No. -20.— Vol. VII. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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Dr. Howard of Baltimore, civil engineer, in the 

 .spivice of the United States, has completed a model 

 • jfan improved rnilway wagon, in which the fric- 

 tion is reduced to nearly one-fourth of tliat incident 

 to vehicles of the common construction. Another 

 ohjoct of tlie invention is to accommodate the 

 wagon equally to a serpentine and a straight road. 

 The description and details are shortly to be made 

 public. 



Advantages of canals, (or rail-ways). — A quantity 

 of cherry plank and joist was landed in this town 

 on the 17th inst. from the canal boat Providence, 

 which grew in Michigan or Ohio, at the head of 

 Lake Erie ; from whence it was shipped down to 

 Buffalo, thence by the Erie Canal to Albany, from 

 that place to Providence by sloop navigation, and 

 from Providence to this place by the Blackstone 

 Canal, a distance, in the whole, of at least nine 

 hundred milts, four hundred miles of which is an 

 artijicial navigation. — Worcester Spy. 



Mr. Barbour, our Minister at London, has in- 

 structed the superintendant of his farm to sow as 

 nuicli wheat as possible, in consequence of the 

 state and prospects of the market in Kng-laud. 



Mr. Sparks, who went to Europe last spring, to 

 collect materials for illustrating the life of Wash- 

 ington, <&.c. has experienced the utmost liberality 

 and courtesy, in Germany, France and England. 



The cuhure of silk has been commenced in 

 Ohio, and the agricultural societies offer premiums 

 for the cultivation of the silk worm. 



Depravity. — The following advertisement ap- 

 peared last week in the Morning Advertiser : — 



Snug liquor sho)) to be let in a Crowded gin 

 drinking neighborhood, where any person who is 

 competent in the spirit trade may command a first 

 rate business.- A death in the family is the reason 

 of this opportunity offering of realizing a good liv- 

 JHg without a risk. — London paper. 



Home Department. — Since the Presidential con- 

 test is over, several newspapers have started the 

 project of establishing a new department at Wash- 

 ington, to be called the Home Department. 



Sugar is made in South Carolina from water- 

 melons, which grow there in great perfection. 



We understand, says the National Intelligencer, 

 that the Secretary of the Navy has tendered to 

 Capt. Catesbt Jones, of the Navy, the command 

 of the sloop of war Peacock, now fitting at New 

 York, for the voyage of exploration in the Pacific 

 and South Polar Seas, pursuant to a resolution of 

 Congress of the last session, and that he has ac- 

 cepted it. 



Great sale of H'ool. 



on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18, AT 10 O'CLOCK, 



At the Hnll over tlw New Market. 

 219 bales Saxony WOOL, consisling of first and second Elec- 

 toral — fir.st and second Prima, Secunda, and l\;rli^i. 

 2tG bags Leonessa Sorianna Segoviana Spanish Wool. 

 130 bags Portuguese Wool. 



180 bags (about 76,000 pounds) American Fleece Wool, among 

 which are some choice lots of selected Saxony and full 

 blond Merino fleeces. 

 Catalogues will be ready for delivery and the Wool may be 

 examined three days before the sale. 



Coolidge, Poor & ri«ad — Aiirticiaters. 



License of Almanac Makers. — \Ve frequently 

 hear of the license of poets, but they are confined 

 to their lifetime. Nftt , so with Almanac Makers. 

 In Jime, 1808, the gentleman who re]iresentc>J 

 the town of Nantucket in the General Court of 

 Massachusetts, uaj called on, in Boston, by Dr. 

 — , and solicited to aid in comjileling the astro- 

 nomical calculations for Low's Almanac for 1809 

 as Dr. Low was in low health. The gentleman i 

 readily granted ast-istance ; and on his return to | 

 Boston to attend the winter session, inquired of 



Dr. , who also was a member of the Legisla- j 



ture, after the health of Dr. Low, and learned that 

 he had been dead fome time. Nevertheless, Dr. I 

 Low's Almanac, ten years afterwards, contained , 

 an animated address, signed by the Doctor himself, 

 icturning suitable acknowledgements to the ptih- 

 lic f^ir the generous patronage he had received ; — 

 and staling that if tiis life and health should be pre- 

 served, he hoped to serve the public many years more. 



jYantucket paper. 



Kenrick ATurseries. 



100 Choice varieties of Ornamental hard^- trees and sl)rubs, 

 just received from New York, and selected in .Tune last. 



This establishment situated but an hour's ride from Boston, 

 contains a very extensi\e assortment of Apples, Pears, Plums, 

 Poaches, Apricots, Quinces, Grape Vines, Blulbeiries, Cur- 

 rants, Raspberries, .Stra\vberries, &c. and a general assort- 

 ment of Ornamental trees, shrubs, &c. 



Also, the following fruit and ornamental trees of e.ztra sizes, 

 viz. Flowering Horse Chesiiuls, Mountain Ash. Weeping Wil- 

 lows, Ailantliiis, Catalpas, Purple Acacia, Dutch Cork Kl'n (a 

 new article) Hntteinuts and Silver Firs. 



300 Isabella tirape Vines ; and While Mulberry Tifi>s by tli« 

 thousand. 



