American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . rig. A.— PORTION OF GUANO BET). and birds, wherever nests can be stuck or birdsstand; and along with the wind and spray thatrush out as the waves advance, come thehoarse cries of penguius and the roar of SeaLions which have their favorite haunts in such on account of the constant roll and dash of thegreat waves rolling in from the broad are moored in roadsteads between theislands, and receive their loads from large boats,though sometimes the ships approach the shore, LOADING GUANO. Middle Island, with the roadstead gay
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . rig. A.— PORTION OF GUANO BET). and birds, wherever nests can be stuck or birdsstand; and along with the wind and spray thatrush out as the waves advance, come thehoarse cries of penguius and the roar of SeaLions which have their favorite haunts in such on account of the constant roll and dash of thegreat waves rolling in from the broad are moored in roadsteads between theislands, and receive their loads from large boats,though sometimes the ships approach the shore, LOADING GUANO. Middle Island, with the roadstead gay with ship-ping, and in the foreground the top of one ofthose remarkable arches before described. Fig-ure 2 shows the great guano bed on North Island,a nearer view of a portion of which is seen in fig. AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 21 . \s mi- : i ,;: fla/uescais.) Parasitic Plants.—The Mistletoe. The European Mistletoe, {Viseum fi/mescene,) is familiar to us from iho frequency with whichit is mentioned iuliterature, and the legends andsuperstitions connected with it. With the Dru-ids it was, when collected at the proper time, acharm against diseases; to this day it is hungup among Christmas decorations, and kissingunder it is a custom, though we are not inform-ed that it is one confined to that particular timeand place. Our American Mistletoe, though itdiffers from the European in some points in thestructure of the flowers, bears a general resem-blance to that, and would no doubt proveequally efficacious in the particulars above men-tioned. The botanical name of our plant isPKoradendron flanescem. The generic name isfrom the Greek for thief and tree, and has refer-ence to the habits of the plant, which lives bystealing its food. Our plant is found from NewJersey and Illinois to Tex
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