VoKVlI.— No.lti. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



125 



ate calculations two millions of dollars may be sav- 

 od annually to this country by the reduced expen- 

 ses of linen fabrics eftocted by this invention. If 



two or three inches under the surface, with a 

 small stick thrust into it, so that, in an instant, I 

 can examine the spot. I feel most grateful to you 



it be not introduced abroad, and foreign prices j for the hint, as, no doubt, by a little attention, I 

 thus diminished, the products of our own looms shall save my plants this season from certain des- 



will supply our markets and prevent importations 

 from maintaining competition. Such is our im- 

 pression of the importance of this machine. Those 

 who are incredulous on the subject, may have 

 their doubts removed by an examination of speci- 

 mens of the thread at this office, or by inspection 

 the machine at the corner of Pine and Water 

 streets. — J^/ew York Jlmerican. 



From the Bellows Falls Intelligeucer. 



HEMP. 



Below will be found a letter from Amos Parker, 

 ■ 4 Springfield, Vermont, to a gentleman of Charles- 



truction ; as well as in the end, most probably,ex- 

 terminate the worm altogether. I am, my dear 

 Sir, &c. — Cardener^s Magazine. 



we'll jump down together this instant." — "Any 

 man couid jump down," said his friend, coolly, 

 "we should not iinmortalii^e ourselves by that 

 leap : but let us go down and try if we can jump 



up! 



The madman, struck with the idea of a 



From a work eniiited, •'Seventy-Jive Receipts: 



SWEET POTATO PUDDING. 



A qunrler of a pound of sweet potato; three eggs ; a quarter of 



m«re astonishing lea|), than that which he had 

 himself proposed, yielded to this new impulse, and 

 his friend rf\joiced to see him run down stairs, full 

 of a new project for securing immortality. 



■mi^ — MmMgMHMUMjuuLiue^'^Mmjii"! ■ ■■■"■' ■^^m —B wawajBa 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, NOV. 7, 182S. 



METHOD OF DESTROYING THE MEALY E-CTG.- 



A writer for the Gardener's Magazine, Mi 

 I AMES RoLLi.Ns, Liverpool, gives the following as 

 Boil and Ian "effectual remedy for freeing the Amaryllis 



a pound of while sugar, powdered ; a quarter of a pound of 



fresh butter; a glass of mixed wine and brandy ; a hah- glass 



of rose water, and a lea-spoonful of mixed spice, (nutmeg 



mace, and cinnamon.) 



Pound the spice, allowing a smaller proportion 

 ! of mace than of nutmeg and cinnamon 

 town N."h. upon the culture of Hemp, which is ' P^ "1 some sweet potatos, and when they are cold, ! (lily) family of plants from the mealy bug whic 

 becoming highly interesting to our farmers. The j weigh a quarter of a pound. Mash them fine, and j sometimes so much infests them. Diss.jlvc one 

 experience which Mr. Parker has had in the bus- |i'ulj >t through a sieve. Stir the butter and sugar ^ drachm of mercurial ointment in one ounce of 

 iness, who is a practical farmer of high reputation; to a cream. Beat the eggs very light, and stir j neat's foot oil; v/itli this mixture anoint the in- 

 for integrity and sound judgment, will justify the I '''em into the butter and sugar, alternately with j fected plants with a small painter's brush, allow- 

 public in placing a high degree of confidence in I the sweet potato. Add by degrees the Hquor, j ing some of it to pass to the bottom of the leaves, 

 hisstatements, and at the same time correct a very; rose-water, and spice. Stir all very hard togeth- 1 and in among the scales of the bulb ; end this, 



trroneous hnprcssion, tofj prevalent among us, that 

 hemp is what may be termed an exhausting crop. 



Springfield Vt. Oct. 10. 182S. 

 Sir. — In answer to the questions you hare 

 been pleased to ask in relation to the culture of 

 hemp, &f. I can briefly remark, that during the 

 years 1813, 14 and 1.5, I sowed upon my farm a- 

 bout one acre of hemp : it was sowed upon what 

 is termed meailow land, upon the Connecticut Riv- 

 er, and was continued upon the same piece of 

 land three years successively. There ar)pear(j:d to 

 be no very essential difference in the several cro|)s, 

 either as to quantity or quality. It may be prop- 

 er to remark, that during this time no maiuire 

 was put upon the land. The great labor then re- 

 quired to water rrt it in the stem, rendered the 

 growing of hemp both expensive and biirthensome 

 and finally induced me to relinquish it altogether. 

 From my own experience on the subject, I am ful- 

 ly satisfied that a henij) crop is not wliat would he 

 called an exhauslins: ci 



er. Spread puff-jiaste on a soup plate — put in tiie 

 mixture, and bake it about half an hour in a mod- 

 erate oven. Grate sugar over it. 



American Grapes. — About two years ago a gen- 

 tleman of the name of Deininger, (then of this 

 county) discovered on an island in the Susque- 

 hanna river, near the month of Conestogo, some 

 bunches of what he considered a very fine grapes. 

