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NLD DOMINION STEAMSHIP lFFShh
W 7 COMPANY. sssiASz&&a
FOR NEW YORK T.,

This company win dispatch one Of their splendid
steamers-tjLD DOMINION. WYAS0kE. ISAAC
BELL, and RlCHMOSD-every TUESDAY,
FRIDAY and SUNDAY at high water.
These ships are entirely new, and were built ex-
They Eve splendid saloons, staterooms, and bath.
The fare, accommodations, and atten tons are un.
Goods shipped BY this line are landed regularly Al
New York on the company's covered pier, ~ HoSu
freight received until p. N. daily 49,
Cabin fare to New York, S12. Storage, S6 ane
Ssre,phts for points beyond New York forwarded
with dispatch, and no charge made except actual ex
penses incurred. -
RoA 49, GE0RGE w, ALLEN & Co, Agents, 2
my1e oflce Co,npany's wharves, Rocketts.
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DILL ABEL p HIA, RICH 1asET6
! MOND. AND NORFOLK STEAM ess ssssEsaittsesS
SHIP LINE.-FOR PHILADELPHIA, FALL
RIVER AND THE EAST VIA FALL RIVER,
THREE TIMES A WEEK.-Until further no.
tise the steamers of this line will make trl-weeklJ
trips. leaving PhiIadsiphia every UESDAY1
every TUESDAY. FRIDAY. md SUNDAY, CON.
meeting at Philadelphia with Ciyde's New England
L inc for Fall River. --..-s ->.s..-. ..s
Quick TiME-SFREQUENT DEPARTURES
LOWEST RATES. .....-. .. ..
! Freight received daily until O'Clock p. NJ.
80. .... JAMES w. MCCARRlCK,
-, General Southern Agent, Richmond, Va.
WILLIAM 7. CLYDE 6 CO..
..... -. General Managers,
no23 No. IL South WharYes, Philadelphia.
THEAP FREIGHT RATESSiTs.,
" at BY THE ~ sssazpsar-SSas.frssS7{
POWHATAN LINE for BALTIMORE -
AND THE WEST. sES-.- Z *
. - AND THE
The steamers SHIRLEY and DEFIANCE viii
leave from Twenty-second and Dock streets every
WEDNESDAY at 12 III. and SATURDAY. at 4 p.
NJ Through bills Of lading signed to all Canadian,
northern, and western points at low rates.
II II. r. DOUGLASS, Agent,
fe9 TwGnty-secona and Dock streets.
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LOUISVILLE, March 4.-Flour 1rmcr: extra,
s3@S3 rs: family. S3.75@S4. 25; fancy, s?@S6.
Wheat firm an d higher; red and amber. S1@S1 .03
Corn In fair demand; white, &c.; mixed, Soc.
Oats firm and IN good demanG: white. Csc: mixed
Lard steady; choice leaf in terccs, 7G re; kegs,
ssc. Bulk-meats quiet; shoulders, SIC; clear rib
ceaT rb a enr sdss jc Cured
hams, SE@9Ec. WhiskeY active and firm at IL .03.
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AlsOTHCy 2
MARCH 4, 1879

business CHI NCE.-Stock, Good
- VIII, and Fixtures Of an Established Business
for sale. Apply to u. EVANS L CO.,
ja i -eod3m 1926 Broad street.
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TLOS1NG OUT AT VERY LOW
~ PRICES of onr stock OF CROCKERY, GLASS
WARE, BASKETS and BRUSH rs, in order to quit
business. NJ. EVANS 4 CO., 326 Broad street.
in l5-ead3m
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CINCINNATI, March 4:-FIonr firm; family. 81 s o
Sl.O4. Corn, 34@36c. Oats firm at 2G@3Oc. Pro-
visions unsettled and lower. Pork dull at 5000.
Lard dull; steam-rendercd. $3.50 asked. Bulk
meats lower; shoulders, &3.65@$3. 10: clear rib,
S4.75@S4S0: clear sides. S5NS5.5o. Bacon
easier: shoulders, 1925; clear rib, $3.50; clear
sides, $5.75. Whiskey in fair demand and lower at
STOP. Butter unchanged. Sugar firm; hards
9Hc.: white. S7stG &c.. New Orleans, 5%@7c. Hogs
lower and inactive. - ..s
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ST. LOUIS:


