DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



mens, and removed a few plants to the frames, 

 and every blossom was impregnated and bore a 

 perfect fruit. I imported this variety near 30 

 years since, and still have it, and cultivate it 

 largely. As soon as the character of the straw- 

 berry plant is settled east, the Early Scarlet 

 will only be cultivated as an impregnator. I 

 will present Mr. Hogg a silver cu;» of the value 

 of $100, as soon as he will produce half a crop 

 of fruit from Hovey's justly celebrated seed- 

 ling, or the English Methven Scarlet, if sepa- 

 rated from all others. Neither of them will 

 bear a perfect berry.* The same is true of 

 Burr's highly flavored Nevr Pine. Mr. ITovey 

 and Mr. Burr both know the character of their 

 seedlings, and will endorse what I say. It is a 

 mistake to say the Catawba is our only wine 

 grape. I believe the wine from the Missouri 

 and Herbemont, will command a higher price 

 than the dry Catawba wine. I this season paid 

 double price for some of the latter, to one of 

 my tenants. I offered another a higher price, 

 which he declined. The former, with skillful 

 manufacture, will equal Madeira. The latter, 

 the Spanish Manzanilla, which it resembles in 

 aroma and flavor. Yours resp'ly, N. Long- 

 WOTRH. Cincinnati, 0., Feb. 20, 18-51. 



Rabbits vs. Sulphur. — I have tried the ex- 

 periment, [from the account in a former num- 

 ber,] the present winter, of placing small pie- 

 ces of cloth dipped in melted sulphur, around 

 a small nursery of fruit trees, at the distance 

 of eight or ten feet from each other, and thus 

 far it has been an impregnable barrier against 

 the ravages of rabbits, which, in winters past, 

 have been verj'' destructive. C. P. Granville, 

 Ohio, Feb. 10, 1851. 



Horticultural Plough. — Mr. Wilkinson, 

 of the Mt. Airy Agricultural Institute, hag 

 lately read an interesting paper before the 

 Philadelphia agricultural association on ploughs 

 and tillage. He exhibited a plan of a horticul- 

 tural plough, which appears to us worthy of 

 attention, and accompanied it with the follow- 

 ing remarks: 



To perfect the catalogue of ploughs for the 

 various purposes, we need a plough which 

 might properly be styled the Horticulttiral 

 Plough, for the purpose of ploughing in or- 

 one that will enable us to till close to 

 trees without exposing them to injury 

 hope Mr. H. will accept this challenge. Ed. 



from being barked or galled by the whii)ple 

 trees of the horse tackling, or the yoke of the 

 o.xen; and also to guard against injuring the 

 teams, whicli often occurs in ploughing among 

 trees, by bruising their hips against them. The 

 same instrument, if properly constructed, will 

 also be found very usel'ul for ploughing along 

 fences, whether the furrow is to be turned to 

 or from the fence. 



I have prepared a diagram of a form of 

 l)lough, which I will submit to your inspection, 

 that will be found an efficient improvement for 

 all the above purposes, for which no manufac- 

 turer has ever succeeded in making one in the 

 least adapted. In tilling the land near the 

 thorn , or maclura hedge, this plough will enable 

 us to till as close to them as we desire, witliout 

 subjecting the teams to that painful laceration 

 by the thorns, which is unavoidable in the use 

 of a common plough in tillage. Any common 

 plough, that is adapted to both fallow and 

 sward land, and one that is considerably worn, 

 will answer the purpose for a horticultural 

 plough, when altered, by attaching to it the 

 shifting beam — from the fact that it will be used 

 but little, compared with other ploughs; hence 

 a plough considerably worn, will answer as well 

 as any. 



Prairie Roses. — In June last I wrote an ar- 

 ticle on the prairie roses, 15 in number, which 

 were in my possession, and with a few excep- 

 tions, in bloom. This article was published in 

 the Syracuse Daily Journal, about the 4th of 

 July, and copied into the August number of 

 the Horticulturist. Some of the above, as be- 

 fore stated, were not fully expanded at the 

 time, but the descriptions of such were copied 

 from an article in Hovey's Magazine, (by the 

 editor, see August No. 1847,) who then had 

 eight in number in bloom, not including " Mrs. 

 Hovey," but represented Mrs. Hovey as a pure 

 or superb white rose, giving Mr. Joshua Pier- 

 ce's description of it. After I had penned this 

 article, my Mrs. Hovey bloomed very finely and 

 was a splendid blush. 



I see, however, that this rose is still advertis- 

 ed by Messrs. Hovey and others as a pure 

 white, (see June No. of Hovey's Magazine, 18-50) 

 and I naturally came to the conclusion that I 

 might have recieved the wrong rose, although 

 I purchased it from the originator himself. (Mr. 

 J. Pierce, of Washington.) "When in Albany, 

 last September, I asked Mr. James Wilson if 

 he had Mrs. Hovey, (Prairie) — to which he re- 

 plied afflrmatively. Where did you get it? His 

 reply was that a friend had ordered it from 

 Miss Hovey & Co., of Boston, and he had 

 received his plant from that friend. I then 



