The comet., 1880-04-17
PARAGRAPHS OF ALL. SORTS.

PARAGRAPHS OF ALL. SORTS.
: The Gardner's Magazine, publishe'
: in England, says that the Alexande
: is the most valuable peach received
| from the other side of the Atlantic.
: The leading apples Of New Yorl
are tho Baldwin, Greening and Spit
J zenberg.
The Brighton grape is spoken of as
being one of the best of grapes, while
More's Early is said to ripen twenty
days ahead of the Concord.
Mr.. Bateham, who has had large eX-
perience in grape rot, has come to the
conclusion that the disease does not
come from diseased vines, but results
from certain hygrometical and ther-
NAL conditions of the plant.
The sweet potato is a great curios-
ity in England. a writer says. they
are at present only Covent Garden
curiosities.n y
For fear of introducing the PhylLOG-
cara the government of the Cape of
Good Hope has prohibited the impor-
tation of living plants or bulbs of any
kind.
In Russia, the sunhower is raised for
seed, which yields an oil that is burnt
in lamps. One acre will produce so
gallons of oil-and the yield in 1867
was 1900 tons.
The weather has been extremely
severe all over Europe, and trees and
plants in Belgium, Scotland and Eng
land, have been destroyed by the cold.
We trust the following old predic-
ton will not be verified:
"If January calends be summerly gay,
Twill be wintry weather till the calends
of May.
If the green grows in Janiyear
1t will grow fort all the year.
March is Janivear,
January is March fear"
Six hundred million pounds Of ole
margarine was exported last year to
Europe, and 5000 pounds per day are
manufactured by one Company in
Baltimore.
Manures containing plenty of potash
are essential to successful Irish potato
growing.
Two hundred English farmers arriv-
ed at Montreal, en- route for Manitoba.
AT Birmingham, Ala, an oil well
has been opened with capacity of
100 gallons per day.
The potato crop for 1879 is estimated
at 1S1 1869, 900 bushels.
The storm which passed over Illinois
on the 9th ult. did much damage to
farm property.
People in Hungary are selling their
at enormously low figures,
and emigrating in large numbers.
On the Goth ult., Chicago had on
hand 1S,5l2, 116 bushels of grain.
Five thousand operatives of the
Harmony Mills, .Cohoes, New York,
have struck for higher wages.
When dogs die they go to the happy
land of canine.
The apple crop in Wisconsin and
Iowa is badly injured by freezes.
Last year the South raised 100000
pounds of tobacco, which is the largest
yield ever made, by l 100000 pounds.
This is good news to tobacco chewers.
The farmers of Alachua county,
Florida, pronounced Lochua) are cul-
tivating rice extensively.
There is contained in corn-cobs rails
I'd in the United States 120,000,000 lbs
If carbonate of potash, valuable
lrticle in agriculture.
The honey locust and white willow
ire said to be valuable hedge plants.
The winters of Russia are becoming
Older every winter, and hotter in the
Cold weather in France has seriously
INJURED the grape vines.
We copy the following useful re-
eipts from the Scientific American
Paris cement for mending shells and :
ther specimens.-G Gum arabic, 5; :
ugar candy, 2; white lead enough to !
olor.
For making porcelain cement, add
,lastcr of Paris to a strong solution of [
lum till the mixture is of the con- /
fancy of cream. 1t sets readily and {
) said to unite glass, metal, porcelain,
&C., quite firmly. 1t is probably
uited for cases in which large rather
han small surfaces are to be united. t
KEROSENE OIL LAMPS. The cement
ommonly used for fastening tops on .
erosene lamps is plaster of Paris,
,hich is porus and quickly pene-
rated by the kerosene. Another
ement which has not this defect is
lade with three parts Of resin, one of =
austic soda, and five of water This
is mixed with half its n
eight of plaster of Paris. 1t sets o
rmly in about three-quart-rs of an f
our. 1t is said to be of great adhe- s
i've power, not permeable to kerosene, C
low conductor of heat, and but