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NEW ExM GLAND FARMER, 



JUNE le, 1S41. 



and horticultural rkgister. 



Boston, Wednesday, June 16, 1841, 



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BOSTON POUDRETTE. 



A Mr Rowell, of Lynn, iisUs ilie agricultural commu- 

 nity to furnish means fur in^jnufacturing pnudretle in 

 this city. We ^^'it^h him tucctiss, and trubt that lie will 

 meet with it. 



If we understand his plan, the nutlinee ate th«»e : — 

 that subscription papers be opened forthwith for taking 

 up the stock ; th»t as soon as $10,000 shiill be promised, 

 in sums of not less, than $50 each, a meeting of the 

 subscribers shall be called, to choose their officers, de- 

 termine whether it is best to go on, and if so, to author- 

 ize whom thv..}' ■ please to C(»llect the money thiit has 

 besn subscribed, and appropriate the same to the pur- 

 poae for which it was designed. 



We have asked Mr R. for proofs of his truslworihi 

 ness, and he has obtaino.d a certificate signed by seve- 

 ral highly respectable citizens <if Lynn, which is satis- 

 factory. 



He possesses some practical acquaintance with the 

 business; has spent some weeks at one of the establish- 

 ments in New York, where a relative of his is superin- 

 tendent. 



We have questioned Mr R. very closely, and are una- 

 ble to discover any reasons why the stock in such a 

 company would not be profitable. Such subscribers as 

 choose lo lake their dividends in the manufactured arti- 

 cle, will apparently obtain manure at a low rate. Mak- 

 ing very considerable allowances for unforeseen contin- 

 gencies, the business certainly promises well to the 

 stockholders. If, as Mr Rowell maintains, the outlay 

 of $10,000 will procure all necessary fixtures, tools, &c., 

 and will also be sufficient for the manufacture of 30,000 

 bushels of poudrelte, then at the usual price of 40 cents 

 per bushel, the whole expenses may be refunded the 

 first year. This, however, is more thao would be ex- 

 pected. 



Mr R., should his plan succeed, will stand upon an 

 equality with every other subscriber. He hopes, no 

 doubt, to find employment as superintendent; but the 

 company will be under no obligations to employ him; 

 he asks not that any thing shall be paid in to him, but 

 chooses that all funds should go into the hands of some 

 other person as treasurer. 



It is desirable that operations should be commenced 

 forthwith; for the summer is the best time for prepar- 

 ing the article for use the next spring. All persons dis- 

 posed to subscribe, will confer a favor by sending their 

 intentions at once to the N. E. Fanner office. It is hop- 

 ed by Mr It. that the iarmeis will be the subscribers. 



We have no interest in this project apart from our 

 general interest in agriculture ; and in our remarks have 

 endeavored to avoid holding out delusive expectations. 

 We may be deceived ; but we have given considerable 

 attention lo the subject, and have a strung persuasion 

 that we are not imposed upon. We advise our friends 

 who wish for more manure than they make, to invest 

 50 or IdO dollars (more if they choose,) in this concern, 

 which we believe will go on and will do well. The 

 question whether to go on or not, is to be submitted to 

 those who subscribe; and no payment is asked for un- 

 til they have decided that point. 



We hope that our friends will at onee inform us of 

 their wishes. Should Mr R. meet with encouragsment, 

 he says that operations may be commenced next month. 



THE FLUVVER GARDEN CULTIVATED BY THE 



LADIES. 



A neat flower garden in front of the fjrm house, is 

 proof that the farmer's wife and daughters are industri- 

 ous and refined. It is proof th it the work within doors 

 is well pcrfornied ; for il is never the case that disorder 

 and lliriflirssnejs reside within, while the garden — tend- 

 ed by female hands — in noat and flourishing. This out- 

 door labor gives bloom lo the cheeks, viei>r to the whole 

 frame, cheerfulness lo the dis[)OBiiion, and trenerni effi- 

 ciency. 



Fair and gentle woman is never in a better school 

 than when busying her fingers and twining her affec- 

 tions around the fair daughters of Flora. There she 

 mingles with beauties whose tongue.'? never utter envy 

 fir malice, and whose ears are deaf to every idle or sin 

 ful word. There the lovely and innocent speak to her 

 of the more lovely and holy One who delineates their 

 giaceful forms and paints their rich and varied colors. 

 Purer, richer, better are the teachings of the shooting 

 blade and opening flower, than come from the musings 

 of a listle»s mind, the pages of romance, or the gossip 

 of corrupted society. The seeds of liealth, and purity, 

 and vigor are in the soil on which the pink and prim- 

 rose grow, and those who labor to procure the fragrance 

 of the latter, will taste the delicious fruit which the for. 

 mer bear. 



