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The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-06-07
FoR THE FLORAL DEPARTMENT..
Hunting With a Botanist.
[CONCLUDED FROM LASH MEEK. l

CONCLUDED FROM LAST WEEK.
feeding plants ran along the edge of q
swamp back of the creek. They were
found in great profusion. The first dis
covered were what Mr. Smith calls ''whis-
ky shops" They were the trumpet leaf,
known to science as Sarraccnia NariO-
laris The darkey declared that they
were II sure cure for small poX. The
plants are perennial marsh herbs They
are vegetable cups about u foot high,
tapering like a long champagne glass,
and carefully hooded, SO as to preserve
the liquor inside. The hood arches the
cup like the hood Of bath robe. Vel
low flowers arise from the root between
the cups. The entrance to the cup is
under the arch There are transparent
spots upon the back Of the hood, some
thing like the spots on good cigars. The
cup contains Il liquor Intoxicating to in
sacts. An ant or bug craWls up the
outside and disappears beneath the arch
There is probably Il thimbleful Of liquid
in the bottom Of the obIong cup. The
insect finds Il Sugary substance beneath
the hood which apparently increases his
appetite for the liquor below. Possibly
it serves the same purpose as pretZel in
a saloon. At all events the bug Or fly
descendS and sips the fluid, until, stur>-
fled with intoxicatiOn, it sinks and
finally dies.
Upon opening one Of the little cups we
found therein flies, ants, bugs, little
green grasshopper3, and other insects, in
a wet compact mass at the bottom.
They had evidently met their fate with
out struggling or even entering Il pro-
test. Attention was called to the trans
parent spots on the back of the hood.
Mr.. Smith could not divine their object.
The cOlOred bOtanSt, who had been Il
close observer, gave him Information
somewhat startling. 1t was the fact
that these whisky shops are open day
and night. The transparent spots serve
as windows, and let in the moonlight
Thus the little shop is illuminated, and
a train of night customers succeed those
who patroniZe the still by day. The
cOlOred bOtaniSt had discovered the Sc
cret while out at night hunting rae
coons and opOssums. He had seen June
bugs and other insects that fly by night
cr0wding to the bar
Our observations confirmed the negro s
statement. His theory is undoubtedly
true. Dr. Gray's Interpretation Of Oar
win is that there is always purpose in
nature. These transparent spots, serving
as windows to countless whisky shops,
seem to prove it. Indeed, the cOlOred
botanist had said that he had placed a
lantern at the side of the plants on nights
when there was no moon. The light of
the lantern shown through the tiny win
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Tie proprietors of DR.. Sage'S Catarrh
Remedy know that their medicine per
itctly and permanently cures Chtarrh.
To prove it 20 YOU, they make this Offer:
If they can't cure your Catarrh, no mat
ter what your case il, they'll pay you
$500 in clSh.
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into the shop and its proprietor silently
robbed them Of their lives The plant
is nourished by the operation 1t feeds
night and day, and the flies, ants and
bugs rot and fcrtiliZe it.
The liquid may be pure ncpcnthc, but
it has the deadly effect of morphine. The
insects seek il like old tOpers. 1t is said
that British Admiral once died on u
foreign station. Ills body was placed in
a cask Of rum and shipped for England.
The sailors OF the vessel became drunk
every night, to the surprise of the officers
who wondered where they got their grog
Finally an old tar who had been arrcStcd
let the secret out. His messm@teS, he
said, had "tapped the Admiral The
insects who patroniZe these small Vcge-
table saloons are like the British Sailors
When the liquor in the cup is AL alb
sorbed and the V-shaped bottom is
chOked with dead insects saturated with
the fluid, the late corners, finding no
beverage, tap the bodies of those who
pfcCeucu IntHl 1IOIOuShlN 1lltOAl
Gated by this process, they die in their
turn.
An insectivera, seen in great abund-
ance along the line Of the railway, was
Sarracenia llava, also a trumpet leaf 1t
was the shape of Il trumpet, and an
opening for insects much larger than the
plant ust described. The leaves are
large, erect, and narrowly winged. The
lamina are yellow, orbicular, pointed,
dOwny, red at the base, and Vcined with
purple. The trumpet is shaped 50 us to
prevent the adultcration Of its liquor by
rain or dew. 1t bears the same flower
as the variolaris, and its victims are fully
as numerous. Each, however, diStillS
different liquor, and has different class
Of customers. Both shops thrive in
Georgia and South Carolina, despite
their restrictive liquor laws. The effect
of the liquor on insects is plainly seen.
