Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1852-10-02
A NEW USE OF THE LEAVES OF THE PINE,
N. SARGENT, Esq.

A New USE OF THE LEAVES OF THE PINE,
(Pmus Syluestris)
Not far from Breslau, in Sesia in domain called the
Prairie of Humboldt, there exists establishments
astonishing for their produce for their union One
manufacture which converts pine leaves into of
cotton wool the other offers to invalds curative
baths the used in the manufacture of that vege
table wool. Both have been erected by Mr. PANNE-
wIrz inventor of chemical process by of which
it is possible extract from the long and slender leaves
of the pine very fine faceous substance which he has
named woody WOOL BECAUSE like the ordinary wool, it
can be cured felted, and woven.
All the aucuar leaves Of the pine fir and of the conf
fer@ in general, composed of bundle of fbre
remey fine and tough surrounded and held together by
resinous substance under the form Of thin pecle.
When by decocton and the certain chemical agents
the resnous substance is dissolved it is easy separate
the bres wash them and free them from all foreign
substances According to the mode Of preparation
ployed the wooly substance acquires quality
less ne remains in its state in the first in
it is used wadding in the second to stuff mat
If the pine has been preferred the other kinds
of pitch trees it is account of the length of needle
shaped leaves 1t is thought that similar result might
be obtained from other trees of the same species
The tree can be stripped of its leaves when quite young
without any injury The operation takes place when they
are still green. gather two hundred pounds
Il
| Of leaves day.
1t first advantageousy substituted for cotton and
wool in the manufacture Of blankets The hospital of
Vienna bought five hundred and after trial of several
years. has adopted them entirely 1t has been remarked
among other advantages, that kind of insects would
lodge in the BEDS and its aromatic odor found agree
able and beneficial. These blankets have since been
adopted by the penitentary Of Vienna the charity hos
pita of Berlin, the maternity hospital and the barracks
of Bresau.
Its cost is three times less than that horsehar and
the most experienced uphosterer when the wool is en-
poyed in furniture could not tell the from the other
This article be spun and woven, resembling the
thread Of hemp for its strength it be made into
rugs and horse-blankets.
In the preparation of this wool ethereal oil of
pleasant odor produced This oil is first green exposed
to the rays Of the sun, orange yellow tint
replaced in the shade its former color
recti6ed it becomes eolorless 1t differs from the
of turpentine extracted from the 1t has
found efficient in rheumatism and govt also anthel-
mintic, and in ceraincutaneous diseases Distilled is
used in the preparation of lac Of the finest kind 1t
burns in lamps like olive OIL and dissolves caoutchouc
completely in short time. Perfumers in Paris use IL in
large quantities.
1t is the liquid left by the decocton of the pine leaves
which has been beneficial in the form Of bath. The
bath establishment is hourishing one
The membranous substance obtained by filtration ut
the time Of the washing Of the bres is pressed in bricks
and dried; il is used n combustibe and produces
from the rosin it contains quantity Of gas sufficient for
the lighting of the factory The production Of thousand
quinals of wool leaves quantity of combustble matter
equal in value to sixty cubic metres of pine wood
WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER "a, 1852. L. ID.