the chicken-pox of former times, are in fact half of the husk, or bran, adhering to the straw, Juniformly on one grand point: he wishes to be the same distemper, rendered different in their and the other half of it coming off with the beard, master, and so do I." complexional character by the present mild when it is thrashed,-in this country it would, of Two female preachers, of the Wesleyan Methodmode of inoculating-inoculating we say for it course, thrash out much better. ist persuasion, have been taking a circuit of preachwould seem that even the genuine vaccine virus Mr. Flower mentions in No. 46, vol. 4 of the ing through all the neighbourhood between Bury is but a modification of the small-pox poison, Farmer, sowing his naked barley on 12th May, and Diss. At the latter place, Tuesday se'nnight disarmed greatly of its noxious power by its in other respects, I agree with him, particularly in the afternoon and evening they preached to having become the disease of a brute animal. as to grinding-as my workmen bought the crowded congregations (several hundred perQuarterly Review. whole of what I had to spare for bread, and sons could not obtain admission), who were adpraised it much. dressed by a female preacher in the school room. Mr. Flower now lives at Albion, Edwards These ladies are said to be persons of fortune, ALBION. The following statistical view of New county, Illinois. and of great respectability in the neighbourhood York, taken from the Census of 1821, compared P.S.-Do ask your friend "Jeremiah Simple," of Laytonstone, in Essex. They are in the dewith that of Scotland, in 1811, as stated by Sir if he ever met with a head of corn that consist-cline of life, and evinced considerable talent as John Sinclair, exhibits a singular coincidence in ed of an uneven number of rows.* well as great energy in the cause in which they are engaged, and afforded much satisfaction to a one of its features.-The sums are given in round *The Editor must here answer for his absent numerous assembly, made up of dissenters of all numbers. New-York, Scotland, friend Jeremiah-who, when in hearing, was denominations. 1,400,000 1,800 000 never slow in answering for himself To the ex- Lately, at Mr. Duckham's sale under distress, 5,740,000 5,040,000 ecution of a delicate and responsible service, in the parish of Uffculm, Devon, a good four1,220,000 1,047,000 requiring in its commander skill, courage, ad-wheel wagon, and a lot of chains, bows, cart 243,000 dress, and decision, he has been called by his harness, yokes, &c. enough to fill the wagon, 2,803,000 country as with one voice. May his success were bought for twenty-six shillings and six Population Acres of improved land Number of horses Number of sheep Members of Congress from New York Members of Parliament from 263,000 2,100,000 34 Scotland Revenue of New York $900,000 Revenue of Scotland Exports of Scotland yearly, about Imports 30 equal his exertions to command it! When he pence! good cider was sold for 12s. 6d. per returns to "wife, children and friends," he will hogshead, cask included; and many lots of excheerfully rejoin his brother Farmers, and with cellent potatoes at 6d. and some at 3d. per bag.them practise or theorise-in the papers or at Gloucester Journal. a plowing match. A person at Rochester, near Uttoxeter, a few "In him though the foe feel the paw of the Lion, days ago, who had obtained various credits of the $18,600,000 "The battle once ended, he's the heart of a lamb. public, died, and was buried. A few days after 21,000,000 reports were abroad of his ghost being seen; and 16,000,000 The paper was so far preoccupied before suspicions arose on the subject of his decease, on Being an excess of exports of about 4,700,000 Albion's letter to his son was received, as to which the coffin was taken up, and found to be preclude its insertion in this number.-The filled with stones. The defunct debtor is still at The lapse of 50 years has produced, on Editor's arrangement with the printer requires large and suspected to be practising on the living the face of this country, perhaps a greater change that whatt constitute nearly the whole contents in some other place. than was ever produced on the face of any other of each paper should be put into the hands of the DEAR SPORT-A respectable individual of a territory on the globe within the same time. We latter prior to the Sunday which immediately neighbouring village has, within these last few days, been proceeded against for the recovery of do not, of course, speak of spots of ground of a precedes the publication. fines to the amount of £350, for having killed few square miles, but of extensive territories. Less than 50 years ago, the now populous and seven pheasants a few days before the time allow ed by law.-Leicester Chronicle. flourishing state of Kentucky had not a white inhabitant. dollars. Scraps from late English papers. At a sale at Stone, the other day, a team of four beautiful greys, which, about two years since, cost the owner £220, were, knocked down for the sum £88. A robbery of 20 coombs of wheat was lately Where the Trannsylvania University now stands, or near it, there ranged in 1775, herds of thousands of buffaloes. We mention this fact at the present moment, because it makes more striking the following statement of the present effected at Sibton. Mr. White, the proprietor, extent of that flourishing Institution. The cata-a few days after received the sacks, with a note logue of the Officers and Students, for the prescontaining the following lines:ent year, presents the following aggregates: Nearly every day since his Majesty left town, the Cabinet has been occupied in discussing a matter of the utmost importance to the State, which the wishes of the highest personage in the country have forced on its consideration. We have long known the extreme anxiety in a particular quarter, to endeavour to perpetuate in his own immediate descent all the honours and glories centring in his illustrious person. To remove, then, what is deemed by the personage most deeply concerned, an obstacle, though legal, founded solely in prejudice, and to induce Minis Two Jews were distinguished, one for his skill ters to endeavour, by the implied sanction of in pugilism, the other for his fondness of the fair all the influence attached to their offices, to preThe whole number of students in all the lan-sex. A gentleman being asked to what tribe vail upon Parliament to alter by future enactment guages and sciences, is 386, on a spot where, less they belonged? answered, "I don't know; had this bar to personal gratification, has we underthan 50 years ago, we repeat, Hunting and War they not been Jews I should have supposed one stand, been the cause of all those meetings. ofthem to be an Amorite and the othe a Hittite." Should Ministers relax, and with their habitual were the only studies of the aboriginal race. PEARCE V. MASON.