Worcester daily spy., 1860-12-03
50lortestcr 1ailn Spp.



NOVELTIES AMONG FLowERs.-The Lon.
don Gardeners Chronicle thus describes nov
city among roses, which has been successfully
grown IN France and in England Conceive,
& China rose, with every part bright green,
deep on the outside, pallid in the middle the
calyx wholly unchanged the five natural pc
tails transformed into five small, broad, green
leaves, and all the rest OF the center consisting
OF pale green straps of various degrees of mar.
rowness, spreading evenly round the middle,
and forming green star with innumerable
points Such is the rose bengal verte 1t has
no scent, and does not show the least inclina
tion to exchange its yerdure for a rosy hue 1t
is quite regular in its form and greenness, no
change having been remarked in it since the
year of its birth. 1t is now well established
five old-plant with fixed habit. Although
this has no great beauty in itself, it is consd.
cred possible by hybridizing, new varieties
may be obtained combining the parent col0rs,
RED, white and green, and thus new beauty be
added to the Queen of flowers.
The Ztnnia after years OF cultivation with
very little success in changing it from its sin
gle habit, has at last rewarded the florists
care, by donning full flowing suit equal to
the Daha Specimens have been produced
by the MesrTs. Vilmorin, of Paris, which meas
ureS from two to three inches in diameter and
are as completely double as the Pumpone
Chrysauthemum. The colors are also variega
4ed, purple, deep rose. light rose, rose striped
red, orange red, buff, and various shades of
these colors, presenting hues Of III rvaled bril-
Clancy. The results of long continued pains
taking are cheering to the florist, as indicating
that the highest results of the art are not yet
reached, and new and unexpected beauties
may yet be developed in the floral world.
COVERING STRAwBERRIEs.-We can have
too much OF good thing us many tyr0s in
fruit culture have found out to their cost in
this operation. Reading that straw berries are
benefited by mulch iii winter, they wrap
them up as they would their babies III bed
hardly leaving breathing hole. Three or
four inches OF stable manure, or leaves, are
spread over them at this seas III, and the SHOWS
press down the litter, SO that the leaves and
crowns OF the plant decay. They come out in
the spring black and dead. Nature gives us Il
profitable hint as to the proper amount of pro
lection for this plant. 1t grows among The
grasses, and the old fog that forms that NOW.
ing, where the fields are not pastured, screens
them sufficiently from the cold Ii the leaves
are covered at all, it should only be with loose
litter through which the air can circulate free
ly. With this precaution, we have never
found any difficulty in the erking Of
the plants. 1t is better to manure them at
this season, than in the spring What is spread
upon the surface now, teaches down with the
winter rains, and is ca ;ally distributed among
the roots. Look occasionally at the plants to
see if the leaves are gone.
BRICK TEA.-"One half the world know
not how the other half live" is an old adage
verified every day. Modern travellers are con-
tinuay bringing to light something new in
the habits of other nations. A recent explorer
on the Amoor river, in Siberia, thus describes
what is called "bick tea" lit is solid
mass about eleven inches long six inches wide,
aud one and half inches thick and is made
from the last gatherings and the ref.se OF the
tea crops The leaves and stalks are wet,
mixed with bullock's blood and pressed in a
mold. When wanted for use, pieces are chop
ped off with an ak, bruised between Two
stones, rubbed in the hands, and thrown into
a cauldrOn. A bowl OF sour cream, and a
handful of millet meal with little salt are ad-
ded, and all is boiled for half an hour, and
served up hot" 1t is said TO answer very
good purpose for man hungry enough not to
be Over'nice; but most persons would prefer
to take their tea and soup separately.
CHRISTMAS PIE ON WHEELs-Before plum
pudding was invented, mammoth pie for
Christmas was considered indispensable in
every English family. An old writer says OF
it 1t is great nostrum the composition
Ol lllS pdSly ID IL uOSl itdlIGu HlAluIG VI
meats tongues, chickens, eggs, sugar, raisins,
lemon and orange peel, various kinds Of
spicery, etc" Another writer mentions that
the chef ingredient of the pie was always a
goose. There is an account of an enormous
Christmas pie made in 1910, for Sir Henry
Grey. Ii contained two bushels Of flour,
twenty pounds of butter, four geese, two
turkeys, two rabbits, four wild ducks, two
woodcocks, six snipes, tour partridees, two
meats tongues two curews, seven blackbirds
and pigeons 1t was nine tect in circumfer-
ence, and weighed about one hundred and
sixty eight pounds. 1t WIS fitted upon case
set on Wheels, so that it could be easily passed
about the table to each guest.
VEGETABLE GARDENING-Mr Chas. Back
us, Il Long Island farmer, has under cultiya
tion eight large farms devoted TO raising veg
etaDles lor the New York market During
the past year he has raist d forty acres OF pu-
talOes, fifteen to twenty acres OF parsnipS, car
roIs aud beets, fifty OF corn, eighty Of cab
bagcs One hundred acres are devoted to
asparagus and forty to curIants. Three and
a half acres are under glass, for raising early
salad, radishes, cucumber &c. tlUm three
hundred to three hundred and fifty laboreIs
are emplol ed in the summer season. and
twelve large wagon loads OF produce are every
day sent 10 the city His business in Il single
year amounts to 100000. Only thirteen
years ago two wagon loads per week were the
whole amount OF produce raised by MIR B.
who has every year since OK ended his opera
tions, until they now probably exceed thOst
of any market gardener in the Union.
FRESH PARSLEY IN WISTER.-This car
easily be obtained in the following way Saw
good stout barrel in Two, then make augtl
holes OF three lourths of an inch in diameter
and about five inc res apart, all over the cask