Vol. X.— No. 9. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



71 



HorlicuUural Celebration. 



The MassachiisetlsHorticiiltural Society will celebrate 

 their annual lestiv^il on Wednesday the 21st of Septem- 

 ber by a public dinner and address. 



The address will be delivered by Doc.t. M. A Ward of 

 Salem, Professor of Botany .tnd Vegetable Physiology at 

 the Lecture Room ol tbe Athena!um, precisely at 11 

 o'clock A. M. Tile room will be opened at 10 o'clock. 



Ac exhibition of fruits and flowers, will be submitted 

 for the inspection of visiters, in Concert Hall, at 1 o'clock, 

 to close at 2 o'clock. 



Tickets may be bad 'of E. W. Payne, Esq. only, ;it ye 

 Rooms No. 14 and 15 Joy's Buildiijgs, hy Members of 

 the Society and Subscribers to Mount Auburn, until 

 Friday, the 16th inst. at 2 o'clock. Tickets of invitation 

 will not be issued. 



The dinner will be provided by Maj. Eaton at Concert 

 Hall, and the company will sit down at the tables at 4 

 P. M. Per order, 



Z. COOK, Jr. 

 Clmirmnn of tlie Comniilli'c nt ArtangeiiienU. 



ANN1VER.SARY 



OP THE MASSACHUSETTS HORTICi;i.TURAIi SOCIETY. 



The joint Committee on Fruits and Flowers respect- 

 fully invite all members of the Society, and others, 

 who are disposed to promote its objects, to furnish fjr the 

 approaching festival, such fruits, flowers, shrubs &c, .i- 

 may be worthy of tlie occasion ; especially such as may 

 be considered rare, or particular y flne ; as Grapes, 

 Peaches, Pears, Plums, Apples, Melons &.c, and such 

 ornamental plants, orange and lemon tiees, bouquets of 

 beautiful flowers, festoons and wreaths as are requisite 

 for the decoration of tbe dining hall. They can be sent 

 to Concert Hall, on Tuesday afternoon, the 20th instant, 

 or before 8 o'clock, on Wednesday morning, where some 

 of the Committee will be in readiness for their reception 

 and examination. Care will be taken of such plants as it 

 may be desirable to have returned. Gentlemen are re- 

 quested to label all fruits and flowers with the name of 

 tbe donor. Per order, 



E. VOSE, Chairman. 



Tall Meadow Oal and Orchard Grass Seed. 



Just received by J. B. Russell, No. 52 North Market 

 Street, Boston — 



A few bushels of fine Tall Meadow Oat Grass Seed, 

 rai-ed expressly for us by Capt. Chandler, of Lexington. 

 Tills grass is gaining rapidly in public favor, and will 

 doubtless soon become generally adopted -it is peculiar 

 for its very early and very late abundant product either 

 for a hay crop or for grazing, and for its astonishing pro- 

 duce on poor soil. Col. Taylor, of Virginia, says, in a 

 letter to tiie Virginia Agricultural Society, ' after fifteen 

 ' experience, I can safely pronounce it the hardiest 

 grass I have ever seen ; it bears drought, frost, heat, and 

 cold better than I have ever tried. It keeps possession 

 ot the ground in spite of severe grazing. It furnishes 

 better grazing early in the spring, late in the fall, in 

 drought, and in winter, than any grass known to me — 

 alone, and cut before tbe seed ripens, its hay is as nutri- 

 tive and pleasant to stock ol all kinds as any I have ever 

 used.' Price ,f 3 per bushel. 



Also, a few bushels of Orchard Grass Seed, raised this 

 season, expressly for Ibis establishment by John Prince, 

 Esq. This grass is getting into general use, and its ex- 

 cellence is too well known to require comment. 



Sept. 14. 



PRICES OF COUXTRY PRODUCE. 



Bulbous Flower Roofs. 



For sale by J. B. Russell, No. 52 North Market 

 Street, Boston — 



A few Double Crimson Paaony Roots — 50 cents each. 

 Large white Lily Roots, extra size, 12.^ cents each — $1,00 

 per dozen. Hyacinths, Tulips, Narcissus, Iris, ^rc. 



Sept. 14. 



JVew England Farvier's Almanac for 1832. 



Just published by J. B. Russell, at the office of the 

 New Ensland Farmer, 52, North Market Street, and 

 Carter, Hendee Si Babcock, Washington Street, the 

 New England Farmer's Almanac, for 1832, by T. G. 

