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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



OCTOBER 3, 1S33. 



Chester, handsome Belle Bonne apples. By John 

 Clapp Esq. from the Forrester place, South Read- 

 ing, fine peaches. By It. Manning, Raymond 

 Pear a verv fine fruit and productive, originated 

 in the town of Raymond, Me. By S. Downer, 

 Tiltington (not at maturity), Sickle and Andrews 

 ,.car. By S. Bond, Cambridge, Andrews p^ars : 



fine peaches (name unknown), Semiana and 



plums, and Seedling grapes, from the Isabella. 

 By ThomasMason, Charlestown Vineyard, Elruge 

 nectarines, and two varieties of apples (names un- 

 known). 



By order of the Committee on Fruits, 



Edward M. Richards. 



Mistake Corrected. The Wilbur Pears, exhibit- 

 ed on the 14th inst. see page 75 of N. E. Farmer, 

 should have been credited to Mr. Philbrick of 

 BrookUne, instead of B. V. French, Esq. These 

 pears, we are informed, originated in Somerset, 



Mass., not EL Island, as there stated. 



EXHIBITION OP FLOWERS. 



Saturday, Sept. 28(/i, 1833. 



William Kenrick, Newton, Dahlias, many varie- 

 ties ; Altheas, do. do. ; Japan Chorcorus, Suowber- 

 riis, &C. .. 



S. Walker, Roxbury, Dahlias— Dennisn, bar- 

 rail's Susannah, Walker's Seedling, Hall's Mogul, 

 Squibb's pure Yellow, Romulus, Foster's incom- 

 parable, Gloria Florum superbum, Wells' Royal 

 Lilac, Lilac*. 



John A. Kenrick, Newton, Thirty kinds of Dah- 

 lias. 



The exhibition of Dahlias this day was very 

 fine. As this is the season of bloom for this mag- 

 nificent flower, the Committee indulge the hope 

 that those gentlemen who possess great varieties 

 of new and improved kinds, will favor the Society 

 and public with a grand display the ensuing Sat- 

 urday, provided severe frost does not cut them 

 down. 



By order of the Committee, 



J no. Winship, Chairman. 



«#*»»» A circling row 

 Of goodliest trees, loadon with fairest fruit, 

 Blossoms and fruits at once of golden hue, 

 Ippearerf, with gaj enamelled colors mixt; 

 <>,, which die sun more glad impressed his beams, 

 Than in fait evening cloud, or humid l«>«'. 

 When God hath showered the earth ; so lovely seemed 

 That landscape. »•***» 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 

 APPLES. 



By A. D. Williams of Roxbury, specimens of 

 the Rock apple, of the growth of 1832, in a per- 

 fectly sound state, remarkable for its property of 

 long keeping in the divers climates whither it has 

 Deen sent— a good fruit, and superior to most vari- 

 eties of the same name. 



By James Refed of Roxbury, Red Colville or 

 Colville Rouge d'hiver of Dphamel. 



By John Perry of Sherburne, a fine red seed- 

 ling apple. 



By Dr. Bobbins of Roxbury, specimens of a 

 small and beautiful apple of a deep crimson or 

 blood color, deeply stained with red inside, of a 

 fine flavor. The tree is abundantly productive. 



By Samuel M. Senter of Centre Harbor, N. II. 

 Senior apple, a red striped apple of gtfod flavor. 

 ' By B. V. French of Boston, Seedling apples. 



By John Mackay of Weston for premium, speci- 

 mens of beautiful apples called Maiden's Blusb, 

 not yet at maturity, but believed to be the llaw- 

 thorndean. 



'By Mr. Manning, Killam Hill apple, fine— also 



Perkins I g apple, a native fruit of a yellow 



color and conical form, very fine. 



By Henry A. Breed of Lynn, a very large fine 

 looking apple, name unknown. 



By Charles Bowen, a very large apple of fine 

 appearance, without name. 



PEARS. 



By Charles W. Greene of Roxbury, a Pear, 

 name unknown, but presumed to be from France 

 a fruit of middle size, of a green color and tur- 

 binate form, of a line musk flavor. 



By Dr. Joel Burnett of So'uthboro', Pears not 

 yet at maturity, quality and name not ascertained. 

 By John Heard, Jr. from his summer residence 

 at Watertown, St. Ghislain Pears, a superior fruit. 

 By Mr. Downer, Fulton Pears, Wilkinson do. 

 both" ripe and fine. Also, Napoleon and Tilling- 

 ton. 



By A. C. Curtis of Newton, a very large Pear, 

 but not being yet at maturity its name was not as- 

 certained ; but if we mistake not and our recol- 

 lection serves aright, it might be the Chelmsford. 

 By Mr. Winship, Seedling Pears from Mr. Pom- 



roy. 



By D. Fosdick of Charlestown, Sickle Pears, 



and the Pound Pear. 



By Dr. S. A. Shurtleff, Beurre d'Angletene, 

 good ; Gansel's or Brocas' Bergamot, a most su- 

 perior fruit, but miserably unproductive; the Dix 

 pear, and the Capiaumont, fine and very produc- 

 tive. 



By Mr. Manning, the Old Endicot pear, a mid- 

 dling fruit. 



PEACHES. 



