Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-21
ITALY IDENTIFIED.
Old Class Hatred Disappearing in Pres
ence of Common Enemy.

The Turco-ltalian war continues of alb
sorbing interest to Italians, and no mat
ter what the monetary cost-it will soon
reach Sldo. 000-popular feeling is that
it cannot be too great 10 pay for tho
uniticatiou of his maieStY'S subjects
that has resulted, let alone all other
considerations.
The old antagonism Of Neapoitans and
Piedmonfese of Calahrese and Sicilians,
Of Genoese and Venetians and of Lom-
bards and SoHtherneFs, has disappeared
before the common enemy. Old and new
parties have ceased Ia exist. with no
other example in history after 1S4S. when
Plus IN, also having Joined III the ma
tional war against Austria, the whole
country was in accord.
All classes. from the royal family down
TO the poorest people, have their children
in the entertainments. Queen Elena
said: L wish my son Umberto were
dozen years older. to be able to go to the
front"
The Duchess d'Aosta, her children too
young to take part, went herself as 4
nurse The manifestations of affection
for the army aud navy are many. wo-
man sent a rosette formed of the Italian
tri-eoior To the colonel of a regiment,
with an apology, because it had faded,
and adding: Il made it with the re-
mains of the tri-color with which my
grandmother, when ] was child, made
rosettes for the soldiers of the indie
pendence risking her head. May this
same ribbon make You victorious.
The devotion of the peasants is even
more moving \ woman of the Abruzzi
sent to her son, who is Il sharpshooter
and served bravely under General Fara.
two bologna sausages, writing in poor
Italian, "One is for YOU and the other for
your general. He has deserved it also
Sons of some of the wealthy Arabs of
Tripoli who are favorable to the ltal-
ian occupation have come here to COM
plete their studies and have been the
objects of friendly demonstrations. Re
Gently they visited the coliseum and the
Roman Forum, st. Peters and the Cata-
combs and all the other wonders of the
Eternal city. Asked what had I'M
pressed them most, they answered:
The Zoo; we wrote them that II is bet
ter than Noah's Ark; Noah had only
pair of each animal. while here there
are dozens of each,"
Professor Giacomo Boni. the archaic
ologist who won fame by directing the
excavations of the Forum and Palatine,
has now undertaken to restore TO Its
original glory the Hortus ROmanus on
the Palatine which was also called Her
to FarneSiano, or Garden of the Farnese,
from Cardinal Edoardo Farnese. who,
in the beginning of the 18th century, en-
trusted to the doctor and chemist Aldlno
the description of that beautiful portion
of the historic hill which contained the
new plants just sent from the American
continent ~h isA p
Prof. Boni gives most interesting ac-
counts of this American flora transplant
ed into Italy and speaks of the Mexican
Acacia" which came from San Domingo,
sprouted on the Palatme in 1911 sand
lowered three years later, and which
was from that time for three centuries
spread in all the gardens of Southern
Europe under the name of Acacia lndica
Farnesiana. He tells of the influence the
Importation of trees, plants and YeSeta-
bles from North and South America had
on the landscape, on agriculture and OH
the economic and hygienic condition of
the peoples of Europe. The Hortus Ro-
manus. which Michael Angelo designed
and began under Paul Ill, and which
was the prototype of all the gardens Of
France, Germany, Belgium and Holland,
became the center of this floral importa-
ton.
The professor intends to replant the
Acacia Rabnia Pseudocacia, which YES
pasieu Robin brought from the United
states and planted for the first time IN
| the Jardin du Roi in Paris in 1886; the
pineapple tree which Christopher Col
, nmbus discovered in Guadalupe in 1i93
| and which. when brought to Europe
| Charles V refused to taste; the Cinchona
Calisaya, which, in 1893. being sent &c
| Count Chinchon, vieeroy of Peru, TOOK
| from a corruption of his name that OF
| China Chnino or Quinine, and the
Magnolia Grandifora, brought from tht
/ United States to Europe in 1884. The
| more modest plants will not be neglect
| ed These include the Solanum Tuber'
| os,lm. commonly called potato, first in
/ reduced into Spain in the middle of th'
18th century; the green pepper, used n
| Italy now as a vegetable, which Column
! hus found that the natives of Hayu EN-
ployed for fiavoring; tobacco, which Col
umbus' men found in 1892 when eXplor
ing the island of Cuba; tomato, cult
waited by the Mexicans amidst the maine
tapioca, from equatorial America; va
nilla. which even the native American
used TO flavor chocolate, and the Jeru
salem artichol1e, the yellow flowers o
which hourished in the Palatine gardei
of Cardinal Farnese In 1916 and wa
called Aster Peruanus Tuberosus.--Hous
ton Post.