The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-10-15

! the endless variety in which the few ele-
mentary principle of vegetation are made
to appear. Who shall enumerate the
various dyes, odors and fators, as count
less as dissimilar. Study even peach,
leave out of view the structure Of it's
stem and leaves, with the duty they per-
form, and look not at the beauty of its
blossom. Take the immature fruit, un-
savory 10 the taste, and clad in the COM
mon green livery of vegetation-it is fed
by the same sap which might have been
converted merely to leaves or wood, yet
by the action OF It's own system of yes
sells, with no unusual supply of sunshine
and air, it paints its own cheeks with
the richest and daily-varying tints-it
converts its gum TO sugar. The crude
juices ii receives are partly converted into
a pul p. and 10 fluid of a far different char
acter. wholesome, fragrant. and delicious
to the taste. Within this pulp bony
nut, harder than wood. itself, encloses a
kernel in which the blandest Of fixed oils
is mingled with the most deadly poison
known: and all these phenomena are the
results q organic action. Yes, and it
will be demonstrated that some substan-
ces now called simple, even metals, are
but the products of this same action on
materials equally as simple.
JAPANESE GARDEN ERs-The gardeners
of japan display the most astonishing art.
Tie plum tree, which is "a great favorite,
is SO trained and cultivated that the bios.
SONS are as large as :hose OF Gahlias.- =
Their great triumph, however, is to bring
both plcntS and trees into the compass
of the little garden attached to the hous-
cs in the cities. With this view, they
have gradually succeeded in dwarfing the
fig, plum and cherry trees, and the vine
10 stature SO dimirutive as scarcely to
be credited by an European; and yet these
dwarf trees are covered with blossoms
and leaves. Some of the gardens resem-
Bile pictures in which nature is skillfully
modelled in miniature--but it is living
nature! Meylon, whose work on Japan
was published at Amsterdam in 1880.
states that in 1926 the Dutch agent of
commerce at Nagasaki was offered "a
snuff box, one inch i'm thickness and three
inches high, in which grew a fig tree, d
bamboo and plum tree in bloom"
REMARKABLE APPLE TREE.-ln the an
nails of the Linean Society of Paris a re-
markabe apple tree is described as grow
ing at ST. Val!ery III Normandy. This
tree, for period of thirty or forty years,
constantly produced flowers of one sex,
and was as a matter of course, unfruitful.
At the period of Towering, it was Gus
tomary for every young woman of st. Val
lery to 90 and make her applAby fixing a
nosegay of the blossoms of any common
apple tree, on tuit of those of the one
described; this was attached by a piece
OF rlbbon In such manner that in au-
tumn every one knew the fruit that her
nosegay had been the cause of producing.
1t was remarked that these fruits differed
among themselves in flavor, color and
size, and that they bore some relation to
those of the different trees, whose bios
SONS had been used in their qualification,
Crafts from this tree remained always
barren. Notwithstanding attempts to
fructify the blossoms artiicially.
CURIOUS PrAR TREE-A very curious
pear tree is to he seen in garden with
in block or two of the entrance to the
Greenwood Cemetery, near New York.
Every alternate year one of the two sides
blossoms and bears fruit. This year,
for instance, one side will bear an abun
dant crop of sweet fruit, the other moth
ing. The side that does not bear this
year. will blossom and yield good crop
of sour fruit next year. and SO on alter
nately. This has been the case ever
since the tree first yielded fruit. Alto
gether it is great curiosity.
WISE Provision OF NATURE.--The
seeds of the common broom grow in lit
tie pods, and when fully ripe, and ready
for dispersion, are scattered by beautiful
contrivance. through which the edges OF
the pod contract, they burst open, and,
forcing the internal surface outward.
throw the seeds at a considerable dis
tance from the parent plant. But for
this provision they would be choked un-
der the old plant for want of air and light.
| THE TALBOT TREE-The talipot is a
species of the palm tree, which is straight
and grows to prodigious height. Its
A Il
very elastic. They can be expanded or
shut up like lady's fan. When open.
they are large enough to cover from the
sun or rain ten or fifteen men, and when
closed they are not thicker than mans
arm. They are very light and portable,
and make excellent tents.
II ,cac omonp tho inyeliect cucfOmS Of