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to pay a heavy duty, without any drawback. 

 Now, however, by a sure and simple process, 

 seeds arnl plants may be broaopht from the mnst 

 distant coiintrif.s, witji the cerlainty of the li-reater 

 number of tliem arriviutf sale. Tiie mode recom- 

 mended liy the Enirlish sraidener, Luschnath (I) 

 is this: He places in the bottom of a stroai^r water- 

 liilht box a layer of clay reduced to a proper 

 moist and snlt consisiency, and above this younir 

 djcpneous plants with the leaves stripped oii, laid 

 horizontally side by side. He next spreads above 

 these plants another layer of clay, similar to the 

 first; and beats it well wiih a larije wooden mal- 

 let, for the purpose uf expellinff the water and su- 

 perfluous air, leavins; to the plants only just as 

 much space as they can fill. He continues to 

 spread alternately a Ia3'er of plants and a layer of 

 clay, until the box is quite ilill, takinfr care to 

 beat properly every layer of clay; and, finally, the 

 box is heruK'tically closed." 



M. Fischer, director of the Imperial Botanic 

 Garden at St. Petershurirh, writes thus, in 1833 — 

 •'some liiineous plants, packed according: to the 

 method of Lnschnach (?J, which have been sent 

 from Rio Janeiro to St. Petersburoh, have arrived 

 there for the most part alive, al'ter a voyage of 

 more than five months; and others, which were 

 packed in the ordinary manner, died." 



This meiho 1 Is also applicable to seeds. They 

 should be placed in layers between strata of clay, 

 and kept at siich a distance from each other, that, i 

 should any of them germinate durinij the voyaije, ! 

 which is not unfrequent, they might not injure 

 one another. By this method, seeds, and a great 

 many species of trees and shrubs, which are 

 known to lose their germinalive property in a 

 short time, may be brought saitily to Europe, and 

 thrive there if properly treated. In the same box 

 both seeds and plants may be packed at one 

 4ime. 



Froui the Horticultural Tranaactioiia. 



EVERY BUD HAS ROOTS. 



Everv b:)d, when it sliools sends down roots 

 under the bark, as a seed dues in the soil. '-The 

 Pterocar;)us marsupium, one of the most beau'i- 

 ful of the large trees of the Eiist Indies, and 

 u'hich grows in the greatest perlection about 

 Malacca, afibrding by its elegant wide-expandmg 

 boughs, and thicic, spreading, pinnated leaves, a 

 shade equally delightiul with that of the far-famed 

 tamarind tree, is readily propauated by cultnigs of 

 all sizes, even if planted after the pieces have 

 been cut lor many months, and appear quite dry, 

 ami fit only for the fire. I have witnessed some, 

 of from 3 inches to 7 inches in diameter, and lOl't. 

 or 12 ft. long, come to be fine trees in a few years. 

 While watching the translbrmation of the log 

 into tlie tree, I have been able to trace I he pro- 

 gress of the radicles fi'om the buds, which began 

 to shoot from the upper [jart of the stump a linv 

 davs after it hiid been placed in the frround, and 

 marked their proij-ress till they reached the earth. 

 By elevating the bark, minute fibres are seen to 

 descend contemporfuieoiisly as the bud shoots into 

 a branch. In a faw weeks, these are seen to in- 

 terlace each other. la less than too years, the 

 living fibrous system is complete; and, in five 

 years, no vestige ol'iis logorio'in can be perceived. 

 Its diameter and height are doubled, and the tree 

 is, in ail respei^ts, as elegant ami beautiful as if it 

 had been produced li'om seed. These details are 

 introduced, because I think they afiord a clear ex- 

 planation of the process of nature, which, with so 

 little assistance, converts branches into trees, and 

 will help to unfold those subsequent steps, by 

 which the same process is so modified, that, in- 

 stead of ;i full-formed beauiifui tree, the bough is 

 tortured into a grotesque du'arf." 



TrnbU -of €om€ms of F£irm€rs'> He^isler. J^i^o. I©, l^oL F*. 



ORIGINAL COMMrNlCATIOXS. 



Page. 

 ■Slvetches of the habits and manners of o;d 



times in Virginia, 577 



The persimrnoa tree, ----- 59(3 



Molasses and sugar from persimmons, - 597 



Remarkable case of diseaseri brain in an ox, 605 



Difference in tlie kinds of lime for manure, - 605 

 Mountain grazing farms. Use of lime in 



Fairfax, - " 605 



Proceedings of the Fredericksburg Agricultu- 

 ral Society, 609 



Exceptions to some positions in Dr. Muse's 



Address, 610 



Proceedings of the Central Agricultural 



Society and Mechanic Institute. - - 614 



Domesticating Beavers, .... qiq 

 G. H. Walker's instructions for growing turnip 



seed, 616 



Mr. Steenrod's farming, - - - - 6I6 



Grape culture and profits in N. C. Ruta-baga, 636 



SELECTIONS. 



An Outline of the First Principles of Horti- 

 culture; or Vegetable Physiology applica- 

 ble to cultivation, 580 



Account of the western prairies, - - - 592 



Loudoun farming, 593 



Limestone discovered near Charleston, S. C. 597 



Importance of agricultural papers, - - 599 



Human food, 601 



Arthur Young's opinfon of the usual proce- 

 dure of agricultural societies, - 



Davenport's Fdectro-magnetic machine, 



The pine-apple plant and its fibre. 



Hints on making pork, . - . . 



Book- farming, ...... 



Plums, - - 



On transplanting ornamental trees, 



Food — and its loss in cooking . . . 



Contagious typhus among cattle, 



Lime, --..... 



Keeping pumpkins, . . . . . 



On the diseases of live stock in general, 



Diseases peculiar to oxen and cows, 



Diseases of calves, . . . . . 



Diseases of horses, . - . . . 



Diseases of sheep, . . . . . 



Diseases of lambs, 



Diseases of swine, . . . . . 



On the culture of grape vines, 



The morus multicaulis, and its adaptation to 

 southern climes, . - . . . 



Kyanizing wood, 



Foreign timber trees in Britain, . . - 



On the injurious effects of the odor of laurel 

 leaves on plants, 



The transporting of plants and seeds from 

 abroad, - - 



Every bad has roots, 



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