VOI... XII. NO. 1. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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THE SEASON, &c. 



The weather in Quebec has been much the 

 same as with tis. Neilson's Gazette mentions that 

 it had continued very unsettled, and by no means 

 favorable to the growing crops. " Since Satur- 

 day evening tiie weather has been rainy, and siuce 

 last night, colli, with easterly wind. The health 

 of the city and neighborhood continues good." 



The Crops in Lower Canada, June 1833. The 

 early part of the month of May was like the pre- 

 ceding one, very cold and wet, and the season 

 backward, so that planting progressed slowly until 

 nearly the middle of the month, from which time, 

 great exertions were made to finish putting potatoes 

 in the ground, but even up to this time (1st of Ju- 

 ly) considerable quantities still remain to be plant- 

 ed. The consequence is, the dressing of potatoes 

 will take place during the hay and harvest, which 

 will cause much additional expense aud trouble 

 to the framers. Wheat has a tolerably flourishing 

 appearance on many farms, although it is stated the 

 large white grub has destroyed some fields almost en- 

 tirely ; and on wet low land, wheat has a very poor 

 appearance. Oats look very fine, and do not ap- 

 pear to have been so much hurt as other grains by 

 the heavy rains. Barley, on dry up field lands, 

 is fine; but on damp low lauds, it has met with the 

 same fate as other grains, poor and short ; in fact, 

 nothing but weeds appear to profit by cold rainy 

 weather. Peas and Indian Corn are almost a total 

 failure, excepting on new cleared lands. In the 

 May report we stated that hay bad a promising 

 appearance, which we are sorry to say does not 

 bold good at present, as almost every one is com- 

 plaining of the crops (particularly on old mead- 

 ows) being uncommonly light; indeed, many state 

 they will hardly be able to cut them at all. It is 

 wonderful how much hay has been affected by the 

 cold and wet this spring; even natural meadows, 

 grosfoin, are very light, so that betwixt pea straw, 

 corn stalks, and short hay, we may expect to be at 

 least one third or one fourth short of the bulk of 

 last year. Pastures are excellent, and the stock in 

 good condition. Hops are said generally to prom- 

 ise an excellent harvest. The caterpillar, with a 

 smaller sort called by the Canadians the arpenteur, 

 from its mode of creeping, has totally destroyed 

 fruit trees over a great part of the country. — Mon- 

 treal Herald. 



This summer has been attended with more rains 

 than are usually experienced in Canada ; and for 

 some time serious fears have been entertained that 

 a very injurious effect on the crops would be 

 the result. Since Tuesday, however, the wind has 

 set in steadily from the south west. The barome- 

 ter has risen slowly, and the air has been cool 

 and favorable for vegetation. Some pieces of low 

 lying laud have suffered considerably. Peas are 

 generally injured, and Iudian corn is a failure ; but 

 in all other grains, there is every reason to expect 

 that should the present favorable appearances of 

 good weather continue for a short time, we shall 

 have a good average crop. — Montreal Courant, 

 June 29. 



Apple Blossoms. A friend last week shewed us 

 two bunches of apple blossoms he plucked from a 

 tree in the meadows. By the side of them were 

 apples larger than a hen's egg. Blossoms not un- 

 frequently are seen in the fall, but at this season of 

 the year, they are rare and unusual. — Northamp- 

 ton Courier. 



From the Columbia Telescope. 

 FLOUR. 



The following result of a scientific investigation 

 is likely to be exceedingly important. The facts 

 were exhibited in one of the late sittings of the 

 French "academic des sciences." 



" Economical researches relative to the bran or 

 hull of wheat and other bread stuff's, by Dr. ller- 

 pin. The author gives the results of his research- 

 es in the following propositions : 



1st. That the envelope or cortical part of the 

 wheat forms at least one twentieth of the weight of 

 the grain. 



2dly. That nevertheless, by the customary mode 

 of grinding, wheat produces one-fourth of its 

 weight in bran. 



3dly. That about 25 per cent, of the nutritive 

 substance of the grain is left in the bran. 



4tldy. That by simple washing, there may be 

 drawn from the bran one half its weight of the first 

 quality of flour, or oat-meal, according to the na- 

 ture of the grain. 



5thly. That there may, by this mode of proceed- 

 ing, be made from grain at least 15 per cent, more 

 bread than is at present obtained ; that is, from the 

 same quantity of grain now used in France, there 

 might be had three millions of killograms of bread 

 per day, more than is now obtained." 



PARTIAL EXPERIMENTS. 



