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in winter, and the liorticulturist may cultivate 

 mind when his soil is bound in frozen fetters. 



Provide a sufiicient quantity of bean-poles, and 

 pea-rods, which you may preserve in a corner of 

 your wood-house, or other place suitable for your 

 purjjosc. Many people, who neglect to procure 

 these implements in season, are induced, by the 

 Lurry of business, to pennit their peas and beans 

 to trail on the ground, in which situation they will 

 uot produce, especially the tall growing sorts, one 

 third part so many as if they were properly sup- 

 ported by poles and rods. The length of your 

 pea-rods should be in proportion to the sorts of 

 peas for which you intend them. The same kinds 

 of rods, which tlie tall-growing peas require, will 

 answer for the generality of running kidney beans. 

 The Lima beans will need strong poles, from eight 

 to nine feet high. You may now make prepara- 

 tion for forcuig cucumbers, melons, cabbages, rad- 

 ishes, lettuces, cauliflowers, &c. 



BRITISH GRASSES. 



The late Mr Curtis had squares of live turf 

 sent him from all parts of the empire — particularly 

 from pastures famous for their richness, and these 

 lie cultivated with care, for the purpose of com- 

 parison, and discovering the sorts of grasses, upon 

 which the rich quality of the pastures, whence 

 they were taken, depended. A comparative view 

 of oiu' British grasses of a similar kind may be 

 seen, we are informed, at the nurseiy of Messrs. 

 Cormack and Sinclair, New Cross, near Deptford 

 — a field being appropriated for the puqiose of 

 growing patches of all the agricultural grasses. 

 From the high character of one of the partners, 

 Mr Sinclair, author of " the Hortus Gramineus 

 Woburnensis," in this particular line, this grass- 

 field jnust be a very.intei-esting sight to agricidtur- 

 ists and graziers, as well as to botanists. 



TRANSPLANTING EVERGREENS. 



The unfading verdure of the resinous trees forms 

 a pleasant relief to the eye amid the desolate fields 

 and snow-crowned hills of winter. These beauti- 

 ful inmates of the northern forests, are peculiarly 

 intractable to the skill of cidtivation. The spruce 

 and the fir, when removed from the cold and bleak 

 solitudes where thi;y best love to fix their root.s and 

 send up their tall pyramids of green, to a more 

 genial situation, wither and perish. These beauti- 

 fid and stately jtlants are desirable as the ornaments 

 of the garden or the gi-oves of cultivated scenery. 

 The English books reconunend that they be re- 

 moved in the depth of winter with frozen masses 

 of earth around their roots, to holes dug for their 

 reception during the preceding autnnm. By this 

 simple process, it is said, they may be transplanted 

 without injury, and flourish in their fi-eshness as if 

 still clinging to the rock or rising in the waste. — 

 JVational Msis. 



VALUABLE RECIPE. 



In the Memoirs of Comit de Segur, (Vol. I. p. 

 168,) there is the following anecdote : " My mo- 

 ther (the Countess de Segur,) being asked by Vol- 

 taire respecting her health, told him that the most 

 painful feehngs she had, arose from the decay of 

 her stomach and the difliculty of finding any kind 

 of aliment that it could bear. Voltaire, by way of 

 conversation assured her that he was once nearly 

 for a year in the same state, and believed to be in- 

 curable ; but that, nevertheless, a very simple 

 remedy had restored him. It consisted in taking 

 Jio other nourishment than yolk of eggs, beaten up 



with flour of potatoes and water." Though this 

 circumstance took place as far back as about fifteen 

 years ago, and respected so extraordinary a per- 

 sonage as Vohaire, it is astonishing how little it is 

 known, and how rarely the remedy has been 

 practised. Its eflicacy, however, in cases of debil- 

 ity, caiuiot be questioned, and the following is the 

 mode of i)reparing the valuable article of food, as 

 recoTumended by Sir John Sinclair's Recipe. — 

 Beat up an egg in a bowl, and then add six tal)le 

 spoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well 

 together ; then add two table spoonfuls of the 

 farina of potatoes, mixing it with the liquor of the 

 bowl. Then pour in as much boiling water as will 

 convert the whole into jelly, and mix it well. It 

 may be taken either alone or with the addition of 

 a little milk, and moist or best sugar, not only for 

 breakfast, but in cases of great stomachic debility, 

 or in consinnptive disorders, at the other meals. 

