The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-07-28
our Field. and Forests.

RESOURCES OF THE SOUTHERN FIELDS AND For
EsTs, MEDICAL. ECONOMICAL AND A0A1CULTU-
RM; being also Medical Botany OF the
Southern States, with Practical Information
on the Useful Properties OF the Trees. Plants
and Shrubs, by Francis Peyre Poreherr d.
D. Charleston: Walker, Evans L. Cogsweu,
1869. =
We are glad that DR.. Porcher has met sufh-
cient encouragement 10 warrant him in issuing
second edition Of his very valuable work.
The book was written and published during
the late war, BY direction Of the surgeon-Gen-
eral; and what With small edition originally
printed and the general destruction by the
war of every species of book, the work had
already become rare, and much sought after.
We are ple1sed, therefore, now to see our old
friend reappear, and dressed by those famed
literary tailors, whose names appear at the
foot of the title page, not in the dingy Soon
federate Gray" Of the first edition, but in spIen-
did paper, typography.and binding.
A bo ok like this is a great deside1atunn here
at this time. The war, from necessity, threw
our people largely upon their own resources,
and hong forgotten domestic remedies" and
swamp doctors ya,5s we're again brought from
their obscure recesses. and even received a
patrouzing pat on the back from the great
dons Of the Faculty. So with valuable dye
stuhs, seeds, grains. and material tor tne tex
tile fabrics. DR.. Porcher, IN this book, points
out and describes, both for the leaned and
lulearned reader. no less than five hundred
substances, possessing every variety OF useful
quality, oil to be found within the limits of the
southern States, and for all of which, be it
remembered, there is ready market. Here,
then, are vast undeveloped resources, and
likely to remain undeveloped, at least in a
great measure, for the want of intelligent
guidance. Not long since the writer eudeayor-
ed to procure a book that should contain d.
rections for the unlearned, how to gather and
prepare such OF these indigenous roots, herbs
leaves, barks, seeds, 60, as are sought for in
the markets of the world; but after consider
able inquiry he found that there is no book ex-
tant that gives such information. DR.. Por-
oher's book contains this information, With
minute direchons where to find, and when to
gather the articles described. 1t is, perhaps,
too expensive for many who would like to poe
SEES such work. Still, we can confidently
say that it is the very best treatise on this
s.bject to be had In the United States. ~
Some OF our readers in the interior may be
surprised to learn that herbs, weeds, and other
such "trash," that they have seen run to
seed" all their lives, should have marketable
value. Such, however, is the case. From o
catalogue before us Of articles, advertised for
by DR.. VIM. Armstrong & Co., B>tanic Drug
Commission Merchants, No. 9 North Front
street, Philadelphia, We will mention the fol-
lowing, for which there Is nearly always q
ready sale :: Blacb berry root, bark Of black
berry root, black snake root, blood root. blue
flag, boneset, butterfly root, button snake root,
calamus root. catoip, cherry bark, cranesbi!l,
cotton root, bark Of the cotton root, dandelion
root, yellow dock root, elecampane root, elder
flowers, elm bark, (slippery) ioxglove, ginseng,
golden seal. horebound, hydrangia, jessamine
root, (yelow) lad es' slipper, larkspur seed,
liverwort, mandrake root, marjoram, (sweet)
male fern, pinkroot, pipsissewa, parsley loot
and seeds, pennyroyal, peppermint, pleurlsy
root, horsemint. poke root, poppy hosds and
flowers, prickly ash bark and berries, poplar
bark, queens delight, ounce leaves, raspberry
leaves, red oak bark, rosemary leaves, sage,
bark, pith and oil. tcullcap, snake
root, Solomon's seal, spearmlnt, spikenard, su-
mao berries, sunfower seeds, sweet bazil, tan
zy, tho maple leaves and seeds, thyme, water
melon seeds. white oak bark, wild ginger, wild
turnip, wild yam, wintergreen, wormseed ard
wormwood.
Some Of these, pe,haps, may not belong to
this latitude, out these are more than counter
balanced by others found here and not emu.
merated in the foregoing list.
DR.. Porcher's book can be obtained from
booksellers at $3 so, bound in best muslin, or
for 81 so in library Style BY sending the
amount to Messrs. Walker, Evans & Cogs-
we'll, Charleston, the book will be mailed, post
age paid.