American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . prietors of these trust to chance lots theycan buy at low prices. A fair price is probably$ per pound, taking the fleeces as they run. We have little doubt that, with the revival ofbusiness, there will be a market for this wool,and that new and interesting manufactureswill spring up. As it is, however, there is nodemand, and hence no sale for it. The goats,on the contrary, are in great demand ; 150 re-cently imported by Mr. Israel Diehl for Mr. Brown, of this city, are held at $500 a pair,and we hear of both higher and lower
American Agriculturist, for the farm, garden and household . prietors of these trust to chance lots theycan buy at low prices. A fair price is probably$ per pound, taking the fleeces as they run. We have little doubt that, with the revival ofbusiness, there will be a market for this wool,and that new and interesting manufactureswill spring up. As it is, however, there is nodemand, and hence no sale for it. The goats,on the contrary, are in great demand ; 150 re-cently imported by Mr. Israel Diehl for Mr. Brown, of this city, are held at $500 a pair,and we hear of both higher and lower prices. The length of the wool of full-blooded bucksvaries with the age, but at three years of age, itoften reaches the length of 10 or 12 inches. Thefleece of the ewes is much finer and more glossy,as a rule, and the finer and closer the fleece, theless length has the staple. The waves in thelocks, which are obvious in the engraving, andgive to it its great beauty and brilliancy, art;three quarters of an inch to one inch apart, AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 61. MAURANDIA BARCLAYANA. Two Useful Climbers. Last summer it became necessary to providesome kind of a screen for two long windowswhich came clown to a veranda. Rapidlygrowing plants were desirable, as well as thosehaving beauty of leaf and foliage. Smallgalvanized wire was rim from one pillar of theveranda to another, to form a support, andseveral plants of Maurandia and Lophosperraumwere set out. The wires were soon coveredwith a screen of foliage sufficiently dense for thepurpose, and a constant show of flowers waskept up until hard frosts destroyed the were so much pleased with the result thatwe had drawings of the flowers made last sum-mer, and present them above. The Maurandiais the more delicate of the two, and has verypretty leaves of a pleasing light green and of asomewhat triangular shape. The commonestspecies is Maurandia Bardayana, a native ofMexico, and presents several varieties, whichrange in color from
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