The National tribune., 1882-07-22

this wild-growing vine 1t may prove
highly useful addition to the vines cultivate
in France. The vine is tuberous-rooled.
loses its leaves, and its stalk dies every y a
and each year new ones spring from til
tubers. One vine may yield 100 klC
grammes of grapes. This it viii not de a
a general rule, but have seen vines VIII q
bore that quantity. This vine grows j.
every section of Cochin China, and coall,
think, be cultivated in France" This i
too good to be realized, we fear
PRESERVING APPLEs.-Gen. ]. H. Shields
of Los Angeles, sends us apples of the Petr
main and other varieties sound as on .ht
Gay they left the tree in 1881, and promis BE-
to remain sound for many days, proha ~
I'LL the first of July. They were kept il
barrels IN tunnel. Buckets of water re
poured into the barrels every week o.
TWO Tor some months after the apples " Re
! gathered. The watering was discontinued
some two months since, as the apples berg
nearly all marketed the remnant was 20
longer an object of solicitude. The water
flowed down through the apples and Jut
through auger-hOles in the bottoms Of he
barrels. The apples sent are of a negieu,sd
and almost forgotten remnant keeping icto
summer, and may properly be called cha &c
surviTors-Pacifc Rural Press.
IHE HoRsE-CHEsTNUT TREE-This zee
is native of Greece. It is q large, some
what compact-growing tree, and is mveh
cultivated for it's ornamental flowers and
foliage. When growing in moist I5a-1y
soil, the foliage is of a deep green col)r
which it retains until late in the season !;
IN warm, dry climates, or when growing il 2
dry gravel or sandy soil, it becomes brown
during summer and the leaves fade preua-
turely; or rather, the early maturity of t te
young shoots bastens the deciduous conCi-
ton. The yearly longitudinal growth of
the young shoots is completed in a few
weeks after the expansion of the buds N
spring. The flowers are very conspicuous
while their beauty lasts, and their Willie
cones, in contrast with TIE deep green leaves,
produce a beautiful combination not ex-
celled by any tree of temperate climates.
The nuts of the tree contain about twenty
per cent. of starch, and various attempts
have been made to utilize this farinaceous
matter, and to extract the bitter principle
which makes them unfit for human iood.
This bitterness is removed by simply wash
ing the flour made from Che nuts with
water. 4 paste made from the flour IS used
by bookbinders and pasteboard manufa,-
turers, its bitterness saving it from the
attacks of insects. The bitter principe
Is called eScuija. In some parts Of Europe
the nuts form a portion Of the food given TO
horses and other animals water in which
they are boiled is used for bleaching hemu /
flax, and other fabrics.
The following products are obtained from
The nuts in France, where numerous efforts /
have been made TO utilize them:
An alkaline I've from the burnt seed yes |
'els; a charcoal from the skin of the nul. |
which forms the base OF d'trarnr+ ,>r'-,tti-,-
nksS from the amylace a. .s
$ extracted, which can
lextrine, glucose, alcol -{b
atty matter which sery
f soap, and which is
ender certain mineral co "a ans
old; yellow coloriEg I..,-.---, f..l.
erves for different purposes. The ashe.'
he burned nuts contain rs per cent. of pot
sh. The bark has been used as q substitute
1r cinchona Tahnin is found in ali parts of
he tree,-leaves, bark, and fruit The DO
anical name of the tree is -E'5cuIus Hippocqs-
mum.