ST. LOUIS, March 4.-Flour flrmer and In good
demand: doubIe-extra fall, 50 .90@S4.10; treble
extra fan. S+.35@s4.5O: family. s4.70@54.s0 4;
choice. S4.90@S5. Wheat higher: No. 2 red fall,
Gnsh: LIZ SS Ma Mar Sn
red fan, 99%e@s1; No. p spring, 9oe. Corn Corr
34c. April, 34A@35c. May, 35Sc. june Oats firm !:
NO. 2. 26c. cash. Whlskey steady at 81 90: PORK
and lower; $500 asked for loose, sold at 1929.
RuIk-mea!s dali. weak, and lower: cured clear RIB,
rs asked, $4.65 bid Bacon dull and lower; clear
sides, 5Ic.
CHICAGO, March 4.-FlouI quie! but firm. Wheat
unsettled and generally higher; No. l. Chicago
spring. 99c.0SI; No. 2 Chicago spring, 941@ cash,
94Hc. bid March, 95S@95sc. April, 9e3sc; May: No.
3 Chicago spring, &c. Oats stronger at 23ac. cash.
Pork unsettled and generally lower, closing firm !:
80 cash, $40 April. 10.1O@Sll May. Lard
quiet and weaker; b6.57h cash. S6.57l5 bid Aprtl,
s667. bid May. Bulk meats dull and lower: Shout
ders, &3.62E: short rib. Sd. 90: short clear. So.
Dressed hogs dull. weak. and Hover at 1896
Whiskey steady and unchanged.
At Ckose.-Grain frmer but not Quotabv higher.
Pork in good demand and shade higher: S10:o2H
@$10.05 April. S10.12k@sl0.15 May. Lard firm
or but not Quotabiy higher. - ..-..a
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VIRGINIA STEAMBOATGEM
Y - .-..- ssass;sss $500
..'..' ....... COMPANY'S -
.: JAMES-RIVER LINE,
NORFOLK, PORTSMOUTH,,
AND
ALL REGULAR LANDINGS ON JAMES RIVER
CONNECTING AT
NORFOLK WITH THE BAY-LINE.
FOR BALTIMORE, PHILADELPHIA. NEW
YORK, AND BOSTON. -

The fast and elegant steamer ARIEL, Captain
q. G. CLIFFORD carrying the United States MALL,
leaves Richmond for above-named places every
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY, At $50
A. M.
Fare 10 Norfolk or Portsmouth ............S so
Fare for round trip, good for two days.. Q SO
Fare for round trip, good for SEVEN days.,. 3 90
Fare for round trip, unlimited. 90
Fare TO DatlllOre b w
Fare to Philadelphia. 9 IS
Fare to New York;. ~ 10
Fare 10 Boston 10 80
Through tickets sold at CARRIERS, S26 Main street;
Exchange Hotel. AID on board steamer. Baggage
IIv.nsi ~ rough,
The LIMITED taSU1rs named above are on sale
Hotel -s. ..... ..-t 49, -
Freight received daily for Norfolk, Portsmcytb;
landings on Tar river: Washington, D. C., Hamp.
ton, and Eastern Shore of Virginia, and regular
landings on James river, at lowest rates.
The steamer ARIEL has lately been almost en-
tirey rebuilt aud .refnrnished IN an elegant and
costly manner, and is confidently recommended as
the FASTEST and most comfortable steamer that has
run on this route for Many years. -t.... .. IL.
l.. 6. TATUM, Superintendent. "
903 Main street and Rockets.
j. W. MCCARRICK. Agent. Norfolk. .,. Sef
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WASHINGTON, March, 4.-The proclama-
ton of the President, calling for an extra
session of Congress, to assemble onstlIe 18th
instant, was issued this afternoon. The
proclamation recites that an extraordinary
session is necessary for the reason that the
Forty. fifth Congress adjourned without
making the usual and necessary appropria-
tions for the legislative, executive, and !u-
lIicial expenses of the Government for the
fiscal wear ending June 80, 1880, and With
ont making 1.-The usual and necessary ap-
preparations for the support OF the army
for the same fiscal year! .,-s:. 49, ,.,:
BuTLER's VIEWS ON THE POTTER lNVEsTIGA-
-jattIg, asl.td s'ttg EiSTION. I'D.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The Individual
views of General Butler ON the Potter IN
vestieation were presented to the House
last night. The document is very yoiuml-
nous, covering some, 200 pages OF legaicap'
BE maintains that the appointing OF 1uages
of the Supreme Court on the commission 20
decide the late presid Dental election has done
great harm TO. the cause OF Justice py I'M
pairing the reverence that the people have
always Justly had for the integrity OF the
decisions OF that court, and the experiment
ought never TO be tried again: that the
counting-in Of Dir. Hayes was obtained by
a series of gross and uniustifable ir-
Irregularities and frauds, which II Cannot
be too strongly cond and reprobated; ;
that if any title to THE goVernorship OF
Louisiana resulted FROM the late election in
that State, ait was Governor Packard who
was legally elected & that . the net of Mr..
Hayes In appointing the BE eigh commits
sion was an act wholly unauthorized by the
Constitution and not ithih the scope Of
the Executive, and specially feprehensl.
BILE, as itg,pufpose ard nature fwes TO- eagis
out q corrupt political arrangements and
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-02-19

