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Published by John B. Russell, at JVo. 52 J\rorth Market Street, (over the Agricultural fTarehouse).— Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor. 



VOL. YII. 



B08T0N, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1828. 



INo. 21. 



HORTICULTURE, 



■ PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SO- 



CIETY. 



The adjourned meeting held on tlie evening of 

 the 17th instant, at Philosophical Hall, was very 

 well attended. The display of flowers was less 

 imposing than on some former occasions, although 

 quite attractive. Many of those exhibited had 

 braved the pelting of the snow storm of last week 

 without loss of beauty or sweetness. Chrysanthe- 

 mums of almost every shade were particularly ad- 

 mired, fifteen varieties of this favorite flower were 

 presented by Mexandtr Parker, from his establiish- 

 ineot on Prime street. The same enterprising 

 gardener brought forward several beautiful s])e- 

 cies of roses, new daisies, geraniums, &c. compris- 

 ing about 40 difterent specimens, all of which 

 were carefully labelled with the generic and spe- 

 cific names. We hope this excellent practice will 

 be generally ado"pted. A specimen of the Cam- 

 panula Pyramidalis, plucked from a plant in A. 

 Parker's collection, was particularly noticed ; the 

 plant is 5 feet high, has been flowering for more 

 than three months, producing innumerable flow- 

 ers of great beauty ; it well deserves to be ranked 

 among the choicest ornaments of the green house. 

 The Society was also favored with 3 veiy fragrant 

 and beautiful boutjuet of flowers from the garden 

 and green house of D. If C. Landreth ; also a 

 flowering plant Camellia Sasanqua, the choiichan 

 of the Chinese, the flowers of which Me used with 

 those of the olea fragans, to perfumBPSouchong 

 tea. [Staunton's Embassy, vol. 2d page 467.] 



Six samples of wine made near our city, were 

 sent for examination, three bottles of which were 

 presented by Mary Smith, of Burlington, N. J. ; 

 two of them the juice of native grapes, the other 

 made from currants. The specimen made from 



■ skinned gra])es, with tvhite sugar, was particularly 

 admired for its pure whiteness and delicate flavor, 

 forming a very agreeable and wholesome cordial. 

 A bottle of currant wine two years old, from Ed- 

 ward H. Bonsalt, near Germantown, was pro- 

 nounced very good ; another bottle of the same 

 kind, five years old, from Jno. Graff, Philadelphia 

 county, was tasted. It is thought that ciurant 

 wine does not improve by age. D. Landreth, Jr. 

 jiresented a bottle of Rapp's [Harmony] wine, it 

 was considered very fair, but did not quite answer 

 ihe expectations raised by our complaisant visiter, 

 Uiike Bemhard, who tloubtless was served at 

 Harmony with a bottle of very superior. Col. 

 Carr's wine sustained its reputation. George Esh- 

 er, [Ridge Road] presented a bunch of turnips, 

 weighing 4 lbs. each, the seed of which was given 

 him two years ago, by our late respected citizen J. 



, H. Roberjot, [late a member of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society, and a warm friend to its ob- 

 jects,] who received it from France ; the grower, 

 who has for many years attended particularly to 

 the cultivation of this vegetable, considers these 

 turnips altogether superior to any he has raised 

 before, on account of their sohditj and sweetness ; 

 he did not designate them by any new name. — 

 John Esher, of Penn township, presented two en- 

 ormous cabbages weighing 16 pounds each, the 

 I)rcduce of his garden. One might suppose they 



would supply a Dutchman's family with .Sour 

 Krout for a twelvemonth. With such evidejice 

 before us, no one need doubt the fertility of our 

 soil, llpwards of 20 varieties of apples and i)ears 

 challenged the special attention of the members. 

 Among them were the St. Germain and spice but- 

 ter pear, various kinds of pippins, such as the Mel- 

 ton, golden, &c. the Spitzenberg, the wood apjile. 

 Hay's Greening, &c. We regret that many of 

 ;he best flavored, were not labelled, arid could not 

 lie certainly identified. We also regret that the 

 names of the producers were not furnished. The 

 ,riiit was said to be principally from the orchards 

 iif Burlington and Gloucester counties, N. J. and 

 Horn Piiiladeiphia and Bucks counties Pennsylva- 

 nia. 



In concluding this hasty and imperfect notice, 

 vve woidd return our thanks, on behalf of the So- 

 ciety, to such persons as have presented speci- 

 mens of their horticultural products, and express 

 a hope that others will follow so worthy an exam- 

 ple, which cannot fail if generally adopted, of be- 

 coming the means of collecting n;ucli information 

 of practical utility. — Phil. Aurora. 



At the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society, held at the Philosophical 

 Hall, on lAIonday the 24th ult. the following gen- 

 tlemen were elected oflicers for the ensuing year. 



President — Zaccheus Collins. 



