VOL. XII. NO. fl. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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LOCUST TREES. 



Among the forest trees attempted to be cultiva- 

 ted in this vicinity, is the Locust Tree. It is val- 

 ued as strong, durable timber, is of rapid growth, 

 and has a rich and beautiful foliage. But the 

 great difficulty in rearing this tree, is the ravages 

 of the insert called the Horn: It attacks the tree 

 while young, upon the outside of the bark, pene- 

 trates into the trunk and perforates it in every di- 

 rection. It then is subject to be broken by the 

 wind, and will not remain sound and uninjured but 

 a short time after the worm has insinuated itself 

 into its vitals. A handsome young shade tree, 

 about twenty feet in height, standing in front of 

 the Court House in this town, was broken down 

 by the wind during the shower on Sunday. On 

 examining it, the Borer was found to have perfora- 

 ted it in every direction, and one of thein was de- 

 tected in following his villainoiispursuits. The ap- 

 pearance of this insect is much like that of a small 

 e.ar-wig, so called, destitute of wings, but liberally 

 supplied with legs and strong teeth. It is remark- 

 ed, that in groves of locust trees, only those on the 

 outside of it are attacked by the insects, implying 

 that light and heat are necessary to sustain it. A 

 slight covering of some kind, then, upon the out- 

 side of the tree while young, might save it from 

 all these ruinous and destructive injuries. — North- 

 ampton Courier. 



DEAFNESS OF THE AGED. 



Nothing is more common than to hear old 

 people utter querulous complaints with regard to 

 their increasing deafness; but those who do so 

 are not perhaps aware that this infirmity is the re- 

 sult of an express and wise arrangement of Provi- 

 dence in constructing the human body. The grad- 

 ual loss of hearing is effected for the best purpo- 

 ses; it being to give ease and quietude to the de- 

 cline of life, when any noise or sounds from with- 

 out would but discompose the enfeebled mind, and 

 prevent peaceful meditation. Indeed, the gradual 

 withdrawal of all the senses, and the perceptible 

 decay of the frame, in old age, have been wisely 

 ordained in order to wean the human mind from 

 the concerns and pleasures of the world, and to 

 induce a longing for a more perfect state of exis- 

 tence. 



From the Journal of Commerce. 

 POISONING HORSES. 



Dear Sir: — I saw in your paper of yesterday, 

 an account of some 25 horses having recently died 

 at Utica, under circumstances which led their own- 

 ers to suspect that they had been poisoned by ar- 

 senic. It is on this particular point, that I wish 

 to make a few observations. In the year 1826, 

 an acquaintance of mine, in the country, lost two 

 horses under circumstances strongly calculated to 

 excite the belief that they had been poisoned : and 

 subsequent developetnents fastened suspicion on 

 an individual in the neighborhood, who had some 

 two or three weeks before, purchased from an 

 Apothecary an ounce and a half of arsenic. With 

 these, and all the lesser facts that could be collec- 

 ted, the case was presented to the Grand Jury, 

 who found a bill of indictment against the suspect- 

 ed individual, who was duly arrested, and gave 

 bail for his appearance at Court. In this stage of 

 the proceedings, his Counsel advised him, after be- 

 ing fully persuaded of his innocence, to procure a 

 horse of no great value, and give that horse as 

 much arsenic as it was supposed these horses bad 



taken, the experiment to Ik; instituted solely with 

 the view of ascertaining the precise manner in 

 which arsenic would produce death, and not 

 doubling in the least but it would (Jo so. I was 

 one of the three chosen to conduct the experiment. 

 We gave the horse half an ounce of arsenic — 10 

 hours after we gave him another quarter of an 

 mince — and 2 hours after we gave another quar- 

 ter of an ounce, and so continued, till we had giv- 

 en the animal one ounce anil a half without produ- 

 cing in the horse the slightest inconvenience. 

 Two weeks afterwards I tried the same experiment 

 mi another horse, and with arsenic procured at 

 another [dace, given in the same quantities, anil 

 with precisely the same result. It is proper to re- 

 mark that this last experiment was instituted at 

 the request of the gentleman whose horses had 

 died, and it was witnessed by him and at least 20 

 of his friends, and the result was so entirely satis- 

 factory, that he immediately withdrew all proceed- 

 ings against the person he had before suspected. — 

 I offer these facts as evidence, that the commonly 

 received opinion, that arsenic is so convenient a 

 poison with which to destroy horses, has no foun- 

 dation in fact. I am yours, &C. K . 



New- York, .August 9/ft. 



RECLAIMING FEAT MEADOW. 



To the Editor of the JV. E. Farmer. 



Dear Sir, I have just come out of my peat- 

 meadows; and, having made much progress since 

 the dry weather commenced, I wish to call the 

 attention of your readers to the subject of their 

 culture ; for the more I prove these lands, the 

 more fully am I convinced of the value of them, 

 when they can be drained and reclaimed. I have 

 one piece' which was burned over five years since, 

 and has had but one coat of compost put on it, 

 that produced fifty four hundred of hay to the 

 acre this season of clear clover, herdsgrass and 

 red top, which is worth this year $1.5 per ton, 

 which is forty dollars and fifty cents per acre, clear 

 profit ; for the second crop will more than pay 

 for getting the hay. 