-NEGLIGENT DRIVING. subserviency give in to the ardent wishes of him This was an action to recover compensation in most interested, "a high born beauty of the damages for an injury sustained by the negligent Court," full of youth, grace and every accomdriving of the defendant's servant, by which the plishment, both of mind and person, is the object plaintiff had his arm broken, and was likely to to be made most happy. be deprived of the use of it the rest of his life. About the year 1810, I obtained, from a gen-It appeared in evidence, that on the 20th of De- Probable meaning of the above when translatleman who accompanied Captain Cook and cember last the plaintiff, accompanied by a friend, ted-the King of England wishes to marry some Sir Joseph Banks round the world, a few bushels was walking along Eastcheap. Defendant's ser- handsome young British subject. of a naked barley, which was, I understood, pro-vants was passing along driving a wagon. cured on that voyage, and the same kind as the brewer's dray was standing by the side of the Arabs feed their famed horses with: this barley way; but there was full room for the defendant's TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. produced a vast crop, and the grain weighed servant to pass with his wagon, if he had been equally heavy as the best wheat, and matted careful. He, however, drove negligently on by Sir-As any thing relating to agriculture, howpretty well, but was sown very early in the fall, which his wagon struck against a dray cart, which ever small, as to an individual, may be valuable and produced most beautiful pasture, both in struck the plaintiff, knocked him against a post in a public view, I send you for your paper (if autumn and spring for sheep, and afterwards and shattered his arm. Verdict for the plaintiff you think it worthy) the following infallible cure yielded upwards of fifty bushels of barley per-Damages £100. for the diarrhoea, looseness, or scouring in calves. acre; but I gave up growing this grain from its "I wonder," said a woman of humour, "why I call it infallible, because in thirty years use of requiring so much thrashing, occasioned by one my husband and I quarrel so often, for we agree it I have not known of its failing to effect a cure ed in your paper, No. 27. cts. by once giving, but in one instance, and in that a Though it has always been designed that PRICES CURRENT.-CORRECTED WEEKLY. second effected it. I think it much more conve-the. subject of Internal Improvements, strictly nient for farmers, than the medicine recommend-speaking, should occupy a considerable portion Flour, best white wheat, $7 25-Howard st of this journal; that design has hitherto been Superfine, $6 624-Wharf, do. 6 12-Wheat, Put into a suitable bottle, about half a pint executed, to a very limited extent-we deem it white, $1 35 to 1 40-Red do., $1 32 to 1 35of good Cider, (not sweet nor bottled,) then open therefore expedient to announce, that we shall Rye, 71 to 75 cents-Corn, 60 to 62 a vein in the Calf's neck and let into the bottle certainly give it more attention and space in the Oats, 35 to 37 cents- Beef, live cattle, $5 about the same quantity of blood; shake it ensuing volume. to $5 50 per cwt.-Beef, 8 cents per lb. quickly well together, and put it down the Calf's In connexion with improvements in soil and Bacon, round, 10 to 11 cts.-Pork $4 50 throat, before it has time to coagulate, which is tillage, it is natural to look for increased facili-to 5 50 per c lb. 6 to 8 cts. per lb.-Mutton, 5 easily done with the bottle. ties in the transportation of produce to the best to 6 cts. per lb.-Beans, $1 37 to 150-Peas, I am, Sir, your's respectfully, markets; and he must have been but a careless black eyed, 55 to 60 cts.-Red Clover Seed, 86 50 LOVETT PĒTERS. observer, who has not anticipated the near ap- to 7--Orchard Grass do. $3--Herds' Grass do. $3-Westboro', Worcester County, Feb. 7, 1823. proach of the time, when the national power and Timothy do. $5-Millet, $2-Flax Seed, 75 to 80 resources, will be applied to the construction of cts.-Whiskey, from the wagons, 32 to 34 cts. canals and roads. It is probable that the adop- per gal.-Apple brandy, 30 to 32 cts.-Peach do., A very extraordinary brood of calves was pro- tion of measures to this end, will constitute the 65 to 70 cts.-Shad, none in market-Herrings, duced by my neighbour Wigdin's cow, on the distinguishing feature of the next administration, No. 1, $3 62 per bbl.-No. 2, $3 371-Fine evening of the 22d inst. She had three calves at as the present one has been made conspicuous by salt 80 to 90 cts. per bush.-Coarse, do. 75one litter or birth, they were nearly of a size expenditures on permanent fortifications, and by Butter, 20 to 25 per lb.-Eggs, 25 cts. per doz. and colour, but for want of proper accommoda- the proclamation and exercise of the right to Turkeys, 75 cts. to $1-Geese, 373 to 50 cts. tion and attention, one of them died the next recognise the independence of the South Ameri- Chickens, $2 per doz.