 
combinations of these are very remarkable. 
They seem to be offered by all florists. 
New Monthly Carnation, “ Snowdon.”— 
Its merits are that the flowers are of the purest 
white, borne in profusion on plants that rare¬ 
ly ever exceed one foot in bight. This quality 
of dwarfness makes it exceedingly valuable. 
Catalfa, — Syringse folia aurea — Leaves 
large and entirely suffused with a permaneut 
golden color, giving a beautiful warm tint to 
the foliage. A remarkably handsome tree, 
with noble foliage of peculiar character and 
loug clusters of fragrant, white, variegated 
flowers in August. 
Cortlus— Avellana pendula.— A handsome 
weeping variety of the Filbert. 
Daphne Genkwa. —A beautiful, slender, up¬ 
right-growing shrub, with numerous long, 
downy twigs, which in early spring before the 
leaves apppar, are thickly garnished with vio¬ 
let-colored tubular flowers, rather more than 
one iuch long. It seldom attains the hight of 
more than three feet, has flue delicate foliage, 
and may be classed among the best of our flow¬ 
ering shrubs. 
Magnolia Hypoleuca —One of the most at¬ 
tractive of this large family, on account of the 
fragrance and lateness of its bloom. Flowers 
milky white, resembling those of Conspicua, 
but lurger, with a most delicious, banana-like 
odor, and appearing about the middle of June. 
Foliage bright and attractive, with the under¬ 
side of the leaf whitish. A great acquisition. 
New Double Geraniums — Candidissima 
plena.—Very large, full, and finely formed 
flowers of the most pure 6oowy whiteness, not 
becoming tiuted with lose as the flowers fully 
expand. A really flr&l-elass Geranium. Grows 
vigorously aud profusely all the season. We 
know nothing of this plant, and merely give 
the catalogue description. Striped Vesuvius— 
Very distinct from all other Geraniums. Quite 
double, scarlet ground striped with white and 
salmon. Will prove acceptable to the most se¬ 
lect collection of Zonals, either for the con¬ 
servatory or for beddiug purposes. 
New Ixora —I. Regina.—An extremely at¬ 
tractive and distinct plant, freely producing 
large, dense trusses of flowers of a rich violet 
6 almon color. 
New Lantana —Surprise.—A flue new vari¬ 
ety of robust growth. It produces immense 
round fringed trasses of flue large flowers of a 
bright yellow color, changing to rich red with 
dark center. This is fine as a bedding plant 
blooming constantly 
Turnip— “ Extra Early Purple Top, Mu¬ 
nich.”—A remarkably handsome and very early 
turnip, with a bright purplish red top, and fine 
mouse-tail root. It bus been grown during the 
past season in the Gardens of the Royal Horti¬ 
cultural Society at Chiswick, where it proved 
to be three weeks earlier than any other vari¬ 
ety 60 wn on the same day aud side by side 
with it. 
Melon, “New Surprise.”—8 aid to be the 
finest of all musk-melons for Northern locali¬ 
ties, with thin light-colored and fine-netted 
skin and deep salmon-colored fle6h. 
Peas, “Laxton’s Marvel.” —A new three 
feet, main crop, wrinkled Marrow Pea, raised 
by Mr. Laxton by crossing Prolific Long Pod 
with Veitch’s Perfection, aud tr.ed by the 
Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick and 
awarded a first-class certificate The pods are 
large, and contain from eight to ten peas of 
exquisite flavor It is said to be the best of 
Mr. Laxton's productions. 
Cabbage, “Early Arctic.” —A new very 
hardy cabbage from Russia. 
Beans, “Dwarf French Emile ’’—Supe¬ 
rior aud very tender dwarf, and well adapted 
for forcing. Per quart. 7 ceuts. 
Cucumber, “ Early' White Japan.” —Very 
early, aud assuming a pure white color from 
the time of formation; quite distinct. 
Squash, “Little Oocoanut.”— A beautiful 
little wiuter squash, the size of a cocoauut, 
cream-colored with green bottom, fine-grained, 
and of fitst quality. 
White Russian Spring Wheat —Iu our 
te6ts of spring wheats two years ago, this 
stood about liist iu yield. It has since been 
tried over an extensive rauge of spring wheat 
territory, and the reports are all very favor¬ 
able. 
Lettuce. — Black-Seeded Simpson. —This 
Lettuce was offered last season for the first 
time. Like the ordinary Curled Simpson, it 
does not properly form a head, but a compact 
mass of leaves ; but differs in beiug very much 
lighter-colored, the leaves beiug almost white; 
stands the summer heat excellently and attains 
a size nearly double that of Curled Simpson. 
Corn,—E gyptian Sweet.—This has been 
grown near Baltimore, Md., for some time. 
The ear is of large size, and the flavor pe¬ 
culiarly rich and sweet. 
Chinese IIullkss Oats.— The berry comes 
from the heads as clean as wheat, without hull 
or chaff adhering. The grain is white. These 
were among the oats tested at the Rural Farm 
last year If left until fully ripe, a good deal 
of grain is lost. 
