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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MAY 15,1882. 3 Have the Trees. Ed. Southern Would—The South is a Sa hara wi thout her shade trees. They are con nected as closely with her as the thorny cactt is to Mexico. Of late years the Hower craze lias 8wept the land, and in consequence thereof, the green crown of the oak is laid low. How indispensable to health and comfort are these trees, yet how lightly do men—no women—have the keen-edged ax laid to the rough bark and lower their proud heads for evermore. We are fond of flowers, fonder of fruit, but we love yet more, the grand old oaks which stand by the door in sunshine and storm, a friend to the birds and the children. We never see an oak about u homestead up rooted without feeling that one of our few friends has gone uwuy to a distant land. Does the brightness of a summer flower gar den repay for the sacrifice of these trees to the whim? We think not. Flowers are un doubtedly a sign of culture, (vide the negro cabin with the flaunting sun-flowers), but shady trees indicate comfort, and vie think good sense. Our earliest recollections of pieasuro and home-comfort, are connected witli the quiv ering shadows of a large oak, which shielded our childish face from the slanting rays of the evening sun, as we rested a tired head against a grandmother's kneo. When Mne mosyne touches tlie Harp of Life, there vi brates a chord strangely like the rustling of those sun-burnished leaves, the singing of that far away day mocking bird, the piping of downy chickens, and the distant lowing of belated cows. And the face that bent above us os she stroked back the hair from the orphan child’s head; the dancing lights and shadows fell upon thataged face, dearer to us than all the world beside, and to our childish imagination, the sunshine was bits of that crown which she wore a few years later in the City Celestial. Later, before we had come to realize what parting by death means, we were called from school to the dear old homestead. It was in the early spring, when the garden beds were aglow with their borders of pinks, and the leaves on the trees by the door wero full grown, but they gave us no pleasure then. It was then with face bowed upon the green moss among their roots, that we made them our confidante, sobbing out that all the loved one we had in this world was gone—that our grandmother was dead. Our last visit was a sadder one; we had re alized some of life’s saddest truths; we knew that in many instances we bad taken the true for the false, the false for the true; that in trying to avoid the sharpest corners of life, we hud unwittingly stumbled upon them. We knew too late, that we had bar tered some of its purest gold for its basest tinsel. A passionate longing came over us to go back to the homestead. We knew that our grandmother was" away, and that the home had passed into other hands, but we could not suppress the desire to play at be ing a child again; to sit under the grand old oaks, to drink from the bubbling hill-side spring, and to gather the fragile maiden's hair ferns in the gorge where the water foamed into cascades, and to forget, if pos sible, all the bitterness life hud thrust upon us. < “All things change and we change with them; nothing in this world can last.” We found many changes; among them a vast flower garden, gaudy with annuals, and the small forest of oaks that clustered about the door, was laid low to give place to this hid eous garden. Sick at heart through disap pointment, we turned away without enter ing the house. We were filled with con tempt for the shallow head who would sacri fice those grand, century-old trees to a few Uaunting annuals. You people who are devoted to flowers, have a gaarden on one side of your homes and spare the house trees. Think of the pleasure it will give your little ones to romp under their spreading arms, and take your floral pets to another portion of your do main, to make room for the trees and the children. Qui«* Sab*. The Markets In Atlanta. Ed. Southern World—April 1st you quote cabbage 4Xc. per pound; will one of your ciphering men make a calculation what can be made within an hour’s drive in a market wagon of your town, what 3,000 cabbage weighing 12 pounds each, or even 10 pounds at 4 cents, or even 2 cents, would be worth? An acre should hold four to flve thousand plants; with even Peter Henderson's heavy manuring, 1,000 pounds of jguano would miMw of m flwvwfl towolfb 12 pounds, and with cows to feed the unsale able cabbage, there should be money in it. I passed on the stage road Afty-two years ago, where Atlanta intended to be, and I feel assured I can, with a sub-soil plow, har row, and 600 pounds of oil-meal prepare an acre to grow 3,000 marketable cabbage. I have seen car loads pass along the railroad from “over the border,” and I know as good can be grown within a stone's throw of where the cabbage did stop. If the people were not looking at piles of cotton bales and almost at starvation point, they would make the climate too hot for up-country collards. “A Wobd is Enouoii.” Oil Meal for Hweet Potatoes. A farmer in Louisiana on the New Orleans railroad, first suggested to me to use about 300 pounds oil meal; he said he certainly had doubled his crop. He measured 90 bar rels without and 200 by the use of oil meal. I weighed meal, tried It and various other fertilizers; measured land and weighed of each from 18 feet. I dug at the rate, say 76 bushels without anything in best part of land, but Bliaded by the fence part of the day; give it 100 barrels with 300 pounds, 200 in first furrow, bedded on; when ridge was made a drill made 100 pounds; drilled and covered ten days before, draws, over 300 barrels. Try now, and be accurate. PBO BONO I’UBLICO. Arboreal Flora or Arkansas. In an article read before the National For estry convention, which convened recently at Cincinnati, Ohio, Prof. F. L. Harvey, of the Ark. Ind. Univ. presented the following facts regarding the forests and forest trees of Arkansas: The species of forest trees were divided into those growing on the low country, those growing in the up-land and those common to both. The distribution of spe cies was shown to be governed rather by latitude, elevation, warmth, moisture, fer tility, friability and kind of soil, than to change of geological horizon. All of the species of trees known to grow in the State were mentioned, and their dis tribution given. There are twenty-nine botanical orders, sixty-two genera, and one hundred and twenty-five species of indige nous forest trees represented in the arboreal flora of Arkansas. The State was originally covered