The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-09-08

never less than that space. During
the hot months 1t should be explained
that the plant thrives best in half
shaded location. Such spot Is pref
cradle to the heat and glare of an
open field.
Fall planting does not injure the
shrub. for 1t is hardy enough to with
stand frost, and although the leaves
and stalks may be destroyed. the roots
will sprout next year. The plant is
generated from small, black seeds,
which are similar in size and color
to onion seeds.
Besides raising from the seed, plants
may be reproduced from suckers or
sprouts springing from the bosom OF
the mother plant. The little baby
phu-lo, which Is SO dreaded by the
boldest and most voracious of the
mosquitoes of the Jersey jungles
grows easily and multiplies abundant
ly when properly watered and culti-
vated
In Its youth the plant is between
tobacco plant and mullen. 1t is
soft. green and spongy, yet bristling
with coat of hairy down. that must
seem to the mosquitoes like a thicket
of barbed wire fences, with which nc
wise or well-bred mosquito would at
tempt to fool. Being a perennial
plant, 1t generates few seeds, but this
is made up by the multiplicity OF
sprouts that shoot from its roots.
But the virtue Of the wonderful plant
which Baron de Taillac has imported
from China are not confined to the
ravages 1t creates among the mosqui.
toes. After doing inestimable service
during the long hot months, when the
mosquitoes are hungry and greedy, the
plant may be used still further in the
service of men as fodder for cattle
Like the marvellous alfalfa plant
known to the Greeks and Romans
and now blooming green and beautiful
in the deserts of Nevada and Colo.
RADIO, 1t may be cut four times year
furnishing abundant nutriment and
succulent satisfaction to the most fas
tidious COW or steer. 1t Is good beet
maker. and is said to impart deli.
cate flavor to those choice cuts which
bring top prices in the swell res
taurants of the town
Thus 1t will be seen that this hum.
BILE plant, which an uneducated boy
might take for mullen, will worl
a revolution in the agriculture ant
mosquito economics of summer water
ing places
1t Is absurd to imagine that there's
any place on this earth except IL
the heart of living volcano wher;
mosquitoes are not present 1t ha!
ben proven by the most authenti,
travellers that the little birds will
wasp stings in their tails flourish
nightly among the higher attitudes d
the Rocky mountains, where the aldel
thickets are filled with their music
They were also a great hindrance tc
explorations in the midnight region.
of the arctic circle and in the Klondik,
country they are the chief terror o.
the gold miner. So this little insec
is universal habitant of the rount
earth, from the tropics to the pola
regions, where neither heat nor icy
billiards. seem to exterminate them
What the little fiends live on in thu
arctic Is not known. They certainly
have few people to bite, and the ice
bergs are more numerous than the In
habitants, SO 1t must be that they ar,
simply insects of torture that shoul,
be kept at bay or exterminsted. Eng
land gets along nicely with no mosqui
toes, and is vivid contrast to New
| Jersey, where in certain sections the,
are found in clouds.
The phu-lo plant does not exactl,
catch the mosquito In the coils of IT
foliage and squeeze 1t to death lik
those curious plants OF the tropics tina
lure their prey within reach by sone
and then spring on 1t like trap, suf
locating 1t In automatic embraces. Tn
Tonquin plant Is sort OF vegetable
nightmare to the mosquito, and, q
previously stated, the insect dare no
pass a dead line of these plants, no
frequent the premises where they ar
growing.
Baron De Taillac, of No. 8 Buchanan
place, Astoria, Long Island City. n
| r., says the New York Herald,
prepared to answer further question
! In regard to this remarkable produc
Of the TonQutn country.
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