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The 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



DEC. 16, I>-4(l 



M 1 S C E L L A N E U S 



GARDENING FOR LADIES. 



accompanying amusing and instructive ob- 



higiiest rani; as it is for those williout ranlt, pro- 

 vided they are eqnally without rational and active 

 occupation of some other kind. 



sorvations are taken from an excellent article in 

 the Gnrtkner's Mdifnzine, entitled ' Instrnctions in 

 Gardening for Ladie=-,' by Mrs. London :— 



To derive the fullest enjoyments from a love of 

 flowers, it is absolutely necessary to do something 

 towards their culture with their own hands. — La- 

 bor is at the root of all enjoyment. The fine la- 

 dy, who has a nosegay i)nt on her table every 

 morning by her gardener, has not a tenth of the 

 enjoyment from it that the lady has who has sown 

 the seeds, or stuck the cuttings, and watered and 

 shifted, or transplanted, pruned, and tied np, or 

 perrired down or thinned out the plants, and at 

 lasl^'athcred the flowers herself. But we would 

 have ladies of leisure do a great deal more than 

 this. Let them hoe, and rake, and dig and wheel 

 a barrow, and prune and nail wall trees, handle a 

 syrings, and work one of Read's garden engines. 

 By these and similar operations, they will ensure 

 health, without wliich there can neither be good 

 temper, nor any kind of enjoyment whatever, nien- 

 tal or corporal. The grand and all pervading evil 

 amonn- ladies of independent fortune, is ennui, 

 which, every body knows, is brought on from a 

 want of rational and active operation. Now the 

 pursuits of botany and gardening supply an occu- 

 pation which is at once rational and active ; and 

 they supply it, not only to the lady who has mere- 

 ly a love of flowers without a scientific knowledge 

 of botany or a taste for the arts of design, and who 

 may, therefore, cultivate her flowers, and perform 

 her garden operations, without a greater exertion 

 of mind than is required from a gardener's labor; 

 but to the scientific lady, whose botanical knowl- 

 edfe, lik<! that of the' scientilic gardener, may ena- 

 ble her to raise many new kinds of flowers, fruits, 

 and culinary vegetables,' by the different proces- 

 ses required for thn.t purpose; and to the lady of 

 artistical taste in drawing, painting and sculpture, 

 who may direct her attention to landscape gar- 

 dening, and more especially, to the designing of 

 flower gardens, and the introduction in them of the 

 various kinds of ornaments of which they are sns- 

 ceptible; a subject at present as much in its in- 

 fancy as botany was before the time of Linnaeus. 

 But, say some of our readers, ' What ihe Duch- 

 ess of wheeling a barrow, and nailing nail 



trees I' Yes, certainly, if she has nothing else to 

 do, that will be an occupation equally active and 

 rational. Why not a Duchess as well as a plain 

 mistress? Su!>])oso this Duche.ss at work in lier 

 garden, and that you are not aware that she has 

 any title. Suppose her dressed in the simplest 

 manner, (as were the Vicomte d'Ermenonville's 

 wife and daughters in the gardens of Ermenonville,) 

 what wonder would there be then .' Ladies of 

 rank are as much subject to ennui as ladies with- 

 out rank ; and every lady, as well as every gen- 

 tleman, has a portion of the day that she can call her 

 own, when she may indulge in what she likes. If 

 she lias not, her life is not worth keeping. Did 

 not the Earl of Chatham, notwithstanding liia being 

 prime-minister at n period the most inqiortant that 

 ever occurred in the annals of this country, find 

 time not only to lay out his own grounds, but to 

 assist Lord Lyttletnn in laying out Ilagloy ? 

 We insist upon it, therefore, that what we propose 

 is just as suitable and necessary for ladies of tho 



GR.'VFTING PE.^RS ON THE MOUNTAIN 

 ASH. 

 At a nieoting of the. London Horticultural So- 

 ciety, Dr Lindley, read a communication received 

 from R. A. Hornby, Esq., containing some observa- 

 tions on the grafting of pi'ars on the mountain ash. 

 Mr H. states, that it lately came under his notice, 

 while staying in Switzerland, where he found it to 

 he very generally practise'., and with great success, 

 the crops being both abundant and sure, in a cli- 

 mate and site (on the high plateau of the Tanur 

 mountain, with a poor and shallow soil) where nei- 

 ther pear nor apple would previously fruit, the «ffect 

 being to retard the blossoms and give -vigor to the 

 constitution. Neither the flesh nor flavor of the 

 fruit was said to be at all affected; budding or 

 grafting being alike successful on either old or 

 young stocks by the usual process. Groat care 

 must however be taken that none of the young 

 shoots which the stocks may make during the first 

 season after working, he removed; in the succeed- 

 ing spring, however, before vegetation commences, 

 all such redundant growth should be cut out close- 

 ly, anil the graft alone he permitted to push in 

 freedom. Its growth will then be luxuriant. 



A note on the above communication, by Mr R. 

