24.4 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Srpr., 1898. 
JERUSALEM WHEAT, 
TuE Department of Agriculture is not aware of any such variety. Jerusalem 
Corn has been distributed to the following persons during 1893 :— 
HE. Sainsbury, Redland Bay road, Brisbane; J. Storey, Park Ridge, 
Waterford, Logan district; W. B. Armstrong, Swan Creek, Warwick; D. 
Cumming, Pittsworth, Toowoomba; W. R. Twine, Wallumbilla—from whom, 
perhaps, some might be obtained. ‘The corn has been well reported on. 
NOOGOORA BURR. 
Ar the Agricultural and Pastoral Conference recently held at Rockhampton, 
Mr. Macfarlane is reported (vide the Agricultural Journal for August, 1898, 
page 131) to have expressed regret that there was no one, at the time of the 
first appearance of the Noogoora Burr, to identify such plants. It possibly 
escaped Mr. Macfarlane’s memory that over twenty years ago Mr. I". M. Bailey, 
who was at that time Botanist to the Board of Inquiry into the Diseases affecting 
Live Stock and Plants, received a specimen of the above-mentioned plant from 
Mr, P. R. Gordon, the Chief Inspector of Stock, at about 11 o’clock one 
day, and gave him the name and account of the plant at about 3 o’clock the 
same day. Soon after this the late Dr. Joseph Bancroft wrote one or more 
papers on the subject of the poisonous properties of the plant. Surely some 
of those at the meeting might have been able to draw Mr. Macfarlane’s 
attention to these facts. 
LANTANA. 
Mr. H. E. Wyman, who read a paper on noxious weeds at the above-mentioned 
Conference, in referring to Lantana, was evidently unaware that this is a 
generic name, and contains forty or fifty species, several of which are highly 
ornamental and not likely, if introduced into the colony for garden culture, 
to become pests, and it is probable that what Mr. Wyman saw catalogued at 
3s. 6d. per plant was one of these. One surely would not prohibit the intro- 
duction of the many varieties of French and African marigolds, which belong 
to the genus Zugetes, because “Stinking Rodger,” the too well-known pest, 
belongs to the same genus. The Lantana referred to in Mr. Wyman’s paper 
is L. camara; this certainly is destructive to the pasture if allowed to spread; 
but there are two other species—viz., L. Sellowiana and L. crocea—which haye 
strayed from our gardens, but, although they have been in the colony an equal 
time with LZ. camara, are even now only met with in a few isolated places, and 
neither can be called a noxious weed.—Ed. Q.A..J/. 
STRAWBERRY WINE. 
Wuitst many fruits other than grapes have been used for making wine, we 
have not yet heard of the strawberry being so utilised. Apples, pears, currants, 
pineapples, elder-berries, and many other fruits are utilised for making wine, 
cider, and perry. Red currant wine is a very refreshing drink in summer time, 
provided it is not kept as long as the currant wine so hospitably dispensed by 
the late lamented Mr. Pecksniff. Pineapple wine and orange wine are both 
pleasant beverages. It remains to be seen if strawberry wine can be produced 
economically, for, of course, it can be made. We find a recipe for making it 
in the Rural New. Yorker, which is as follows :— 
To make strawberry wine, the fresh, ripe fruit is crushed, put into an 
earthen jar, and covered with cold water. This starts fermentation. After two 
or three days, press out the juice, and add two pounds granulated sugar to 
each gallon of the liquid. Run the material into casks placed in the cellar, 
and allow it to ferment with open bungs for several months. When this is 
finished, strain and bottle. This should make a clear first-quality wine, which 
will keep indefinitely. 
