V1>1. XVI. .\0. 51. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



407 



the grain is so much clear gain. This however suppo. 

 ses ihat the stalUs and butts and liusks are well managed 

 and saved ; and that the land itself is suitable for corn. 

 Such is our opinion of the value of thif crop, in which 

 we fear we shall not have the assent of our correspon- 

 dent, tliat even if we had no manure, we should be al- 

 most disposed to plant it, and yet what might come, 

 provided the land was corn land, as being the first step 

 in the improvement of our husbandry. We know that 

 the crop of grain would be poor in such cose ; bulHhe 

 fodder would be something in the way of feeding stock 

 and making manure for future crops. We have always 

 maintained that no crop returns so much to the land, 

 under good hushandrv.as Indian Corn. But if we were 

 rompclleil lo plant without manure we should certainly 

 avail ourselves of the method proposed by our corres- 

 pondent ill regard to grass : and plant upon a perfectly 

 inverted and undisturbed sod, so that the grain might 

 have all the advantage of the decaying turf. Perhaps 

 this will be regarded as uHraism. But few persons are 

 liowever absolutely without manure or the means of 

 bringing some together. IMud, ashes, and plaster are 

 almost always attainable ; and lime is as important to 

 Indian Coin as to W'lieat, though neither lime nor plas- 

 ter are to be considered as enriching manures. With 

 due and seasonable cure, mould, scrapings of yards and 

 roads, pondholcs, and ditches with the emptyings of the 

 sink, wash tubs and privy may soon furnish to every 

 family a considerable heap of valuable compost. 



As it respects injury from crows, there is no diffi- 

 culty in various ways of providing again.st this evil. In 

 regard to worms, we agree that there is considerable 

 danger from manuring in the hill ; and we can recom- 

 mend no certain remedy. The best security against 

 their depredations is to seed abundantly. This not only 

 increases the chance of a sufficiency of plants escaping 

 the depredations of the worms; but likewise gives what 

 is'of great importance, a favorable opportunil)', in thin- 

 ning out, of selecting plants, which are most vigorous. 



Of the method of improving worn out grass land by 

 simply ploughing and then laying it down immediately 

 with grass seed, we express our strong approbation, 

 founded on much observation and experiment ; and on 

 some future occasion we shall enlarge on this matter. 



which in the usual acceptation of the term may he call- 

 ed acrideiits. ^ucli events as this may be coinniouly 

 traced to a careless or |iresuuiptuo'js iiolalion of the 

 laws of nature :ind a defiance of the corisliuition of 

 thing.s; and though the causes or iiiinie<liaie occasions 

 of this terrible di..aster are ni>t well ascertained, there 

 can be little doubt of inexcusable and r-riininal rreglect 

 or misconrluct somewhere. If any thing c;in be done 

 by letial provisions f^ir the security ol liuniMii life in our 

 [lublic conveyances, ilie Congress of the United Stales 

 are highly responsible tor neglecting it a single day. 



TIlLilMO.METRlCAL. 



ttepiirlfil l.n the iNtnv I'.niilainl l-'aniirr, 

 (Uilge.>rtiie I'll ■rtnoMieteral ilie f;ardeii.>f the proprietor" 



of the iVew England Farmer, Brighton. Mass. 

 Northerly exposure, week ending June 24. 



in a shaded 



BUSINESS . 



Business is gradually reviving through the country ; 

