Delaware State journal, advertiser and star. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1832-1833, 1833-06-28

he east end OF the PRESIDENTS House IN
is washed with it.
(From the Atlantic Journal)
SULPHUR IN TREES, TO DESTROY ALL IN
sEcTs PREYING ON THEM.
Farmers and gardeners ought to hail
with rapture safe, certain, easy and
unfailing mode Of driving away or des-
troying all the insects. bugs. caterpillars,
lice, ants, which prey upon trees and Of
ten kill them.
Numberless have been the means pro-
posed or devised to get rid Of these trou-
blesome guests, most of which are dirty,
costly, or unavailing. Our farmers APP
pear to have given up in despair the hope
of preventing the deadly attacks of cur
c,tiios on the roots Of peach trees, and the
fruits of the plumb tree. Yet an efficac-
ious mode is said TO have been found Sc
veral years ago in France, perfectly ef-
ficacious 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 1928
in Kentucky, and in 1927 in Philadelphia,
L CT tnC lllOSl uSCIul kHOMtSdkC 40 ~ otO
10 spread, that the facrts hardly known
; yet, or doubted by those who know OF it.
r We are happy to be able to publish
two direct experiments in support of the
, fact and discovery.
LIST. We bored and plugged with sui
phur in the usual way, a plumb tree
!, which commonly dropped every year all
the plumbs before becoming ripe, the
curculios lodging eggs in their germs
This was done when the tree was in BIOS
som. On that year hardly any fruit fell,
and the tree produced quite well.
I'd. We find in the Genesee Farmer,
of January %, 1882, that a young will
low nearly killed by aphis or lice, and
pissmires feeding on their honey, was
quite revived in three days, and all the
lice and ants killed off, by bouring
, hole about three feet from the ground and
threefourths through the diameter, filing
with birthstone and plugging tight.-The
tree has thrived ever since.
The modus operandi of this singular
process is very easy to explain. The
! vital energy Of the tree and sap, dissol-
yes the sulphur, carrie it into circulation,
:. and envolves it in sulphuric gas evapor-
a ating through all the pores of branches,
4 ICdVcS anu lIullos lllo 6ao 10 q ISahAy
! poison to insects and all animals, it suf-
"a locates them or drives them away as soon
- as they begin to smell it; but no injury
q whatever results to the tree.
% We have never heard yet of any direct
:. experiment on peach trees but we are
e, @ sure it will answer quite as well. Ii
r. the sulphuric emanationico not reach
n quick enough the roots of the trees which
II are commonly attacked, the plugging
- must be done near the root or at the
' time of the descending sap, when it will
- sooner reach the roots. Let it be tried
IN and the result made known, c. S. r.
ANEcDoTE OF SpURzHEIM. 1t is a curl
GUS fact which we learn from note to Spur
y helms Physiognomy, published by Marsh,
at Capen & Lyon, that the deceased Philan-
oil throphist, when he visited the prison a
/, Hartford last fall, pointed out the two mer
m who became the leaders in the late conspira
cy and murder, as very bad criminals. DR.
Brigham, who was i'll company with him
says:-
"The negro, Caesar Reynolds, who from
W. the testimony, it appears, actually commit
it ted the murder he noticed when at some dis
be lance, and remarked, -Fhat negro interest
me much, and begged the liberty of exam
be lining his head infinitely; and after he ha
tub done so. he said he had the best formatio
the intellectually of any negro he had ever saw
lrd (andle is far superior to most blacks bu
W. he was wretched and dangerous man, ca
alpable of doing any wickedness, and one tina
Ut would perseyere in iniquity
"Thc Warden has repeatedly assured m
O. that Dr. 5. gave the characters of many
en- the criminals, especially the noted ones, 8
lie, correctly as he himself could, who had Ion
emf known them. Boston Journal