1t would be interesting to know whether
it would intOXicate men, if enough of
it could be procured. 1t has Il sweet
taste, something like cider. Cows nip
the plant greedily; nor does it seem to
effect their milk which has as fine a
color and as fine a flavor as Orange
County On. W milk.
After an earnest search we found a
whisky shop bearing a red flower rs its
Sign. There were very few of them. 1t
was the Sarracen prittacina, or parrot
beaked pitcher plant. Mr.. Smith has
named it '"The Sunday Saloon He
Says its customers creep in by back
door. Once inside they stand at the foot
of q tiny hill, and the liquor runs down
to them. They drink, drop, and never
return. We afterwards saw many OF
these singular plants along the railroad
in Georgia, between Waycr0SS and Sa-
vannah, while returning to Washington,
The leaves are short and spreading, and
the tube is slender and broadly winged.
1t is marked with white spots, and is
Melted with purple veins. The beak is
incurred, and the artifce Of the tube is
almost closed.
All these plants protect their liquor
from the dew and rain. There is one
species, however which does not do SO.
1t is the Sarracenia purpurea, or Hunts
mans Cup 1t has purple flowers and
is broadly WinUpd II grows in nearly
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NJ w. SARGENT dealer in Real Estate
M > DeLand, Fla, Las complete set of Alb
stracts OF Titles in VOlusa County, Fla. deeds
perfected and taxes paid for non-residenTs Cor
rasDCndence solicited
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TNLORIDA'S advantage forsmall Investments
4 see Real Estate Journal, Arcadia, Fla
81 90 per year: sample with State map, 10 cents
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Real Estate Directory.

Amy one contemplating the purchase of real eS-
ate an FtOradd ShOsd aOrite to the parties belOsO
in a0hGteUeT section they a0iSb to locate. 1t is the
effort of the AqracuEtetTiSt to hare none but first
class firms represented IN this coi@mm.
II A. DeIAND has the most complete and
lie extensive assortment of Real Estate OF
any one in Florida, consisting of houses and lots,
small and large tracts of improved and nnim-
proved land. Orange groves from all ages from
one to fifteen years old, and from all sizes from
One-half acre to twenty acres or more Much OF
this at very great bargains and on easy terms.
For further particulars coll on or address IL. A.
DAI.A NJ. Ofice OnnOsite EOsto1Ilce.
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Roses! roses! away you blow!
How tat Oh the winds strOng wings you gu,
Petals creamy or crimson quite
Are laltin3 AMI whirng away out of sight
Ros"sl rOsesl away YOU gO
The treee is stripped OF the blooms bright blow.
lis thus learn that the flow rs must fee,
The sweetest spring hath an end for me.
Roses! roses! again You blow
Tn tee il fill ell with the starry show;
And by Your booming once more, see,
The 70 :es of life will return TO me.
IlILpA MUIRHEAp.
Pasadena, Fla.
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For TIE FLORAL DEPARTMENT
A TOKEN.
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70 whom all CORES )Ondence relating to this de-
% LrLuIent should be dressed.
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TOTEN B.. NUCKOAS, dealer in Improved
81 and Unimproved Real Estate, Del4and, Fla.
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A III. HUTCHINSON Dealer in REAL
IA ESTATE, DeLand, Fla, Taxes paid and
essments attended to for nOn-residents.
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FLORAL DEPARTMENT.

EDITED BY WALTER N. PIKE,
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J ssAMINE, PAsCO CO., FLA
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1893-03-29
Imports Of Citrus Fruits.

That we are hearing the point of SELF
support in the production OF oranges is
evident from the declining imports Of
such fruit 1t is not long since there were
imported into the United States nearly
two million boxes of oranges. Mostly
from Italy and Spain. Each year, how
ever, has witnessed a general increase of
the American crop with the result that
we have had to purchase smaller amounts
OF the foreign product. At present rates
of increase in production, it will be but a
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The above figures are compiled from the
report of the Chief of the Bureau of Sta
tistics which gives values only without
regard to quantities.
