282 THE YEAR-BOOK OF AGRICULTURE. 



plants were pruned at the latter end of March, and in the following July they were again 

 loaded with about Biz hundred bunches of grapes, many of which were fine and huge. The 

 cinnamon-tree also promises well, aud may become valuable here as an article of commerce. 

 From one small plant, introduced in 1850-51, we have now some healthy young plante raised, 

 and many more in process of propagation. The mango also promises well. In 1850-51, a 

 young plant was introduced, about one foot in height. It is now a splendid tree, upwards of 

 twelve feet in height. The olives also grow most luxuriantly. They were about a foot high 

 in 1851 ; and the largest of them are now upward* of ten feet in height. At present, how- 

 ever, they have not produced any blossoms and fruit. 



New Mode of Transplanting Trees. 



A HACHIH1 recently invented in England by Mr. Barrow, and which is highly commended 

 by English authorities, resembles the common tumbrels for the conveyance of large j>ieces of 

 timber, with the exception that the load is carried in a perpendicular position, and while in 

 motion oscillates in the same manner as the suspended candlesticks in the cabin of a ship, 

 instead of hanging horizontally between the wheels. Four wheels of large diameter support 

 an oblong stage formed of beams of timber strongly knitted together. Two sets of these 

 beams run lengthwise, parallel with each other, there being an interval of about two feet six 

 inches in width between each set. These are firmly bound together at each extremity by 

 another system of beams resting on the axletree of each pair of wheels, so that an opening 

 of a rectangular parallelogram shape is formed in the centre of the stage. When it is pro- 

 posed to remove B tree, this framework is wheeled up to it, and the transverse liars in front 

 having been temporarily detached, the trunk of the tree is placed within the parallelogram. 

 A square trench, or rather, four trenches of equal length, and at right angles to each other, 

 are then dug, beyond the limit of the roots, and of a depth corresponding to their width. 

 When this i- accomplished, the tree is by degrees undermined, and strong planks of deal are, 

 during the progress of that operation, driven from trench to trench, underneath the mass of 

 clay which they enclose. The heads of these planks have chains attached to them, and 

 these again are connected with powerful jacks — screws acting on the same principle of com- 

 bination as the common patent corkscrew — placed on the stage of the framework, and by the 

 agency of these the whole mass is raised above the level of the earth's surface, when the void 

 OOcasioned by its removal is filled up, and a way made firm for the passage of the hinder 

 wheels acn.v t lie chasm. A team of horses is next yoked to the machine, and these trans- 

 port the tree to the site prepared for its reception, into which it is slowly lowered, and thus 

 the operation is completed. 



Experiments on the Effect of Different Methods of Sowing on the Pro- 

 duction of Wheat. 



Tin: following experimental researches on the effect of different methods of sowing on the 



production of wheal baa been communicated to the Lmerioaa Farmer by Tilghman Golds- 

 borough, Esq., Of Kllenlioro', Maryland. Four different methods of sowing wheat were 

 adopted: — 1. in drills on a level surface; 2. in drills on a ridged surface, lengthwise the 

 ridges; 3. broadcast "ii a level surface; 1. broadcast in QaiTOW ridges. The field seleotod 

 for the experiment! W8J Of about sixty acres, which in the five-field rotation was that \ 

 in clover of one year's growth, succeeding coin. Sixteen breadths, of sixty feet each, and 



varying in length from six hundred and forty-three to six hundred and eighty-two feet, con- 

 ng an average of about nine-tentha of an acre, were sown with wheat in each of the 



ahove mod. - alternately. There were, therefore, four examples Of each method, thui avoid- 

 ing a- far a- possible any errors arising from unequal fertility iii tin- tojL There was no 

 application of manure or any fertilizing matter, for fear of irregularity in the quality or 



rate of such application. All the land In former years had been dressed with shell-marl, 



and might lie considered g 1 land, but not highly fertile. The wheat WSS Of the variety 



known BJ the golden-straw or golden-flint, and was sown in drilling at the rate of one and 