-Straw, $10 per tonday; this cow is about middle size, and about six can governments. Hay, $16. years old, has had eight calves, and four of the The inclination to commence and prosecute MARYLAND TOBACCO-Not in great demand, within the past year. The last summer, on but great schemes of internal improvement, becomes prices same as before. middling keeping, her owner sold from her milk every day stronger, and more general, and while 6lbs. of butter per week, besides what was used in their small family, as they had but one cow. Such may be truly called a family friend. THOMAS BEESON. THE FRUITFUL COW. Brandywine Hundred, 2d Mo. 23d, 1823. DER OF THE STATE. some can discern no constitutional difficulty in and territories south and west thereof. the way of having recourse to national roads and GOODSELL'S PATENT HEMP AND FLAX canals, as necessary to the " regulation of inter- DRESSER AND GRAIN THRASHER. nal commerce"-others, who " to the ear, and break it to the sense," are willing to in the above named machine, is ready to dispose the promise keep The subscriber having purchased an interest borrow a little authority for the occasion, rather of rights for the counties of Sullivan, Ulster, PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN FARMER, BY OR-than wait the slow, and almost impracticable Dutchess, and all other counties south of them, process of altering the constitution-persuading in the state of New York; the states of Connectithemselves that ends so bene ficent, blessings so Prince Georges County, January 6th, 1823. A report of the Tobacco Inspected at and de- extensive, will justify almost any means. Hence cut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the states livered from the Upper Marlborough Inspection it is easy to see, that all obstacles are melting away Warehouse, during the quarter commencing on under the growing conviction of immediate bene- The said machine weighs about 200 lbs. is the seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and fits. These great works will go on, and all must very simple in its construction, and almost in twenty-two, ending the sixth day of January, unite, in the wish to see them skilfully planned and distructible in its composition, being made chiefeighteen hundred and twenty-three. udiciously executed. To aid in accomplishing this ly of cast iron. When driven by one horse, or object, we shall lend our journal, convinced as we water power, it is capable of breaking, scutching are, that we cannot better promote the interests and hackling of dew or water rotted flax by the of those who patronise it. Can it be necessary, to labour of a single person, 100 lbs. per day, and in Total. satisfy our readears, that we should explain the a style far superior to that usually done by hand. connexion between faciliity and cheapness of Of hemp, that is well rotted, (and it is not pretransportation, and the prosperity of the landed tended that it will dress unrotted hemp or flax,) hhds. interest? We trust not, and we do not propose the same person, with the same machine, may to appropriate more of their paper to the mat- dress out for market, from, 2 to 300 lbs per day; ter in question, than may be necessary to an and, with the most trifling alteration of the rest or agreeable variety in its contents, and to the end fulcrum, upon which the flax and hemp are held of keeping them posted up as to the progress of when broken, the same machine will thrash out internal improvements, and the principles of from 60 to 80 bushels of any kind of grain per day. philosophy, and economy, on which such im--A clover cleaner, and straw cutting apparatus, provements should be conducted. may be attached to it, also, at pleasure, but they Reinspect Growth Domestic growth. not of this state. ed. Number inspected. 45 Number de 348 livered. 27th, 1823. 45 348 SCOTT & SCASSEER, Inspectors, BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1823. We think it probable that we shall publish are not intended to be furnished with the machine. Mr. Hemphill's speech in the House of Repre- Those who may wish to be make use of them, will sentatives, in the first instance-chiefly to pre-be furnished with a model for the purpose. The sent to the reader an outline of such works whole is set in motion with cog wheels, or spur as have been executed in other countries, and wheels. A five inch strap over a drum and whirl, their effects, and a view of what has been pro- of suitable dimensions, the fixtures for which, posed in our own. It will serve to conduct him where the farmer has timber of his own, may be fairly into the field of reflection, and research completed at an expense of about ten dollars, we shall afterwards help him with such lights, as constitute its gearing. The price of a single we can borrow-for so far from holding it degra-machine and the right to use it, is one hundred ding to borrow light, we almost deprecate the dollars. There is one now in daily operation judgment passed upon Prometheus, for stealing at the subscriber's place at Hoboken, opposite it even f.om Heaven. the city, where gentlemen may satisfy themselves of its performance and utility. Letters, post-paid, directed to the subscriber THE NEXT MARYLAND CATTLE SHOW.-Arrangements will speedily be made, and published, for the next Maryland Cattle Show, to be far superior to any we have ever seen made from at New York, requiring further informatica or The sample of sugar sent by Mr. Rose is held on the Society's lots on the Frederick the maple, and more exempt from its peculiar the price of a state, county or town, will be duly road, as heretofore. flavour. The subject has appeared to deserve attended to. There will be distributed, premiums to consist of more particular notice-hence we have added to pieces of silver plate amounting to about $600.-A Mr. Rose's letter, an article on the same subject, good portion of which may be expected to go to the which had some time since attracted our notice, Ladies of the Eastern Shore, for their ingenious and been put on file we have sent small sam-Printed every Friday at 84 per annum, for JOHN S. SKINNER, Ediand beautiful domestic fabricks-so properly cal-ples, as a curiosity to many of our corresponled, in the most useful sense of the word. Par-dents, and have deposited the remainder, at the ticulars hereafter. exchange. SAML. SWARTWOUT. tor, by JOSEPH ROBINSON, at the North West corner of Market and Belvidere streets, Baltimore; where very description of Book and Job Printing is executed with neatness and despatch-Orders from a distance for Printing or Binding, with proper directions promptly attended to, addressed to J. Robinson, Baltimore. AMERICAN FARMER.