From other authentic sources we find
that the number of boxes OF oranges i'm
ported into the United States for the year
ending October 31st last, was 614,628
boxes, as against 1,O5O,98S boxes for
the previous twelve months. For the
same period the number OF boxes of
lemons imported reached 2,291, 700 and
1928, 72O respectively A glance at these
figures will show generally speaking the
imports OF oranges have fallen off per-
ceptibly OF late, while there is a notable
increase in the imports of lemons. These
facts should have bearing upon the
paintings Of citrus fruits to take place
henceforth in California. AS near as can
be estimated, the orange crop of tho
United States last year was not far from
five million boxes, and the imports as
shown something over half a million,
making a totalconsumption in the United
States from five-and-a-half to six million
boxes at the present time. That thecon-
sumption OF oranges israpidIy increasing
is also shown by the figures above pre-
sented; and they also show that the
value of lemons consumed has nearly
doubled since 1885.
The crop of Florida oranges last year
was large one, reaching some 100000
boxes; while that OF California was over
1,OO0,O 900 boxes. The Florida crop of
the present season now nearly all mar
keted will not reach 100000 boxes, but
that of California will come up we'll to-
wards 100000 boxes; thus making the
American crop, including that of Louis
lana, nearly equal to that OF last year.
The extentOf citrus planting during the
present spring will be much less than that
OF the previous two seasons, but enough
will no doubt be added to our orchard
areas to keep ahead OF the increasing
consumption of oranges in the United
States. 1t will then become question
of successfully competing with the Italian
and the Spaniard in European markets.
The California Fruit Grower.
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also be the natural enemies of the gar
dener. For a long time we have been
averse to having blackbirds, and poul-
try, and moles in our garden, and there
fore can do no more than let this scrap
of beautiful theory 60 inmerely as beau
tiful theory. We cannot say that we
would so much object to an admission
of the skunk, on principle, owing to the
fact that (eaving the cutworms out of
consideration we verify believe him to
be we'll developed natural enemy ofthe
blackbird, the poultry and the mole.
The experiment stations have made
up for us list OF artificial remedies
with which to combat or circumvent
such cutWorms as the birds. and the
poultry and the skunk, and the mole
may have accidentally overlooked. The
first of these is handful of salt thrown
over the plant while the dew is on, also
on the ground about the hill. We &C.
cept this without hesitation, for if all
the plants were treated in that way all
would be promptly killed, and a conse-
quence the cutworm would soon be
forced to wind up his earthly career in
starvation.
Paper, burdock leaves or walnut
leaves wrapped about the stems OF the
plants, comes next in high recommen-
dation. There was time we recon-
mended this method through The Reg
lister, having obtained it from "high
authority" as we thought, but last fall
we put it to full test on crop of late
cabbage. We did not have the burdock
leaves, for burdock does not grow in the
lower South, and we did not use walnut
leaves for they are too small for clas-
sifcation as suitable wrappers, but
we had plenty of paper and made free
use of it. Result: At night the paper
got damp and was thus converted into
an easy stcp-ladder to accommodate the
cutworm up to where the plant was ten
der and most easily to be cut off, More
paper-wrapped plants were cut than
were plants that had upon them no
wrapping at all.
Tin hoops slit at one side, opened and
set around the plants, showed into the
soil and left standing two or three in"
ches above the surface, the slit carefully
closed, are recommended. We have
tried this method several years, and
have found it entirely efectual, care
being taken not to allow leaves of the
plant to hang over the edge of the tin to
the ground. In that case the worm will
ascend the leaf and cut the plant off
above the tin. Our custom is to collect
old salmon, fruit and condensed milk
cans, throw them upon fire and Imelt
off the top and bottom, and at the same
time melt open the side. These, so
treated, make very good tins for fencing
off cutworms; and if housed away when
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short time until we shall grow more
fruit than can probably be sold, especially
at high prices in this country, and must
ourselves seek a foreign market for or
anges. OF lemons we still lack a large
amount of enough to supply the home
demand.
The value of imports of citrus fruits for
the past few years will be seen by the
table showing the imports for the fiscal
year ending June Both, as follows:
IMPORTS OF ORANGES AND LEMONS,
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not in use they will last a long time,
Poisoning with Paris green, London
purple, kerosene emulsion and pvre-
thrum is recommended. We have sue
ceeded we'll with but one of these meth
DDS. The arsenical poisons have al
ways more or less injured our plants
without appearing to have had much
effect upon the cutworms, and the kerr
osine emulsion has worked about the
same way for US, out the pyrethrum or
Persian insect powders handled in &C
cordance with method of our own in
venting, has given us much satisfaction.