with forests, excepting about nine hundred square miles of prairie land, lo cated principally in Prairie and Arkansas counties. Excluding the amount in culti vation and cleared for pastures, there re mains about forty-five thousand square miles of timber-land, abounding In forest trees of the first economio value, represent ing a vast amount of undeveloped wealth. The pine forests of Arkansas are located principally south of the Arkansas river, but are scattered above the river in belts along the ridges, while the pine forests of South Arkansas cover extended tracts. There are about twenty thousand square miles of pine land in the State, which will yield about forty-two million feet of lumber, excluding trees too small at present to cut, and taking no notice of the fact that in Arkansas, pine usually replaces pine when it is cut. There are two species of pine in Arkansas —pintu mitis, short-leaved pine, and pinut xaeda, long-leaved pine. The former is dis tributed throughout the State; the latter is found principally South of the Arkansas river. Both grow on the same kind of land together, and both are used for lumber. The pine forests of Arkansas are not exclusively so, but are mixed with a valable species of hard wood growth. The flora of Arkansas is remarkable for the number of species of the magnolia fam ily, there being five in the State. For the number of species of cratmgns, red haw, and species of quercus—oaks. The State has all the eight species of North American hicko ries. There are several species which have usually been regarded as shrubs, but in the rich soil of Southern Arkansas attain the dimensions of trees. The State is remarkable for large trees. The chinquapin attains the diameter of about four feet. There are a number of rare trees in Arkansas. Southbbn women would enjoy better health if they were not so much afraid of the sun. It looks queer to see a woman with a para sol stretched over her when the weather is cold enough to put a premium on overcoats. —[Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite. Remedy bob Flba Beetle.—I used Rhodes super-phosphate., sprinkled under the cab bage and a little on top, The stronger the odor, better of oourse; not ft bad article, gtft Cotton Heed OH Mnnnfhctnre. Editor Southbbn World—In your article page 0, April 16th, you wrote; “There is every reason to believe that the first move towards the extraction of oil from cotton seed was made at Natchez, Mississippi in the year 1834." J saw the seed liuller T remem ber in 1834 there, but I saw the first one I ever saw or had an idea of such a thing ten years before in Columbia, 8. C. I may mis take, forget, as boys do not always take to machinery, but my impression is Gen. David R. Williams, (perhaps prefix Governor,) had made oil before 1824, and tried in paint and other ways. I think a nephew of his was a class-mate in '23 or '24. So long since 1 have had my mind directed to this, that I can only say, I saw the seed huller certain and the oil made it like a dream. P. Editor Southern Would—A writer from Florida: “They hybernate in the lint and upon the kernel” objecting to cotton seed as manure for Irish potatoes, “attract and propagate the troublesome cut-worm.” Well, I heard of cut worms from the egg of a fly, when these started, the youth, need ed tender food, but in Florida the youth has teeth to cut through the hull to get at the kernel. In Mississippi it was charged on the cotton seed, that the hull was so tough, it irritated the coats of the stomach and was a factor in cholera. M. Sidney Lanier said: “There is more in the man than there is in the lund." This is very true; but there is more in the land than the man tries to get out of it. The farm industries of our section need diversi fying.—[Sparta (Ga.) Ishmaelite. The Catacombs. Not far from the city of Rome are ,vast subterranean chamber’s dug in the soft rock. These are long, narrow galleries about eight feet in height and five feet wide. In some places these passages expand into lofty, vaulted chambers. It was a beautiful day in April that I went out on the Appla Via (Appian Hard) and reached the place of de cent. Our guide had lanterns ready and we wero soon in dense darkness under the ground. We wandered on through the end less passages, stopping to look at the slabs of marble that show where some tomb is placed. There are six hundred miles of these nar row lanes; it Is a city of houses and streets of the dead. Bosio spent thirty years in studying them; ho has copied a vast num ber of the inscriptions found on the tablets over the tombs. . The Romansburn thoir dead and keep the ashes in urns in their houses. The Jews who live in Rome follow the practice of burying in tombs cut in rocks—their old custom. Some of the tombs are expensively and beautifully adorned.In tho eight century the Lombards destroyed many of the cata combs and others are fallen in, so that the whole have never been explo/ed. In after years when the persecutions set in, the catacombs were used as hiding places; here many of the martyrs were buried; in after years their bones were re moved by tho popes and buried in the churches. We pass the tomb of Diogenes the Fossor; it is very elaborate. He was apparently a grave digger and made preparation for his own burial, “ Diogenes-Fossor in pace de- positus," is tho inscription. Over many tombs “In-pace” is found; in peaco in the grave Is glorious; in peace in spite of per secutions. In many of these tombs cups have been found which are supposed to have contain ed spices of perfumes to counteract the odors of the grave. In the grave of a child a clay doll was found. The custom of bury ing the playthings in the grave is usual in Italy and France at the present time. It is the mother’s heart that dictates this; as through the little one would want some thing to abate the loneliness of the tomb. Pecans, Enolish Walnuts and White Walnuts, so has the almond, fruited in lati tude 32 degrees, and why not be grown for profit. I have seen trees of each under ten years to have fruit, of course the first at least was forced into fruiting by being grown on thin upland; if on rich land the pecans makes a tree as the hickory-nut fam ily. I think the pecan at least planted in 10 to 60 acres, cultivated yearly, and in cot ton, potatoes, peas, turnips, the loss in reg ular crop would need be one-tenth; trees grow faster and in ten years perhaps the fruit begin to pay and for 60 years largely over our best cotton crops, At) old farmer here from N. C,, wtygO yearn (*gq from up, mm ‘ '^ OUR CLVBBIMO MATES. The Southern World and Other Paper* at Redneed Coot. 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