Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1865-11-16
New Wine Producing Plant.

Every year brings to light some
new discovery in the vegetable king
dom, and developes some property
hitherto dormant in the nature of
plants, susceptible of being turned
to proftableaecount. horticultural,
like other sciences. is progressive,
By careful culture, the products in
digenous 10 our soil, are improved
and perfected and the tenderest ex-
otto may be acclimatized and brought
to full maturity. But it is only
through IL proper botanical t.p 81 under
standing and an application of
chemical, principles to the organic
properties of plants, that welcan be
made to realize the various uses and
benefits which many Of them pos
sess. It was by some such skillful
agency we opine, that in certain
northern localities they have sue
ceeded in manufacturing valuable
wine from a plant technically called
the Linneus Plant. nj In appear.
ance it is said to resemble somewhat
the rhubarb Or "pie plant" though
entirely dissimilar in its chemical
qualities. 1t will flourish on ordi-
| nary cortland. Set out in the fall
Or spring, it is ready TO be made into
wine in, the following July or Au-l
gust. It can be manufactured in an
ordinary, cider-press. During the
present season it has been success
fully produced in Stamford and
Greenwich, Connecticut. The sworn
statements Of seven cultivators Of
those towns declare that, in the ag-
gregate, they set out 1894 plants,
| which cost them forty cents each,
and that in July and August they
manufactured therefrom 4,006 gal
Ions of wine, the plants at the same
time producing more than 10000
other plants for resetting this fall.
Some of these gentlemen say they
can readily sell their wine for So so
per gallon. One Of them, an expert
| eneea horticulturist, who made 1900
gallons, declares that the wine. in
many of it's qualities, /" is superior to
any ever before manufactured in this
country or imported from Europe"
The plant is being extensively cul-
tivated in Broome and Chenango
counties, in New York. United States
District Attorney Dickinson, Judge
Griswold, Congressman Hotchkiss,
and other prominent citizens of Bing-
hamton, testify that the wine pos
sesses "a beauty of flavor and
delieacy Of taste seldom, if ever, ex-
.celled by the best Sherry wines Of
Europe" and that the plant cannot
fail "to be great and sure source of
revenue to all who engage in its Gull
tivation." Some of those who have
tried the wine say that it seems to be
cross between Madeira and Sherry,
with the best qualities of each.
We should like to see the expert
ment tried of cultivating the elm
naus Plant" on some of the lands in
our Parish. 1t would be worth a
fair trial, and would likely prove
successful. Who will be the first to
undertakeit2~ The chances are, that
he would be richly paid in the end
for his pains. If the wine is what it
is "cracked up to be-" and it could
be manufactured here in quantities,
the enterprise would prove one of the
most money-making that could be
started. ~" .rsu......-
WAYS By WHICH PEOPLE GET SIoK.-
L. Eating too fast, and swallowing food
simperfectly mahcated. ,.saf. 49, .,y,..a
3. Taking too much fluid during meals
8. Drinking poisonous whisky and other
intoxicating liquors, ~ $50.
4. Keeping Iatp hours at night, and
sleeping too late in the morning.
s.. Wearing the clothes 30 tight as to i'm
pede circulation.
s. Wearing thin shoes.
7. Neglecting to take sufficient exercise
to keep the hands and feet warm.
s. Neglecting to wash the body suffic-