 and may be e.\pented, in .ipite of the madness and v'il- 

 lany, which for sometime reigned triumphant in the 

 coinmiiriity. lo reach presenily its ordinary hi'ahhy con- 

 dition. There is an elasticity in a people left free to ex- 

 ert themselves, and driven, as is so . eiimessaid lo their 

 wits' end, which cannot long he kept down. JJivine 

 Providence is always kind and hcneficent. The earih is 

 always true to her duty. Industry, joined with temper- 

 ance and iriiu-ality. are ordinarily sure of their just re- 

 wards. The causes of our past sufferings are to be 

 found in our folly and iiiihridled cupidity, which hesi- 

 tated at no possible or plausible means of acquisition 

 and acciimulalion. It is not for the people to complain 

 of the government, if, knowing what that government 

 is and is likely to be and. do, and in truth are and do 

 nothing mote than what thoy said beforehand they 

 would be and do, the people make the govirniiient. For 

 a time we were in such a slate of plethoric and feverish 

 excitement, that the brain was as much disordered as 

 the body ; and nothing but golden visions glittered be- 

 fore ihe mind ; the perceptions were overpowered by 

 the glare ; and all sense of moral right and justice was 

 nearly extinguished. We have had a terrible, but, un- 

 der the circunisiaiices, a most sabtarv check. In the 

 pro;;ress of an interniilteut the ague tiirii is dreadfully 

 ilepressing ; but nothing in this world lasts always ; and 

 tune, and patience, and wholesome exercise, and reoi- 

 nien will not fiil to accomplish a cure. To speak with- 

 out a figure, the natural course of things will prtsently 

 restore our young and vigorous commiinily to as high a 

 measure of prosperity and activity as is consistent with 

 good morals. 



May, 1R.38. 



.Monday, 



Ttiesday, 



Wednesday, 



'i'linrsday, 



l-'rlday, 



Saturday, 



Sunday, 



STE.AMBOAT PULASKI. 



The most painful accounts have been received of the 

 wreck id'lhis biat at sea, on her passage from Savannah 

 to New York with about 200 persons on board, inclu- 

 ding passengers and crew, of whom it is sujiposed as 

 niany as 170 have peristiL-d. Tlie boiler exjdoded when 

 the boat was about 30 miles from land, rending'the boat 

 asunder; and, excepting a few jiersous saved in the 

 small boats, the whole soon sunk forever. In some ca 

 ses it would seeni that whole frinilies were on board, on 

 their way to enjoy during the hot season the invigora- 

 ting cliiiHile of the North, In one instance eleven of 

 one family perished; and many of these weie persons 

 of such standing and influence that their sudden remo- 

 val will be very deeply felt. 



The affliciive catalogue of steamboat disasters incica- 

 ses with a fi-arful rapidity. The Orimoco, the boat near 

 Louisville whosi- name we do not remember, the Home, 

 the Mosi^ll;, the Washington, the New England, an i 

 now the PulasM have fiillowed each other in such quick 

 succession, ihat we are not recovered from one sliock 

 before another tremendous calamity of ilie kind over- 

 takes us. The agony of the poor suft'erers must have 

 been of short dnraiion ; but the distress wliii h this event 

 will carry in its innumerable ramificaiions into private 

 life, and into many a friendly domestic circle, must be 

 immense and most pitiable. The deliMht anticipated 

 from the recreations of travelling, and the greetings of 

 friends long separated, and hy some from their reiurii to 

 their early paternal homes is exchanged for bitier "rief 

 lo those, who are left ; and nothing can more strikingly 

 illustrate the proximity so common in human destiny 

 between hope and disappointment, life and death 



We believe that iu this world there are few things 



CONGRESS. 



It is stated that one of the new members from Mis- 

 sissippi has lalely made a speechjin the house of fourteen 

 hours long. To speak in his own style, considering the 

 heal of the weather, this must have been a great day's 

 work for an ap-prentice. On a subject so haikncyed as 

 the Siib-Tre.\sury, what could he liave said thai had not 

 been said a hundred times in all the newspapers in the 

 country. But possibly, aa many others, he may have 

 spoken of things in general like a Governor's proclama- 

 tion for a fast, beginning with the f.ill of Adam and so 

 down. 



FANEUIL HALL VEGETABLE MARKET. 



Green Peas, 



Turnips, 



Cucumbers, 



Lettuce, 



Radishes' 



Rhubarb, 



per bushel, 

 per bunch, - 

 each, 

 per bead, 

 per bunch, 

 per pound, 



FRUITS.- 



I 7 A.M. I 12, \1. I 5. P.M 



70 

 68 

 70 

 66 

 74 

 80 

 80 



SCYTHES Ai\t) IS.^KK.S. 



Just received at the Agricultural Warrhouse and Seed 

 Seed Store, a complete assortment of Garden and Field Tools, 

 consisting in part of 

 100 dozen Hall's Rakes, superior. 

 100 do. Wilder & Eddy's, do. 

 200 do. Coiiiiiinii do. 



25 do. English Cast Steel Grass Si jili< s. 



10 do. do. do. Cradle do. 



10 do. do. do. Border do. 



100 do. Round Scythe Stones. 