-BALTIMORE, 14th MARCH, 1823. THE AMERICAN GARDENER. [stock should be of plum, for the reasons given Montaubon, 1 Vanguard, 6 Royal George, CHAPTER V. Propagation, Planting, Cultivation. LIST OF FRUITS. 318. PEACH.-The peach being the principal tree for the garden, I shall under this head, give directions for pruning and forming the tree.-Peaches are propagated by budding. The' Fig.2. in Paragraph 281.-The tree is to be planted, Grosse Mignonne, 4 Early Noblesse, 3 Galland agreeably to the directions in Paragraphs 282 to 2 Bellgarde, 2 Late Noblesse. These are a 288. And now for the pruning and forming the to be had of Mr. PRINCE, of Flushing, in thi tree. Look at PLATE IV. fig 2, and fig 3. island, and, as to his word, every body know such as we generally see at that age. The prac-have them, you propagate from them for your The first is a peach tree such as I would have it that it may be safely relied on. What is the tice is to plant the tree, and to let it grow in its life. Even for the feeding of hogs, a gallon of at four or five years old; the last is a peach tree trifling expence of 30 trees! And when you once own way. The consequence is, that, in a few peaches of either of the above sorts is worth years, it runs up to a long naked stem with two twenty gallons of the poor pale, tastless things that we see brought to market.-As to dried peaches, every body knows that they are managed as dried apples are; only that they must be gathered for this purpose before they be soft. Fig.1. Fig.3. 319. PEAR. Pears are grafted on pear-stocks, on quince-stocks, or on those of the white-thorn. The last is best because most durable, and, for dwarf trees, much the best, because they do not throw up wood so big and so lofty. For orchards, pear-stocks are best; but not from suckers on any account. They are sure to fill the orchard with suckers.-The pruning for your pear trees in the garden should be that of the peach. The pears will grow higher; but they may be made to spread at bottom, and that will keep them from towering too much. gether, in one of the Plats, 10 or 11.-The sorts They should stand toof pears are numerous; the six that I should choose are, the Vergalouse, the Winter Bergamot, the D'Auche, the Beurre, the Chaumontelle, the Winter Bonchretian. 320. PLUMS.-How is it that we see so few plums in America, when the markets are supplied with cart-loads in such a chilly, shady, and or three long naked limbs, having some little twelve feet in breadth, or heighth, and in full bear- blighty country as England A Green-gage Plum weak boughs at the tops, and, the tree being top-ing in every part. Here is a space of six hun- is very little inferior to the very finest peach; heavy, is, nineteen times out of twenty, leaning derd square feet, and, in case of a good crop, and I never tasted a better Green-gage than I on one side; and, it presents, altogether, a figure four peaches at least in every square foot, mak- have at New York. It must therefore, be negby no means handsome in itself or creditable to ing, in the whole, 2,400 peaches, which would ligence. But Plums are prodigious bearers, too; the owner. This is fig 3.-Now, to have fig 2, fill little short of ten or twelve bushels. This is and would be very good for hogs as well as the following is the way.-The tree should, in to be seen any year at MONTREUIL in France. peaches.-This tree is grafted upon plum-stocks, the first place, be budded very near to the ground. To be sure, these trees are tied to trelises and raised from stones by all means; for suckers send After it be planted, cut it down to within a foot have walls at their back; but this climate re-out a forest of suckers.-The pruning is precisely and a half of the ground, and always cut sloping quires neither; and, surely, fine trees and fine that of the peach.-The six trees that I would close to a bud. In this foot and a half, there fruit and large crops may be had in a country have in the garden should be 4 Green-gages, 1 will be many buds, and they will, the first sum- where blights are almost unknown, and where Orlean, 1 Blue Perdrigon. mer, send out many shoots. Now, when shoots the young fruit is never cut off by frosts, as it is begin to appear, rub them all off but three, leave in England and France. To preserve the young and in very rich ground. It is raised from cutthe top one and one on each side, at suitable fruit in those countries, people are compelled to tings or layers, and these are treated like other distance lower down. These will in time become cover the trees by some means or other, in March cuttings and layers.-Quinces are dried like S21. QUINCE.-Should grow in a moist place limbs. The next year, top the upright shoot and April. Here there needs no such thing. apples. (that came out of the top bud) again so as to When you see the blossom, you know that the bring out other horisontal limbs, pointing in a fruit is to follow. By looking at the Plan of the but produces fruit that vies, in point of crop as different direction from those that come out the Garden, PLATE I, you will see, that the Plats No. well as flavour, with that of the proudest tree. last year. Thus the tree will get a spread. 8 and 9, contain 30 trees and the two vine trelises. I have never seen them fine in America since I 322. RASBERRY.-A sort of woody herb, After this, you must keep down the aspiring The Plats are, you will remember, 70 feet long saw them covering hundreds of thousands of shoots; and, every winter cut out some of the and 56 wide. Of course, putting 5 trees one way acres of ground in the Province of New Brunsweak wood, that the tree may not be overbur- and 4 the other, each tree has a space of 14 feet, wick. They come there even in the interstices ened with wood. If, in time, the tree be getting so that the branches may extend horisontally 7 of the rocks, and, when the August sun has parchthin of bearing wood towards the truuk, cut some feet from the trunk of the tree, before they meet.ed up the leaves, the landscape is red with the of the limbs back, and they will then send out In these two Plats 14 feet wide is left clear for fruit. Where woods have been burnt down, many shoots, and fill up the naked places. The the grape-vines.