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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCT, 11, 18 17. 



]VEW ENGLAJVD FARMER. 



Boston, Wednesday, Oct. U, 183". 



CAKMBR'S WORK. 



fFor the .\ew England Farmer.] 

 Mr FissENDEN : One of your hearty well wishers is 

 persuaded that your paper would have a wider circula- 

 tion tliin any in the country, were Domestic Economy 

 one of its leading topics ; do but call it a Domestic Man- 

 ual, in addition to its other popular title. Propose que- 

 ries, liy which you may draw out information on vari- 

 ous domestic topics, and facilities of in-door labor, very 

 desirable in the present rareness and high price of fe- 

 male assistance. Propose the formation of Societies, 

 which should offer premiums lor good bread as much 

 as good butter. Bread making is in as imperfect a stale 

 as ever butler-maliing was. For my part, I provide for 

 my fimily the best of flour, but in the perpetual rotation 

 of domestics, I often eat bread which is far from the 

 best. 



Invite the chemists to consider whether their science 

 cannot substitute means of purification for the rude me- 

 chanical cleanings now employed in our houses. They 

 have invented soap, can they not find out how to rid tin 

 ware of its impurities by any other means but that labo- 

 rious one in common use, which, besides the toil, takes 

 off the metal with the tarnish .' Pray make public what 

 you, who are in the centre of books, and means of infor- 

 mation, may learn, which wo, at the end of the radii 

 miy never hear. Books of which we have no knowl- 

 edge, or if we had, cannot afford to buy. 



Loudon's Encyclopedia of Architecture, pives excel- 

 lent directions for the furniture of the wash-house, 

 which, if followed, would considerably diminish Mon- 

 day's labors He recommends troughs, with a hole and 

 a stopper in the bottom, for the common inconvenient 

 portable tubs.— (Paragraph 725.) And also a simple 

 machine, which saves the labor of manual wringing, m 

 which, the washerwomen state, consists a third of ilie 

 labor of washing —(Paragraph 1465 ) Many eicellenl 

 hints might be derived from this book of Loudon ; now 

 owing to the costliness of the work, they have but a lim- 

 i'ed spread. 



Your well wisher hopes you will take into considera- 

 tion, take to heart, the great diffusion of comfort and 

 good temper that will follow the adoption of this plan, 

 not forgetting the riches and honor you will thereby 

 acquire. Gloucesthr. 



By the Editor. — We are under great oblig.itions to the 

 writer of the above article, and shall, we hope, profit 

 by his advice. We do not, however, perceive the ne- 

 cessity nor the expediency of altering or adding to the 

 title of our publication. It is not necessary tliat the title 

 ornameofa book should comprehend, allude to, or indi- 

 cate, all the subjects on which the work treats. A pe- 

 riodical devoted to Agriculture, and entitled the New 

 England Farmer, will be expected, of course, to contain 

 articles relating to " in-door labor," as well as that of 

 the field and the garden. Tlie art of llie farmer extends 

 to household as well as to b 'rnhold economy, to cook- 

 ing as well as to cattle feeding, to clennsing linen, as 

 well as clearing stables ; and if our periodical does no, 

 embrace " matters and things " useful to tlie housewife 

 as well as to the husbandman, the fault is in the editor 

 not in the title of the work. 



We can recollect when English Critical Reviewers 

 were accustomed to make the "lengtlii/" title pages of 

 American publication*, a standing joke. They observ- 



ed in substance that brother Jonathan alw.iys under- 

 took, in the title to his literary productions, to enter in- 

 to samany paiticulars, as to supersede the necessily of 

 preface, introduction, table of contents, &c. Although 

 we do not always subscribe to the sentiments of those 

 trans-Atlantic Hypercritics, we believe they have jus- 

 lice, in this case, on their side, and avoid long title pa- 

 ges to books, or prolix headings to newspapers, with as 

 much sedulity as we shoulil cut the company of an ev- 

 erlasting story-teller who holds you by the button, ad 

 irifinitum, to listen to an interminable harangue about 

 nothing. 



But, allhoiigli we have no wish to change or add to 

 the standing tille of the old New England Farmer, we 

 shall ever be happy to improve ihe wo. k by the intro- 

 duction of good articles on domestic economy, or to give 

 publicity to any communications which " will give fa- 

 cilities " to female departments of rural employment ; 

 and will be under great obligations to "Gloucester" 

 for such aid as he seems capable of furnishing. We 

 have some numbers of Loudon's Encyclopa;dia of Ar- 

 chilecture, but not a complete set; and the articles to 

 which he alludes, are not in our possession. We intend 

 to procure the whole, if possible, and as soon as practi- 

 cable. If, however, our friend " Gloucester " will take 

 the trouble to turn to the anicles " Recipes," in the in- 

 dexes of any or all the bound volumes of the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, published annually since its commence- 

 ment in August, 1822, he will find we have printed 

 niurli useful matter that would be proper for a " Uo 

 mestic Manual," and that we have given nol a little at 

 tention to tho Ladies' Department of Rural Economy. 



By William Kenrick,— Received of Mr John Carter, 

 of Ihe city of Richmond, Va.,— Calawba, fine, sweet and! 

 delicious. Ilerbemont's Madeira, a fine native fruit ;( 

 the bunches large and oblong, with large shoulders, and' 

 very compact; the berries small, round, of a blue color, 

 of a sweet, vinous and excellent flavor. 