Written orders addressed to John or William Kenrick, and 

 directed to the Newton post oflice, will be promptly attended 

 to, or the}' may be left at Mr Joseph Bridge's Grocery anil Seed 

 store, Court street, lioslon, where lists of the above may be 

 seen, 'i'rees will be packed in matts for shippmg, when ttrder- 

 ed. and delivered in Hoston free of charge. :k N<iv 21 



Markets. — While we really believe that flour 

 ciinunt lie mtich lower this season than the jd'cs- 

 eiit quotations, we tire utterly at a loss to know 

 what lias caused the astonishing rise hi potatoes, 

 which sell in the market at 87^ cents per bushel. 

 We verily believe that with ordinary crops, pota- 

 toes pay the farmer better at 35 cents a bushel, 

 than any article that he sells in market. Our 

 friends in the country should notice these prices, 

 and bring in tlieir jiroduce before the market is 

 supplied from Maine or Nova Scotia, where good 

 potatoes are coii.'+idered well marketed at 25 cents 

 per bushel. — Phil. U. S. Gazette. 



In Alabama the blow-fly is destroying numbers 

 of horses, dogs and other animals. 



American Tree Seeds. 

 For sale, a variety of Seeds of Forest Trees, Shrubs, ^c. 

 mostly native Anterican kinds, and suitable for sending lo Ku- 

 rope, or for cultivation here. Price 25 cts a paper, 'i'hev 

 were gathered by a gentleman familiarly acquainted with ih'e 

 s,iiis, expressly for us. They will be sold by the single paper, 

 or packed to order, in any quantity. 



Also, Peach and Almt)nd Stones, and many other valuable Fruit 

 and Forest Tree .Seeds for planting this fall, a catalogue of which 

 may be had gratis at this place. 



Roots of the Pie-Plant, or Tart Rhubarb. 

 A large supply of the roots of the Rlmtm Unihdaium. or Tan 

 Rhultarb, or Pie-Plant, an excellent article for summer use. 

 (See N. E. I'ariner, vol. vi. page 290, and page 1 1 of this vol- 

 ume, and Fessendtn's New American Gardener, article Rhu- 

 *i()A, fiir its culiure and uses.) The roots are in fine order fin 

 transplanting this liill. Price 25cts. per ro-i 



Garden and Field Sctds. 

 The largest collection andvariety of Garden, Field, Tree and 

 Herb SeeJs to be found in New England, at wholesale and retail. 

 The Seeds are all raised in this vicinity, expressly for this Es- 

 tablishment, by careful and experienced grovvers. and are war- 

 ranted pure and t're.sh. Country traders supplied with boxes of 

 prime seeds, for the retail trade, on liberal terms. A pamphlet 

 catalogue (2d edition) of our Seeds, Tiees, Ate. is published and 

 will be forwarded gratis to any one who will send (or it. 

 Just received at the 



J^'tiv England Farmer Seed Store, 



No. 5i Noiih Market, Strt:el— Boston. 



Splendid Bulbous Roots, Sfc. 



A further sinjply of Hyacinths. Tulips, Narcissus, Gladiolus, 

 Snow Drops, Crocus, Star of Hethlehem, Jonquilles, Ranuncu- 

 lus, Iris, Crown Imperials, Anemones, Crocus, «fcc. from 12 to 

 62cts.each. A very few of the finest Hyacinths, dark and pale 

 blue, pure white, red, jellow, and while with various eyes, at 

 ,5 1 per root. 



The collection of LILIES is very splendid, comprising a great 

 variety of colors. 



H'VACINTHS— (double and single,) dark blue, porcelain 

 blue, red and rosy coloured, pure whiti , white with yellow eye 

 while with rosy eye, and yellow with various eyes ; from 25 els 

 to SI 00 each. 



TULIPS — splendid variegaied, red, yellow, and mixed, 12 

 cts. each, ij 1.00 per dozen. 



CROWN IMPERIALS— assorted, of the most splendid col- 

 ours, and showy flowers, large roots, 38 cts. each. 



JON<lUll.LES— sweet seemed, finest roots, 19 cts. each. 



POLYANTHUS NARCI.SSUS frag-ant, white with yel- 

 low cups, and yellow with double white cups, extra sized roots. 

 38 cts. each. 



DOUBLE NARCISSUS fragrant, of allcolnrs, IScls. carl. 



SPRING CROCUS of all colours, 6 cts. each. SO cts per 

 dozen. 



The above roots are from the same house, from which we re- 

 ceived our supply last season, anti which gave such nnix'ersal 

 satisfaction ; some of the double Hyacinttis having produced 

 bells 1 inch and 8 ICths in diameter. 



Purchasers are requested to notice that the above roots arc- 

 iwt prtirhased at attction, and are all remarkable lor their size, 

 and lor the beauty and tlelicacy of tint of their flowers. Those 

 sold at auction are generally the mere refuse ol the most inferioi 

 collections, good roots being worth at liome ten times as much 

 as they generally sell for at auction, as will be seen by reference- 

 to the priced catalogues of any respectable house in Holland. 

 White Mulberry Seed. 



This day received, a few pounds of warranted genuine WTiile 

 Mulberry "Seed, raised in Coventry, Con. this senson, and sav- 

 ed with care expressly for us — For sale by the lb. or ounce. 

 J^tw England Farmer Seed Store, 



No. 52 .North Market Street— Boston. 



PRICES OF COUJ^TRY PRODUCE. 



