BROTEX !
The new plant, Brotex, which is to confer some immense boon on both agriculture and the cellulOse industry, has now dropped some its mysterious trappings. It is on exhibition (at 10 New Burlington Street). It is vouched for by the most practical of all our agriculturists in Parliament, Sir George Courthope ; and Lord Bledisloe has surrendered the charms of intensive grass cultivation for the greater novelty. It is sincerely to be hoped that all the promises made on behalf of this botanical wonder will be realized ; and the crops now in Devonshire ought to give at least a basis for belief. But we have to wait for the verdict of the English climate. In certain years, and even for several successive years, the silkworm does admirably with us. Some years outdoor grapes flourish and we could brew good wine as in the old days. But the third yesir comes a frost; a" killing frost, or a fog or a wind, and " Brotex " has yet to-face the full cultural ordeal, even if it doesi- all tinit is promised `for the mannfacturer.
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