Vol. X.— No. 4. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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are general througliout Europe, and their bcneficral 

 influence universally admitted. They are accessi- 

 ble to all, and thousands are thus excited to ex- 

 plore the vcfietable kin^'doni, who are continually 

 making collections of valuable plants, or extend- 

 inf the boimds of horticultural science. 



I have the honor to be with profound lespect, 

 your obedient servant. Horatio SpuAGnr.. 



H. A. S. DraRBORN, Esq. Pres. Jlass. Hort. Soc] 



A package of seeds was presented by Mrs Doct. 

 Cliannin;;, uliich she collected in the West Indies. 



Rcsolveif, That the thanks of the Society be pre- 

 sented to Mrs Doct. Channing, for the valuable 

 collection of seeds, which she has kindly bestowed 

 upon this institution. 



Resolved, That the above named seeds be placed 

 in the hands of the Curator of the Botanical 

 Garden in Cambridge, and that he be requested to 

 report the result of his experiment, in cultivating 

 them. 



Horticulturalllall, ) 

 Saturday, August 6, 1831. j 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



Apples.— A remarkably fine specimen of the 

 Sopsavine, (Shropshirevino .') from Mr E. Vose. 



Pears.— Early Catharine, (of Bloodgood's cata- 

 logue,) Grosse Cuisse Madame, Summer Bergamot, 

 (Coxe, No. 5,) English Red Cheek, (generally known 

 as the English Catharine,) and Windsor Pears, from 

 Mr Manning. 



Apricots.— Early, (of Coxe,) from Mr E. Vose, 

 and several boxes, (supposed to be the Roman,) from 

 Dr Rollins. S. DOWNER, Chairman. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Mr Fessenden — In your paper of Aug. 3, I ob- 

 served some remarks upon an extract from the Chris- 

 tian Examiner on the 'Mortgaged farms of N. Eng- 

 land.' Although some ideas there expressed may 



is disgraceful, but all are honorable. The lowest 

 calling upon earth, if performed from right feelings, 

 will ever command respect and esteem, even from 

 those whom Providence has raised to the highest 

 stations of wealth and power. JMany who em|j|uy 

 ' help' in their families are overbearing and disposed 

 to trample upon those in their power ; yet is this a 

 good reason why a daughter of a ' substantial farmer,' 

 or any other person's daughter, should consider as a 

 ' degrading servitude,' or as ' the sorry employment 

 of gathering crumbs from the rich man's table,' the 

 situation of domestic in a family .' We are deceiv- 

 ed ; it is our own fault if we are not respected. 



Let us look into the history of independent and 

 flourishing families, and we shall see the father 

 whose industry has been blessed with plenteous suc- 

 cess, and the wife who graces the board that is load- 

 ed with hospitable cheer, were one or both servants 

 in their youth to such as they now are. 



The great end in the education of every female 

 should be to fit them to become good wives and pru- 

 dent housekeepers, and if a young woman is so situ- 

 ate! as to be under the necessity of learning in 

 another house than her father's, certainly it can be 

 no disgrace to her, but an honor if she performs her 

 duties with fidelity and cheerfulness. 



There is one consideration which I have never 

 hoard advanced in favor of young women's becom- 

 ing domestics who are obliged to earn their daily 

 breiJ, which is a very important one. In this situ- 

 atiai they are every day better qualified for good 

 wivjs, and of course increasing the opportunities of 

 bediming so. 



A sensible man is not generally attracted by her 

 vvh3 is ignorant or out of the performance of domes- 

 tic duties; for to one who has congenial qualities 

 ani is happy and at home in household affairs, he 

 wi 1 look for happiness. I wish not to be personal, 

 buil think the sentiment 'I would sooner, infinitely 

 so-iner, follow my daughters to the grave than see 

 th;ni go out to service,' cannot originate in a good 

 sprit or sound principles, and that pride is at the 

 root of it. 

 In regard to domestics, much might be said, and I 



be tounded in truth, yet I tinnk the spirit m which . ,^, ',^ ,„„;,ations ,mon the suhiect. with nn endn.. 



of your cogitations upon the subject, with an endea- 

 vor to devise some method of placing it in its true 

 light, and of helping those who are in want of help. 

 OLIVER. 



the article was penned was bad, and the principles 

 there laid down are unsound, and will have a very 

 injurious tendency wherever they are received. ' A 

 Farmer' says, I ' think all those who reflect candidly, 

 unbiassed by prejudice, and from a desire to come at 

 the truth of the matter in regard to political equalit)', 

 will perceive that all the reed equalitii that any go/- 

 ernment can give a people is the privilege of gaitmg 

 access to the highest honors and emoluments Ihroufh 

 merit, or to leave each individual of a nation in perfect 

 freedom to pursue the path which best suits him, >.o 

 wealth and distinction, so far as he injures no one 

 else. Any other scheme cannot but be productive 

 of bad results, and prove in the highest degree inji- 

 rious to the community.'! 



I do not imagine that the ' suggestion of saving 

 the land from an evil of such widely spread and in- 

 creasing magtitude,' by a willingness on the part of 

 those alluded to, to perform the duty of domestics, 

 is correct, but yet I do believe, and every one who 

 will take the trouble to look around him will per- 

 ceive that most of our troubles and perplexities in 

 business, occ, are brought upon us by an unwillini,'- 

 ness to appear for what we really are, from a false 

 pride whicli prevents us from performing the duties 



of the situation in which Divine Providence has , . , , , , .., . 



placed us, and conformino- to the circumstances jf ^hese nuts, cracked, and they will quit everythi: 

 our condition. We wish to make the world to b3- ! ^'se, to cluster upon it. Wlien the dish is w 



REMEDY FOR RED ANTS. 

