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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



June 26, 1829. 



From ihe New York Farmer. 



[By the following, it will be j)crcei,vc(l tliat the 

 Inspecting Committee of the llorticultmal Society 

 have resumed their labors. The display of flow- 

 ers and fruit, so far, au-urs well for that emula- 

 tion, which we hope will make the exhibitions ot 

 this season to surpa^s those of any preceding one. 

 The improvement adopted in the manner of ex- 

 hibiting the specimens, cannot but he highly sat- 

 isfactory and pleasing, both to the gardener and 

 amateur ; and we truly hope it is only the prelude 

 to that renovation and exhibition of energy, which 

 will make the Society the pride and ornament of 

 our country.] 



Proceedings uf the Inspeding Committee of the JVew 

 York Horticultural Socitttj. 

 March 31, 18)9.— Mr Neale presented a Hya- 

 cinth, called De Grand Eiicpjirer, white spike very 

 close, the bells large and crowded, odor very fra- 

 grant, 5 inches in length, and 3 inches in diame- 

 ter ; also, a Persian white Cyclamen, and a Hep- 

 atica, or Liverwort, double, and h\w\ 



Jlpril 14.— Seed.s presented by Mr I'oin.'sett were 

 distributed. Mr Floy presented a speciii;en of 

 the Calceolaria corymbosa, or Slipperwort, being 

 the first time that that plant has flowered in Aujer- 

 ica; also, a Priumla cortuosides, a hardy iieren- 

 nial ; Mr Neale, four Hyacinths, a Double Pink, 

 (Grootvorst) double white, do blue, (Martinet) do 

 pale blue, (Pasquin.) Mr Wilson, a line seedling 

 Polyanthus. 



May 5. — Mr Neale exhibited 12 kinds of early 

 Tulips; 10 sorts of early seedlings do. 



Mr A. Smith, Sea Kale, blanched, 14 inches. 

 Mr Cooke, 5 kinds of Hyacinths ; Mr Still, a 

 fine Polyanthus ; Com. Ciiauiu-ey, by his garden- 

 er, Thomas Coady, 3 Cucumbers, raised on bis 

 place at Brooklyn, from seed procured from South 

 America. 



May 12.— Mr Cooke IGTiinds of Hyacinths, a 

 double flowering Apple, and a Jominil ; Mr 

 Neale, .six sorts of Hyacinths, a double early Tu- 

 lip, two seedling Auriculas, having a blue deep 

 color, a white eye and six pips; and one do, dark 

 chocolate, white eye and three pips. MrCombaull, 

 4 Tulips raised in pots. 



Seeds of ihe Beta cicla, a new variety, receiv- 

 ed from Robert Schomberg, of Richmond, Vir- 

 ginia, were received and distributed. 



Muy 19.— .Mr Neale presented 60 varieties of 

 Tulips, very beautiful ; al.-io, a specimen of Auric- 

 ula, of the variety of " Chilcot's brilliant," with 3 

 pips; Mr Still, from Mr Fisher's garden, 2 good 

 sons of Tulips; Mr Oakley, 10 varhities of fine 

 Tulips from his garden ; MrCombanIt, 5 varieties 

 of Tulips. Mr Still also presented 4 handsome 

 specimens of white Dutch Lettuce, and 4 fine 

 specimens of yellow Sihsia Lettuce ; Mr Cooke, a 

 double Jonquil, Parrot Tulip, a single white Hya- 

 cinth, a Convallaria majalis, (Lily of the Valley) 

 and a double flowering Almond. 



Mny 26. — Mr Wilson presented some Strawber- 

 ries, a yellow Austrian Ruse, several varieties of 

 Scotch and other Roses, Honeysuckles, single 

 Roses, Persian Lilacs, double Columbine, Ranun- 

 culus, Anchusa, and Scotch Broom. 



Mr Hogg, seven dilTercnt species of Iris, Calla, 

 Ethiopica, single Poeonia Siberica, Pittosponuu 

 chinense, Geranium niicranthenum, double white 

 Scotch Rose, Metrosideros lanceolatus, Ixia cro- 

 cata, Melaleuca, Acacia pulchella, and a double 

 Cucubalus. 



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id 3 1-2 



Mr Floy, Epidendrum (airidant)in flower; Pa- 

 paver bracteatum (8 1-2 inches in diameter) ; Mr 

 Warner, specimens of 

 inches in circumference ; 

 Apricot Tree 13 inches i 



28 young Apricots ; Mr Neale, 12 varieties of Tu- 

 lips ; Mr Warner, also, a double flowering Cherry, 

 very luxuriant ; Mr John Curr, 4 heads of Hybrid 

 Cabbage, weighing 6 lbs. 11 oz. 



Seeds received from Mr Loudon, and from 

 Mexico, were distributed. 



ing after harvest is siiflicient to prepare the soil 

 fur the reception of the flesh colored clover. I 

 have this year, however, tried two methods of cul- 



Apricots, 

 Mr Oakley, a branch of I tivalion on the same field; the first parti only 

 'ength, and containing grubbed np the earth with the six share extirpa- 

 tor, the other ])avt was ploughed. The seed was 

 sown and harrowed in both. That part that was 

 not ploughed is now decidedly the best. The 

 quantity of seed requisite is about 25 oz. per 

 acre. — Annales Jlgricoles de Reviere, Ir. livrasion, 

 p. 238. 