prove hardy and vice versa. For in
stance, l had been given to under
stand that the Coquito (Ju6GeG Spec
tGbiIis) was tender, but a small speci
men left unprotected, when the
ground was slightly frozen and thin
ice formed, suffered no injury what
ever, at the same time the leaflets of
Pheeic RecZi,aot0 and p. ZEaitera
were well Drowned. The Coquito is
the sugar and wine palm Of Chilli
ana therefore possesses an economic
value aside from the great beauty of
its appearance. From its hardness
in this instance would strongly rec
ommend further trial of it in Florida.
Mr.. G. M. Hovey, of Boston, in
forms me that the ChGnaoropt For
tx,aei or Chusan palm, can, in his
opinion, be grown anywhere in the
open air south of Baltimore. He
wlntered plants in shed where the
mercury fell to Sixteen degrees and
in England it has been unharmed at
zero. The Chinese use the fibrous
covering of the stems for cordage.
Yours, Respectfully,
E. II. HART.
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Contents of this Number.

P age S03-Enemies of the Orange; Mr..
Hart ON the Palm Tribe; A Living Orna-
ment.
Page 304-Lines poetry; The Premium
Woman; A Wife's Stratagem; Two
Tramps Dining Elaborately; The Wo-
man who falls to Pieces; The Iron-
Hearted Lover; Lorenzo Dow Raising
the Devil I; Recipes,
Page 305-Legal Notice; Advertisements.
Page 906-Dr. Mason on Orange Diseases;
= A Warning; Long Staple Cotton ; De-
partment of Agriculture Received /;
FlOridina; Locals.
Page so7-Bone Fertilizer; Advertise
ments
Page 3OS-The Citrus Family at the Los
Angeles Fair.-No. II; The Millets or
Small Seeded Food GRAINS; A Tropical
Center; Riches in Swamp Muck.
Page 209-Advertisements
Page s10-Telegraphic News; Advertise
mentS
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NIL. Hart on the Palm Tribe.
Editor Florida AgriculteriSt:

Editor Florida AgricuIturist:
Among your extensive acquaint-
ance abroad could you give me the
names and addresses of any parties in
Trinidad or British Guiana of whom
1 could procure fresh seed of various
species of palms growing in those re-
gions? I have lately been much in
interested in testing plants of this
family in order to ascertain what
sorts are hardy enough to flourish
here, and some day may lay before
you results of my experiments. The
only way to arrive at the desired
knowledge is by actual exposure of
the young plants to our Winter
weather. Some of the kinds marked
in the lists of growers as tender, may
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-02-19
A Living Ornament.

