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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[March 10, 



suitable to this part oF the country. The follow- 1 the Lemon. The Heath peach will not ripen in | In the most ancient Javs, the art of husband- 



New England only in very favouiMble seasons. , ry was not only practised, but religiously rever- 



My selection of Cherries would be the Fra- ed. In the refined ages of Fiome and Greece it 



ing is a list of wiiat 1 can recommend, and should 

 be happy to furnish from my nursery : 



When^fil for use. 

 APPLES.— Large Early Harvest, June "& July. 

 Large Early Bough, July and August. 



Hightop Sweeting, August. 



Large Fall Pippin, Sept. and Oct. 



Roxbury Russeting, Nov. to June. 



Rhode Island Greening,Nov. to March. 



Baldwin Apple, Nov. to May. 



Golden Russeting, Nov. to April. 



Scaver Sweeting, Nov. to April. 



PEARS. — Jargonelle, July and August. 



Skinless, August. 



Cliauraontelle, July. 



Seckle, August to Nov. 



Saint Michael, October. 



Poir D'Auch, Dec. to April. 



Saint Germain, Dec. to April. 



Royal Winter, Dec. to April. 



PEACHES.— Early Ann, July. 



Red Rare Ripe, August. 



Yellow Rare Ripe, August. 



Noblesse, September. 



Old Mixon, Sept. to Oct. 



Lemon Clingstone, Sept. to Oct. 



CIIERRIES.-May Duke, May. 



American Heart, June. 



Black Heart, June. 



Ronald's Large 



Black Heart 



ser's Black Tartarian, RonuWs Black Ihart, and 

 the Yellow Spanisli. 



Of Plums 1 should recommend the Bolmer''s 

 Washington and the Flusliing Gage. 



These embrace about the number wanted by 

 your correspondent, although many valuable 



was encouraged by sages, and its charms and its 

 beauties celebrated by the orator and sung by 

 the puet. The people of Rome excelled no less 

 in this, than in the other arts of civilized life; 

 and the Roman conquests, instead of desolating 

 the earth, seldom tailed of improving the social 



kinds might be named nearly as good. Correct i condition of those whom they subdued. VVher- 

 engravings of the natural size and shape of a i ever the power of the Roman arms was felt, there 

 greater part of the above, and particular des-|the arts, necessary to promote the comfort and 

 criptions of their properties are contained in | happiness of man, were diffused. Butthenorth- 

 the valuable work on Fruit Trees, by \Vm. Coxe 1 erii barbarians who overran the Roman empire, 

 Esq. of New Jersey; and they may all be pro- 'not only despised the relinemenls of their ene- 

 cured from the Nursery of Mr Prince at Flush- 1 mios, but trampled with contempt upon all the 

 ing, " whose word," Mr Cobbelt says, " every improvements, which thf- power of Rome bad 

 body knows may be safely relied on." spread over Europe ; and in that long succeed- 



The new varieties of T. A. Knight, Esq. which } ing jierlod, during which the European world 



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June lo July. 



Remington's White Heart, August 



■vrr-T \pi-\rrs; S Red Roman Nectarines ar 

 JNLL lAlxllNLS. i„reat bearers, excellent frui 



PLUMS. 



have been introduced into this country, cannot 

 be obtained from our Nurseries very extensively 

 'till the years 18'27 and '28. 



The next edition of Mr Prince's Catalogue 

 will embrace some new French and English 

 sorts, including those of Mr Knight, which will 

 be charged at one dollar for each tree. 



1 would also remark that in selecting for the 

 table or for market, the early Peaches, the au- 

 tumn Pears, and the winter Apples will be louml 

 to be the best and most protJIable. 



Your obedient servant, 



ADAMS FOSTER. 



re 



t. 



■ 1 can give no information respecting 

 I Plum trees, as I cannot find any that 

 I will bear well in my orchard!, except 

 the old fashioned Horse Plum. 

 Your=, truly. 



NATH. DAVENPORT. 

 N. B. Any person wishing to he furnished with 

 any of the above trees, of large size and thrifty 

 stalks, can be supplied on fair term», by leaving 

 their orders at the New England Farmer office. 

 Trees delivered in Boston tVee of expense ; — 

 to be paid tor when delivered. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



FRUIT TREES. 



Providence, March 4, 1820. 



Mr Fessfnden, — 1 would recommend to " A 

 Lover ol Good Fruit," through the medium of 

 . your paper, the six following kinds of the Pear, 

 ripening in succession, as they are named, tVom 

 August to January, viz. the Jargonelle. Epargne, 

 St Michael, .S'ec/./c, St Germain, and Franc-real. 

 The best of these is the Seckle, — a native fruit. 



The eight Ibllowing apples, viz. — the Large 

 Earlij Bough, Red and Green Sweeting, Autmnn 

 Boiigit, Fall Pippin, JF.sopus Spitzenburgh, Bald 



was enveloped in moral and intellectual dark- 

 ness, the art of agriculture, as well as many of 

 the other uselul arts, was suffered to slumber in 

 neglect. 