We saw this clover cultivated at Hoheriheira, 



near Stuttgardt. M. de Doiubarle had favored M. 



|Schwertz (the celebrated author of the Agricul- 



Tripolium Incarnatum. — Flesh colored Clover. Tojn,,.g of Flanders) with a quantity sv^cient to bovt 



From llie Brilish Farmer's M.igazme, 



J. C. Loudon, Esq., F. L. S., Sec 



Sir — Perceiving in your valuable publication, 

 the Gardener's Magazine for October, a very short 

 account of a clover which is rapidly spreading 

 through France and the south of Germany, where 

 it is looked upon with the degree of attention il 

 well merits ; we think it might not be uninterest- 

 ing for you to b« furnished with some further no- 

 tices respecting this annual — the tripolium incar- 

 natum, [farouche, fr.] flesh colored clover. We 

 ourselves having witnessed its growth and pro- 

 duce in the south of Germany (from whence we 

 have just returned) can speak with confidence as 

 to its unprecedented fertility and precocity on 

 light sandy soils, which would scarcely repay the 

 culture of any other plant. 



We therefore take the liberty of enclosing you 

 the accompanying remarks, which, if found snf- 

 fi(-iently interesting, you are at liberty to publish 

 iu an early number of your Magazine. 



We were first directed to examine into the 

 qualities of the flesh colored clover, from reading 

 M. de Dondiarle's opinion concerning it in the 

 Annales Agricoles de Reviere ; we subjoin a 

 translation, and add our own remarks as to a crop 

 which we saw at the royal establishment of Ho- 

 henheiin, in the kingdom of AVirtemburg. 



Five years experience, says M de Dombarle, 

 in the culture of this plant leave me no further 

 doubt as to the advantages which are to be de- 

 rived from its propagation in the north of France. 



It is true it only gives one cut, hut upon the 

 same soil this one cut is equal to two of red 



clover ; but a circumstance which renders it still | cattle, remarks, that in order to keep up the great 

 more valuable than the latter, is its coming early jqualities of the imported brecd.s, we must rcmem- 

 enough to allow the same soil to be prepared fin- 



•ibout two acres. 



It was sown upon a stiff' red clay in the middle 

 of April ; the spring was excessively dry, and yet 

 it was fit fur cutting six weeks after it had been 

 sown, and a most luxurnint crop it was. M. 

 Schwertz intends to cultivate it extensively, since, 

 soiling being one of the principal dependencies of 

 the estate for manure, it enteis most admirably 

 into the rotation of green crops, which are as fol- 

 lows : 



Flesh colored clover, sown in September fit to 

 cut in April ; then comes the first cut ol' lucerne — 

 the first cut of clover — the second cut of lucerne 

 — the tares, and peas sown in spring — the second 

 cut of clover — the third of lucerne — cabbages, 

 turnips, jiotatoes, and dry food. This is the sys- 

 teTn iiursued at Hohenheim. The culture of the 

 flesh colored clover allows M Schwertz to com- 

 mence his green fodder full three weeks or a 

 month before bis neighbors. 



We are ourselves satisfied of its importance, 

 and hope by thus making known the result of our 

 observations, to cause another valuable fodder to 

 be added to those already so happily cultivated in 

 Great Britain. We are, &c., 



London, .Vov. 8, 1828. R. & D. 



IMPROVING THE BREED OF CATTLE. 



Mr Featherstonhangh, a distinguished farmer, 

 in the State of New York, after a journey of fif- 

 teen hundred iiiilps in the diftereiit States, for the 

 purpose of viewing the inqjorled cattle, and to ex- 

 amine the method after which their owners keep 

 them, as well as the condition of our own native 



other crojis the same year. The flesh colored 

 clover consuined green aflords an excellent food 

 to all siiecies of domestic, animals, even to pigs ; 

 hut converted into hay it is in a trifling degree in- 

 ferior to clover, or lucerne. It is not at all fasti- 

 dious either as to soil or culture, and although in- 

 troduced to us from the most southern provinces 

 of France, does not suffer from our winter frosts, 

 provided it be a little grown before they com- 

 mence. But what appears to me to meet the 



"it 



ber that in their native country it is considered 

 indispensable to keep them extremely well, and in 

 a very diflere:it manner from the general custom 

 prevailing here ; which is, in summer to leave 

 cattle to help themselves to \\hat they can find, 

 even in the most severe drought ; and in winter, 

 to give them a moderate quantity of hay and 

 straw. That in England, where they -are less 

 troubled with dry weather than we are, they give 

 them green crops and roots in abundance, and 

 that if all this provident attention be necessary in 

 that moist climate, it is certain the breed will de- 

 generate with us if it is not kept in high condition. 

 He observed ihat he was convinced that negli- 

 gence was the universal cause of diseases, and 

 that they ordinarily arise from too high feeding or 

 w. In one case, 



f.irmor's attention most, is the period at whid 

 is sown, viz : in the month of August or Sejitem- 

 ber. At this time the farmer will know what de- 

 gree of reliance he may be able to place on his 

 clover crops for the ensuing year ; if any part of' 



them should have failed they may be replaced by too low. In one case, the digestive powers are 

 this equally valuable fodder,"— an important con- embarras.sed, in the other they are not sufficiently 

 -ideration for those who depend on the produce j exercised, and m boih the animal suff-ers ; that 

 of their artificial grasses for the maintenance of animals, regularly yet plentifully fed and well 



their stock. 



It is cultivated as follows : — one slight plough- 



housed in 

 Farmer. 



winter are generally liealthy — A". Y. 



