The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-05-03
FROM THE COUNTRY AT LARGE.

III "A lIdlled lOl ucDt.
Double petunias are now produced that
are prettily variegated.
1t is said yellow jessamine scattered
around will Danish rats.
The daisy should be planted where
there's shade half the day.
Georgia can grow two hundred different
varieties of fruit and not half exert her.
self.
The oat crop will be light in Warren
County, KY, says the Bowling Green DEM
ocrGt.
aNow doth the rural housekeeper chase all
around the lot the hen that ought to set but
won't.
Jackson, Tenn, is glad because of the
establishment ola acotton-seed oil mill within
her gates
The Texas wool clip this season is esti-
mated at three million pounds, not count
ing Mexican scalps.
1t is estimated that the population of
Kansas will be increased by two hundred
thousand this year.
Within the last three months two hun
dred thousand American clocks have been
shipped to Australia.
Babcock is raising oranges in Florida. He
is the same Babcock who once raised thun-
der in the White House.
The Vine Cultivators Association pro-
poses to buy eight thousand acres of South
Carolina land to begin with
A farmer near Shelbyville, H., has put
five thousand lake trout in a pond on his
farm, and hopes fora good crop OF fish in fu-
ture years.
Three-fourths of the liquorice manufac-
tured in the United States is said to be pre-
pared in New Jersey. Spain and Asia Minor
furnish the root
The marsh mallow is cultivated in certain
districts of England and held in repute as
medicinal plant being used chiefly in TO-
mcntations and garges.
A gardener at GOleta, Cal, according to
the Santa Barbara Advertiser, has grown
rose that measures seventeen inches in cir
cumference. 1t is of the Cloth of Gold va
riety.
They tell of an amateur sportsman in
Dayton, Ohio, who, having heard that there
was an unusual abundance of mushrooms
i'll the woods, borrowed a dog and took his
gun and started to kill some.
A Pittsburg letter says: Oil dealers seem
to think that the price of petroleum is down
to hard-pan, and that producers will either
have to suspend operations or lose money
The cause is over-producuon.
The London papers say there is ribes
from California towering at Hampton
Court, with flowers more like fuchsia than
anything else. 1t has been called r. fuch-
soides, we believe by Mr.. Bolander.
Gen. Sanford has ordered from Europe a
large variety of trees for his nursery near
Sanford, Fla. In the collection there will
be five different varieties of olives, thirty
varieties of figs, and over two hundred va
rieties of grapes
An infusion Of the dried blossoms of the
common cowslip is drunk in some places
under ihe name of cowslip tea. The bios
SONS communicate an aromatic fragrance to
| homemade wines, resembling that of the
muscatel wines of the South of France.
In China many odiferous flowers are much
used in scenting teas. The best kinds of
caper or sOnChy teas are said to be scented
more or less with the curious green flowers
of the Chu-Lan (Chloronthus inconspicuus,
Swartz), although Fortune states that those
of the AgIaia odorata, lour., are used.
A plant Of clematis jackmanii in the yard
of Abner Wakelee, Esq, Of Rochester, n.
| Y, which has borne full exposure to the
weather the past winter without protection,
came out this spring uninjured to the
height of nine feet. Only the extremities
of the shoots for about two feet were winter
killed.
The fish fever is sweeping over Kentucky
with great virulence. The disciples OF Izaak
| Walton are building dams and artificial
lakes nearly everywhere, and the Fish Com
mission at Louisville is supplying large
quantities of stock fish Mr. William Grit
| 18th is President of the commission and the
man to whom application should be made,
According to the celebrated German
botanist, Herr Schieden, "about four hun.
dred and fifty tons OF beet-root are annually
in Thuringia alone, transformed into to.
bacco" In no country in the world are ci
gars sold at SO cheap a rate as in Germany,
and the reason is obvious by means OF hel
own ingenious products she is enabled to
beet all competitors.
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