Mr.. Frank Buckland publishes in
Land and Water an account of liv-
ing beetle worn as an ornament by
lady at Gen. Grants recent reception.
He says =" The fortunate possessor
of this new fashioned living ornament
is Mrs. Randolph Clay. She carries
the beetle about wrapped up between
two pieces of flannel, and that again
encased in two pieces OF colored
cloth. The first sight of this captive
beetle 1 shall never forget He is
about two inches long, and his color
is very wonderful. 1t is not gor-
geous color, but matte, which by con-
noisseurs in aesthetic taste is called
dead gold color The edges of the
body are almost iridesrent, and the
lower portions OF his legs are tinted,
so as almost to remind one of the sub
dued light ola glowworm. His coat
of dead gold color is relieved by
markings in beautiful pattern of an
ebony black. So beautiful. is this
captive insect that he is bound to his
mistress by band and chain of gold
of the most delicate workmanship.
The chain is of such length as to al
low the beetle to march about at his
will. He is not always lively and in
good temper, but moves about the
drawing-room table when the room
becomes quite warm. Mrs. Clay
wears him on different colored satin
ribbons to match the dress. She has
been to the British Museum to see if
there is any specimen OF the same
kind in the collection. There are
two, but no history Is given OF them.
The history of this beetle is that it
has been sent over from Yucatan, the
south coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The
channel of Yucatan separates Cuba
from the mainland. 1t has been now
in captivity seven months. Mrs.
Clay is in great distress, as she can
not persuade it TO take any nourish-
ment of any kind. My own idea is
that this creature, in its beetle state,
does not eat so much as when in the
grub state, even if it eats at all. Mrs.
Clay, however, thinks that from the
conformation of its legs, which are
armed with sharp claws for holding
on, and for other reasons, that it finds
it's food on the bark of the wild fig
tree of Yucatan; but she would be
very pleased if any one learned in
entomology would give her advice on
The subject, as she is very fond of her
lame beetle, which is certainly one OF
The most interesting pets 1 ever saw.
have been to the Geological Society,
but the librarian could find nothing
about this beetle in the books in their
possession. l also sent Mr.. SearIe to
the British Museum, where by the
courtesy of DR.. Gunther he was en-
abled to examine the cases and identify
Mrs. Clay's beetle as Zopter,Gs Brenei.
The gentleman who showed the
beetle to Mr.. Searle informed HIM
that they were found under the bark
Of and under fallen trees; that they
live on vegetable matter if
they feed at all"
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Enemies of the Orange.