-These 30 Peach-trees, proper- the rasberry and the huckle-berry instantly spring lowest limb of the tree, should come out of the ly managed, would yield more fruit, even in bulk, up, divide the surface between them, and furnish trunk at not more than 9 or 10 inches from the than a large orchard in the common way; and autumnal food for flocks of pigeons that darken ground. The greater part of the tree will be ten times as much in point of value; the size as the earth beneath their flight. Whence these within the reach of a man from the ground; well as the flavour of the fruit are greatly improv-plants come, and cover spots thirty or forty miles and a short step-ladder reaches the rest. By ed by this mode of culture. However, the sort square, which have been covered with woods for this management the tree is always in a state of is of very great consequence. ull bearing. Always young. To talk of a tree's, enough, that people in general think little of the contenting myself with relating how they come being worn out is nonsense. But, without prun sort in the case of peaches, though they are so and how they are treated in gardens. They are It is curious ages upon ages, I leave for philosophers to say, ing it will soon wear out. It is the pruning that choice in the case of apples. A peach is a peach raised from suckers, though they may be raised makes it always young. ardin Potager," by Monsieur DE COMBLES, which there is more difference than there is planted out in rows, six feet apart, and the plants In the "Ecloe du it seems, though I know of no apples between from cuttings. The suckers of this year, are there is an account of peach trees in full bearing between different sorts of peaches, some of which two apart in the rows. This is done in the fall at fifty years old. And, little do people here melt in the mouth, while others are little better or early in the spring. At the time of planting imagine to what a distance a peach tree will, if than a white turnip.-The sort is, then, a matter they should be cut down to within a foot of the properly managed, extend. speaks of numerous peach trees extending to very numerous, the thirty trees that I would have send out several suckers which will bear the next Mr. de COMBLES of the first importance; and though the sorts are ground. They will bear a little, and they will more than fifty feet in length on the trelis, and should be as follows:-1 Violette Haitve, 6 Early year.-About four is enough to leave, and those of the strongest. These should be cut off in the fall or early in the spring, to within four feet of the ground, and should be tied to a small stake. CHAPTER VI. FLOWERS. have been got from America. The Wild Cherry, which they call the bird-cherry, which here grows sometimes to the height of a hundred feet, A straight branch of Locust is best, and then the Of Flowers, and of Ornamental Gardening in and one of which I can now see from my window stake lasts a life-time at least, let the life be as General. more than seventy feet high; the Locust, most long as it may. The next year more suckers 326. My reasons for making Flowers a part beautiful of trees and best of timber; the Catalcome up, which are treated in the same way.-of my subject, have been stated in Paragraphs 6 pha, blossoms far more beautiful than those of Fifty clumps are enough, if well managed.-There and 97. However, if the American Farmer have the horse-chesnut, broad and beautiful leaves are white and red, some like one best and some no taste for flowers, his wife and daughters may; that do not scorch in the hottest sun; all the the other. To have them fine, you must dig in and this part of the book can, at any rate, do beautifully blowing Laurel tribe; the Rose of manure in the Autumn, and keep the ground him no harm. Charon (as it is called here) and the Althea Fruclean during summer by hoeing.-I have tried to 327. Under the head of Flowers come flower-tex; the Azalia of all colours; Roses of several dry the fruit; but it lost its flavour. Rasberry ing trees and shrubs; and, therefore, I must, in kinds. But, there is one shrub of the larger kind, Jam is a deep red sugar; and rasberry-wine is this place, say a little of these and of ornamental abundant here, that I never saw there, and that red brandy, rum, or whiskey; neither having the gardening. It is by no means my intention to is the thing which some call the Morning Star. taste of the fruit. To eat cherries, preserved in attempt to give an account of all the flowers that It has six leaves in its flower, which is in the form spirits, is only an apology, and a very poor and come into the florist's catalogue. That cata- of the flower of the single rose. The whole flowmean one, for dram-drinking; a practice which logue, with only a very short description of each er when open, is about three times the circumferevery man ought to avoid, and the very thought flower, would fill ten volumes, each surpassing ence of a dollar. Some of the trees bear blossoms of giving way to which ought to make the cheek this in bulk. I do not blame the taste of those quite white, and others blossoms of a whitish of a woman redden with shame. who study botany, and who find pleasure in the peach blossom colour. These blossoms come the 323. STRAWBERRY.