It was long since our ancestors first emigrated 

 to this country, that the subject of Agriculture 

 beg.in to excite any considerable attention in 

 the European world. It is, indeed, but a l"ew 

 years, since it first became in Great Britain, the 

 land of our forefathers, a matter of studious re- 

 flection and scientific investigation ; and even 

 there, no systematic efforts were made for its 

 improvement, till after the establishment of bur 

 independence. Individuals of genius and learn- 

 ing had attempted to enlighten the minds of the 

 farming community ; but the sphere of their 

 usefulness was limited to the immediate neigh- 

 borhood in which their exertions were made ; 

 and little was done toward diffusing information 

 ■ind prnsnoling general imprnvemen', (ill the 

 foundation of a board of Agriculture, in 1793. 



If, then, the subject has received no earlier 

 allenfion in the old world, wa ought not lo be 



ADDRESS, 



Delivered before the IVorcestcr .igricnltural Society 

 Oct. 12, 1825, by George A. Tufts, Esq. 



Mr. President, Trustees, and Gentlemen of the Wor- 

 cester County ^Agricultural Society — 

 Another year has passed away, and we are 

 again assembled to celebrate the holiday of the 



Farmer and Manufacturer. The duty of ad-, ■>.,■. i i i . i • 



, . .u 1 • „. .• „ i; surprised, jf it has been neglected in a country 



dreseinsr vou upon the objects ol our meeting, i "^ , ' , n'' , , ,, .■ - 



. . ■ I , I 1 , .• ,u „ |So youlhtul as our own. But had he art of Air- 



has been assigned to one, who, hut tor the ex- . ■',. . ^ n .. . , ." 



. , ,■ ,■ ■ 1 r . 1- ., 1. riculture, even in Great Bi lain, arrived at us 



pected favour of an indulgent audience, would L. ,, ' .. ., ■ . ,• • 



' - " ^11^ I ii full maturity, at the very |)or,it of time when our 



have shrunk from the attempt 

 subject, which the occasion suggests, is not 

 uninteresting, yet, to make it either instructing 

 or amusing, by any reflecti^ms of his o^yn, ex- 

 ceeds his humble powers. The field, in which 

 he is called upon to labor, has been too long 

 cultivated by others, whose skillul industry and 

 success have lel't little room for improvement 

 to a novitiate like hirn. It must, therefore, be 

 beyond his expectations to harvest even as rich 

 a crop as those who have preceded him. 



To be convinced of the importance of the art 

 of agriculture, as well as' that of Manufactures, 

 we need no labored argument or persuasive elo- j 

 quence. Man, without them, is a barlarian ; a 

 roaming savage, clothed in the skins of beasts 

 little less wild than himself, and deriving, from 

 the spontaneous fruits of liature, but a scanty 



. „ , n, - , , , , r, ■ ■ , ,, I and precarious subsistence. The foot of civili- 



■jcm Apple, luwde Island Urecnin", anu Urcen' , . i u .■ . „ ~ 



" ' ° I zation never rested where tiiese arts are neg- 



Neunown Pippin. They are all of American 

 origin, excepting the first and third. The Bald-\ 



lected ; and scarce any thing like political soci- 

 ety can exiJT without them. Well might the 



M)Ki apple is perhaps the best, and althou'rh Dr i ■.• r n ■ .• i u- i i .u 



rn '■ , ' , ' ,,,.,..". Kinar of Persia (eel his dependence upon the 



liiACHER has spoken wel o it in his American! , C i j j i .u . i • » u ■ . ., 



/->...!..- i;_. L-V - . :. n- . _ : I husbandman, and declare, that bis subsistence, 



Orcl)ar<list, he has not given it ^sufficient prai«e 

 The following varieties of the Peach I think 

 entitled to a preference, the YcZ/d-jB Rare Ripe, 

 Large Eurlij or YorA" Rare Ripe, Royal George, 

 Kennedy's Carolina, Red Cheek Melacaton, aud 



as well as that of his people, depended 



forefathers emigratei!, it woubl have had, prob- 

 ably, little or no influence upon its progress 

 here. Obstacles, fuunded in the nature and 

 character of our country, were lo bo encounter- 

 ed, which time alone could overcome. The 

 course, pursued by our ancestors, of clearing u 

 portion of land from its natural growth, and con- 

 stantly cultiyating it until its original fertility 

 was exiiausted, and then abandoning it for anoth- 

 er portion, however injudicious it may seem, was 

 dictated by the condition of the country, as well 

 as by the circumstances of those who occupied 

 it. The wilderness was to be subdued, and 

 farms were to be carved out of the forest. Pop- 

 ulation was scanty, and land abundant. Those 

 therefore, who cultivated the soil, would think 

 only of availing theinsehes of its natural fertil- 

 ity, without attempting to im(>rove it by art. 



Under the influence of circumstances similar to 

 those to which we have just alluded, the migra- 

 tions to the west have had a powerful effect in 

 I'elarding (he progress of improyemenf in ihev 

 Allaatic States. The time has been, when Nc> 

 i England viewed with concern the march nl her 



.... , , T.f.,1. . ,u • 1 c >i UPpu ation to the wes ward, " It is imiiortant 



laDor ol their hands. Without their labors, the ! ; '. , ,^ c i . .i .o,n\. 



, , , f 1. . If u „ lisaid Dr Seyliert, no lon^rer ago than li. 8,) to 



power and splendor of royally itself vanishes : I ^^ ., ,■',.', ,.,,.- .- , .■ 

 ;• I,', . ■ f, , .consider how far the diliusion o cm population 



there would be none to pay it bom ige. none to j ' ' 



admire the diadem that encircles ita brow. 



I may weaken us as a nation, and what will be 



