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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MARCH 19, 1S34. 



Natural Science which relates to Vegetable Physi- 

 ology or Botany. It would require r volume to 

 contain » list of the names of the several species 

 of plants which have been discovered, for the} are 

 not less than 100,000, and volumes to describe 

 their properties, their uses, their peculiar and ex- 

 cellent organization. It would be idle therefore, 

 and absurd, to attempt to discuss the subject at 

 large. The broad and beautiful book of Nature is 

 open to you nil, and there are a multitude of man- 

 uals, the works of patient investigators, that will 

 aid you in deciphering her wonderful mysteries. 

 For the present we can only dwell, briefly, on a 

 collateral branch, viz. Horticulture. 



(To be concluded in oar next.) 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



itfiarcy wosi&a 



LILLY, WAIT & CO. and GEO. C. BARRETT, 



121 WASHWQTOJ* STR. 51 t; 52 V. MARKET SIR. 



Will Publish Ibis Month the First Volume of 



THE COMPLETE FARMER 



AND RURAL ECONOMIST, 



Forming a Compendium of the most Important 



Brandies of Agriculture and Rural Economy. 



BY THOMAS G. FESSENDEN, ESQ. 



Editor of llio New England Farmer. 



The Editor and Publishers have been induced to 

 offer this work to the Public in consequents of the 

 great and increasing demand for information oh the 

 subjects which il is intended to embrace, with a hope 

 that it may prove useful to the Agricultural and Hor- 

 ticultural community, in whose pursuits all mankind 

 have a direct and obvious interest. It is intended to 

 form a Compendious Directory to the Fanner, Gar- 

 dener, Florist, and Rural Economist, and to be so 

 arranged that every article may be readily referred to. 



VOLUME I. 



The First Volume will be devoted to Agricul- 

 ture, in iis various branches, embracing the following 

 among other topics: 



Soils, Manures, 



Grasses, Hemp, 



Grains, Flax, 



Jnilian Corn, Neat Cattle, 



Wheat, Horse, 



Fences. 



VOLUME II. 



The Second Volume will be devoted tn Horti- 

 culture, in its various branches; also, Silk, Bees, 

 Rural Economy, &c. In this volume, the following 

 will be among the number of topics embraced in the 

 treatise : 



Gard, n, Hot Beds, Insects, 



Oi hards, - l dberry, Rural Economy, 

 Frail-., Silk, SfcSfc. 



Vine, 

 To each volume will be added a list of the best Im- 

 plements in use, and ilia wings of the most important 

 and improved binds, will be given. 



EXHIBITION OP GREENHOUSE PLANTS 

 | AND FLOWERS. 



Saturday, March 8th, 1834. 

 M. P. Wilder, Dorchester, Camellia japonica, 

 var. Woodsii, Knightii, anemone flora, Striara, 

 Rosea, Atropurpurea, Kew blush, Alba plena, Ox- 

 ulis rosea, Polyanthus (hose in hose). 



Thomas Mason, Charlestpwn, Mathiola srmplr- 

 cicaulis, Mathiola incana, Cineraria populifolia, 

 lllicium flor'ulauum, Camellia japonica (seedling), 

 do. Haggerstonii. 



Messrs. IIovf.y & Co. variety of Flowers. 

 Messrs. WiiNsiiip, Azalia alba, Teucrium fruti- 

 eans, Primula auricula, &e. &c. 



By order of the Committee, 



Jon a. Win ship, Chairman. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



At the meeting of this Society on Saturday last, 

 it was voted that all subscription members hereafter 

 elected, and who at the time of their election re- 

 side more than twenty miles from Boston, shall, 

 by paying an admission fee of seven dollars, be 

 afterward exempted from the annual contribution, 

 — as also shall hereafter be, those of such mem- 

 bers already elected, who shall have paid, or shall 

 pay the annual contribution up, to the present 

 time. 



Mr. William Stearns of Boston, and Mr. Na- 

 thaniel H. Bishop of Mcdford, were elected 

 subscription members, and the meeting was dis- 

 solved. 



Dairy, 



Sheep, 



Swine, 



Poultry, 



Woodland, £>'c. SfC. 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



Seedling Apples, medium size, striped red and 

 yellow, past their prime, by L, Ellis, Franklin. 



Seedling Apples, rather above medium size, 

 striped red and yqllow, past their prime, judged to 

 hate been a good apple at maturity; the Commit- 

 tee agreeably to request, call this the Sumner Ap- 

 ple, it having originated on a place owned by a 

 gentleman of that name in Foxborough ; by Dr. R. 

 Green, of Mansfield. 



Conway Apples, originated in Hamilton, Essex 

 county, yellow and green, with some red spots, 

 above medium size, juicy, rich and fine flavored, 

 approaching a sweet; by R. Manning, Salem. 



Hickory Nuts of the largest size, from Illinois, 

 by 



Preserved Citron, from melons raised in this 

 vicinity, line flavored and delicate, differing mate- 

 rially from ihe imported, by Messrs. Hovet & Co. 