-This plant is a na-possession of curious trees and plants; but all earliest in the spring. They are out full, in Long tive of the fields and woods here, as it is in Eu- that I shall attempt, is, to speak of those flowers Island, in the first week in May, which is rather rope. There are many sorts, and all are improv-that stand most prominent as their capacity of earlier than the peach blossoms. In England ed by cultivation. The Scarlet, the Alpine, the making a beautiful show and of sending forth they would be out full, on an average of years, in Turkey, the Haut-bois, or high-stalked, and fragrance. the last week of February, which is an anticipa many others, some of which are white, and some 328. As to the spot for flowers, the smaller tion of all their shrubs. The trees, which is a of so deep a red as to approach towards a black. kinds and even small shrubs, such as roses, dwarf great quality, thrive well under other trees, which To say which sort is best is very difficult. A honey-suckles, and the like, may be planted by indeed, seems to be their nature. You see, from variety of sorts is best.-They are propagated the sides of the broad walks in the kitchen gar- a great distance, their bright and large blossoms, from young plants that grow out of the old ones. den, or a little piece of ground may be set apart unaccompanied by leaves, shining through the In the summer the plant sends forth runners. for the purpose. In cases where there are what boughs of the other trees; and some of them reach Where these touch the ground, at a certain dis- are usually called pleasure-grounds, large shrubs, the height of forty feet. This, therefore, is a tance from the plant come roots, and from these and, if the grounds be extensive, lofty trees come very fine flowering tree; and yet I never saw roots, a plant springs up. This plant is put out in. And, in the placing of the whole trees and one of the kind in England. How beautiful a early in the fall. It takes root before winter; plants, the most lofty should be furthest from the grove might be made of this tree, the wild-cherry, and the next year it will bear a little; and send walk. the Locust, the Catalpha, and the Althea-frutex! out runners of its own.-To make a Strawberry- 329. As to the manner of sowing planting, And here they are all, only for the trouble of bed, plant three rows a foot a part, and at 8 transplanting, and cultivating, what has been sowing; for from the seed the tree will surely inches a part in the rows. Keep the ground said of fruit trees and of garden vegetables and come. clean, and the new plants, coming from runners, herbs applies here. The ground must be good, 332. I shall now proceed to give an Alphabetiwill fill up the whole of the ground, and will ex-well tilled, and kept clean, or the plants and cal List of such flowering Trees, Shrubs and tend the bed on the sides.-Cut off the runners flowers will not be fine. Plants as I think worthy of cultivation; or, rath at six inches distance from the sides, and then 330. Before I proceed to the Alphabetical List, er, that I myself would wish to have about my you have a bed three feet wide, covering all the let me again observe, that I merely give a selec-house, or in my garden. As I go on I shall state ground; and this is the best way; for the fruit tion, such as appears to me to be best calculated some particulars here and there relating to propathen lodges on the stems and leaves, and is not for gratifying, at different seasons, the sight, or gation and management; but, to be very particular beaten into the dirt by heavy rains, which it is the smell, or both. That there is a great deal in would be superfluous, seeing that such full direcif the plants stand in clumps with clear ground rarity is evident enough; for while the English tions have been given in the former parts of the between them.-If you have more beds than one, think nothing of the Hawthorn, the Americans work, as to the sowing of all seeds, great as well there should be a clear space of two feet wide think nothing of the Arbutus, the Rhododendron, as small; as to the raising of trees and plants between them, and this space should be well the Kalmia and hundreds of other shrubs, which from cuttings, slips, layers, and suckers, and as manured and deeply digged every fall, and kept are amongst the choisest in England. The little cultivation and tillage. Flowers are divided into clean by hoeing in the summer. If weeds come dwarf brush stuff, that infects the plains in Long annuals, biennials and perennials. The first blow up in the beds, they should be carefully pulled Island under the name of "Kill-Calf," is, under a and die the year they are sown; the second out.-In November the leaves should be cut off fine Latin name, a choice green house plant in blow the second year and then die; the third somewith a scythe, or reap-hook, and there should be England, selling for a dollar when not bigger times blow the first year, and sometimes not, and a little good mouldy manure scattered over them. than a handful of thyme. Nay, that accursed die down to the ground annually, but spring up -They will last in this way for many years. stinking thing, with a yellow flower, called the again every spring. I have not made separate When they begin to fail, make new beds. Sup-" Plain-Weed," which is the torment of the lists; but have included the whole in one Alphaposing you to have five or six beds, you may neighbouring farmer, has been, above all the betical List. There are sixty trees, shrubs and make one new one every year; and thus keep plants in this world, chosen as the most conspicu- plants altogether; and, properly cultivated, these your supply always ample. ous ornament of the front of the King of England's will give a grand bloom from May to November. 324. VINE.-See Grape. grandest palace, that of Hampton-Court, where, growing in a rich soil to the height of five or six LIST. 325. WALNUT.-The butter-nut, the black feet, it, under the name of "Golden Rod," nods 333. ALTHEA FRUTEX.-It is raised from walnut, the hickory or white walnut are all in-over the whole length of the edge of a walk, three seed, or from suckers. There are several sorts, habitants of the American woods. The English quarters of a mile long and, perhaps, thirty fee as to the colours. They should be mixed to and French Walnut, called here the Madeira wide, the most magnificent, perhaps, in Europe. make a variety. Save the seed in November or Nut, is too sensible of the frost to thrive much But, be not too hasty, American, in laughing at December. The pods are full. Sow in the in this climate. Two that I sent to Pennsylvania John Bull's king; for I see, as a choice flower in spring. Seed produces the handsomest shrub; in 1800 are alive, and throw out shoots every year; your gardens, that still more pernicious Europe and it is to be got almost any where. but they have got to no size, their shoots being an weed which the French call the Coquelicot, 334. ANEMONE.