 Some of these bunches he brought to this city, 

 and .".fter examination, they were pronounced by 

 all the gentlemen who had a knowledge of this 

 kind of fruit, to be grapes of a very superior qual- 

 ity to any heretofore discovered in our country. — 

 This season Mr. Deininger brought several hunsh- 

 es of these grai)es to this city, some of which 

 weighed about two pounds. They are of a i)ur- 

 ple color, grow very close together, the stone or 

 kernel is very small, the skin thin, and the juice 



and profitably cultivated upon good land, with the 

 same attention that we usually bestow upon our 

 grain and other crops. 



Under this conviction, and the additional in- 

 ducements of obtaining a market for hemp with- 

 out the process of water rotting, which is super- 

 ceded by a newly invented machine fur cUaning, 

 I have engaged to plant a part of my land the en- 

 suing season for the purpose of raising a crop of 

 seed ; in order to be in preparation to raise the 

 lint the following season. 



I am. Sir, Stc. 



AMOS PARKER 



Wire worm. — My dear Sir; According to thp 

 idea suggested to me in your letter, I have tried 

 slices of potato, turnip, parsnip, and carrot, as bait 

 for the wire- worm ; and a thought ha\ ing struck 

 me that beet-root, from its saccharine nature, 

 might attract them, I cut some up, as well as 

 slices of the stalks of broccoli and other cabb.ige, 

 to which, and the beet, they certainly give a pref- 

 erence. The destruction of the worm by this sim- 

 ple process, is astonishing. I find frequently two. 

 three, and four attached to the bait, which 1 place 

 on each side of the plant I wish to protect, about 



when thoroughly done, will kill or banish the in- 

 sects forever, without at all injuring the plant." 



DESCRIPTION OF A PORTABLE VINERY. 



The writer above quoted states that " In order 

 to have a crop of well ripened grapes in the open 

 garden, without the ex[)ense of buildiifg a house 

 tor t!ie i)urpose, I would reconunend a glazed 

 frame constructed of the ciieapest materials, which 

 1 would call a portable vinery. It may be made 

 circular, or a polygon of any number of sides ; — 

 about 3 f\. t> HI. iti diameti r, sides 4 ft. 6 in. high, 

 and a roof finished off like tliat of a commoii' 

 hand glass. Any vine wliich happens to be grow-- 

 ing on a south wall, or even a suitable branch of 

 such a tree, may be taken from the wall, and train- 

 ed spirally round a conical trellis fixed to the 

 ground, and of no greater diameter or height titan 

 the glass case will conveniently contain. Ifa 

 space of one foot be allowed between the trellis 

 and the glass, it will be siiiTicient, and if the case 

 were constructed in two [larts it wotdd be more 

 convenient in |)Uttiiig up and taking down, and 

 would also give more room and freedom in tin; 

 management of the tree and fruit. 



" Strong young vines, or other dcr-irnble fruir;. 

 wet here, and has continued so till Oct. rrops i planted on purpose for this mode of culture, would 

 in general have been good, except wheat, which ; answer well ; and, as I have calculated the ex- 

 has been much hurt with rust and will he scarce."] pensc of one at about 21. 10.?., a dozen of such 

 Ryegate, Od. 31, 1828. j cases, for grapes or other fruit, would cost much 



less than a house, which would iierhaps not yield. 



Robert Whitlaw, Esq. of Ryegate, Vt. raised ! more than these portable frames. Strawberries 

 nine hundred good ripe beans, from one bean, the 'on a conical stage would, no dcMibt, succeed well 

 past season ; and one cabbage tliat weighed forty in this way ; and, indeed, I am so thoroughly con- 



of a most delicious taste, and are pronounced by 



■0^, but may be successfully 'J'!''?'^.^ *° ''^ «^1"»'' '^ "O* superior to any foreign 

 kind introduced into our country, and being indi- 

 genous, have nothing to fear from our climate. 



Yorl; (Pa.) paper. 



The season. — "The sunnncr has been generally 



three pouiuls. 



■ Presence of mind. — When Lee (the ])o:jt) was 

 confined in Bedlam, a friend went to visit him, and 

 finding that he could converse reasonably, imagin- 

 ed lie was cured of his madness. The poet offer- 

 ed to show him Bedlam. They went over this 

 melancholy medical prison, Lee moralising- philo- 

 sophically enough all the time to keep his com- 

 panion perfectly at ease. At length they ascend- 

 ed the top of tlie building, and as they were both 

 looking down from the perilous height, Lee seized 

 his friend by the arm. "Let us take this leap ; — 



vinced of the utility of such erections, that I would 

 even advi?e a row of thetri to be henl-id by hot. 

 water." 



A Mr. Main, of Bath, observes that near sixty 

 years since it was discovered that a waxy set of a 

 partly ripe potato is less liable to curl than a mealy 

 one. That a knowledge of this fact induced farm- 

 ers to obtain their sets or seed potatoes from black 

 or moorland districts, where it is ne,-ossary to take 

 up potatoes intended tor the next year's sets before 

 they wera ripe, and to harden them by exposure 

 to the sun and air to fit them to be stored safely. 