 Fkssenden, Editor of the New England Farmer — the 

 Astronomical calculations by Robert T. Paine, Esq. 



Sept. 7. 



APPLGS,rus9ellings, 

 ASHES, pol, first sort, 



l*carl, first sort, 

 lilCANS, while, 

 liEEF, ness. 



Cargo, No. I, 

 Cargo, No. Z, 

 liUTTEK, inspected, No. l,ncw, - 

 CHEESE, new milk. 



Skimmed milk, 

 FLAXSEED, 

 FLOUK, liallimore, Howard-street, - 



Genesee, 



Alexandria, 



Baltimore, wliarf, 

 GRAIN, Corn, Northern. 



Corn, Southern Yellow, 



Rye, 



Barlev, 

 Oats/ 

 ilAY, 



HOG'S LARD, first sort, new, 

 HOPS, Islqualiiy, 

 LIME, 



PLAISTEll PARIS retails al 

 PORK, clear, 



Navy mess. 



Carso, No. I, 

 SEEDS, Herd's Grass, 



Red Top (northern) 



Rod Clover, (northern) 

 TALLOW, tried, 

 WOOL, iMerino, full blood, washed, - 



Merino, mixed wiih Saxoiij", 



Merino, three fnirtiis washed, 



Mer. ,ij, ha .iliiod. 



Merino, quai ler, 



Native, washed. 



Pulled superfine, 



1st Lamb's, 



2d, " 



bushel 

 barrel 



pound 



2 001 2 iO 



105 ouhos 00 



120 00' 122 50 



cask 

 I ton. 

 Ibarrel 



yo 



8 00 

 7 00 

 C 23 



h| 

 c 



3 

 1 12 



5 75 



5 75 

 4 &l 



6 00 



Sir Philip Sidney's Defence of Poesy. 

 seloen's table talk. 

 HILLIARD & BROWN, booksellers to the Univer- 1 

 sily, Cambridge, have just published — 



Tbe Library of the Old Ent;lisb Prose Writers, Vol. 

 II. — Containing Sir Philip Sidney's D. fence of Poesy 

 and Selden's Table Talk — with some account of the au- 

 thors and their writings ; edited by the Rev. Alexander 

 Y'oung. 



Extiar.t from the Eililor's Trcfiico. 

 ' The claims of Sir Philip Sidney and John Selden lo a 

 place in the Library of Old English Prose Writers, it is 

 presumed no one will question. The Defence of Poesy 

 is certainly one of the purest and most brilliant gems in 

 the coronet of English literature ; while the Table Talk, 

 for its admirabie good sense, its shrewdness of remark, 

 and its accurate deiineation of men and manners, stands 

 without an equal in the class of writings lo which it 

 belongs.' 



E.itract from the Retrospective Review. 

 * If ever there was a work more than most others 

 calculated lo delight and benefit general readers, and at 

 tbe same time less than most others known and apprecia- 

 ted by them, it is The Defence of Poesy. It is perhaps 

 the most beautifully written prose composition of the 

 Elizabethan age, impregnated with the very soul and 

 spirit of poetry, and abounding with the richest iidorn- 

 ments of fancy. Tbe excellencies of 'his admirable Es- 

 say are equally conspicuous, whether we regard the 

 purity and simplicity of its style, the strength and sound- 

 ness ol its reasoning, the rich fervor of its eloquence, or 

 the variety and aptness of its illustrations. In short noth- 

 ing is wanting to make The Defence of Poesy a piece of 

 writing that, in a similar space, is not to be paralleled in 

 our !ani;uage.' 



Dr Johnson remarks, ' A few of the French Ana are 

 good ; but we tiave one book of that kind better than any 

 ofthem— Selden's Table Talk.' 



H. &. B. have also for sale, the first volume of the 

 same Library, which contains Fuller's Holy and Profane 

 States. The third volume will compiise tbe Miscella- 

 neous Works of Sir Thomas Browne, including the whole 

 of 'The Religion of a Physician,' and the treatise on 

 ' Urn-Burial.' Sept. 14. 



.^itdioji. 

 Farm, Stock, Utensils &c. To be sold at public auction 

 on Tuesday, Oct. 4tb, at 11 o'clock A. M. on tbe premi- 

 ses, the well known Farm situated in West Newbury, 

 called tbe Carr Farm, containing about fiftyfive acres of 

 most excellent land, with a good two story house and out 

 buildings, well fenced and watered ; it is about one mile 

 from the church in the 1st parish, and about the same dis- 

 tance from Indian Hill Farm, on the road leading from 

 West Newbury to Byfield, Rowley, Salem, &c, — 

 and five miles from Newburyport. On the highest part 

 of the land the view of the AlerrimacRiver and the land- 

 siape view in every diieetion is very beautiful. West 

 Newbury as a town has increased remarkably within tbe 

 last ten years. Taxes are low, (it being an inland town) 

 and the society very good, as almost every residence is 

 owned by the occupant. Title indisputable. Half the 

 purchase money may remain on mor'gage at 6 per cent 

 if desired. 



