Lynchburg Daily Virginian

At a late regular meeting of the Farmers' Club of New York, Judge Scott read a report on the wax and tallow plant. The myrtle tallow, or candleberry, has long been known in America, and occasionally collected for medicinal purposes, but never used as candles to take the place of spermaceti or tallow. If the subject was properly taken up, the writer had little doubt but vegetable wax would grow into a manufacture of national importance. The berry is from three to eight feet high. It yields a supply of 25 per cent. of wax. The wax is obtained by boiling the berries in water until the wax floats; it is then skimmed off. A specimen of the candles was exhibited.