I'ice Presidents — Horace Binney, David Lan- 

 Jreth, senior, James Mease, M. D. Charles Chaun- 

 cey. 



Corresponding Secretary, David Landreth, Jr. — 

 Recording Secretary, David S. Brown — Treasurer, 

 Marmaduke C. Cope. 



Council — George Pepper, Col. Samuel B. Davis, 

 Thomas Astley, JMatthevv Carey, Thomas Biddle, 

 Robert Carr, Daniel Maupay, Thomas Hibhert, 

 Thomas Landretli, Moses Brown, Nicholas Biddle, 

 Jacob S. Wain. 



From the Delaware Advertiser. 



SHEEP. 



We have often, in the course of our agricultu- 

 ral life, had occasion to notice the destruction from 

 disease, which has been made among sheep, par- 

 ticularly lambs, and with. what marked indiffer- 

 ence the loss of ten or twenty of these valuable 

 animals was viewed by their owner, without a sin- 

 gle attempt to enquire into the nature of the dis- 

 ease, or make one experiment to remove its cause. 

 It is nmch to be regretted, that every farmer who 

 attempts to raise she^ does not, by some means, 

 put himself in possession of some information rel- 

 ative to diseases which are liable to invade the 

 health of his flock. — We do not know a more 

 ready and cheap source from which to obtain this 

 information, than newspapers. 



A late writer, upon diseases incidental to sheep, 

 states that he has discovered the cause of a mala- 

 dy, (the cough) which has, at times, made the most 

 destructive havoc among our flocks. He derives 

 his information from the carcase of a lamb, which 

 he dissected, and fotind d'jposited in its lungs a 

 large quantity of worms, which, no doubt were the 

 cause of its death. The writer thus remarks : 



" Feeling a lively interest in the prosperity of 



the sheep business in this country, having a flock 

 myself, I have thought proper to commnnicato the 

 following facts and observations to the ptiblic, with 

 a vievxf to excite inquiry and elicit information in 

 relation to that disease which has carried oft' so 

 many of these useful animals. 



Some time in P'ebruary last, I looked at a fiock 

 of yearling lambs, (abotit 200 in number.) belong- 

 ing to J. R. vvliich I had seen in the fall ; at this 

 time they were in a thriving condition. In Feb- 

 ruary when I examined them, several had died 

 and the remainder were very poor, and a general 

 cough prevailed amongst them, which increased 

 with a shrill sound, a dull and heavy appearance, 

 and extreme emaciation. Sonte time after, I dis- 

 sected a sheep of this flock, which had fallen a 

 victim to this disease. * * * * 



I laid the lungs open, and in the cellular sub- 

 stance of the lungs and in the bronchial vessels, 

 theie were a multitude of worms about as thick 

 as a linen thread, and from one to six inches in 

 length, exceedingly sharp pointed at one end, and 

 that end of a chestnut brown color, the rest of it 

 of a pale wliitc color. In a day or two after, I 

 dissected another sheep while it was yet warm, 

 and found the apjicarance precisely the same, on- 

 ly that the worms were alive, in the other they 

 were dead. I directed Scotch suufF to be given 

 to the sheep which seemed to be diseased, on then- 

 food morning and evening, and tar and sulpliur 

 once a day. They appeared to improve in health 

 iunnediutely. The same ai)plicalion was used in 

 a neighboring ilock, and apparently with good ef- 

 fect. W^hetlier it is a remedy for the dfteaso I 

 will not undertake to decide, as but one or two 

 experiments have been made ; but it may be de- 

 serving a further trial. 



BUTTONS. 



Three or four years ago Mr Samuel Williston, 

 of Easthampton, began to make cloth buttons, and 

 the manufacture has gradually extended in that 

 and other towns in this vicinity, employing some 

 hundreds of industrious females, who are thus en- 

 abled to support themselves, and lay up something 

 for a " rainy day," or a " setting out." It is esti- 

 mated that 25,000 "gross of buttons ^havo been 

 made within 10 miles of this place since llie first ' 

 of January la.st. They are .sold at Boston and 

 New York, and thence find their way to all parts 

 of the United States. Ccmpetitiou has reduced 

 the price and the profit, and the business is not 

 very lucrative at the ])resent time. The molds are 

 made in Williamsburgh by females, and are sold 

 at about cents per gross. 



The manufacture of these small articles affords 

 some evidence of the benefits of the " American 

 System." Before Mr Williston began to make 

 cloth buttons, England supplied the whole United 

 States, and the wholesale price was two dollars 

 per gross, and sometimes more. Now the Yan- 

 kees supply the country with buttons superior to 

 those which were imported from England, and 

 the wholesale price is from 75 cents to one dollar 

 per gross ! — We are told that military buttons 

 which were sold at three dollars per dozen when 

 imported from England are now manufactured in 

 this country for one dollar per dozen. — Hamp.Gaz. 



