EDITOR'S TABLE. 



plants 104 standard and 436 dwarf pears on each acre. From one nursery near Rochester, 

 N. Y., fruit trees to the value of $15,000 have already be sent West this fall. 



A Machine for Peeling Willows. — A machine for peeling basket willows has been invented 

 by G. J. Colby, of Jonesville, Vt. Its operation is very simple, the willows being passed 

 through between two or three sets of India rubber rollers, one set of which has a vibrating 

 motion wliich rubs the bark off very effectually; the others mainly separating the willows from 

 the loose bark. The rollers being made of India rubber, there is no possible chance for the 

 willows to be injured, and it will adapt itself to all sizes, so that from twenty to thirty rods 

 can be passing through at the same time. With one horse, and with two men to attend it, 

 it will peel from one to two tons per day, while to do the same amount of work by hand it 

 V70uld require thirty or forty men and boys. This is one of the greatest labor-saving machines 

 of the age, and if farmers only understood it they would soon plant willows enough, so that 

 we should not be obliged to send to Europe for them as we now do. 



Cotton from India. — Threats are constantly thrown out by Europeans, that India will 

 supersede America in the growth of cotton. Funds have been abundantly wasted in the 

 attempt; no mistake can be greater. India is not, as many imagine, a conquered country to 

 be ruled as easily as an English colony. Asiatic princes have given way before British 

 soldiers, but the governed, at heart, remain what they ever were. The object of these people 

 being to keep their subjects in a state of abject dependence on themselves, it is of the highest 

 importance to their interests that no foreign government should be allowed to elevate their 

 condition. The Brahmins discouraged the cultivation of some cotton seeds from New Orleans, 

 distributed at Mysore, as it would cause the disappearance of the native plant, and therefore 

 "the evil eye" would be upon all their efibrts. To insure the truth of this prophecy, men in 

 disguises were sent into the fields at night, and were seen uprooting the plants. From this it 

 maj- be inferred that it is not the British government, and least of all an Indian government, 

 that can produce the necessary changes. Directors and capitalists may patronize, men of 

 science mny demonstrate, and culturists may execute, but all in vain, so long as things remain 

 as they now are — under Hindoo influence and foreign rule. 



The Pulse Machine. — Professor Bierordt, of Frankfort, has invented a machine to record 

 the beating of the human pulse. The arm is placed in a kind of cradle, which keeps it steady; 

 a lever rests by one end on the artery, and at every beat a pencil, on the opposite end, marks 

 a cylinder of paper. If the pulse be regular, a regular zigzag line is produced ; if irregular, 

 the line is full of breaks and jerks. 



Trees, kc, for the Banks of Railroads. — A gentleman wlio has passed much time in Ame- 

 rica, communicates to the London Gardener's Chronicle some remarks on the maclura aurattliaca as 

 a hedge plant, and recommends it strongly for the defence of railroads, and as useful to keep 

 up the banks by means of its powerful roots. He says that in the Southern States the wood 

 is preferred in ship-building to that of the live-oak [quercus virens). In addition, the wood of 

 the maclura is used in vai'ious articles of cabinet work, such as tables, bureaus, bedsteads, &c., 

 and the chips serve as dyestuff, affording a yellow color which can be extracted by ebullition. 

 His remarks on its use for railroads are these: " It recommends itself particularly to railroad 

 companies as a means of defence of the roads, and particularly for preserving the slope of the 

 banks ; for its long, fibrous roots, extending horizontally, are a powerful barrier to the slides 

 occasioned by rains, or other atmospheric agents." 



