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NEW ENfiLArSD FARMER, 



Aug. 31, 1831. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUG. 31, 1831. 



We beg leave to call the attention of our road- 

 eistotbe Piispeciuii of a Botanical work vvliicli 

 ' Messrs D. & C. Laiidreth of Philadelphia are ahout 

 to uiideitake. This plan deserves all encour- 

 agement, and they possess rare materials and facil- 

 ities for its nccoMiplishment. 



MrD. T. Browne, the industrious Kilitor of the 

 Naturalist, proposes to publish in this city, the 

 New Englanil Sylva, containing a <lescripiion of 

 the forest trees in New England ; with their uses 

 and manner of culture and propagation ; to make 

 a duodecimo volume of about 200 pages, ornamen- 

 ted with plates, price $1,00. Such a work, faith- 

 fully executed, we think would meet a ready sale. 



By Mr S.PIiilbrick,Brookline, Capiaumonte, hand- themselvea with buds of some of the finest varieties 

 me but not at maturity — also, the Long green or | of fruits in the country. As far as the irees have 



Edinburgh 7?ei'i>«.'.— Lilly & Wait have just re- 

 published the lOGth number of this able and popular 

 Journal, which contains elaborate diiqiiisitions on 

 the following subjects : Pretended Miracles ; Irving, 

 Scott and Erskine— Williams on the Geography of 

 Ancient Asia ; Geographical Distribution of Ani- 

 mals — Hon. Mrs Norton's Undying One— Reuvens 

 on the Egyptian Museum at Leyden— Universities 

 of England ; Oxford— Observations on the Paper 

 Duties; Taxes on Literature— Government of Brit- 

 ish India — The Dissolution and General Election, 

 ivilh Suggestions to the Peers — Political and Vested 

 Rights— Moore's Life of Lord Byron— Quarterly 

 List of New Publications— Inde.v— published quar- 

 1crly at $5,00 per annum. 



CUCUMBERS. 



Mil Editor — It has of late become fashionable 

 among a certain class of newspaper scribblers toile- 

 cry cucumbers, and represent ihem as unwhole- 

 some, and worse than useless. For upwards of 70 

 years 1 have been gratifieil in their animal use, and 

 liave no remembrance of ever experiencing any in- 

 jury from the moderate use of tlieni. Therefore, as 

 respects the most valuable and laborious part of the 

 community, I have no idea that this article, which 

 lias bsen agreeable lo all generntions before us, is 

 now lo be despised and avoided. 1 am ready, 

 liov;evcr lo admit, — tliat the idle, the sickly, and 

 lazy part of the cnnnmmity ought to abstain from 

 cucumbers, ns well as many other things made for 

 ihe sole comfort and pleasure of the human fam- 

 ily whose happiness is inliiuatcly, if not, insepara- 

 l)ly, connected with a laborious life. 



JVtwIon, .''}iigust 28. J. Ke."(rick 



llarticillturni II:iM, 

 .S.Uutday, Augusta?, 1J31. 



T^RUITS E.KHIBITED. 



MouilU Bouche. 



By Mr R. P. Phipps, Andrews Pears. I 



By Mr Richard Ward, a variety of Bcrgamot. 



Peaches. By Mr Otis Pettee of Newton, a hand- 

 some collection, embracing twelve varieties, some of 

 vvliich were fine. 



By Mr Charles Tappan, Brookline, a Seedling 

 handsome in appearance, and of fine quality. 



By Mr E. Dyer, a handsome variety. 



By Mr E. Vose, Dorchester, Yellow Rareripe, 

 Jaques Rareripe,and an uncommonly beautiful speci- 

 men of the Grosse Mignonne, the last of large size, 

 and excellent flavor. 



Plums. By Mr R. Manning. Largs Blue Hol- 

 land. 



By Mr E. Dyer, a handsome variety, but not in eat- 

 ing. 



Grapes. By Mr William Gault of Concord, N. H. 

 A large and fair specimen of Purple ' Fox' of good 

 quality. 



By Mr Henry D. Child, Early Black Morrillon— 

 of pleasant flavor. 



By Mr Charles Lawrence of Salem — White Chas- 

 selas and Black Hamburgh, very handsome speci- 

 mens of open ground culture. 



By Dr S. A. ShurtletF, a seedling Grape of fine 

 quality, somewhat resembling the Black Hamburgh, 

 of a Lilac color — it is proposed to be called ' Shurt- 

 lejfs Earbj Lilac.'' The committee have received a 

 particular description of this Grape from Dr Shurt- 

 ieff, a copy of whicn is annexed. 



S. DOWNER, Chairman. 



This Grape is a native, from a foreign Secrf. It 

 came up in my garden about si.x years since ; it was 

 transplanted by nie tour years since, where it now 

 stands; it bears only one bunch on a branch, and 

 that on the fifth eye from the last years' wood ; the 

 stem is slim, bunches well formed, and berries large, 

 of an oval form ; ripens in August, about the 20th 



Pemherhii's Hill, ) 



Boston, Aug. 2G, 1831. I 



FLOWERS EXHIBITED. 



From N. Davenport, of Newton, a fine Plant of 

 Marantha zcbrina— Fine double Tuberose— Ciiina 

 Asters, Monthly Roses, &c. 



A Cocoa Nut Tree from B. H. Norton, of Hing- 

 ham 



China Asters, Marigolds, &c, from Wm. Worth- 

 ington, Dorchester, and S. Walker, Roxbury. 



The following were exhibited by Mr Carter, from 

 the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, on Saturday, Aug. 