Wood ashes, both dried and leached, have long 

 been recommended as tending to injure and de- 

 stroy insects in the soil. We have heard of a 

 farmer, who has been in the habit of using ashes 

 extensively as manure, declaring his iutention of 

 discontinuing the use of them altogether on his 

 farm, being convinced that they tend greatly to in- 

 crease insects and worms injurious to crops. It is 

 very questionable whether this farmer has taken 

 into consideration all the circumstances that are 

 requisite to draw his conclusion. It is very proba- 

 ble that causes, such as the state of the seasons, 

 the changes in the soil by other agents, an unusual 

 prolificuess of insects, or the introduction of other 

 grains and grasses, and a thousand other things, 

 may have produced the effect attributed to ashes. 

 It is owing to such partial and deficient experi- 

 ments that so much contrariety of sentiment ex- 

 ists among farmers. — JV". 1*. Far. 



IMPROVEMENTS. 



The Capabilities of Machinery. In the single 

 but important article of Cotton, one man can now 

 produce two hundred times more goods in a week 

 than he could in 1760, when George III. ascend- 

 ed the throne. One mill in Manchester can, when 

 all the spindles are at work, spin as much cotton 

 thread in a week as would go round the world. 

 In the manufacture of hosiery, which is seated 

 chiefly in the midland counties of Nottingham, 

 Derby arid Leicester, machinery has reduced 

 stockings one hundred per cent, compared with 

 what they were twenty years ago. Owing to ma- 

 chinery, lace, which was 2s. per yard eight years 

 ago, may now be bought for 4d ; what was £4 

 10s per yard twenty years ago, is now lSd ; and 

 some kinds may be bought as low as one farthing 

 per yard ! 



Woollens have experienced less reduction in 

 price than any other kind of wearing apparel. At 

 a paper manufactory in Hertfordshire a quantity of 

 pulp can, at a distance of twenty-seven feet from 

 the cistern in which it lays, be converted in three 



minutes by machinery, into a sheet of paper, ready 

 to be w.iitten upon ! Such is the continual ad- 

 vancement made in the Manchester manufactures 

 by machinery, that the trade say, if a manufacturer 

 were to leave manufacturing for a few years, he 

 would be quite lost upon returning into it again. — 

 London Merc. Jour. 



The Lime or Linden Tree is now in most pla- 

 ces in its greatest grandeur. For foliage and per- 

 fume of blossoms, few if any of the ornamental 

 trees will compare with it. Those who have a 

 taste for beautiful foliage and flowers will be well 

 paid by examining the Linden Tree at the west 

 end of Sweetser court, on Washington street, or 

 that on the estate of B. Busscy, Esq. Arch street, 

 while in their prime. — Advocate. 



The Author of Junius. The Belfast (Ireland) 

 Whig of the 9th ultimo, contains the following: 



" Lord Grenville, now very old, is seriously in- 

 disposed. On his death the secret respecting the 

 author of Junius' Letters will be disclosed — his 

 lordship having long been in possession of it. The 

 documents are at Stow, the seat of the Duke of 

 Buckingham, who is also ill." 



CONTINENTALS. 



The number of regulars furnished to the Revo- 

 lutionary Army were — 



By New England, - - - 117,441 



By the Middle States, - - . 56,571 



By the Southern States, - - - 56,997 



It appears by the above, that New England, 



consisting of NewHampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode 



Island and Connecticut, furnished more troops for 



the defence of her country, than the other nine 



States, by 3,872. The number of troops furnished 



by South Carolina was 6,447 — by Massachusetts, 



67,907— Georgia 2,697— Connecticut, 31,939! 



New England lost more men in defending South 



Carolina against her tory citizens, than S. C. 



raised during the whole war! — Vt. Rep. and Jour. 



ANECDOTE. 



The following anecdote is related in the Lon- 

 don New Monthly Magazine for last month : 



" In that inglorious attack on Buenos Ayres, 

 where our brave soldiers were disgraced by a re- 

 creant general, the negroes, slaves as they were, 

 joined the inhabitants to expel the invaders. On 

 this signal occasion, the city decreed a public ex- 

 pression of their gratitude to the negroes, in a sort 

 of triumph, and at the same time awarded the free- 

 dom of eighty of their leaders. One of them hav- 

 ing shown his claims to the boon, declared that to 

 obtain his freedom had all his life formed the proud 

 object of his wishes; his claim was indisputable; yet, 

 now, however, to the amazement of the judges, he 

 refused his proffered freedom ! The reason he al- 

 leged was a singular refinement of heartfelt sensi- 

 bility ; — ' My kind mistress,' said the negro, ' once 

 wealthy, has fallen into misfortunes in her infirm old 

 age. I work to maintain her, and at intervals of 

 leisure she leans on my arm to take the evening 

 air. I will not be tempted to abandon her ; and I 

 renounce the hope of freedom that she may know- 

 she possesses a slave who will never quit her side. 



FLIES EAT CHERRIES. 



Those flies that are drawn to heaps offish used 

 for manure, are very fond of cherries, so much so 

 as to consume all the cherries on a tree in a few 

 days — JV. Y.Far. 