Gourd. —Dish Cloth.—There is nothing new 
about this Gourd, but. it 19 curious, and always 
more or less inqnired about. It forms rather 
curious, novel-looking frnit, the lining of 
which i3 sometimes utilized as a dish-cloth, 
hence the name. 
Conversion of Cane Sugar into Graph 
Sugar in Cooking. —At a sanitary convention 
in Grand Rapids, Michigan, recently, the 
President of the State Board of Health called 
attention to a bad practice among cooks, by 
which cane sugar is converted into grape sugar 
iu cooking, thereby losing more than half of 
its sweetening power. Some women, he said, 
will put the sugar in with a mass of acid fruit 
to be cooked, and keep cooking and keep add¬ 
ing sugar while it keeps on growing sourer, 
until at last they will use two and a half times 
as much sugar as they ought to, to secure the 
desired result. The cane sugar has been changed 
to grape sugar. Now, if the satrar hud been 
added after the fruit was cooked, much less 
would have been required, and the result would 
have been far more satisfactory. 
Glucose from Rags. —The Revue Indus- 
irielle states that a German manufactory 
is turning out over a ton a day of glucose made 
from old linen rags. These rags, which are 
composed of hard vegetable fibers, are treated 
with sulphuric acid, which converts them into 
dextrine. The latter product thus obtained 
undergoes a washing with milk of lime, and is 
then treated with a fresh supply of acid strong¬ 
er than the former, when the mass is at once 
transformed and crystallizes into glucose, of 
which “ rich” confections and jellies may be 
made. The process is said to be a very cheap 
one, and the glucose chemically identical with 
grape sugar. A strong outcry, however, has 
arisen against the manufacture of grape sugar 
from rags, and the enterprise is understood to 
be in danger of being interfered with by the 
German Government. 
Pears for Michigan. —For succesion I can 
give nothing preferable to the following, says 
President T. T. Lyoa in the Michigan Farmer, 
arranged in the order of ripening: Doyenne 
d’ Ete, end of July and beginning of August; 
Tyson, middle and end of August; Fondante 
d’ Automne, (Belle Lucrative) middlp of Sep¬ 
tember ; Louise Bonne de Jersey, end of Sep¬ 
tember and October ; Seckel, October ; Beurre 
d’Anjou, November and December. To length¬ 
en the season to February keep the last, or add 
Winter Nelis. _ 
The fortune of England’s Queen is a profound 
secret. It is known that she has au allowance 
of £385,000 a year from the nation ; that she 
receives about £40,000 a year from her Duchy 
of Lancaster: and that the legacy bequeathed 
to her by the eccentric miser, Neild, amounted 
to £500.000; but beyond that the public knows 
nothing. The royal revenue is appropriated 
to three departments ; the Lord Chamberlain, 
Lord Steward and Master of the Horse. Be¬ 
sides this, £36 000 ate left over for contingen¬ 
cies. and £60,000 a year are for the Queen's pri¬ 
vate expenses.—The Hour. 
Sorghum Sugar. 
Mr. C. M. Schwarz, Edwardsville, Ill., who 
is one of the foremost and most successful 
mauufactuiers of sugar from the Amber caue, 
aud who has several times given to our readers 
the results of his experience, writes us as fol¬ 
lows: “ I send you two samples of Early Amber 
sugar, which I have been draiuiog out to day 
on a hand centrifugal. It drains very readily 
in about two mimuos The sample on top was 
not boiled for sugar, but ouly for table sirup, 
at 228 3 density, and will yield only about two 
pounds of sugur per gallon. The other sam¬ 
ple at the bottom of the box was boiled dense, 
as for sugar, at 232® Fahr., and turns out 
about five pounds per gallon ; both were boiled 
in tbe open flre-paa. The process ia the one 
that has already been published iu the Rural 
New-Yorker. I feel now perfectly sure of 
success, aud am about enlarging my works 
with the assistance of two other gentlemen of 
large experience. I do not advise any one 
without the neo^ssury experience to invest 
heavily in the business, for he would fail, un¬ 
less sirup was aimed at. This would probably 
turn out a small percentage of sugar without 
injury to the sirup.” The two samples of 
sugar were duly received, aud we found them 
to differ perceptibly both iu color and flavor. 
The sample that had beea boiled at a density of 
282 s was decidedly the lighter iu color and 
the sweeter. Both were of excellent quality 
aud will compare favorably with sugar from 
the Southern cane. 
-- 
Pituri: a New Narcotic.— It is a marvelous 
circumstance that the black man of Central 
Australia should have dropped upon the same 
narcotic principle (uicotiue) as the red man of 
America. Pituri, is a plaut not far removed 
from the tobacco plaut, which grows iu Cea- 
ijal ‘ -‘'.-alia. The leaves of the plaut are 
chewed, by the aborigines who trade with it 
far and wide. The plant yielding it has been 
determined by Ba on von Mueller to be the 
Anthocercls or Duboisia Hopwoodii. alias D. 
