. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. w^ammmtf a n»n wmmmm 3EL. ^lil Jil i I u in 182r in Philadetphia. Yet thel most useful knowledge is so olow to spread, that the fact is hard I j known ve<, or doubted bv those who know ofit. We are happy to be able
. Atlantic journal, and friend of knowledge [microform] : in eight numbers : containing about 160 original articles and tracts on natural and historical sciences, the description of about 150 new plants, and 100 new animals or fossils ; many vocabularies of languages, historical and geological facts, &c. &c. & Natural history; Indians; Sciences naturelles; Indiens. w^ammmtf a n»n wmmmm 3EL. ^lil Jil i I u in 182r in Philadetphia. Yet thel most useful knowledge is so olow to spread, that the fact is hard I j known ve<, or doubted bv those who know ofit. We are happy to be able to publish two direct experiments in support of the fact and discovery. First. We bored and plugged with sulphur in the usual way, a plumb tree which commonly dropped every year all the plumbs before becoming ripe, the curculios lodging eggs in their germs. This was done when the tree was in blossom. On that year hardly any fruit fell, and the tree produced quite well. Second. We find in the Genesee Farmer of January 28, 1832, that a yuang willow nearly killed by aphis or lice, and pissmires feeding on their honey, was quite revived in three days, and all the lice and ants driven oflT, by boring the tree with an augur five feet from the ground ami three-fourths through the diameter, filling with brimstone and plugging tight. The tree has thrived ever since. _ The modus operandi of this ainealar process is very easy to ex])lain. The vital energy of the tree and sap, dissolves the sulphur, carries it into circulation, and evolvea it la sulphuric gas evaporate ing through all the pores of branches, feaves and fruits. This gas is a deadly poison lo insects and all animals, it suffocates fhem or drives them away as soon as they begin to smell it; but no injury whatever results to the tree. We have never heard yet of any direct experiment on peach trees; but we are sure it will answer quite at» Weil. If the sulphuric eniana- titin could not reach quick enough the roots of the tree
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