The weekly echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1868-1876, 1875-09-30

porting the weight OF tire n9aYtehO eh-
gines and trains. Cross ties OF cypress
have O life many years beyond cedar.
It is cf the live oak that the worthy old
''tar prefers to see his ship ''atemmed'
end ribbed, owing to its extreme
hardness, durability and steel-like
strength. In addition to this use, mall
let's, mauls, in fact anything ia which
hardness is the deSiderdtuBa, even down
to the shooting stick, with which
Won "shoot" the Quoin to " chase
the news, is made hardly know how
to do justice to this giant evergreen
tree, in attempting to describe it. Its
body, reaching Ave and six feet in
diameter sometimes larger-grows to
the height Of ten to twenty feet, where
It's enormous arms put forth almost at
q right angle, md extending outward
from thirty to fifty feet, furnish q cir
Gle Of the coolest and most delightful
shade, sixty to one hundred feet in
diameter and during the heated days
of our summer solstice afford CRATE
full relief to man and beast from old
" Soils" fiery blaze. of all the orna-
mental trees it surpasses in grandeur
and beauty any other in the world, and
the Southern planter who is SO for
tunate as to have one Of them on his
place, approaching its great q Ialities in
this respect, watches it with fostering
care. As mast, the acorn of this tree
is, par excellence, the richest, and is
sought by beasts and birds in prefer
ence to oil Others even man does not
reject it as being unsuited to
his taste. The tupular gum is most
wonderful tree, which grows like the
cypress, in the swamps 1t attains to
five and six feet in diameter, and from |
sixty to seventy-fve feet in height. In
shape it resembles very much D cham
payne bottle, and the softness, and |
cork-like texture Of its wood would |
make it no innovation if used as a cork |
for the same in fact many, for this
call it the cork tree, and owing |
10 its berry resembling the olive, it is by
some, called the olive tree. As to the
uses to which this tree may be put, I
viii say, the snowy Wilderness of its
wood and extraordinary lightness,
would suggest its fitness for the manu-
1acture of wooden culinary apparatus.
have seen beautiful bread trays made
from it,; and it seems TO me it would
make q good water bucket, as we'll as a
Try goods box. The beauty of the mag
lolia, and the fragrance of its bloom,
nave been written by the prosaic, and
Jung by the poet, and rs am not, a1'bi-
e7 clegantiQyuDl, I will leave it to them.
OF the trees and shrubs which are re-
'eived into the N.
MATERIA MEDICA
the medical world, we have
he laurUs saSsgfTas, ul,nus rW5ra, or
slippery elm, dTWno triphjIIWna, or Indian
,urnip, noentba puJegjuae. or pennyroyal,
autkslnajRtjcWn1. or Jeru-
salem oak, G0tWTG StrGneO1ricun1, or
Jamestown weed, Se7pentaria Ui?giniG-
"a, or snake root. prunw$ Uirgiaiana,
II wild cherry, and in fact many others
With which the writer is not acquainted.
Nature seems to have been exceedingly
avish in this respect, and I hope some
If our medical fraternity will, through
1our columns, give them the attention
hey deserve. I believe when the sub
ect is fully examined into, it will be
ound that a remedy grows out of the
Earth here, which will cure-or is re-
commended as being efficacious for
very disease and nlalady which man is
leir to.
DESCRIPTION OF LANDS.
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