We make very thin flour or starch
paste about like starch is prepared for
application at the laundry, and into
common wooden bucketful of this we
thoroughly stir three slightly heaping
table spoonfuls of the powder while
the paste is yet slightly warm. When
entirely cool it is ready for use. AS
will be understood, the mixture will be
very thin. We dip the plants root down-
ward into the mixture, up to the leaves,
taking care to keep the leaves out, and
at once set them. The mixture does
not injure the plants in the least, but is
rather of advantage as a puddle"
Drying on the stems above ground the
pyrethrum is held in place, with its
deadly volatile oil Ito insectsl sealed
from escape, even through pretty heavy
rains, where it "cooks his goose" for
the cutworm the minute he begins nib
bling at it.
O. course this could not be we'll ap-
piled, on large scale, to any plants,
save such as are being transpanted.
We have found it very effectual
In case where but few plants were to
be put out, and it was desirable to set
them with dirt adhering to the roots,
the mixture might be applied to the
stems with a small, soft brush. l. ap-
piled before they were taken from the
plant-bed, and the paste allowed to dry
before the handling, they would be nicer
to handle, of course.
Pyrethrum, for sale at most drug
stores, is simply pulverized vegetable,
and therefore could not be injurious to
any plant; indeed it is q good fertilizer.
Mobile Register.
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It Will DESTROY
About CutWorms.


OF late many State experiment sta
tions have been testing against and
printing about the so called cutwcrms,
and we who are now running a small ex-
pertinent garden in the interest of our
friends who read The Registers Agri-
cultural Department, have been at it
too; that is, the cutworm has been dab"
bling with our affairs to the extent of
cutting off many of our pet plants, and
we have been dabbling with his affairs
to the extent Ct an effort at finding out
some kind of reliable method for cutting
off his very undesirable performances,
and now we are writing this about it, to
be printed.
The experiment stations have been
interesting themselves on about three
hundred species of the cutworm, so they
tell us, some cutting the plants off at
the ground, others devouring the leaves
without interfering with the base of the
plant, and still others climbing up into
even tall trees for the purpose of feeding
upon the foliage, but we have mainly
confined our interest to the fellow that
the people generally know by the COM
mon name OF ''cutworm" (theTe may
really be two or three species Of him: a
greasy-looking brownish-gray or green
ish caterpillar that lives in the soil and
stays at home through the daytime, but
comes forth at night, cuts off the young
plant just at the surface of the ground
and tries to pull it in after him for en-
ployment as midday lunch. And yet
he is a fellow so sleepy headed (or pre-
tends to beg, that one might think he
would need no midday lunch, for when
you dig him out of the hill, having seen
signs of his nocturnal depredations, he
cannot get sufficiently awake to argue
the rights of property with you, but at
once coils up like dog and appears to
be far away in the land of dreams the
moment you have succeeded in claw
ing him out into the daylight. When
fully grown he is near an inch and a
half in length, and about as large round
as an ordinary goose-quill. BY these
presents all our soil.cultivating readers
will we'll understand what we are talk
ing about.
The experiment stations tell us at
considerable length that "the natural
enemies Of cutworms are various spec
les of parasitic and predaceous insects,
birds like the robin, black bird, catbird
and poultry, and animals like the skunk
and MOLE" All of which we accept as
highly probable, but being of a suspic-
ious turn of mind we have stood back
from verifying the truth of the statement
through actual test, not feeling entirely
sure that the birds named, and the poul-
try, and the skunk, and the mole, given
the freedom of the garden, would not
The weekly intelligencer., 1893-05-06

Genuine North Carolina leaf tobacco at
Trigg's. 4-29-2t
Impaired indigestion repaired by Beech
ans Pills.
A full assortment of leaf tobacco at
Trigg's. 4-29-2t
William Meadows is about to start n
brick kiln at Waverly.
The Waverly Touring mill was sold last
Monday to Henry Neiderjohn for $4,000.
W. w. Meng has been appointed post
master at Dover. He is a cousin oi Dr.
Meng, of this city, and most worthy Oh
the appointment.
Morrison English, one of "our boys"
graduated In n school OF pharmacy at st.
Louis, recently. Thus do the Lexington
boys come to the front.
Historic Home and Landmarks are
rcpidly passing away, owing to fatal
Kjdney and Liver diseases. "Hepaticure"
will cure and prevent oil such diseases.