Fear not, ye busy wives and daughters, that the care 

 of a small flower garden will be a burthen, rendering 

 more arduous the labors cf the kitchen, the dairy room, 

 and the needle. For the invigorating exhalations of 

 the freshly turned soil, the draughts of pure oxygen 

 which will be found around your plants when the warm 

 sun is expanding their foliage, the variety of exercise 

 which the garden gives to body and mind, together 

 with the pleasure derived from the beauty and fragrance 

 of your flowers, will furnish more strength than the la- 

 bors of the garden will exhaust. 



LEISURE DAYS. 

 ■By these we mean days in which the care of the 

 crops does not require attention — days when the farmer 

 can look about him and turn his hand to some odd job. 

 Usually there are several such days in June, and the 

 manner in which they are spent is of no small moment. 



Of course it is noi in our power to tell you what is to 

 be done on your particular place — for on one farm a 

 few rods of stone fences is to be built; on another an un- 

 derdrain is to be completed ; on a third the flitches re 

 quire nttention, &c. &,c. But at these times keeps 

 sharp look out for manure making. The swine must 

 have frequent supplies of the rsw material, and leaves, 

 soil, muck, Ac. must be deposited near the hog-yard 

 now, so that in the busy days of haying, something may 

 be thrown in, and your hogs not left without means of 

 doing iheir proper work. The.<e days for whitewash 

 ing, for cleaning up around the house and barn, for sea 

 sonable repairs, and the like, are amon^ the .most pro 

 fitable of the season. We class them unrtei die hsad tf 

 leisure days, but they shoald be far from days of idle- 

 ness : more of the profits of husbandry is obtained 

 from the good judgment and perseverance with which 

 improvements are planned and executed ; (we mean 

 the gradual improvement.^, which the good farmer will 

 have an eye to, and will carry forward at times when 

 the cost will be but little) — more of the real profits of 

 farming turns upon these than upon the ordinary crops 

 of the farm. Where soil and manure are alike, one 

 man can obtain as good a crop as another, or nearly so ; 

 the skill required is not so much that of planting and 

 hoeing, as of increasing the manure heap, increasing the 

 depth of the soil ; protecting the dry lands from drought, 



and draining those that are too wet ; the mixing of soils 

 and suiting the manures to the soils and crops to which 

 they are applied. These are the important matters; 

 and many of them deserve atienlion at this season of 

 the year. 



THE SEASON. 

 We have had more than two weeks of warm, windy 

 weather, without rain : vegetation has advanced moi^t 

 rapidly ; but now (Monday) the drought bej^irKS to pinch ; 

 rain is very desirable in this immediate vicinity : in the 

 northern and eastern parts of Essex county, there have 

 been recent showers, and nothing suffers there from 

 lack of moisture. 



Massncliuaetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturdmj, May 8th, 1841. 



Exhibited — Native Plants — 10 species — from B. E. 

 Cotting. 8 species of do. from E. Weston, Jr. and F. 

 Parker. 



May ]5(A. Native Plants — 10 species — from B. E. 

 Cotting. 



May 22d. Native Plants— 14 species— from B. E. 

 Cotting. 



May 29th. Native Plants— 22 species— from B. E. 

 Cotting. 



June 5th. Bouquets from J. Hovey, Hovey & Co., 

 T. Mason and A. Bowditch. 



Double While Camellia and Blush, 'Xellow and 

 White Tea Roses, Lamarque do. and some others, from 

 A. Bowditch. 



Geraniums from T. Mason. 



Native flowers from E. Weston, jr. and F. Parker. 



Natiie plants, 30 species, from B. E. Cotting. 



From J. Kenrick, PsEonia Banksii and Papaveracea ; 

 several varieties of fine hardy Ajalcas ; Double White 

 and Scarlet Hawthorn ; Flowe. ing Ash ; Scotch La- 

 hurnum; Hallsia tetraptera ; Magnolia cordata ; Caly- 

 canthus; Tartarian Honeysuckle; Spirffia hypericifolia ; 

 Flesh col'd and White Horsachestnut ; Herbaceous Pseo- 

 nies, &c. C. M. HOVEY, CAairrnan. 



EXBIBITIOK or VECITABLES. 



Saturday, June 12. 

 Hovey & Co. exhibited very fine specimens of South- 

 gate Cucumber. For the Committee. 



8. POND. 



NOTICE. 



The exhibition of Pjeonies, for premium, is postponed 

 until Saturday, the 19th Ju»e. The following are the 

 prizes offered : 



Fur the best display of flowers — 

 ' ' second best do. do. 



C. M. HOVEY, Chairman. 



VARIEGATED HORSE CHESTNUT. 



William Kcnrick, Esq., of Nonantum Hill, Newton, 

 has exhibited to us the leaves of a Horse Chestnut tree, 

 which are beautifully variegated, green and white. It 

 has been railed from seed within a few years, and 

 should it continue to exhibit the same propensity, will 

 prove an interesting addition to our ornamental trees. 



J. B. 



Sweet Flag. A gentleman, whose word is valuable, 

 informs us that by mowing the top of the sweet flag 

 early in the season, and letting it fall and rot, and then 

 mowing later and closer at the proper season both flag 

 and the grass among it, you may kill out the flag. 



