Alkekeugi.
Few who have raised this pistol and
preserved the fruit as it may be pre
served, says an exchange, are indif
ferent to its culture. It possesses all
of the good flavor of the tomato with
less either of its acidity or the char-,
aeteristic harshness which renders it
unpalatable to most people when
eaten raw. Canned or pressed it
rivals the strawberry or cherry, re
sembling the latter in appearance,
and possessing a distinct aroma that
reminds one cf the former, from which
circumstance one of its familiar names
—strawberry tomato—is derived.—
Winter cherry and Barbadoes goose
berry are other familiar names. It
is a hardy annual, attaining a height
■>f about three feet. It should be cul
tivated in good soil, and treated much
the same as the tomato.
Thwfruit is about the size of a small
cherry, half an inch or more in diam
eter. bright yellow and inclined to
transparency when well ripened. It
is enclosed in a papery, membranous,
inflated calyx, something like the
balloon vine, of a light green bifoie
maturity and a dried leaf color after
ward. The fruit stem is not strong
or persistent, so that most of the
trait falls to the earth spontaneously
when ripened.
When this has been raised lor one
season, plants from self-sown seeds
appear abundantly the next year if
the soil is not worked too early, when
they may be transplanted or thinned
out as desired.
The fruit is rather small to be gath
ered in large quantities to be served
as tomatoes. But stewed, like cran
berries, and a little lemon juice added,
or canned or preserved like peaches,
quinces, plums, or cherries, this Pby
salis is well worth the little trouble
required in its cultivation.
Alkekengi is really a distinct species
that bears scarlet berries, and ought
not to be applied as a familiar name
for the species of which wc have
written, which is Peruviana—or P.
eiulis of some authors. We have
never learned that any attempt has
been made to improve this fruit by
selection, crossing or hybridizing;
but tho foot thru some or the 'Vcf/ms
are twice as large as others is proof
enough that it might be improved
by such means.
How to Dislodge Bugs.
It if* much easier to keep these pests
out of a bed or room than to dislodge
them after they have put in an ap
pearance, and when a housekeeper
pays close attention to cleanliness
and ventilation, she need not fear
that they will frequent her premises.
Yet they are often brought in trunks
by visitors, and sometimes they at
tach themselves to one’s clothing in
sleeping cars; and again servants
often carry them from house to house.
W hen a bed has become infested with
them you must take great pains to
destroy all the eggs. They are very
small, and of a whitish color, and are
usually deposited in the crevices of
the bedsteads, and along the edges,
and in the corner of the mattresses.
Boiling hot alum water is instant
■death to both the insects and the
Jarvse; and if it is poured into the
joints and cracks of a bedstead it will
destroy them all. Wash the bed
steads and sponge the mattresses
with it. Then scatter pulverized bo
rax in all the crevices and corners,
not a bedbug will be seen or felt.
Bugs arc much more annoying in
wooden bedsteads than in iron ones,
and therefore it is mucb'better to pur
chase the last named ones for ser
vants’ rooms. If the alum and borax
are thoroughly applied, and care
taken that no more bugs are brought
into the house, there will be no fur
ther complaints from their attacks.
The early spring and early autumn
arc the best times to attack them, for
they arc- not in an active condition
before the weather becomes warm,
and in the autumn they- can be de
stroyed for the winter.—S. O. ,T„ in
Country Gentleman.
W.VTEK FOB STBAWBKIiKIKS.
W 11. Earle, in an article on the
strawberry, in the Transactions of
the Worcester Horticultural Society,
quotes the remarks of President
Wilder on this subiect. When
asked how lie succeeded in growing
sxich beautiful strawlierriee. he re
THE FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST.
plied: “Three things are necessary.
First, you should give them plenty
of water. But this will not answer
unless you observe the second requi
site, viz., give the plants a little more
water. But with all this labor and
care, you will tail in obtaining the
best results if you fail in the third
condition, viz., give the plants more
water." We have seen strawberries
doubled in size in forty-eight hours,
under the drip of a water cart; and
if any of our readers would like to
see for themselves what water will
do, especially if it should be during
a dry time, let them place a barrel
filed with water near a line of straw
berry plants, and make a small hole
near the bottom and plug it up so
that ti e water will scarcely come
out in a stream, but in rapid drops
on af. w plants. This can be done
in a lew minutes, and it will show
striking results. A small trough will
carry the water several feet, or where
you want to apply it.
Women as Farmers.
When so much talk is had over
what women have a right to do, it is
pleasant to note the work which
some women have done. Last year
one of the eight premiums offered
by the Roy.il Agricultural JSociet-y of
Knglartd fur the best managed iarm
in the district in which the annual
exhibition is held, was awarded to a
woman farmer, Mrs. Ellen Birch, for
a farm of two hundred and forty-two
acres of arable land near Ainstec.
Tee farm, which is characteristic of
the surrounding region, is nearly
level and is divided into fields of
thirty acres each by neatly kept
hedges, and is a light and easily
worked soil, naturally dry. No
stock of any consequence is kept, as
town manure is cheaply brought on
to the land by a canal from Liver
pool, for which market the products
of the land are intended. The rent
paid is £5, say about $25 per acre.
The course of cropping is as follows;
First, potatoes, [after lea; second,
wheat; third, barley, or oats, sown
with grass seed; fourth, hay; fifth,
hay; after which the lea is again
broken out and planted with pouw
vwb. * j/x'tiiLu OI o|jajuW on tile
ground is spoken of as ‘‘simply
splendid.” And it is on the pota
toes that all the town and home
made manure is applied, sometimes
with the addition of a little nitrate
of soda. The grain crop, especially
the oats, were very heavy. Fifteen
men and lads are employed, at six
teen and seventeen shillings a week,
and cottage rent. Heavy crops of
hay are grown, and after this is over
for the season, sheep are taken into
grass for local salesmen, at sixpence
per week.
Rain-Gauges. —An Australian
meteorologist, M. Dines, has called
attention to a source of error in the
use of the rain-guage, that may, un
der certain circumstances, decidedly
vitiate its reliability. He has ob
served, namely, that the amount of
rain-fall which two instruments will
register will depend notably on their
respective distances from the ground.
From the result of experimental
trials conducted during one year,
with two instruments placed respect
ively at the height oi fifty feet and
four feet from the ground, the lower
gauge registered twenty-seven per
cent, more rain-fali than the upper
one; and that occasionally when a
rain-fall was accompanied by a high
wind, the lower one showed two or
even three times as much as the up
per. lie attributes the discrepancy
to the greater disturbance suffered
by the elevated gauges from the ac
tion of the wind, and cautions mete
orologists that the readings of rain
gauges cannot be taken to be relia
ble unless made with instruments
suspended at. a uniform height, from
the ground.— Harper's Magazine.
While on /i je Peninsluar during
the war, an officer came across a pri
vate belonging to one of the most
predatory companies of the Irish
Brigade, with the lifeless bodies of a
goose and hen, tied together by the
legs, dangling from his musket.
“ Where did you steal those, you ras
cal ? ” “ Faith, I was marching along
with Color-Sergeant Maguire, and
the goose bad eess to it!—-comes out
and hissed the American flag. “ But
the hen, sir; how about the linn?”
*• The bin, bless ye, was in bad com
pany and laying eggs for the ribbels."
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where south of Lake George, will be taken
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