 Seedsmen. 



For the Committee, B. V. French. 



CGZTDITXOlSrS. 



The work will be comprised.™ two volumes, royal 

 12mo. of 350 pages— price $1 a volume ;— ami either 

 volume may be had - iparately, as they will be entire- 

 ly independent of each other. 



ft?" Subscriptions solicited by Lilly, Wait & 

 Co. 121 Washington street, and Geo. C. Barrett, 

 Publisher of the Neui England Farmer, JVos. 51 $- 

 52 North Market Street. Boston. 



EXHIBITION OF GREENHOUSE PLANTS AT 

 THE MASS. HORT. SOC. ROOMS. 



Saturday, March loth, 1834. 

 Thomas Leonard, from the Conservatory of the 

 lion. Jno. Lowell, Acaeia armata, and other ele- 

 gant plants, 



Thomas Mason, Charlestown Vineyard, Acaeia 

 armata, Camellia atroruhens, two seedling Camel- 

 lia japonica. 



M. P. Wilder, Camellia japonica, do. var. Chan- 

 dlerii, do. do. Wardii, do. Variegata, do. Alba ple- 

 na, do. do. Loddige's red, do. do. do. Cam. a ; and 

 an unknown variety, first time of flowering, and 

 supposed to be a seedling. 



By order of the Committee, 



Jona. Winship. 



GARDENING. 



God Almighty first planted a Garden; and in- 

 deed il Is the purest of human pleasures: it is the 

 great refreshment to the spirits of man ; without 

 which buildings and palaces are but gross bandy- 

 work. — Bacon's Essays. 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



.If/pies. Newton Pippin — in point of flavor we 

 know of no apple that will excel this, at this sea- 

 son of the year ; by Messrs. Winsiiips, Brighton. 



A handsome specimen, past eating, name un- 

 known ; from E. W. Bull, Esq. Hartford, Ct. 



Grapes. Isabella grapes, in a fine state of pres- 

 ervation, in external appearance, flavor vitiated; 

 by Mr. Thomas Hastings, East Cambridge. 



Scions of the Seeknofurtber Apple, from Mr. Jai- 

 rus Lincoln, Bingham ; and the Hodgkins Apple, 

 from Mr. Webster of Haverhill, were received and 

 distributed. 



For the Committee on Fruits, 



B. V. French. 



From lite Northampton Courier. 

 DOMESTIC ECONOMY. 

 There are some simple questions in domestic 

 economy, which are worthy the attention of all 

 our farmers and agricultural men. They relate 

 immediately to the importance of possessing good 

 stock, and valuable species of animals, which ap- 

 pear to excite but little attention in most agricul- 

 tural communities. Cows which yield only their 

 ten quarts of milk per day to one man, are cer- 

 tainly much less productive than his neighbor's 

 animals, which perhaps, with the same expense in 

 labor and keeping, yield him his twenty quarts. 

 The profit of two dairy farms, where/the relative 

 difference between the animals is in such striking 

 disproportion, would astonish every individual 

 when ascertained at the termination of the year. 

 Yet this is hardly an imaginary case. Regard- 

 less ol considerations like these, a large number of 

 pool', comparatively worthless animals are kept by 

 > .M' '..liners, who cannot be impressed with the 

 great importance of substituting better and more 

 profitable beasts in their stead. 



lint sheep husbandry will illustrate this princi- 

 ple more fully. A. has a flock of eight hundred 

 Saxony or Merinoes, which yield four pound at 

 each shearing, making the product of his flock 

 3200 pounds annually. At the price for which 

 wool is now selling in Boston, say 75 cents, the 

 proceeds of A.'s sheep would he $2400 ; I!, his 

 neighbor, has ah equal number of sheep, though 

 of an inferior quality, but requiring the same food 

 and attendance as A.'s. They will yield perhaps 3 

 pounds lo a fleece, giving annually 2400 pounds. 

 This sort of wool at 40 cents, the present price, 

 will yield B. M!(i0, making a difference of §1500 

 between the productive character of A. and B. 's 

 sheep. Now it is one of the first principles in po- 

 litical economy to obtain from the smallest sur- 

 face of soil or specific number of animals, the 

 greatest amount of grain. By comparing the pro- 

 ducts of the two flocks of an equal number owned 

 by A. ami B. is not the difference, to .a discrimina- 

 ting mind, most astonishing? 



The above simple exposition of the profits on 

 Cows and Sheep of different kinds, will apply wilh 

 much the same force to all animals kept by far- 

 mers. An experienced individual, who is inti- 

 mate with the details ol' raising sheep, suggests to 

 us the absolute importance that they should be 

 kept well. Indeed the same remark applies to all ' 

 anifimls, from whom profit in the shape of period- 

 ical produce is expected. Cows from an insuffi- 

 ciency of food, or that of an inferior quality, dete- 

 riorate both in kind and quantity of their milk, 

 which surely is wretched economy, and Sheep, 

 with inferior food and buthalf enough of it.not only 