Editor Florida AgricuitX riSt:
All who are engaged in orange
culture naturally take deep inter-
est in every investigation that tends
TO make orange growing a success.
Our climate and soil give to our trees
precocity or tendency to produce
fruit at an early age, such as is un-
known among European fruit grow
ers. The trees attain a large size in
a few years and consequently require
a large area of ground from which
to draw nourishment.
The two facts of themselves show
that our mode of planting and cul-
ture must differ materially from that
Of those engaged in the same bust
ness in the old world. Therefore we
must make new departure, and
from the united experience OF fruit
growers in Florida, compile a man
ual of our own.
I am glad, Mr.. Editor, that you
have made a beginning in this much
needed work by your series of ar
ticles on " Orange Culture" and hope
that you will continue them until you
have gathered all available informa-
ton Our soil, climate, modes of
culture and manuring will, no doubt,
develop diseases that will be pecu-
liar to our country. These we must
be prepared to contend against, as
well as those introduced with i'm
ported trees.
In my endeavor to tell what |
know in regard to the enemies OF
the orange 1 shall quote freely from
the experience of others, for L lind
much to corroborate my own views.
1t may be well to make the state
ments under several distinct heads.
Among the enemies of the orange,
man occupies the first and most
prominent place, who, forgetful OF
that general law of nature, "that
like begets like" plants seeds from
oranges without taking any care to
select from only good kinds of ma
ture fruit, and such seed of these as
are plump and well developed, being
satisfied if he has planted orange
seed. The result is some fine look
ing trees while many others are
stunted, remained dwarfed, and can
not be made to grow into healthy
trees. Another mistake is in letting
the plants remain in the seed bed
until they are three or four years old,
and then transplanting them in the
grove.-Growing close together they
have run up to switches, with tap
roots as long as the tops, and have
only few struggling radical roots or
spungioles: There is nothing to
keep them alive until new roots
form, Many OF such trees must die
e f;-.i a5- .. s,f- t.,.,
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years ago, shorting the tap-root'
they continued healthy. have no.
ticed it in trees that were apparently
healthy and vigorous, yet having
some curled leaves they were plant
ed on land having natural drainage.
l find the disease IN groves planted
on hammock as we'll as upon high
pine land. The disease generally
continues several years before ali the
limbs become effected. Its first ap-
pearance is in the leaves, during the
day they look wilted and curled up
as though the tree needed watering.
Next morning they look fresh until
the middle of the day gradually the
outside limbs begin to die and when
the tree becomes badly diseased, the
growth of the fruit is arrested and is
sour. The next year the tree may
be covered with heavy crop of
blooms which fall off, and the top of
the tree dies. I dug up one tree
twenty three years old that had lost
all the top, and made a careful ex-
animation of the roots, they appeared
to be perfectly sound This tree was
transplanted into new ground more
than two years ago, and now has
new top apparently free from disease.
l am unable to say what the dis
ease is, or what causes it, 1t is found
upon trees planted in ground natur-
ally rich, and on those in fair pine
land. The only effectual remedy that
| have found, is to remove every
limb that shows the least appear ance
Of disease. When this is done the
trunk puts out healthy, sound shoots
which make rapid growth. -Occas-
1sionafly ESaave iound Sthg ex-.xemites
of these new limbs effected by the
disease. 1t may be fungoid growth,
but have no means of determining
that such is the case, but as partial
test think of throwing air-slacked
lime among the leaves before bloom
ing time and watch the result.
DR.. Kenworthy in writing about
fun gold diseases, in the AGRICUL-
TURIsT, uses the general term of die
back, which is not sufficiently explic-
1t, as one form is almost always
caused by manures, or planting on
low lands, and the fungoid growth;
in the form Of redish excrescence is
visable to the naked eye, while the
limb blight occurs in trees that have
not been manured and the progress
of the disease is slow. His remedy
l think is rather severe as have not
found the body of the tree effected.
He says: I would destroy every |
diseased tree, or cut them off at the |
surface of the ground and bud them
with buds taken from healthy trees"
Continued next week.
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sweet seedlings which | had trans
planted into a grove. These all
soon began to suffer, mostly from die
back. l put from one to four wheel
barrow loads of stable manure about
some fourlshing trees. all took the
dieback and suffered severely
Another time I put several bushels
of very strong horse ngtnnre about
some very fourishing Frees, all of
which took the die back. Last year
l planted several thousand seeds in
some pig pens, from which l had re-
moved large portion Of the manure.
These seeds come up finely, but in
all those parts of the pen where the
manure had been most abundant, the
young trees seen began to exhibit
signs of dieback, and most of them
perished from this disease before the
close of the Summer. Some died in
four weeks after they came up. l
removed some of the diseased
trees to unmanured soil, and those
not too far gone completely recovered.
have used night soil, hen manure,
fish and flesh composted and raw, all
with similar results" / present the
foregoing extracts, as tie experience
OF one who has tried a great variety
Of manures with an unvarying result,
and condenses his experience in the
following lines: IT could go on to
an almost indefinite extent with the
statement of these facts, from all of
which | am forced to the conclusion,
that die-back may be induced by an
over supply of almost any kind of
manure, and that the danger is pro-
portional to the amount OF ammonia
esntained In tho spfh6f and the
amount applied at any one time,
and in inverse proportion to the size
of the tree and the distance from the
tree to the applied manure"
In 1urther corroboration OF my
position being correct one, and
which comedies with the experience
of Mr.. Fowler, l condense from a
letter to the Commissioner of Agri-
culture, written by COL +. L. Dancy,
a successful orange grower on the St.
Johns, dated January 1878, in which
he states, "that he enclosed fonr trees
occupying space of about 20 feet
square, which be boarded up five
feet high, enclosing a small house
for fowls. After three years trial
the trees were found to be unhealthy.
Every season they threw out young
vigorous branches, which grew till
they were six to eight inches long,
when they would commence dying
back from the extreme ends, and the
bark in most instances would become
rough and of a yellow hue, while the
trees from year to year remained
about the same size. / concluded to
remove the fence aud house from
around them. This was done three
years ago, and the trees with one ex-
ception are now as vigorous growers
and as healthy as their neighbors
while the fourth is gradually improv-
ing"
LIMB BLIGHT.
There is another disease that may
probably be termed limb blight, to
distinguish it from the die-back
caused by manures. 1t is known
among old settlers in this section as
"curl-leaf." AS TAR as my observa-
tion extends It's attack is confined to
trees sixteen years old and upwards.
I have seen it only in bearing trees.
In my own groves it effects my old
est and most productive trees, except
the large trees that | transplanted