My plan is to reclaim them, to pare and burn 

 the land, then harrow and sow the grass seed, and 

 roll it down with a heavy roller. This operation 

 is performed very easily. With my Paring Plough 

 I can pare an acre in a day, and when the weather 

 is as dry as it is now, it will be dry enough to 

 burn in two or three days. The whole operation 

 can be performed for from twelve to fifteen dol- 

 lars, and the first crop will more than double pay. 

 Yours in baste, Benjamin Wheeler. 



Framingham, Aug. 14, 1S33. 



Queen of August, Early Profuse, lmperiosa, Early 

 Blood Red Anemone, Crimson Turban, Dwarf 

 Lilac, Countess of Liverpool, Purple Prince, Paint- 

 ed Lady Anemone, Large Scarlet Anemone, Straw 

 and Purple, Black Prince, Washington Black, Ane- 

 mone (lore, Small Crimson Anemone, Grand Mon- 

 arch, Countess Plater, Theodore, Profuse Lake, 

 Kentish Hero, French White, Grandeur Superb, 

 Abundant Maroon, Royal Sceptre, Panoply, Sol, 

 Miss Hester, Romulus, Crafts' Maroon. 



John A. Kenrick, Newton, Bignonia grandi- 

 flora, &c. 



Messrs. Winship, variety. 



Per order of the Committee, 



Jona. Winshif. 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS AT THE MASS. 

 HORT. SOC. ROOMS. 



Saturday, Aug. 17 th, 1833. 



S. Walker, Roxbury, Dahlias — Le Brilliant, 

 Dennisii, Hall'sMogul, ColvelPs Perfecta, Romulus. 



Thomas Mason, Cbarlestown Vineyard, varie- 

 ties of Dahlias, Carnations, with other kinds of 

 flowers. 



E. Putnam, Salem, Dahlias, 50 varieties — Pulen, 

 Clustered Purple, Young's Black Purple, Iron R.ed 

 Globe, Crimson Globe, Star of Brunswick, Lord 

 Lyndhurst, Queen of Yellows, Montpelier, Dennis- 

 sia, Young's Aurora, Seraphia, Young's Prosperine, 

 Young's Pauline, Barrett's Susanna, Prince's Tran- 

 scendent, Large Pink Anemone, Brown Anemone, 

 Antonio, Queen of Naples, Douglas's Augustus, 



EXHIBITION OF FRUIT. 



Apples. By Samuel Downer, Esq. Dorchester, 

 River Apple, large and handsome ; Williams' Fa- 

 vorite, Virginian and Red and Yellow Siberian 

 Crab. By S. G. Perkins and H. A. S. Dearborn, 

 Esqs. the Transparent Apple of the Crimea (Rus- 

 sia), a large white Apple now in eating, flesh white, 

 juicy, tender and sprightly. By John Heard, Jr. 

 Esq. Sopsavine, and a small Apple, name unknown, 

 color vermilion and white, beautiful and fine 

 flavor. 



Pears. By S. G. Perkins, Esq. St. Ghelien 

 Pear, of fine flavor. S. Downer, Esq. small French 

 Pear, name unknown. By Samuel Hastings, Esq. 

 Boston, a fine specimen of the Early Rousselet, 

 pear known by the name of the latten, or Cathe- 

 rine pear (not the Catherine or Summer Beauty of 

 the pomologist.) John Heard, Jr. Esq. Windsor 

 pear, and a large handsome pear, and a pear 

 past the time for eating, names unknown. By 

 a gentleman from Harvard, a fine specimen of 

 the Windsors. The same from M. P. Wilder, Esq. 

 Dorchester, and Howland Cowing, Jr. Roxbury. 

 By S. Pond, Cambridgeport, Early Crawford pear. 

 By M. P. Wilder, Dorchester, a tine specimen of 

 the Double Eyed pear, resembling in shape and 

 color the Jargonelle, of good flavor. By Martin 

 Brimmer, Esq. Boston, a good pear, name un- 

 known. 



Plums. By R. Manning, Salem, Cherry Plum 

 of Cox, No. 1, handsome and of fine flavor. By 

 A. Brimmer, Esq. Boston, White Gage. By Mr. C. 

 Cowing, Roxbury Green and Prince's Gage. S. 

 Pond, Cambridgeport, Pond's Purple plum. Br 

 Jl. P. Wilder, Dorchester, a handsome blue plum. 

 By S. Downer, Esq. Damson, Drap d'Or, and Bing- 

 ham plum. 



Apricots. By Mr. Joshua Child, Boston, a seed- 

 ling from his garden, of good flavor and large 

 size, with some of the nuts for distribution, to be 

 known as Child's Seedling Apricot. By Edward 

 Cruft, Esq. Boston, a seedling, raised by himself 

 in his garden, Boston ; the committee were full in 

 their commendation of this fruit; it is large, and 

 possessing all the richness, flavor and abundance 

 of juice, seldom if ever surpassed — even in the 

 union of the plum and peach of the most approved 

 sorts: to be known as Cruft's Late Seedling Apri- 

 cot, as this gentleman has an excellent early seed- 

 ling, known as Cruft's Early Seedling. 



Peaches. By C. Cowing, Roxbury, the Early 

 Ann. 



Grapes. By Mr. Thomas Mason, Charlestown 

 Vineyard, four branches of the White Frontenas, 

 large and fine flavored. 



Per order of the Committee, 



Benj. V. Frshch. 