-This is a very beautiful generally cut down in winter.-Walnuts are and the English, the Corn-Poppy, which stifles flower, and worthy of great pains. It is raised raised from seed.-To preserve this seed, which the barley, the wheat, and especially the peas, from seed, or from pieces of the roots. Sow the is also the fruit, you must treat it like that of the and frequently makes the fields the colour of seed in spring. The plant does not blow the first Filberd, which see.-It is possible, that the blood. year. The root, which is tuberous, is taken up Madeira Nut grafted upon the black walnut, or 331. This is quite sufficient to show the power in the fall, dried in the sun, and put by in the ground upon either of the other two might thrive in this of rarity in affixing value on shrubs and flowers. till spring, when it is put into the ground again. climate. The finest flowering trees and shrubs in England And, during the summer, it sends out young roots, which must be taken off and planted out, to be-leach. By this time they are probably sold at a the under lip of cow, whence, I suppose, our come blowers. There is a great variety of colours dollar. The plant as well as the flower are forefathers gave the plants the name of cowslip. and of sizes of this flower. handsome; and certainly cuttings for grafting 347. CROCUS. -A bulbous rooted plant, very 335. ARBUTUS.-A pretty ever-green, as may easily be brought from England. They will well known. It is recommended by its earliness. well known as the oak tree; and is to be got every stand the winter as well as any of the American It is perfectly hardy. The only thing to do, laurels. when it is once planted, is to take care that it where. 336. ASTRE (China).—Astre is French for 342. CARNATION.-Here is beauty and does not fill all the ground near it. There are star, and this flower, in its shape, resembles a fragrance, and both in the highest degree. yellow, blue, and white Crocuses. And they are star to our view. It is annual, bears great quan-There are various sorts, distinguished, like those pleasant when nothing else is in bloom, except, tities of seed, and is sown early in spring. An of the Auricula, by names; and, what is said of at least, the Snowdrop, which departs soon after infinite variety of colours and great quantities of the seed of the Auricula applies here. If sown, the Crocus begins to appear. blossoms. It gives no smell; but a clump of it the carnation does not blow till the second year. 348, DAISY-I cannot say, with Dryden's furnishes a great mass of beauty to the sight. It is usually propagated by layers. While it is damsels, in one of his fine poems, that "the 337. AURICULA.-This is one of the flowers, blowing, it sends out several side shoots near the "Daisy smells so sweet," for it has very little the sorts of which are distinguished by having ground. These are pinned down in August, to smell; but is a most beautiful little flower, and awarded to them the names of famous men and the earth with a little stick with a hook at the end blows without ceasing at all times when the women, famous cities, and famous battles, and so of it. A little cut, or tongue, is made on the under grass grows, however little that may be. The forth. It may be raised from seed; but the flow-side of the shoot; and thus the head of the shoot opening of the Daisy is the sure sign that there is ers proceeding from plants so raised, do not re- is brought upright. The part that touches the growth going on in the grass; and these little semble the flowers of the mother plant, except by ground is well covered with earth; and roots flowers bespangle the lawns and the meadows, mere accident. It is a chance if you get a fine come out here before the fall. Then the stalk, the green banks and the glades all over England. flower from a whole sown bed. Now-and-then which connects the young plant with the old one Their colours present an endless variety; and one of this description comes, however, and this is cut off; the young plant is transplanted, and those grown in gardens are double. The fieldadds to the list of names, if it happen to be one of the next year it blows. The old root does not Daisy is single and about the size of a York-Sixthe like of which has not made its appearance stand another year well; and, therefore, its pence. Those in the gardens are sometimes as before. Auriculas are therefore, propagated by branches are thus made use of to keep up the broad as a quarter of a dollar. And there is one parting the roots, and every root sends out seve- race and the sort.-Carnations are rather tender sort, called the Hen-and-chicken Daisy, that has ral young plants annually. When sown, they do as to frost. And must be well covered in this a ring of little flowers surrounding the main flownot blow till the second year; but the old root country to live through the winter. It is best to er. This plant may be raised from offsets or lasts for many years. Some of these should be put them in large pots to give room for laying; seed, in which last case it blows the second year. potted, and kept to blow in the green-house. If and to keep them in a green-house in winter, It is perennial. planted in the natural ground, they ought to be or in some house where they can have sun and 349. GERANIUM wants hardiness only to covered a little in the winter. There are many air. However, they merit all the pains that can make it the finest flower-plant of which I have hundreds of sorts with names. So many indeed, be bestowed upon them. any knowledge. Some give us flower with litthat the godfathers in England have been so put 343. CATALPHA.-That beautiful Ameri-tle or no leaf; others have beauty of leaf as well to it for great personages to baptize the flowers can tree mentioned in Paragraph 329. as of flower, but give us no fragrance; others, like after that they have been compelled to resort to 344. CLOVE.