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FARMERS' REGISTER. 



[No. 6 



for rural embellishment in the eastern section of 

 of the union. Their collection of foreign new 

 kinds of roses, rivals that of Col. Wilder, as they 

 have some 500 varieties. Pajonies have also 

 claimed their special attention, and they exhibit 

 nearly 40 kinds. 



Other highly commendable efforts have been 

 made to multiply the fruits, culinary vegetables, 

 and plants of all kinds, and especially by seeds. 

 The establishments of Joseph Breck & Co., and 

 of Hovey and Co., are well known, ibr they 

 have so iar kept pace with the rapidly increasing 

 demand, and have so faithfully discharged their 

 very responsible duties, in either raising or collect- 

 inof the best varieties and of the most perfect 

 quality, that they have merited and received the 

 grateful acknowledgments of their numerous fel- 

 low citizens, who " drive their team a-field," or 

 delight in the society, or the culture of the silent, 

 yet eloquent, beautiful, useful, and ever interest- 

 incr families of the vegetable realm. 



As proprietors and editors of three of the most 

 valuable agricultural and horticultural publications 

 in this country, we are under the greatest obliga- 

 tions to them ; and it is earnestly to be wished, 

 that for all their diversified and indefatigable la- 

 bors, they should receive that encouragement and 

 reward, which will render their patriotic exertions 

 annually more profitable to themselves, and usefiil 

 to the public. In the diffusion of intelligence 

 among the farmers and gardeners, and the exten- 

 sion of a taste for their honorable and important 

 occupations, as well as (or the improvement of the 

 aspect of the country generally, by inaucing a 

 greater attention to all the branches of cultivation, 

 those periodicals have already accomplished much, 

 and if they receive that liberal patronage to which 

 they are justly entitled, the beneficial results will 

 be as universally conspicuous as they are de- 

 sirable. 



The new garden at Mount Washington, with its 

 ranges of green and forcing houses, is becoming 

 an object of great interest, and will so'in rank 

 among the first, which are now the most cele- 

 brated, as the intelligent and experienced Mr. 

 McCollough has fully shown that he is well quali- 

 fied for the station he has assumed. 



The Charlestown vineyard, with its depart- 

 ments of other fruits, conservatories, graperies, 

 and valuable, as well as ornamental plants, has 

 given a well deserved reputation to the Messrs. 

 Mason, from the successful manner in which the 

 whole of their spacious establishment is managed. 



The valuable, new, and excellent varietiel of 

 the strawberry, with which our market is enrich- 

 ed, have rendered Mr. William Mason of Charles- 

 town, and Mr. J. L. L. F. Warren of Brighton, 

 celebrated, for the zealous and successful exer- 

 tions they have made to grow that delicious fruit. 

 The Downton, Wilmot's, Keen's Seedling, Rose- 

 berry, Mulberry, Methven Castle, and other dis- 

 tinguished new kinds, are now abundant, and 

 maintain the high character which they had ac- 

 quired in England. 



Mr. Town, of Snowhill street, in Boston, has a 

 neat and well-conducted green-house, which may 

 be truly called a floral gem. 



There is an humble little cottage garden on the 

 Dorchester road, near Grove Hall, which reflects 

 great credit on the unassuming and respectable 

 old man, who carefully tills it with his own handsj 



and many a passer-by has stopped to admire his 

 beautiful collection of choice varieties of pinks. 

 May he be made happy in his commendable ef- 

 forts to contribute to the happiness of others, is a 

 blessing which every visiter must spontaneously 

 bestow on the venerable Meller, and at the same 

 time, attempt to enable him to realize the bene- 

 diction, in the purchase of a single root, or a bou- 

 quet of flowers. How interesting and imposing 

 is it to behold the aged calmly and studiously en- 

 gaged in the culture of a garden of flowers. They 

 appear to be appropriately occupied in a kind of 

 religious rite, and as if actuated by a presentiment 

 that their end was near, devoting their last mo- 

 ments in the preparation of the materials ofa gar- 

 land for the decoration of their own grave, and 

 thus seeming to ask the grateful tribute of appro- 

 bation, from a life industriously and reputably 

 passed, and now approaching its close, in the an- 

 ticipation of that good name which all desire, and 

 hope encourages us to believe may have been at- 

 tained, and will be perpetuated when " we sleep 

 in the narrow house of death." 



There is very much wanted a large nursery of 

 native Ibrest-trees, where they shall be raised in 

 such quantities, as to be afforded to purchasers at 

 as cheap a rate as they can import them irom 

 England and Scotland. So great is the demand, 

 that not only our nurserymen, but many indivi- 

 duals, have recently imported vast numbers. 

 Two gentlemen, one residing in Watertown, and 

 the other in Salem, have received ten thousand 

 each, this season, which cost only a few cents 

 a-piece. The quantities which might be sold, if 

 furnished at even a liberal price, would be enor- 

 mous ; but the expense of obtaining trees from 

 the Ibrest, the mutilated manner in which they 

 are taken up, and the consequent difficulty of 

 making them flourish vigorously, deters those 

 who would be glad to embellish their estates, or 

 plant out wood-lots, or groves for timber, from 

 making the experiment. 



The rapidity of the growth of seedling trees, 

 reared in nurseries, compared with such as are se- 

 lected from the forest, is well known to those who 

 have attempted the culture of both kinds. 



A pleasing illustration may be seen on the mag- 

 nificent ground of Col. Th, H. Perkins, vvho im- 

 ported about thirteen years since, 15,000 plants 

 which were not more than two feet high, and 

 now they are large, healthy and beautiful trees. 

 Very respectfully, 



Your ob't. servant, 



H. A. S. Dearborn. 



Hawthorn Cottage, Roxbury, June 20, 1838. 



From tlie Mining Journal. 

 ANTI-DRY-ROT. 



The following letter has been addressed to the 

 the secretary of the Anti-Dry- Rot Company, by 

 Mr. Samuel Beazley, the architect. 



"Sir — At the commencement of the year 1836, 

 I surveyed and accurately examined the posts and 

 paling in the Regent's Park, fbr the purpose of as- 

 certaining the comparative states of those timbers 

 which had been prepared by Kyan's patent, and 

 those which had not been submitted to the pro- 

 cess of solution. In my report of that period, I 