5-6-7
The steamer State of Kansas left St.
Louis, Wednesday afternoon, at four
o'clock, for Kansas City, with a manifest
of 1000 sacks of salt, 1,2O0 barrels OF sugar
and $50 barrels of rice for that city.
Says an old physician who has been
practlcing medicine 40 years: 81 guaran-
tee there is not case of Blood, Liver or
Kidney Disease in the world but what
"Hepaticure" will positively cure. 5-6-7
Why have Chills, Ague and Fever, suffer
death and take gallons of nauseous drugs
to cure them. Ifyou keep "Hepaticure''
in your home and take it to regulate and
purify the great organs OF life, Blood,
Liver and Kidneys, you will never be
sick. This we will guarantee. 5-6-7
English SPAWN Liniment removes all
hard, soft or calloused humps and blem-
ishes from horses, blood spavins, curbs,
splints, sweeney, ring bone, stiles, ,sprains,
all swollen throats, coughs, etc. Save $50
by use of one bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful blemish cure ever known. Sold
by Charles w. Loomis, druggist, Lexing.
ton, Mo. 3-19-1y
We know there a good many ladies in
Lafayette county who want a good sewing
machine, but who are unable to pay the
fancy prices at which machines generally
are sold. For SIT 80 we can supply first
class high arm Singer Sewing Machine
new and warranted for five years, together
with the INTELLIaENcER for one year. Il
you want No. machine for little money
give us a call 1-2s-m1
The weekly intelligencer., 1893-05-06


Last Saturday afternoon a lady left
eleven dozen eggs in McCausland's store
for the editor of this paper. Commenting
them to the gracious care of our esteemed
friend and highly trusted fellow citizen,
George Hutchinson, we considered them
safe from theft or breakage. Late in the
evening we called for the eggs and in
counting them discovered that there were
six of them missing. We don't know who
got them, don't want to cast any rehec-
tions-would not by hint or innuendo
attaint with suspicion the character OF
any one-but this fact remains patent,
our good friend Hutchinson had custard
pies for dinner Sunday. You can draw
your own conclusions as to who got ouI
eggs.
The weekly intelligencer., 1893-05-06
BY 4 lady contributor.
WHIPFg.

WHITES,
The people who reside in the Rue
Panama, street in Paris, which received
that name several years ago, want to have
it changed, many of them having good
reason to rue Panama.
Why is it dangerous to walk out in the
early spring tune? Because the bulrushes
out, the COW slips about, the flowers have
pistils and everything shoots.-North
Galveston journal.
The bellies of the seventeenth century
slept with their hands in chicken skin
gloves.
Sitting the skin at the outer edge OF
the eye, to give greater size to that orb,
was not an uncommon thing in the good
old days. II n girl happened to be afflicted
with stopping shoulders, her devoted mama
would bind fiat piece of board upon her
back to keep the erring shoulders straight.
New York Bazaar.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes defines
fashionable tea drinking rs "giggle, gob-
BILE, gable and git"
w. ID. Howells, in "The Coast OF Bo-
uSIllus pcTinibS fOlidhbiC youHB arr
student to ask question in her "perfer-
widest" mood. Who but the Italian
American would dare do it?
Varena A. Davis, "The Daughter OF the
Confederacy," in enumerating the many
and varied duties of "The Idle (?) Princess
OF the South" notes, among her accom-
plishments, an ability to play we'll upon
the piano "the tinkling music of her day."
Thos. Carlyle, the Scotch historian,
biographer and dyspeptic, has a sister,
Mrs. Hanning, still living in Canada. so
far, no inducement has been sufficient to
obtain from her the letetrs written to her
by the loved brother.
Mrs Isabel A. Mallon, familiar to us as
"Bab," says, SCREEN is a color that is
marvelously satisfying to the human eye,
and it gives one curious sense of Joy
peculiar to no other tint. l suppose that
Is why the grass is green rather than
scarlet or purple"
Silly girls rave over Paderewski, not
because the pianist is great musician,
the craze is born OF an idiotic desire to
gush. Boston Journal.
According to Ward McAllister, and he
ought to know (?) New York City society
is the "purest in the world"
American women may adopt bad prin-
cibles abroad, but they leave these shores
In a healthy moral condition. 1t would
seem that all our evils are not confined to
the steerage.