-Is only a more handy and less the rose, gives us this added to beauty of flower the heroes and heroines of Romance; accordingly esteemed sort of Carnation, which see. It may and of leaf, but, it give us them only for a part of they have Don Quickset and Sancho. However, be propagated like the Carnation; or, by cuttings the year. But, the Geranium has beautiful leaf, vanity supplies the florists, as well as the ship- which is the easier way. Instead of laying down beautiful flower, fragrant smell from leaf as well owners, with a great store of names, and auricu- the side shoots, you cut them off. Then you cut as from flower, and these it has in never-ceasing las, like ships, are frequently honoured with away the hard part of the shoot, strip off three abundance; and as to variety of sorts, as well in the names of the original proprietor's wife or or four of the bottom leaves. Tip the rest of the leaf as in flower, it surpasses even the flower of daughter. leaves; make a little split in the butt of the the Auricula. How delightful the country, where 338. AZALIA.-That little American Ho-shoot, and, then, with a little smooth pointed Geraniums form the underwood, and the Myrtles neysuckle that impedes our steps when shooting stick, plant the cutting in the ground. This is tower above! Softly, my friends. Beneath that on the skirts of woods. It, however, blows pro- to be done early in August. The young Cloves underwood lurks the poisonous lizards and serfusely, though it has no smell like the English will have roots in the fall; and you may trans- pents, and through those Myrtle boughs the honeysuckle. plant them in the open ground or into pots to deadly winged adders rustle; while all around is 339. BALSAM is an annual and most beauti-blow the next year. The old Clove plant will, dry and burning sand. The Geranium is a naful plant, with great abundance of flowers. Sow however, blow for many years. I should think, tive of the South of Africa; and, though it will when you sow Melons, at a distance of four feet; that, with good covering, such as directed for not receive its death-blow from even a sharpish leave only one plant in a place; let the ground be spinach, Cloves would live out the winter in this frost, it will not endure the winter, even in the rich and kept clean; it will blow early in July, country. mild climate of England. But, then, it is so easy and will keep growing and blowing till the frost 345. COLUMBINE.-A perennial. Very of cultivation, it grows so fast, blows so soon, and is so little troublesome, that it seems to argue an comes, and then, like the cucumber, it is instant-common; but very pretty. ly cut down. I have seen Balsams in Pennsylva- 346. COWSLIP.-This is one of the four insensibility to the charms of nature not to have ia 3 feet high, with side-branches 2 feet long, flowers, without which English pastoral poetry Geraniums if we have the means of obtaining and with a stem much bigger than my wrist, would be destitute of that which awakens the earth and sun.-The Geranium is propagated loaded with beautiful blossoms. Plant, branch, most delightful ideas. The Cowslip, the Prim- from seed, or from cuttings. The seed, like eaf, flower; all are most elegantly formed, and rose, the Violet, and the Daisy, are of endless that of the Auricula, does not produce flower or the colours of the flower extraordinarily vivid recurrence in that species of writing. They all leaf like the mother plant, except by chance. It and various. There are, however, some more come early in the spring; and are all beautiful. is easily saved, and for curiosity's sake, may be double than others, and some variegated. The Neither of them is seen here, and they all might; sown to see if a new variety will come. But, a seed of these should be sowed, and it comes in for they will bear any severity of weather. The cutting, from any part of the plant, old wood great abundance. The flower of the Balsam has Cowslip is of the Polyanthus tribe. It is of a or young wood, stuck into the ground, or into a delicate yellow colour, and sends forth many blos-pot, will grow and become a plant, and will blow no smell. 340. BRIAR (Sweet).-A well known shrub soms from the same stem, which rises about six in a month from the time you put it into the fthe rose kind. Rows of it carefully planted and inches from the ground. It may easily be pro-ground. You must have plants, indeed, to cut 1 ru ed make very good hedges, and it will grow pagated from seed, which it bears in great abun-from; but these may be, in small number at any in almost any ground, though fastest in good dance, but, when you once have a plant, the rate, in a window, during winter. When the ground. easiest way is to propagate from offsets. The the spring comes cut them up into cuttings, put 341. CAMILLIA.-This shrub, which is of plants raised from seed do not blow till the se- these in the ground where you wish to have plants the laurel-tribe, has lately been introduced in cond year. The plant is perennial. The flower during the summer. They will be in bloom by England from Japan. It bears a flower, which has a delicate sweet smell, and also sweet taste, July, and, before October will be large as a curwhen open, resembles a good deal a large full-as a proof of which, cart-loads of the flowers, rant tree. Take off cuttings from these during Llown rose; and these flowers, on different plants, plucked from the stalks, are sold in London t September, put them in pots, and they are ready are of different colours. It is raised, doubtless. make "wine" with; that is to say to furnish for the next spring. If you have a Green-house, from seed; but it may be grafted on the Haw-drinkers with an apology for swallowing sprits you have Geraniums in full bloom all the long thorn; and, I dare say, on the Crab. Some of under the specious name of Cowslip-wine. The dreary winter. (To be continued.) the plants have been sold at 20 or 30 pounds leaf of the flower very much resembles in shape |