 The dish is light, easily digested, extremely whole- 

 some and nourishing. Bread or biscuit may be 

 taken with it as the stomach gets stronger. 



Singular effects of Light and Darkness — A 

 plant, which is not uncommon in India, the Co- 

 tyledon calycina changes its properties very re- 

 markably, according to the period of the day and 

 night. Upon the whole, tlie plant may be said 

 to possess an herbaceous taste, but in the morn- 

 ing it is as much, if not more acid, than sorrel, 

 probably from its imbibing oxygen during the 

 night. As the light continues to act upon it, the 

 oxygen appears to be disengaged as it loses its 

 acidity, and about noon becomes nearly tasteless. 

 Towards evening it becomes bitterish, and sour 

 again in the morning. This plant, we are told, 

 may be seen at Loddige's Nursery, at Hackney, 

 and in some other collections in England. 



Mr Brown of Glasgow, has published a paper 

 on vviiat he calls the disorder of the spinal nerves, 

 which, though not uncommon, particularly 

 among females and persons of feeble conforma- 

 tion, seems to have hitherto been overlooked, 

 unexplained, or confounded with rheumatism, 

 &/C. The disorder usually manifests itself by a 

 sort of bruised gnawing pain, or rather a relaxed 

 weariedness, in some part of the chest, some- 

 times over the stomach, and sometimes in one 

 of tiie sides, &.C. In such cases the seat of the 

 complaint may be traced to the spine, by pass- 

 ing a sponge dipped in hot water down the back, 

 when the part alfected will be found to be ten- 

 der. Here Dr Brown applies leeches, or a small 

 blister, according to circumstances, and recom- 

 mends being in a horizontal position. This dis- 

 order is not uncommon among literary people. — 

 Glasgow Medical Jotirnal. 



A writer in Poulson's American, Philadelphia, 

 recommends that the currency of the country be 

 regulated : all the foreign coins called in and 

 passed through the mint ; clipped money declar- 

 ed uncurrent, &:,c. These suggestions are 

 worthy of consideration. 



Nearly 20,000 loads of wood have been trans- 

 ported on the Delaware and Hudson Canal, 

 principally to the New York market. 



Fruit. — The art of improving the quality of 

 fruits by crossing the various sorts, is said to 

 have been unknown until nearly the close of the 

 last century, when it was first attempted in Bel- 

 gium. — London pa. 



A steer, of the short horned Durham breed, 

 three years old in May last, was slaughtered a 

 few weeks since, by Mr Edmund Brownell, of 

 Little Compton, R. I. which weighed 1195 

 pounds. 



The last numlier of the North American Re- 

 view, contains articles on the following subjects: 

 The Decline of Poetry — Scandinavian Mytholo- 

 gy, Poetry, and History — Austin's Life of Gerry 

 — Biography of a German Carbonarist — Flint's 

 Geography and History of the Western States — 

 Irving's Life of Columbus — The Epistle to the 

 Hebrews — Hayti — The Baltimore and Ohio Rail 

 Road — Ileeren's Historical Works — Simon Bol- 

 ivar — Saxe Weimar's Travels — Quarterly List 

 of New Publications. — Published quarterly, at 

 $5 per annum, by Frederick T. Gray, Washing- 

 ton Street, Boston, and G. Si, C. Carvill, New 

 York. 



We shall next week commence the publica- 

 tion of some remarks on Rail Roads. 



Rockingham Agricultural Society. 



The Directors of Ihc R. A. Society, are hereby iiolified that 

 their adjourned meeting will be held at Col. Burley's Hole) in 

 Exeler, oil Wednesday, the 14ih day of Jan. current al 3 

 o'clock, P. M. S. T. OILMAN, Rec. Sec'y. 



Jan. U. 



PROVISION MARKET. 



CORRECTED KVEHY WEEK EY MR. HAVWARD, 



(Clt.-k of Faneuil-hall Market.) 

 BEEF, best pieces, - 

 PORK, fresn, best pieces, 



whole hogs, 



VEAL, 



MUTTON, .... 

 POULTRY, . . . - 

 BUTTER, keg and tub, - 

 Lump, best, 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, . 



Indian, retail, 

 POTATOS, 

 CIDER, [according to quality,] 



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