Pitnri. Chemical analysis shows that the alka¬ 
loid, on which the peculiar poisonous proper¬ 
ties depend, is nicotine, the same substance to 
which tobacco owes its effects. Pituri causes 
extreme retraction of the eyeballs. It is much 
sought after by the natives, who will give any¬ 
thing they possess for it, not for the purpose 
of exciting their courage, or of working them 
up to flg jting pitch, but to produce a voluptu¬ 
ous dreamy sensation, such as the opium eater 
ex .eriences. The natives in some districts are 
6»id never to travel withoit it on tbeir long 
marches, using it constantly to deaden the 
cravings of hunger and to support them under 
excessive fatigue. King, the survivor of the 
Burke and Wills expedition, who bad lived 
seven months with these natives when rescued 
by Howitt, states that when his food became 
so scarce and bad as barely to support life hs 
sometimes obtained a chew of Pituri, which 
soon cause! him to forget his hunger and the 
miseries of his position. 
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CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERI¬ 
MENT STATION. 
bulletin 38.— April 3,1S80. 
Fertilizer Analysis. 
347. 354.~Concentrated Privy Guano, manu¬ 
factured by Pollard & Cook. Providence. 
No. 347 sampled by the manufacturers and 
brought to the Station Jan. 16, by F. C. Cook, 
119 Ellsworth Ave., New Haven. 
No. 854 sampled by F. C. Cook, iu February, 
from lot of tun Lons purchased by him. Cost, 
$65 per ton. 
COMPOSITION. 
Moisture. 5.10 
Oivuniu Matter(Nitrog-en—0.50).7 93 
Ammonia-. '* 4.96. 4.93 
Nitrio Acid. “ 10.03 . 38 7o 
Phosphoric Acid, soluble. 7.76 
Sulphuric Acid. 4.71 
Chlorine.,.. ,22 
Soda. 2.06 
Potash. 24.90 
Lime. 3. ,0 
Magnesia.trace 
100.00 
Total Nitrog-en.14.59 14 29 
VALUATION OF 347. 
lbs. y t. vai. y m. 
Nitrocfon of nitrates.20o.6 26 eta. 
< luuionia.... 81.2 22>£ “ 
Organic Nitrogen. 10.0 20 *• 
Sol Phod. Acid:..155 2 12>»' “ 
Potash. 498.0 7 % *• 
Ton Val. 
$ 52.15 
18.27 
2.00 
19.40 
37.35 
Total Estimated Value.$129.17 
Cost... 65.00 
This Privy Guano has au unmistakable privy 
odor, but, nulike night soil, it is almost entirely 
soluble in water, and unlike both night soil 
and urine, it consists mainly of nitrates and 
phosphates of potash, ammonia and soda. It 
is not manufactured from night soil, although 
it is flavored with this last named substance. 
Its commercial value is almost double i‘s cost, 
a fact that would be very welcome to the con¬ 
sumers of fertilizers if it could remain a fact. 
But a “ Privy GuauV of this composition can¬ 
not loug be afforded for much less than $130 
per ion, and the extraordinary value of the 
two samples that thus early have found their 
way to the Station, should put purchasers on 
their guard against a sudden and great decline 
in its composition and value. 
Any parties who have laid in a supply would 
do well to have samples analyzed before wait¬ 
ing for a etop, aud should remember that the 
first fertilizers bulletined by tbe Station (in 
August, 1877,) were Pollard’s “Composition 
for Grass,” of which the cost was $32, and tho 
estimated value, $103, and Pollard’s “Com¬ 
position for Vegetables, ’ cost $32, estimated 
value, $0.99. S. W. Johnson, Director. 
CATALOGUES, ETC.. RECEIVED. 
Note.—R eaders are referred to our advertising col¬ 
umns for any particulars omitted in the following ne¬ 
cessarily brief notices: 
Hooper, Bro. & Thomas, West Chester, Pa. 
Better late than never. We are In receipt of 
several catalogues from this good old firm. 
One is a circular of the choicest flowers in 
collections at wholesale prices—a capital idea. 
For instance 12 Roses in 12 varieties are offer¬ 
ed for $1 00. Another is a Cheap List of Ever¬ 
greens and Fruit trees and the prices are, 
iudeed. astonishingly low'. Last but not least is 
their Haud-book of Beautiful Flowers, Green¬ 
house and Bedding plauts, 80 pages, illustrated. 
Our readers may promote their own iutere6ts 
by sending for them all. 
Seymour, Sadin & Co., Stillwater Minn. 
Catalogue of 20 pages setting forth to all 
interested iu grain-trashing machinery the 
mauy advantages of the Minnesota Chief Sep¬ 
arator. This machine has been well-tried both 
at home and abroad and has well proven the 
validity of its claim to staud at the head of 
modern thrashing machines. The catalogue 
is fully illustrated and will be 6ent to all ap? 
plieauts. 
Brief Essays on New Fruits, Ornamental 
trees and plants, by William C. Barry, Mount 
Hope Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
