Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1875-01-23
Patent Earth,

Every part of the gardening or farming
world mas its distinct phase of insanity We
nave ours. We can put i'm q tremendous
claim sometime on new grapes or perbaps i'm
enormous prices for new potatoes. In most
other respects, however, American culture
mas a healthy pulse. II is worth our viii 10
now and then to turn from our own ,yea H.
nesses 10 those of other countries. We NAV
Iaugli al our own, but there is just as much
fun abroad.
A friend has plac ed in our hands a circnlar
received by him, in which the surprising re-
suits OF a certain earth-Only fifty-fve dollars
ton-aFe poetically narrated. The proprie-
Tor OF inns grand earth" when a wanderer
anu so-iorth, discovered it and so on, with an
us wonderful properties. At an "ennrmous
expense" OF course he prOcures IL for the Eng.
nSil people, and the people of the continent
anu is anxious that the people OF the United
states should also profit by his hercuIean
IapoTS on behali OF Internationally at fifty
nNe dollars a ton. IL is wonderful i'm lis
effects on .'tOmatum' plants and it "beats
the bugs all around.
That which j. to commend it especially to
American culturiStS. however. is that with
this wonderful earth-at fifty-fiye dollars a
ton English gold-''the problem of the de-
struction of the phylloXera is solved" Some
S ,Ilg fuZzieaii had vineyard which had
me bugs. lie put the patent earth round
Ihloc hundred vines. which are now sort OF
Mecca TO which all gaping yignerOns are
round, anu all the other grape vines in the
vineyard are dead sticks. A terrible chan
ms phyllOxera when he goes abroad Here
IN his American home he is more subdued
lie keeps the vines, so il is said, from grow
ing fast or maturing their fruit well. but he
never went so far as TO leave us altogether
with dried sticks
We suppose that few people who have ever
READ The long advertisements OF the patent
medlclne men, ever had any idea what sick
suffering creatures they had been all their
lives. Alter reading the calm and clear state
menis, we can readily understand why. in
stead oil peing paragOns of health, as we sup
posed: Tor SO many years, We were really
standing with one leg in the glave. We get
Just ttie same insight into the vegetable CON
sifuton by reading OF this circular. Time
ana again when we have looked on our
ofghted, be-bugged, and generally Woe
DegOned fruits, We have signed for the
genial Italian CLINE where fruit-cuitlre
~ all serene But no J this account tells
US mat II Is not so. This supposed IA
xored land Is terrible temptation to fruits
Iney dash forward but soon fall. ..Hundre,Is
Qi lemon trees can be seen everywhere, nearly
deau,' Mulberry trees everywhere look
awful" "ApI.cot and plum trees in a dying
condition abound" But on; w.t. a blessing
is this patent earlhi The dead and drtr,Slhg
trees everywh here revived when a few pinches
of the patent earth were placed about the
roots, and so remarkable was the revivifica-
ton that thousands thrOng the vineyards
where the earth has been employed in order
TO view the almost supernatural luXuyIapce.
AS we have said, there seems To he AN In
cllnation TO push this thing in the United
States. But we doubt whether il will go. A
new grape or a new potato we can stand; but
patent ''earth" viii hardly catch our DUST
GeTDioHtCtcn Telegraph.