The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-22

a rIorlud paper reports the fact that
representative of a Michigan firm of drug
g1sts has gone to Jamaica to procure roots
OF the Cola plant, with a view to attempt
ing the culture Of this valuable medicinal
should prove satisfactory it is likely thar
date. -'
The Florida Farmer and Fruit Grove
throws cold water upon any further at
tempts TO adopt the Lucern OF Alfalfa
plant as a forage plant. 1t thinks this
splendid perennial will never prove a real
success on Florida. soil. We are inclined
to the opinion that this conclusion is
premature.
Properly established and then treated
properly afterwards, there seems to be no
reason why Lucern meadow should not
pc good Tor at least four years. In estab-
fishing either as a meadow or for calf or
sneep pasture, 1t is advisable to start it
on IN connection with two or three legumi-
nous ANIMALS as nurse crops and uti-
mately TO prove as fertilizers for the I.u-
Germ. The roller is almost Indispensable
IN establishing and maintaining satisfac-
torily meadow of Lucern in the light
soils of the extreme south For Iig1t
stock Lucern is adaptable for pasture if
USED IN a proper manner after being fully
established.
The Youths Companion says: 1.-THE
largest forest in the world is in Siberia
stretching continuously from the plain of
the obi river, on the west, to the valley of
the Indighirka, on the east, and embracing
the great plains or river valleys of the
NeneSei, Olenek, Lena and Yana the vast
belt averaging more than one Thousand
miles In breadth from north to south and
some three thousand miles long The
trees are mostly coniferous. and they COW
er thousands of square miles, whose CEN
trail regions no human being has ever visi-
ted. Long stemmed conifers. rising to a
hight of one hundred and fiftv feet cr
more, stand close together. and their
dense lofty tops exclude the pale Arctic
sunshine and the straight trunks. all
looking exactly alike, bewilder the eve i'm
the obscurity, so that all sense of direc-
ton is lost. Even the most experienced
trappers dare not venture into these for
eStS without blazing the trees consta ntINy
with hatchets as they walk forward fay.
a hunter lost there rarely finds his w1V
out; put perishes from starvation or
A Large Grape Vine-A contributor to
Garden and Forest writes as follows. The
largest grape vine | have ever seen is
growing at Rose Dhu plantation, on the
May river, South Carolina This vine
supposed to be Wits festivals. grows on
the edge Of a bluff three or four feet
nigh at the base of large live oak, and
measures, at three feet from the ground
forty-eight inches in girth, and at one
foot from the ground fifty-four inches
in girth; this lowest portion of the stem
however. Is protuberant and nodose One
of the large cable-like limbs extends out
near the adjacent marsh, then dips down
into the mud, in which it is somewhat
buried, doubtless deriving some susie
nance and growth from the salt water
which leaves it rat every tide. Other
portions of the vine Chamber out and
clasp the large limbs of the oak in m
Vulnerable folds of cordage. covering the
oak from top to bottom, then extending
out to and covering two other live oaks
one to the right and the other to the left
of the central tree, the distance between
which measures at least twenty PAGES
thus making the finest picture of a true
Forest LAGOON" which l ever saw on
the Carolina coast.
ID. F. L." of Maitland Fla. writing
to a New York horticultural journal com
mends the Cherokee Rose as a hedge
plant in the following terms: Some two
and half years ago l set Cherokee Roses
along a. fence consisting of seven barhed
wires, some eight inches apart and there
fore about eight feet high. The plants
were set at a distance of fifteen feet
apart.and grew we'll, although 1 took care
that they should be trained along the
wires. BY this process l soon had a fence
which is hardly thicker through than the
wire, and which is marvelousy beautifuY
as il stretches along the road. It bios
somed within the first year after plant
ing, and produced in the second wear sueh
a mass of flowers that it seems as if COW
cred with snow. During the past unfortu
nate winter it was three times badly set
back by the frost. and though it showed
flowers in the first week of February q
severe frost on the eighth of that month
checked it again for weeks. although If
was never deprived of its leaves
and as it ran between dead
and brown orange groves il