 Mr Fesse.nden — As there is great complaint 

 in the papers respecting the little nauseous red uni 

 that infests the closets and dairy rooms of farmers, I 

 beg leave to ask you to republish from the New 

 England Farmer of Sept. 10, 1830, page 64, a 

 complete remedy that you then copied from Mrs 

 Child's invaluable ' Frugal Housewife.' I have tried 

 it in a closet, and in a large cheese room, and find 

 the ants will leave everything for the walnuts. 



PASTURE OF PLANT.S. 

 Every plant requires a given quantity of earth 

 to nourish it, into which its roots extend for that 

 purpose ; and the quantity thus requireil is called 

 the requisite pasture of the [ilant. Some require 

 more earth, and some less. Some require a 

 greater superficial extent with less depth ; while 

 others require a greater depth with less superficial 

 extent. 



For instance, a plant of Indian corn requires a 

 superficial extent of, say, three feet in circumfer- 

 ence, and a depth of six inches; while a root of 

 the licet, carrot, or parsnip kind, requires a super- 

 ficial extent of, perhaps, only twelve inches in cir- 

 cumference, but a depth of, say, fifteen inches. A 

 plant of flax, on the contrary, will not require 

 more than six inches in circumference, and five 

 inches in depth. 



It will probably be found, that the'greater depth 

 is given to all plants, the less circumference they 

 will require ; that the roots will, in that case, shoot 

 furtherdovvnwards; and, therefore, the deeper you 

 plough, the thicker you may sow. This is a mat- 

 ter of nice calculation, and well worth the attciuion 

 of the ingenious Farmer. 



In order to elucidate this, the proper method is, 

 to try various plants in beds of the same soil, cul- 

 ture, and dimensions, but dug of different depths, 

 and the plants set at different distances, and then 

 the results will lead to the truth. 



Thus, for instance, make four beds of carrots, 

 which shall be dug equally well eight inches 

 deep ; let the roots in the first bed stand at the 

 distance of four inches from each other; those of 

 the second, at the distance of six ; those of the 

 thini, at the distance of eight ; and those of the 

 fourth, at the distance of twelve inches; and then 

 let it be ascertained whieh bed has the greatest 

 weight of carrots. 



In the meantime,' have four other beds dug 

 twelve inches deep ; and four more dug eighteen 

 inches deep ; and plant one of each of tfiem at the 

 respective distances above mentioned, and ascer- 

 tain what is the result of each. The same experi- 

 ments can be tried with equal exactness on most 

 other plants, and the results equally well ascer- 

 tained. 



Labor Saving. — It is stated that 20,000 copies 



of the London Atlas were struck in a few hours. 



A computation has been made that the printed 



surface was equal to about 20 acres, and that 



it contained suflicient matter for 14,230 octavo 



volumes of the ordinary thickness. Divided into 



'It is unnecessary to tell any who have had ex- I columns, placed end to end, the length would eh- 



perience of the evil, that redants are like the compass Middlesex,and the seven surroundingcoun- 



plagues of Egypt. The following method of de- ties. The whole of this labor was performed by 



stmying them seems to be too simple to be very ef- 

 fective ; but I have known it succeed, when a house 

 had been infested with them for years. 



' These insects are extravagantly fond of shag- 

 bai-ks,or American walnuts : fill a large dish with 



three boys with a I'our horse steam engine. There 

 are men, who manifest some understaniling on 

 other subjects, and yet, who propose to dispense 

 with labor saving machines, in order to give em- 

 ployment to workmen. This is a mistaken notion, 

 and if applied in extenso, would carry us back to the 



early imperfection of machinery. One stepback- 



lieve that we can live as well, dress as well, and pra- j covered, remove it carefully, and brush them all in- 1 wards involves an entire retrograde. Which of the 



early, imperfect presses eouM be fixed upon — or 



would they dispense with printing presses altogeth- 



To maintain consistency, they ought to dis- 



cure the same luxuries as our more wealthy neigli- , to the fire ; at the same time have a little corrosive 

 bors. We run before we ought to creep, therefire sublimate in a cup, to sweep in such as happen to 

 W wonder we come to the ground ; but this is not gtrgy fro,n ,i,e ji^ij . a„j (ou^i, .^^ tijg cracks and 

 d:^m.t!i, we are blinded if we think so. True dignty ^^.^^. ^,.^,^^ ,^,_;^,, ,,^^.^ ^^^^^ j,^^_,^ ^^,^^ 



intuences us to perform to the very best of the alili- .,, ' ,,.,., . , 



ty vith which we have been endowed, our dailn end '"'^^ " ^'="""=''' '^'^1"^'^ '" the same poison. In one 

 appareri duti/, not to disgrace the situation we are ' '^«^ek li this be repeated they will all be gone. By 

 in, but to elevate it; there is no situation in ife, ' no means leave the cup, or poisoned feather about 

 while viitue and innocence are our companions, ;hat for an instant,' 



pense with types also. It really would seem that 

 some of these free-trade anti-Ameri«an system phil- 

 osophers would take from us all we have, with 

 the exception of our ' teeth and nails.' — Detroit 



Courier. 