 100 do. Square do. 



100 do. Cast Steel Garden Hoes. 

 100 pair Grass Shears. 

 100 do. Pruning do. 

 100 do. Fruit do. 



50 dozen Patent Sheep Shears. 



20 do. Pruning do. 



20 ilo. do. Saivs. 



25 do. Budding Knives. 



25 do. Pruning do. 



20 do. Edging do. 



25 do. Breaking up Hoes. 

 100 do. Garden do. 



50 do. Dutch do. , 



20 do. Bill and Brier Hooks, 



10 do. Grass do. 



50 do. Garden Rakes, 

 500 pair Chains, for tying up cattle, 

 500 do. Trace Chains. 



25 dozen Halter do. 



— ALSO— 



SOO dozen Patent Scythe Snaiths, superior. 

 100 do. Cast Steel and other Shovels, 

 1000 do. Rifles, 500 do. Scythe Stones, 



June 27, 1837, 



Strawberries, quart, - 

 Gooseberries, (green) do. 

 Cherries, quart, - 



81 00 



- lU 



12 



6 



6 



■1 



i a 30 



16 



- 20 



BRIGHTON MARKET.— .MosLAr, June '^5, 1.^38. 

 tteporled lor the i\»*w Knfll-tnd Kariner. 



At Market 140 Beef Cattle, kO Cows and calves, 940 

 Sheep and 250 Swine. 



pKicKs —/;'£(/ Caitlc. — We quote lo loriespond with 

 last week, viz: Firsl quality at $8 00 a :j8 2o. Secimd 

 qua'ity ^7 2.j a ,$7 75.— Third quality, $li 50 a jJ7 00. 



Cvios and Cattcs. — In demand, sales were made at 

 $2ri, .■J34,$37, ,f 12, and .$50. 



iAfC/(,— Lois were sold at $2 25, $2 75, $3 00 and 

 .$3 50. 



Swine. — One lot only was sold to peiMIe, and those 

 without weighing ; two small lots of Old, at 8 cents. 

 .\t retail from 8 lo 12, according to size and quality. 



AI.DERNEY STUCK FOR SAtiK. 



For sale, a full blooded Bull, 3 3ears old the first of July 

 next — one Cow, five years old— and a Heifer three years old. 

 The Cows are said to be the richest Milkers of any imported. 

 For further particulars address L. M. WHEATON, N'orton, 

 Mass., or a line left at this office, will meet with prompt 

 attention, June 27 



SITr.\TION AVAWTED, 



As Gardener, by a young man of practical knowledge and can 

 be well reconuneiided, A S-ituation West or South would be 

 preferred. Address R, B. through the office of this paper, 



GCMNY B.tGS. 



9000 Second Hand Gunny Bags, 500 Gunny Sacks, a cheap 

 article for Hop Bagging, For S-ale low by G. W . STEARNS, 

 No. 10 (!^onimercial Wharf. liu 



June 27. 



Massachusetts Ilorticultnral Society. 



The Rooms of the Alasachusetls Horticultural Society, 23 

 Tieuiont Row, are open for tlio public every Saturday morn- 

 ing, from 10 till 12 o'clock. 



The Fruits and Flowers are usually for sale. 



EXHIBITION OP GRASS PINKS. 



The subscriber would inform the public ihat be proposes to 

 have an exhibition of Pinks at his place in Warren Street, 

 Roxbnry, lo be opened the 25ih of June and coniinue oner 

 week. The collection embraces many beautiful varietiea 

 which I have raised from seed imported in 1835 from one of 

 the greatest Pink I'ancicrs in Great Pritain. U is believed to 

 be the best collection in New Englad and worlby ihe atten- 

 tion of amatcuis. My place is 2 1-2 miles from the City 

 Hall and 1-2 mile f'rom'the Noifolk Hou.se, Price of admis- 

 sion 25 cents. Open from 4 o'clock, A, M, to 6 o'clock, P. 

 M. WILLIAM MILLER, 



Roxbury, June 20th, 1838, 2w 



SITUATION WANTED. 



Wantetl a situation, hy a scientific gardener, one who 

 thoroughly understands his business and can produce the besl 

 of recommendaiions. Apply at the N. E, Farmer Office, 51 J 

 & 52 North Market St, JOSEPH BRECK & CO. 