By Samuel Pond of Cambridgeport, fine speci- 

 mens of the Kennedy Lemon Clingstone. 



By Samuel Davenport of Milton, Heath Cling- 

 stones. By Joshua Cooledge, Jr. of Watertown, 

 fine specimens of Orange Peach, also \ellow 

 Clingstones and Lemon Clingstones. 



By Mr. Winship, large Blood Peaches, chiefly 

 useful for preserving. 



By William Kenrick, Malta or Belle de Paris, 

 Yellow Melacoton, another fine productive fruit: 

 Double Vinetise, a new variety from Belgium ; 

 also a new native fruit, a large round clingston; of 

 a golden color, red next the sun, fresh yelbw, 

 rather juicy, vinous and sweet, the tree very pro- 

 ductive. 



NECTARINES. 



By James Blake of Boston, a new native f-uit, 

 pale in the shade, red next the sun— a good szed 

 clingstone, of very tine flavor. 



PLUMS. 



By Mr. Manning, Coe's Golden Drop, a Jew 

 kind sent to Mr. Lowell by Mr. Knight, a giod 

 sized fruit, of a delicious sweet and superior flaor. 



By Samuel Pond of Cambridgeport, Semhna 

 Plums or Suisse-, very fine. 



GRAPES. 



By Win. Durd, of Charlestown, for premimi, 

 nine large clusters of Grizzly Tokay, the first fr.it 

 of a young vine ; and four large clusters of Swe.t 

 Water — all raised in open culture. 



By David Fosdick of Charlestown, Grapes, 

 name unknown, clusters small, fruit small, Hi 

 very sweet and good. 



By Thomas Mason of Charlestown, Black Han- 

 burgh and White Frontiguac, all fine, and the pr<>- 

 duction of the second crop. 



By James Reed of Roxbury, White Chasselas^ 



By A. Perry of Sherburne, White Native grape!. 



very sweet and seemingly improved by cultivation* 

 By Samuel Pond of Cambridgeport, Pond's 

 Seedling grape, the clusters of good size and com- 

 pact, the fruit a round purple grape, sweet and 

 good; this fine grape deserves further trials: — 

 also, fine specimens of Isabella and Catawba 

 grapes. 



SHEPARDIA, OR BUFFALO BEIIRY. 



By Mr. Winship, a branch of this tree loaded 

 vvth fruit, presented a novel and fine appearance, 

 tlie fruit covering the branches compactly like 

 el iBters of grapes ; the fruit is of the size anil color 

 of the large red currant, flavor subacid or sweet; 

 tolerable in its raw state ; and excellent for pre- 

 serving; the fertile and barren blossoms are the 

 productions of different trees. 



MELONS. 



From the Society's Garden at Mount Auburn, 

 Ctphalonia Melon, an oblong, pointed, yellow va- 

 riety of the Musk Melon ; Beechwood Melon ; the 

 seeds from the Lond. llort. Soc, an oval varii ty of 

 lie Musk Melon, of a green color, flesh of a deep 

 grass green, of a most delicious, sweet and musky 

 flavor. Also, the Citron Water Melon, excellent 

 for i reserving, produced from seeds sent by Mr. 

 Mihe of New York. William Kenrick. 



At the meeting of the Horticultural Society on 

 Saturday last, (Sept. 28th,) Hon. Robert H. Goulds- 

 borbugh of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, was 

 unanimously elected an Honorary Member, John 

 A. Winthrop, Esq. pf South Carolina, a Corres- 

 ponling Member, and Messrs. Charles Bowen aud 

 Join Downer, Subscription Members. A second 

 edition of the address delivered by the President 

 (Gen. Dearborn), was ordered to be printed. 



And the meeting was dissolved. 



K. T. Paine, Secretary. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



For the .Yfic England Farmer. 

 MANUFACTURE OF SILK NOT NEW DS 

 NEW ENGLAND. 



Mr. Fessenden— Sir, I have lately observed 

 in several of the newspapers some statements re- 

 specting the rearing of the silk-worm, and the 

 manufactory of the silk into various articles that I 

 know to be altogether erroneous. Will you have 

 the goodness to correct the impression that has 

 gone abroad through the medium of your paper, if 

 you think what I am about to state to you shall be 

 sufficiently satisfactory. 



My Father, Mr. Joseph Clarke, of Northampton, 

 commenced raising silk-worms soon after the close 

 of our Revolutionary War, as early as 'S9 or '90, 

 aud continued it for more than thirty years. At 

 first he was entirely unacquainted with the busi- 

 ness except tarough some European publication, 

 and the little Oral information obtained occasional- 

 ly, from Mansfield people. Every year, however, 

 added to his stock of knowledge, and consequent- 

 ly he was enabled to produce raw silk, (reeled up- 

 on the true Italian reel,) equal to any imported 

 from India to England. He had Cloths and 

 Handkerchiefs wove ; they resembled m texture 

 the foreign. Cloth for my mother, a cloak, was 

 woven at Long Meadow by an Englishman, and 

 is still worn by an old lady in N. Hampton. Mr. 

 John L. Sullivan took some raw silk to England, 

 and it was returned to my father very beautiful 

 stockings. The manufacturer pronounced it to 

 be as good as any imported from India. 



