NEW ENGLAND FAHMER. 



Published by JOH.\ G. RUSSELL, at the corner of Cc.ngrrss and Lindall Street?, l'.o?tf.:i XnOMAf; G. fTSSF.NDKN', Emrnn. 



VOL. IV. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 182«i. 



No. 34. 



ORXGINAXi COmMVNXCATXOK'S. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THIi NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



j fit c'lltnre, a clioice rr>nlt! he m;it!',> oi' llie |iar- 

 I liciilar kind of (I'ce we vvishcd to liavo. 

 ' TliPfR arp throe l.ituls of Italian [iTntliprry, — 

 ! Ilic Clark, Purple, ami \Vliilc, all eqiially trood 

 I tor llie silk worm. Our native large B!ac.k '\\u\- 

 berry leaves', I lielievo llicy ivill not eat. Tlic}' 



a one of Wirr, indii'triotis hahii<i, who wonld he 

 piincliwl (f) his engns;cmprits^ might be sure of 

 constant rtnployinent wlienevrr the earih wa< 

 in a suitable stale to open ; and could command 

 wages, to double or triple the amoniit ol" any 

 ffivcn for the ordinary business of farminor. If 



. MULBERRY TREES. 



A'fjs; Jersey, '3d month 9, 1826. 

 1 bnve observed lately in the public prints '=""e very coar-^e and hard. From tlio sinisll OK-jhe conld add a knowledge of the various kinds 

 that information is a?ked for, relative to the I I'^rience I have had, which »va9 many years i of fruits lo ib.at of the very simple process re- 

 best method of cullivatiofr the Italian mulberry ^'"<=«'' '" raising the siik worm, I should prefer , qMi?<ile for destroying this lell destroyer of our 

 tree and no! Ion" since '^l ?:!W that an applica "i*' "1'''p Italian, we '■hould not then be troubled j orchards, no might make hundreds or thousands 

 tionVad been made lo o^e ol'the New Englami ; "'i'h >''p berries, in gathering the leaves. [tributary lo him, and would deserve well of 



state Loo-islatures lor an actio incorporate a! H the manufacturing of silk can be successtul- , every " lo»er ol good fruil." A Iriend ot mine 

 cnmpanv''for the purpose of cullivalln.r this kind '.V carried on in this country, it will be of great has made great exertions to procure a true doc- 

 of trees" From these circumstances, ! have sup- 'f"P"rl"nre to cultivate the Italian mulberry tree | <or nf this description, for two or three years 

 posed that it is apprehended there'is some pe- 1 "* '''2 leaves are peculiarly adapted for their! past; hut in vain ;-some of his finest fruit trees, 

 culiar art' or difficulty attending ths cultivation ' ''""'I- | apples parficnlarly, have been destroyed, and 



of ihem '' More than thirty years ago I imbibed the the injury sufTere.i every year is almost incalcu- 



j j oi)inion that the Mulberry was one of the mosljiablp. Knowing you, sir, to feel an interest in 



beautiful of our ornamtnlal trees for shade, and: subjects of this nature, I have taken the liberty 



jlliat the berries were |iarticular!v useful I'oiiof Iroulding you with this note, which, if it 



food for [loullry and pigs, and that they would' should effiM:! the objoci, will be very ffralitying 



be useful to draw the birds Irom my olh«r fruits I", at least, ONE SUBSCRIBER. 



I am willing to state such observations 

 have made on this kind of tree, which I have 

 been acquainted with from early life, for thee 

 to examine, and if any part of tliern are deemed 

 worthy a place in thy useful paper, thou art al 



trees as they are very fond of them. But of laiej 



libertv, to make such selection, bo far from i > , i , . , , 



,, -, ■ ,.,v- 1, • J . •, , I.- vears 1 have ( iscovered that 1 was mis aiu'n m 



there being any difncultv in regard lo its culli-l , . .. ,■ , .. ,. , , 



," ■^ , , • ,. ,, . regard to their use uness lor poulrv and hogs 



vation, I consider it one ol the most easy '^, , ■ . , ' r • , 



.,, r 1- ■ 1 -.; ; • . 'inci am endeavouring to clear my farm ol lliose 



trees, either 01 foreign or domestic or/em, lol, , , •, , ° l- ■^ , ■ 



' , .„ 1 :,„,,„ ■^„^ „,, f I-,, 1, I that are within the range ot mv pou try and 



propagate. And it now requires not a little , , , ... •, ' •' ,, 



',,'.? . . 1 ,1 /• „ 1 pis*. I have ohservec lor Severn years, that 



attention on my part, to keep them Iroai spread- i ' " J-- i 



TO THE anixoR or tiuc new England farjilA. 



VARIETIES OF FRUIT TREES, &c. 

 Albantj, March 7, 1826. 

