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patented by Mr. Jones, 1 which I consider preferable to 

 any other that I have seen, and which will prove of more 

 advantage to the cultivators of the soil, than all Mr. Bid- 

 die's acres of glass hot houses, although he can boast that 

 he raised the finest grapes in the world. Again, the im- 

 provements that Mr. Edmund Morris of Burlington, has 

 made in the manner of feeding silk worms, will be the 

 means of producing more real wealth and happiness in 

 the world, than all the "forcing houses" [banks included] 

 in Christendom. His manner of destroying the vitality 

 of the worm in the cocoon is so simple and easy, that I 

 am surprised that it is not universally adopted, as it must 

 be known to most silk raisers. In the roof of his cocoon- 

 ery he has a large window, enclosed by a small close 

 room, in which the cocoons are placed, and the heat of 

 the sun is so great as to kill the grub quite as effectually 

 and with less trouble than baking in an oven. 



Mr. Morris is one of those worthy friends of improve- 

 ment that deserve to have their names kept before the 

 readers of all agricultural papers. And the way that he 

 knows how to welcome a friend, is the same that I have 

 found in so many hundred instances during the summer 

 of 1841, and which has tended so much to make me feel 

 proud of 



"My own native land." 



Burlington is one of the most delightful towns in the 

 United States — And reader, I beg you to remember why ! 

 Every house has its garden, and every street its shade 

 trees. And now, as you hope to have your name remem- 

 bered with a blessing by future generations, promise me 

 that ere another summer sun comes, parching up the 

 earth, that you will make one little green spot where you 

 have planted at least one tree. 



At Trenton, I saw, to me, a new kind of crop. Cayenne 

 pepper is cultivated to considerable extent, and being 



1 Possibly this is the drill barrow of William Jones and H. C. 

 Smith described and illustrated in the New York American Agri- 

 culturist, 5:276 (1846). 



