Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural: Being Also a Medical Botany of the Southern States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of Trees, Plants and Shrubs

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Walker, Evans & Cogswell, printers, 1869 - 733 páginas
 

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Página 648 - ... blades is water, the amount of solid matter being comparatively trifling; as its growth advances, the deposition of a more indurated form of carbon gradually becomes more considerable, the sugar and soluble matter at first increasing, then gradually diminishing, to give way to the deposition of woody substance...
Página 41 - Juice of unripe fruit is a powerful and efficient vermifuge ; the powder of the seeds answers the same purpose ; a principal constituent of the juice is fibrine — a product supposed peculiar to animal substances and to fungi." " The tree has, moreover, the property of rendering the toughest animal substances tender by causing a separation of the muscular fibre — its very vapor even does this ; newly killed meat suspended over the leaves, and even old hogs and poultry, when fed on the leaves and...
Página 532 - Skinner, Esq., by the author of this essay, and published in the Farmers' Library, in 1848. When the plant begins to yellow, it is time to put it away. It is cut off close to the ground by turning up the bottom leaves and striking with a tobacco knife, formed of an old scythe — such knives as often are used for cutting corn. Let it lay on the ground for a short time to "fall" or wilt, and then carry it to the tobacco house, when it may be put away in three different modes, by "pegging," " spearing,'"...
Página 579 - ... shine like a mirror. Tallow, or any other grease, becomes rancid and rots the stitching, as well as the leather; but the rosin gives it an antiseptic quality which preserves the whole. Boots or shoes should be so large as to admit of wearing in them cork soles.
Página 563 - In large doses it is purgative. It has been advantageously used in rheumatism, in most pectoral affections, catarrh, subacute pneumonia, and in phthisis, as a palliative. It has also been favorably employed in dysentery.
Página 643 - Count Lippe having put himself in communication with the Austrian Government, an imperial manufactory for Indian corn paper (maishalm papier, as the inventor calls it), is now in course of construction at Pesth, the capital of the greatest Indian corn growing country in Europe. Another manufactory is already in full operation in Switzerland ; and preparations are being made on the coast of the Mediterranean for the production and exportation, on a large scale, of the pulp of this new material.
Página 578 - That variety of long-leaved pine which acquires a' reddish hue from growing in certain soils, and is known by the name of red pine, is most esteemed, and in the opinion of some shipwrights is as solid and durable on the sides of vessels as the white oak, but is said to form less perfect joints at stem and stern. It is also in great request at the North for flooring boards.
Página 275 - Being extremely tough and flexible, the branches are used for making hurdles, crates, and springles to fasten down thatch. They are formed into spars, handles for implements of husbandry, and when split are bent into hoops for casks. Charcoal made from hazel is much in request 'for forges; and when prepared in a particular manner, is used by painters and engravers to draw their outlines.
Página 692 - Scottish coast the seaweed is cut close to the rocks during the summer season, and afterward spread out upon the shore to dry, care being taken to turn it occasionally to prevent fermentation. It is then stacked for a few weeks, and sheltered from the rain, till it becomes covered with a white, saline efflorescence, and is now ready for burning. This is usually accomplished in a round pit lined with brick or stone; but the more approved form for a kiln is oblong, about two feet wide, eight to eighteen...

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