 Thompson, under gardener in the society's orchard, 

 was also read, in which he states that the mountain 

 ash was one among the various kinds of sticks on 

 which the pear was grafted at the society's garden, 

 on which subject the following observations were 

 made : — 



The trees grew very well, but scarcely so vig- 

 orously as those on the pear stock, or even on the 

 quince, 'ihe fruit was produced at an earlier age 

 of good size, there was no perceptible difference in 

 tire flavor when compared v.'ith those produced un- 

 der similar circumstances, but (m pear stock, nor 

 v/as it ob-served that the blossoms were at all re- 

 tarded. The trees did not appear as if they would 

 be long lived, owing to the unequal swelling of the 

 respective species. The pear increased in diame- 

 ter more rapidly than the mountain ash. Still as 

 the latter species is much harder' than the quince, 

 and -ft'ohld thrive in almost any soil, it might be 

 advantageously used in some situations. — London 

 paper. 



the hogs break into his garden, for the want of a 

 small repair in his fence. He always feels in a 

 hurry, yet in his busiest day he will stop and talk 

 till he has wearied your patience. He is seldom 

 neat in liis person, and generally late at public 

 worship. His children are late at school, and their 

 books are torn and dirty. He has no enterprize, 

 and is sure to have no money, or if he must have 

 it, makes great sacrifice to get it ; and he is slack 

 in his payments, and buys altogetlior on credit, he 

 purchases every thing at a dear rate. You will see 

 the smoke come out of his chimney long after day- 

 light in winter. His horse stable is not daily 

 cleansed, nor his horse curried. Boards, shingles, 

 and clapboards are to be seen off his buildings, 

 month after month, without being replaced, and his 

 window.s are full of rags. He feeds his hogs and 

 horses with whole grain. If the lambs die, or the 

 wool comes off his sheep, he does not think it is 

 for want of care or food. He is generally a great 

 borrower, and seldom returns the thing borrowed. 

 He is a poor husband, a poor father, a poor neigli- 

 bor, a poor citizen, and a poor christian. 



SIGNS OF A POOR FARMER. 



He grazes his mowing land late in the Spring. 

 Some of his cows are much .past their prime. He 

 neglects to keep the dung and ground from the 

 sills of his buildings. He sows and plants his 

 land till it is exhausted before he thinks of manur- 

 inir. He keeps too much stock, and many of 

 them are unruly, lie has place for nothing, and 

 nothing in its place. If •iie wants a gimbirt,, a 

 chissel or a hammer, he cannot find it. He seldom 

 does any thing in stormy weather, or in an evening. 

 You will often perhaps hear of his being in the 

 bar-room, talking of hard times. ' .Mthough ho has 

 been on a piece of land twenty years, ask him for 

 grafted apples, and he will tell you that he could 

 not raise them, for he never had any luck. His 

 indolence and carlessness subject him to many ac- 

 cidents. He loses cider for want of a hoop ; his 

 plouoh breaks m his hurry to get in his seed in sea- 

 son, because it was not housed, and in harvest time, 

 when he is at work on a distant part of his farm, 



FARM FOR SALS. 



The subscriber offers for sale ibat valuable Farm, siutaled 

 about 3-4lhsof a mile below ihe First Parish Meoling Hi use, 

 oil llio Suisse road, and cominnDlv known as the Judge Pres- 

 coU iavm, containing aboul 170 acres of siiperi )r land, in a 

 good slate of cullivelioii, with two dwelling houses, four 

 barns, and other oat buildings. The farm is remarkably 

 well watered with soft water, convenicnlly fenced, has near- 

 ly forty acres of large, handsome woofi and timber stanriing 

 on il, with an orchard ol gralted .Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, 

 and Cherry trees, and might be easily divided into two 

 Farms 'I'he estate will be sold reasonably, iffive thou- 

 sand dollars be paid on receipt of the deed, the remainder 

 may lay on mortgage to suit the convenience of the purcha- 

 ser. For Inrlher particulars, apply to the subscriber, living 

 on the premises. WJI. S.-VLISBURY. 



Groton, Oct. 20, 1340. eow. 



POUDRETTI'\ 



Tin's valuable manure may be had on application to the 

 subscriber, at the office ot the " .Vctc Yor/; Poudreifc Com- 

 paivj,'^ No 120 Nassau street, New York. It is in-udorouSy 

 and may be Iransporled in barrels, on board of any vessel 

 or sleamboat, without offence — tind it will be found an ex- 

 ceedingly valuable article as Si fertilizer on any sod, and for 

 any crops; but more especially (or gardens and flowers, as 

 there are no foul seeds in it. Poudretle has been use.! for 

 ihree seasons with entire success on Long Island, by many 

 [iradical farmers, as may be ascerlaiuerf from letters ana 

 slateiiienis made by them, and puldished at this office in a 

 pam[)hlct conlaitiiiigulso the '• ad of invorporaiion " granted 

 to tile Company by the Legislature of the .State of New 

 York ; and other fads in relation to the subject. Price 35 

 cents per bushel. Barrels cost 2.'> cents each, and hold 4 

 bushels. Persons wishing to make an experiment on a 

 small sca'e can obtain o?ic barrel )ty enclosing a /iro dollar 

 ciinciit bank bill — or three barrels by enclosing .^rc dollars, 

 free of postage. On receipt of tlie money tiie article will I'c 

 put up and forwarded as directed, 



*i* Price of shares, one hundred dollars — which entitles 

 the liolder to one hundred bnshels of poudretle annually, 

 during the term ol the charter; fifty bushels in time lor spring 

 use, and fifty bushels in time for fall use. Shares taken 

 soon, will be entitled to the spring uividend— and, if desired 

 for experiment, a few bushels may be had this fall. 



AM orders, or applicalions in relation to the business, 

 must be made to tho subscriber, 120 Nassau street, ,\ew 

 York. D. K. .tllNOR. 



j|j- I wish It distinctly understood that the " New York 

 Poudrette Company'^ is in no way connected with the 

 ■' I.ndi Manufacturing Coiiipaiiy," of which Anthony Dey 

 and Peter Bartlielemy axe, or were, the managers. 



Dec. 9, 1940. 3m. D. K. M. 



THE NEW F.JjaL.A.VD FARMER 



Is pubii-.hed every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annum 

 payable at the end of the year — but those who pay within 

 ^i.ily days from the lime of subscribing are entitled to a ile 

 diictionof 5y cents. 



TL'TTLE, DE.NiNETT AttD CHISHOI,.M, PRIKTFRS, 



n sellOOl. STUI'KT.. ..BOSTON 



