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us, he has taken out a patent. Accoiilinj^ to this 

 mode, a chan-oal fire is made in llie ceiiire of the 

 boiler of water, and the vapour t'roiii the charcoal 

 is conveyed away in the same tube which carries 

 the steam Troni the water round the house. Tiie 

 steam condenses in the tube, and the condensed 

 water is all returned to tiie boiler ; while the va- 

 pour of the charcoal is allowed to esca[)e at the 

 extreme end of the tube. The boiler, which is 

 portable, and made of copper, occupies a very 

 small space ; and being placed within the house, 

 and isolated, none of the heat generated by the 

 fuel can, by any possibility, be lost ; for even the 

 heat that escapes at the farther extremity of the 

 tube, along with the vapor, is still given oil' to 

 the atmosphere of ihe iiouse ; and, however dele- 

 terious it might be for human beings, i fallowed to 

 accumulate, it certainly appears to produce no bad 

 efl'ects on plants, for a more luxuriant crop of 

 strawberries than that in Mr. Joyce's forcing- 

 house, we have never seen. ****** 



THE UNFITNESS OF THE NORTHERN STATES 

 FOR THE 3rORUS MULTICAULIS. 



The following extract from an editorial article, 

 in the last Cultivator, strongly confirms the views 

 which we have presented in several former arti- 

 cles in the Farmers' Register, as to the superior 

 advantage of the climate of the southern states, 

 for raising this valuable plant. There can be no 

 hiffher authority than that of the editor of the 

 Cultivator on this subject, as to the latitude of his 

 residence, (Albany, N. Y..) and of course, for all 

 the more northern regions of the United States. 



" In regard to the culture of this mulberry in 

 our latitude, we have only to repeat the opinion 

 we have often expressed, that the tree will not 

 stand our winters, except, perhaps, upon a poor 

 dry soil, when the growth ceases, and the wood 

 hardens, before the occurrence of severe frosts. 

 Indeed this is now virtually conceded by the grow- 

 ers ; for we believe it is the general practice lo se- 

 cure seedlings in the cellar, or to bury them in the 

 ground, and to cut down the trees, cover the 

 stumps, and secure the tops and branches for 

 propagation. Cutting down at autumn is recom- 

 mended as the best mode of increasing the foli- 

 age, and as facilitating the gatheringof the leaves ; 

 as many sprouts spring from the stump in the 

 spring, and the leaves of which may be gathered 

 without climbing." 



In addition, we will here refer to a late and full 

 statement in the Genesee Farmer, which was 

 made to show the enormous increase of about one 

 hundred per cent., by the purchase of the cuttings, 

 &c., and a year's culture of multicaulis, and the 

 sales, or estimated value, at the late high 

 prices in western New York. Now, though 

 one hundred per cent, per annum is indeed 

 a great profit, in a regular business, with 

 prices of seed and crop nearly the same, yet in 

 the late and present state of the multicaulis sales 

 and speculation, a profit of one hundred per cent. 

 Vol. VI.— 66 



is not worth mentioning, in coiufiarison with the 

 usual returns in Virginia and North Carolina; and 

 any crop here which brought no more than one 

 hundred per cent, of profit, or increase, this year, 

 would not be worth making in ordinary years. 

 An increase of forty-fold (in kind) is no rare pro- 

 duct here ; and if profits are counted in money 

 prices, (as was done in the statement of the Ge- 

 nesee Farmer,) sundry cases might be adduced of 

 actual profits being one hundred fold, or an in- 

 crease of ten thousand per cent, in one year's cul- 

 tivation. Yet this would be no more proof of or- 

 dinary annual profits here, than the statement of 

 one hundred i)er cent, profit, made this year in 

 western New York, is proof that the morua 

 multicaulis can be profitably raised in that region, 

 every year. We have no doubt but that all nur- 

 serymen and salesmen of the multicaulis plants, 

 near navigable waters north of Sandy Hook, can 

 more cheaply buy or raise their stock in lower Vir- 

 ginia, than they can furnish themselves at home. 

 The expense of rent, agency, and transportation, 

 would not by any means equal the disadvantages 

 of the uncertain vegetation, dwarfish growth, and 

 immature wood, of these plants raised at home. 



SOME OF THE BLESSINGS OF EMIGRATING 

 TO THE NORTH-WESTERN STATES. 



Many of the people of Virginia have been long 

 accustomed to consider and discuss, as well as to 

 try, the advantages and disadvantages of emi- 

 grating to the new south-western states ; but few, 

 comparatively, have paid attention to those of the 

 north-western slates and territories. The known 

 circumstances and supposed advantages of the 

 latter were not such as greatly to tempt southrons. 

 But still, the great natural advantages of this ex- 

 tensive and fertile region were universally admit- 

 ted ; and among these advantages, few of us 

 would not have admitted, without question, the 

 almost certain and exuberant productiveness of 

 the rich lands, and the general healthiness of 

 the residents, in so high a northern latitude. And 

 these supposed and unquestioned advantages Aaue 

 operated to tempt a portion of southern emigrants 

 to encounter the known disadvantages of that re- 

 gion, one of the greatest of which is the cold of 

 winter, so long and so intense as to benumb the 

 faculties, bodily and mental, for one-third of the 

 year. But it seems that we have been too ready 

 to admit the advantages of the north-west, in re- 

 gard to health, and the abundant and sure produc- 

 tion of the necessaries oflife. In proof of grounds 

 for this doubt, we annex several articles which 

 have recently appeared in the several publications 

 from which they are copied. 