Norton's Virginia Seedling, a native fruit, bunches of 

 medium size, oblong, and very compact; the berries, 

 small, round, of a blue color; juice of a swecl, vinous 

 and delicious flavor. The vine bears aliHost extraordi- 

 nary crops. Mr Carter, from his long experience, is 

 persuaded that for the climate of America, this gra'pe 

 has no equal, either foreign or native, lor lis fine qual- 

 ity, for productiveness and lor wine. The wine made 

 by him at his vineyard of this grape, is of the color o: 

 Port wine, and of most excellent flavor. 

 For the Committee. 



WM. KENRICK, Chairman 



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Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 



Saturday, Sept. 30, 18'37. 



Ptars —By Mr Manning, from his Garden in Dear- 

 born Street, North Salem,— Cabot Pear, a new variety, 

 raised by J. S. Cabot, Esq. of Salem, from the seed of 

 ihe Brown Beurre, a brown fruit, of medium size, tur- 

 binate form, very Beurre or meliing, flavor delicious ;— 

 the tree a great bearer. Washington. Raymond, a ve- 

 ry fine fruit. Epine D'Ete. 



By Blr F. W. Bird, of Walpole,— Mpgul Summer or 

 Chelmsford; specimens very large, the larjest weio-h- 

 ing 1 1-4 lbs; weight of the eight, 7 lbs. 10 oz, circum- 

 ference of the largest 13 inches. 



J)p/>les.~By Mr Jacob Pratt, of Sherburne,— Pratt's 

 fall Greening, a very large green fruit, a native of Sher- 

 burne, of a round form and a blush ne« the sun; a no. 

 ble cooking apple, juice of a lively acid ; compares well 

 wilh ihe R. I. Greening and Monstrous Pippin 



Peaches.— By Mr Richards, from his Garden in Ded- 

 harn,- Sargent Peach, and two varieties of Seedlings, 

 one a yellow lEreripe — large and fine. 



Phinis.—By Mr Pond, from his Garden inCambridge- 

 port, — Semiana, or Imperatrice Violette. 



J^ectarines —liy Mr Thomas Mason, from his Garden 

 in Cli.irlestown, — Beautiful specimens. 



Gropes.— By Mr Mason, of Charlestown. — Black 

 Hamburgh and White Chasselas, fiom his grape house. 



I!y Mr 9. R. Johnson, from his Garden in Charles- 

 town,— Sweet water or White Chasselas Also, white 

 FrontignaC; both the produce of open culture ; these 

 like all other fruits which Mr Johnson exhibits, were 

 very fine. Also, Black Hamburg, very beautiful speci- 

 mens. These were raised under glass. The glasses 

 were opened about the first of April, suflicient only to 

 give air, and have never been closed or removed since. 

 These fine and perfect clusters have lliere grown and 

 ripened well, witli no other care or attenlion. 



EXHIBITION OF FRDITS. 



Saturday, Oct. 7, 1837. 

 Pears. — By Mr Manning,— Remsen's Favorite, Buf- 

 fum, Verte Longue or long green, St. Ghislain, Naum- 

 keag. Belle Lucrative, juice abundant <,nd very sweet 

 and fine; Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Autumn Superb, 

 Rousseletle de Rheims, Beurre du Comie de Fresnel. 

 The tree of this kind is remarkable for its beauty, but 

 the fruit proves ordinary; Marie Louise, Bowdoin, a 

 large round native fruit, the quality ordinary ; Jalous'ie, 

 Sannder's Beurre, this agrees well with Bergamotte 

 D'Aulomne; Bun Chretien Fondanle, this last must be 

 wrong; the fruit small, and by no means Bon Chretien 

 formed. Jackman's Melting, very oblong and conical, 

 or somewhat Calabash formed, color dark red, meltino-' 

 beurre, good flavored ; this must be a local name. 



Apples.— By Gamaliel Oliver, Esq. of Lynn,— Mam- 

 moth apples, a very large green cooking fruit. 



By Rlr Jona. Warren of Weston,— American Nonpa- 

 riel, Golden Harvey, a native seedling fruit, must be 

 mis-named. A round dark red fruit, stained inside with 

 red, of middle size and excellent flavor; Porter apples 

 very fine. 



JVectarines.—By Mr Thomas Mason, from Charles- 

 town,- Brugnon Nectarines, beautiful. 



Pluvis.-By Mr Manning,— QuetclieD'Italie or Ital- 

 ian Prune, a fine, large, oblong fruit of a black or dark 

 blue color, flavor good. Coe's Golden Drop, the same 

 fruit which was sent by Mr Knight, very large and de- 

 licious. 



Grapes.-By Mr Thomas Mason of the Charlestown 

 Vineyard,— Black Hamburg, very fine. 



By Mr Samuel R. Johnson, from his Garden in 

 Charlestown,— Black Hamburg, very fine; white Fron. 

 lignac, fine. Also, white Chasselas, very fine and the 

 produce of open culture. 



By William Kenrick,— Specimens of Grapes receiv- 

 ed of Mr John Carter, from his Vineyard in Richmond 

 Va. Norton's Virginia Seedling. Also, Herbemont's 

 Ma.leiia, described in a former report. Also, Catawba 

 from the same source, very sweet and fine. 



jyine. — A bottle of Catawba wine from Mr Carter's 

 Vineyard, was examined ; the qua'ity good ; and also 

 another bottle of wine, from the same source, made from 

 Norton's Virginia Seedling Giape, of a dark red or the 

 color of Port wine or Claret. This wine was of a vin- 

 ous and sufficiently astringent flavor, and was pronoun- 

 ced a superior wine. For the Committee. 



WM. KENRICK , Chairman. 



[CTA Report of the meeting of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, and the Vegetable Market at* 

 unavoidably omitted. — The prices, however, remain the 

 same, with the exception of Sweet Potatoes at jftl 50 

 instead of $2,50 per bushel. 



