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usually set one or two gatherings of the pods for 

 seed, and cut them one day, and the next tie them 

 in small bundles and house them as above. 



My Florida coffee is coming up very well, and 

 I am pretty well satisfied by its appearance, that 

 it is a "cassia" — but what species remains to be 

 seen. 



N. HERBEMOJVT. 



From the Silk Culturist. 

 PROFITS OF SILK CULTURE IN CONNECTICUT. 



The following fads have been communicated to the 

 Executive Committee [of the Silk Society'] by 

 Mr. Harvey Clark, a respectable inhabitant of 

 Mansfield, in this State. 



Mr. Clark is the proprietor of two acies of land 

 in Mansfield, of which about half an acre is cover- 

 ed with mulberry trees. He has made annually 

 from these trees about 35 lbs. of raw silk, which 

 for the last year or two has been reeled in the im- 

 proved method. The leaves have usually been 

 gathered and the worms fed for the first three 

 weeks by Mrs. Clark and a young woman who 

 lives in the family. After the first three weeks, 

 Mr. Clark also devotes himself entirely to the 

 business. The silk has been reeled exclusively 

 by Mrs. Clark and the young woman above al- 

 luded to, at the rate of about one pound and a 

 half a day. During the whole silk season they 

 have also had the care of a family of eight small 

 children. Mr. Clark has sold his raw silk this 

 year at four dollars per lb. and has also received 

 a premium of 50 cents per lb. from the State 

 Treasury. We have reason to believe that the 

 same silk might have been sold at Lyons, ortosilk 

 merchants at New York, for five dollars per lb. 

 Mr. Clark's mulberry trees are forty or fifty years 

 old, and of a large size. They have been ma- 

 nured and cultivated with great care for the last 

 fifteen years. Mr. Clark thinks that an acre of 

 land covered with trees equal to those on his land 

 will yield about 70 lbs. of silk a year. His silk 

 house, or cocoonery, is filty feet long and sixteen 

 feet wide, and one story or about eight or ten feet 

 high, not lathed or plastered, and may have cost 

 $150 or $200. He has never had occasion to 

 warm his cocoonery, as is practiced in Italy and 

 France; indeed, this has never been done by any 

 of the silk growers at Mansfield. Mr. Clark in- 

 forms us, that at the silk factory in Mansfield 

 reels are now propelled by water power. A very 

 small amount of power answers the purpose. 

 Improved reels are now made by several me- 

 chanics who live either at Mansfield or in the vi- 

 cinity. Mr. Clark states, that his mulberry trees 

 have been greatly improved by careful cultivation. 

 We have shown Mr. Clark a statement in the 

 last number of the Cultivator, of the profits made 

 by Mr. Carrier of France, from an acre of mul- 

 berry trees.* He thinks that the statement is 

 probably not exaggerated, and that an acre of well 

 cultivated mulberry trees at Mansfield would yield 

 a larger amount of silk. 



* This article was translated for, and first published 

 in the Farmers' Register, Vol. II. 



From the Silk Culturist. 

 SUPERIOR QUALITY OF AMERICAN SILK. 



From repeated experiments, Monsieur D'Ho- 

 mcrgue, is decidedly of opinion that American silk 

 is vastly superior to European. The weight of 

 the cocoons are nearly filty per cent, heavier, and 

 possess a uniformity which is not to be found in 

 Europe. He found that eight cocoons, with their 

 chrysalis, not selected, produced two ounces of 

 raw silk, whereas one pound of ordinary Euro- 

 pean cocoons would be required for the same 

 quantity. He also selected seventy- five cocoons, 

 without chrysalis, weighing together 450 grains, 

 which yielded 419 grains of raw silk, superior to 

 that of France or Italy. Twelve bad cocoons 

 also produced fifty grains of beautiful silk. 



"These results," he says, "are truly surprising, 

 as they show a superiority in the silk produced by 

 the American worm, (at least in Pennsylvania,) 

 over that of any other country that he has seen, 

 which he was far from expecting when he began 

 his experiments, and which, he believes, no one 

 had yet suspected or imagined." He also adds 

 "they promise an immense source of riches to the 

 United States." 



We might recite the authority of other culturists 

 and manufacturers, but they all concur in the 

 opinion that American silk is altogether superior 

 to that produced in any other country. 



Extract from the Massachusetts Agricultural Repository, Sic. 

 1818. 



LIST OF THE FOREST TREES OF AMERICA, 

 DESCRIBED IN THE WORK OF M. ANDRE 

 F. M1CHAUX. 



[The botanical name of each tree will be given in 

 the larger Roman letters, followed by the most com- 

 mon American name in Italic, in the same line. The 

 vulgar names used in various parts of the United 

 States, or Canada, next follow in smaller letters.] 



Pinus rubra — lied pine. 



Red pine, only name given to this tree in Canada; 

 often used in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and in 

 Maine. Norway pine, name more generally in use for 

 this tree than the above, in the district of Maine, New 

 Hampshire, and Vermont, but less proper. It is not 

 the Norway pine, says Michaux. Yellow pine, name 

 sometimes given to it in Nova Scotia. Pin rouge, or 

 red pine in Canada. Michaux prefers red pine, as 

 being more characteristic and distinct. 



Pinus rupestris — Gray pine. 



Gray pine, in Canada, by the French and English. 

 Scrub pine, in Nova Scotia and Maine. Uncommon 

 and ordinary. Michaux. 



Pinus mitis — Yellow pine. 



Yellow pine, general name in all the middle states. 

 Short-leaved pine, in the southern states. Spruce pine, 

 a secondary name in these last mentioned states. 



This is described by Michaux as a pretty valuable 

 tree, ranking after the red pine, which is again put far 

 behind the long-leaved or pitch pine of the south, and 

 the white pine of the north. 



Pinus inops — Jersey pine. 

 Jersey pine, general name in New Jersey, whpre it 

 abounds. Scrubpine, the name given to it in Virginia, 

 and in those parts of Pennsylvania where it is found. 