 10, and omitted : 



Hibiscus paluslris viri— double and single Dahlias 

 — Phlo.x paniculata— Phlox pyramidalis and scabera 

 — Snow berry — Liatris inacrostichys and pilosa — 

 Euphobia corolata — Delphinium sibericum — Draco- 

 ccphslum do. denlatum — Sajetaria latifolia — San- 

 gusorbia canadensis — red and white water lily. 



VEGETABLES. 



Mr Richard Ward of Roxbury exhibited some ex- 

 traordinary fine Lima Beans, for premium. They 

 were raised on a deep rich soil, manure spread and 

 dug in late last fall, planted the 18th of May, about 

 one inch deep, ten to a pole, the poles four feet apurt 

 every way. D. CHANDLER, Chairman 



.Ippks. By Mr Solomon Lyman, of Manchester, 

 •Conn, a specimen of a native variety of large size, 

 yellow, fine flavor, and worthy of cultivation. 

 By S. Philbrick, Virginia Amber Crab Apples. 

 By R. S. Phipps, York Riissett and anotlier vari- 

 ■ety. 



Pears. By Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn, a Ripe Spe- 

 eimun of his Seedling Pear. This fruit is rather j ii a o t» 



Aindcr the medium size, skin smooth and fair, light i "O^- "■•"■ S- ■'-'^^'''^°'^''> 

 yellow, very melting, and of fine flavor, compares i '"'■'"• ^'"='- H'irt. Socipty. 



well in quality with the St Michael, and bids f^iir to Sir — I have thought it proper to advise the Mem- 

 1x) be a valuiible acquisition to our list of summer hers of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 Pears. The Committee propose that it be called the i through you, that the trees which were so gener- 

 ' Dearborn Pear.' | onsly presented lo them by Messrs Prince & Sons, 



By R. Manning, specimen of Julienne (Coxe No. of the Linna-an Garden, New York, and which were 

 12) not in eating. Melon Pear received from Mr i entrusted to our care by the Society, are all (with 

 Carr, but appears to be the Julienne. Revelliere, the exception of a few Cherry and Apricot trees) 

 from a French tree, and a kind supposed lo be the growing finely on our grounds in Brighton. As this 

 Cassolette. The last at maturity, and of good fla- 1 is the season for budding, members are advised to 

 ,VQr. 1 avail themselves of the opportunity of supplying 



produced fruil, they prove the coriectnese of Mr 

 Prince's Establishment. 



The scions sent from Henry Corse, Esq. of Mon- 

 treal, are all living, with one exception, (the Admira- 

 ble.) 



A catalogue and description of Mr Prince's trees , 

 will be found in the New England. Farmer, vol. VIL 

 page 38.5. A catalogue of Mr Corse's scions in the 

 Farmer, vol IX. page 329. 



Yours respectfully, 



J. & F. WINSHIP. 



Brighton Nursery, Aug. 29, 1831. 



BUDDING PEACH TREES. 

 As the season has ariiveil for budding peach 

 trees, we would caution those who are wishing to 

 improve their fiuit, against using or having used 

 for them any buds, unless they know thai they 

 were taken from healthy trees. The disease call- 

 ed ihe yellows has been inlrodiiced amongst us 

 from some of Ihe eastern nurseries, am) has al- 

 ready destroyed many of our peach trees, and will, 

 unless care is taken, destroy many more. A sin- 

 gle bud taken from an infected tree and set in a 

 hcalihy one of any size, is sufliciciil to kill the 

 tree within a few years, whether the bud lives or 

 not ; and we are persuaded that the disease may 

 be c()mmuni<-ated by Irimmiiig a tree vvilh a knife 

 that has been used to trim a disca.sed one, upon 

 which the least po.isible quaiility of the juice re- 

 mains. It llierefoie not only requires ihe great- 

 est care as re.^pects buds, but in pruning one tree 

 after another, with the same instiiiment. AS 

 there are a number of men traveHing the country 

 offering their .services for budding ami grafting 

 fruit tri'es, who, although ihey are capable of set- 

 ling buds or .scituis, are at the same time so igno- 

 rant of this iJisease among peach trees, as to be 

 miable to delect it, ihoy may do an injury to in- 

 dividuals who employ Ibeui, which is lieyond 

 their power to repair. One of the suiest indica- 

 tions of ihis disease is the premature ripening of 

 the fruit. We have examined a iree the week 

 past, of the lemon peach, the fruit of which had 

 the appearance of maturity, anil Some of them 

 were quite mellow, although the proper season 

 for this fruit to perfect itself is the la.st of August 

 (ir the fore part of September. Having known 

 the iree mentioned for several years, and having 

 ate the fruit from it in fine perfectiiui, in years 

 past, we are of opinion that ihe disease has been 

 communicated lo it by a saw i ■ uiher instrument 

 which had previously been iiseu in pruning a dis- 

 eased Iree. As the peach is a fruit liked by most 

 people and lias been of easy cultivation in this 

 cnuutry we entreat horticulturists to make exer. 

 lions lo prevent the spread of this fatal disease 

 which otherwise would soon destroy all the trees 

 in our vicinity. — Genesee Farmer. 



Shakers' Bar."*. — The Shakers of Harvard are 

 building a barn, which, is probably larger than 

 any structure of the kind on this continent. The 

 dimensions, as we are informed, are one hundred 

 and Jifty feet in length, and forty fve in width. It 

 is four stories in height, and tlie calculation is to 

 drive in on the upper flours, from the hill-side, 

 and pitch the hay down, thus rendering much hard 

 labor easy. The cost of this barn, when cmnplet- 



ed, is estimated at $3000 The Shakers of Can. 



terhury, N. H. we are told, have a very large 

 barn, but it is excelled by the one at Harvard, 

 B. H. ,/lurora, 