 ■^iR — .\ correspondent of the E.ssex Register, 



1 1 • ~ . „ „ _ f i '"V chickens, as soon as they negin to teed on i .vlinup remarks lav/- been corjied into the ^Je^r 



jng and becoming loo numerous on mv farm,! ,■ l ■ • i i ■ i i " ^"^ nii..iiii« ii,iu_ uei u vinjitu iiuu .nc i,j, w 



(which is a sandy soil) parlicniarly along Ihe 



them, begin to droop and die, occasioned, as I 



,-. u .1 j I, I ■ ; J L i apprehend, by their feeding too freely on (hern, 



fences where the seeds have been carried, hv i .' ' , . ,• , ", , ;.,, 



4U I,- 1 m „., , .. ,„„ k ..J., . .^r^A \ 1 "V vvliich a diarrhoea is produced. Ihe same 



the birds. 1 hey are a very hiirdy tree, and nl-l »■' , . , . . \ . ,„ . 



though the cattle may browse over the yo^rv^ 



Encland Farmer, h.is undertaken In nverthro;v 

 Ihe theory of Knight, tliat the varieties of the 

 apple have their nilural litnilation, beyond which 



trees and nip them off, for several years, they 

 will thicken in the bottom, by numerous sLools, 

 and eventually a leading one will spire up out 

 of their reach. From this circumstance 1 have 

 supposed, they would make a good hedge, which 

 would ansvver the purpose of a fence, as well as 

 food for llie silk worm, from which the leaves 

 conld be more readily gathered, tlian from a 

 large tree, and without any waste of land. 



This tree has a property which 1 never saw 

 published, and may not be generally known, 

 which makes it very easy to raise. They will 

 grow from the slip or scion cut ofT and stuck in 

 a piece of well pulverized ground, which should 

 be pressed close around Ihcm.* By this mode 



* Wfc have several varieties of trees that will grow 

 from the scion. A lew years since a stout limb of the 

 large buttonwood (by some called the sycamore.) was 

 put \a the ground for a particular purpose, where it was 

 moist (though sandy) which is now growing. I believe 

 they will grow in this way nearly a? well as a green 

 ■willow. And observing in the New England Farmer 

 that a writer over the signature of a " Norfolk Agri- 

 culturist," not only doubts, but disbelieves the fact, that 

 pear or apple scions will grow by placing them in the 

 ground without roots ; I can assure him that I have 

 now growing a large pear tree raised from the scion 

 without any root, of the fall kind, which is more than 

 thir<y years old, which I raised in my garden, until it 

 was large enough to transplant. I put in more than a 

 dozpn of different kinds, but this was the only one that 

 gr v. (the soil was sandy). They were placed in a 

 moist situation in my garden. There was no particular 



i<:3order is produced in the pigs. If ihcy couldj-,|i nMoiT^tivaft propagate them successfnlly, I 

 b4 given in small quantities, possibly, the bcrrie.s, grafting or budffihg, will f.iii. The wrilci r, 

 might be useful for their food. Ither does not understand the theory be wouhi 



.1 Gloucester Cuuiili/ .i]gricii!turist.'r.nntrr,\'or\, or he wantonly perverts Ihe text. 

 P. S. 1 have discovered mulberry plants in , The following quotations are made from Knight, 

 my garden, where themulberriesth.it lell on! " No kind of apple uaw cullivaled a|1pears to 

 the ground, and were suffered lo lie there, came I have existed more than "00 years; and this 

 up during ihe summer. We did not suffer them term does not at all oxcerd the duration of n 

 to grow. I have thought whe.ther it would not I healthy tree, or of an orchard ivhen grafted on 



be Ihe most easy or certain way of raising the.-n 

 from the seed. If not too thick, thev would grow 

 large enough lo prevent their being killed by 

 the frost, and they should be placed in the nur- 

 sery the following spring. Small seeds, as they 

 are kept until spring would not be likely to come 

 up well if dried for a length of lime. 



TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



THE BORER. 

 Mr Fessenden, — That great enemy lo fruii 

 trees among us, the borer, has become so prev- 

 alent, 1 wish, through the medium of your very 

 useful paper, to invite some industrious young 

 man who is acquainted with the best method of 

 destroying it, to undertake the business. Such 



care taken of them, nor a composition of any kind on 

 the lower end, which 1 think would be useful ; and I 

 would recommend a loam or clay soil as being prefera- 

 ble to try the experiment. I did not then consider it a 

 very certain method of raising the pear tree, and have 

 not repeated the experiment ; but am now inclined to 

 believe that a successful mode will yet be discovered 

 for raising ppar trees from the scion, as I have proved 

 that they will grow. 



crab stocks, and planted in a strong, tenacious 

 soil. I am inclined lo think we are indebted to 

 the industry of Ihe planters of the early part of 

 Ihe seventeenth, and the end of Ihe preceding 

 century, for most of Ihe varieties we have at 

 present, and |)robably for all the fine cider fruits. 

 From the description Parkinson, who wrote in 

 1629, has given of the apples cultivated in his 

 time, it is evident those now known by the same 

 names, are different, and probably new varieties; 

 and though many of those" mentioned by Evelyn, 

 who wrote between 30 and 40 years later, still 

 remain, they appear no longer to deserve the 

 attention of the planter. The Moil, and its suc- 

 cessful rival the Redstreak, with the Musts and 

 Golden Pippin, are in Ihe last stage of decay, 

 and Ihe Slyre and the Foxwhelp are hastening 

 rapidly after them." 



" In the propagation of animals we can obtain 

 a succession of offspring produced only accord- 

 ing to the usual course of nature ; because an 

 animal forms a whole, whose parts cannot retain 

 life when separated from ppch other. The less 

 complex and less elaborate organization of veg- 

 etables, admits of other modes of propagation ; 

 and a detached part of each individual is capable 

 of forming a plaat 'n e\ery respect similar lo 