\Uo, immediately alter the sale of the Farm, a valua- 

 ble stock of Oxen, Cows, Heifers, Swine, Brood Mares 

 and their Colts, I pair Horses well matched in color, &.c. 

 1 pair Colls three years old next spiing. Also, 1 supe- 

 rior new ox cart, with p.itent hubs, &c. 



A great variety of other articles, catalogues of which 

 can be obtained two weeks before the sale, at the print- 

 ing offices of those newspapers that publish this adver- 

 tisement, and also of Mr Cary, at the inaiket house, 

 Newburyport, and the Auctioneer. 



lO' Conditions (which will be liberal) made known at 

 the sale. 



Sept. 9. JOHN E. BA^TLETT, Auctioneer. 



.■3d, 

 Isl Spi 



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8 30 



7 60 



6 SO 



16 



8 



4 



1 50 



6 00 



G 00 



5 00 



6 50 

 70 

 65 

 78 

 73 

 42 

 70 



10 50 



13 Oo 



1 25 

 3 25 



16 00 18 00 



14 00 

 13 50 



2 00 

 75 

 12 



8 50 

 70 

 80 

 58 

 55 

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 60 

 48 

 30 



36 

 60 



10 Oi 



11 00 

 1 

 3 00 



PROVISION MARKET. 



liEEF, best pieces, 

 PORK, Iresii, best pieces, 



whole hogs, 

 VEAL, 

 MUTPON, 

 POULTRY, 

 l!UTTER,kegaiidtub, 

 Lump, best, 

 EGGS, 

 MEAL, Rye, retail 



Indian, retail, 

 POTATOES, 

 CIDER, laccording to qual 



ily] 



Ammunition ,_£J) 



Of the best quality ai.d (i/7(!fs( /j/ices, for sporting — 

 constantly for sale at COPELAND'.S POWDER STORE, 

 6; Broad Street. 



N. B. If tbe quality is not found satisfactory, it may 

 be returned, and tbe money willbo refunded If Jan. . 



without glas3,-each sash about 8 feet long. Apply at ^^ ^^^ ,„ ,^6 above will be cheerfully paid 

 the New England Farmer Office. 4t Sept. 7. | *= ^j J.B.I 



Xotice. 

 The subscriber wishes to procure a small quantity, 

 say half a pint, of acorns from each species of oak grow- 

 ing in New England, with the specific, or where not 

 known, the common name. It is desirable that they 

 should be sent in by the 1st of November, with the con- 

 tributor's name, as they are to be forwarded to the I^on 



Green House Sashes. 

 For sale 30 or 40 Green House Sashes, second hand I jon iHOTticultu^arSodetyi^Any Wa"so'nabirerpense wUh 



Brighton Market — Monday, Sept. 12. 

 fUeporled for the Chronicle and Pattiot.J 

 At Market this day 460 Beef Cattle, 734 Stores, 

 3631 Sheep, and 756 Swine. 



Prices. — Beef Callle — The best qualities were scarce, 

 and sales of all qualiUes were quicker than they were 

 the two past weeks, and a little better prices may have 

 been obtained, but not enough to alter our quotations 

 much. We quote for one or two yoke, extra, about $5 

 25 ; prime §5 ; good 4 50 a 4 75 ; thin 3 50 a 4 25. 



Stores — Sales not so brisk. 



Working Oxen — A considerable number were at mar- 

 ket (numbered with the Stores) and many sales were ef- 

 fected ; we noticed the following : 50, 53, 5S, 65, 70, and 

 a number at 75 and $80. 



Cows and Calves — Good Cows in demand : we noticed 

 one ordinary at $11, and one extra at $37,50; sales also 

 at IS, 23, 25,20, 27 and 29. 



Sheep—Siles were quite as good as last week ; we no- 

 ticed lots taken at 1 G2, 1 75, 1 88, 1 92, 2 00, 2 08, 2 25 

 and 2 ;50. A few extra cosset Wethers were sold at a 

 high price. 



Swine — No variation from last week; selected lots of 

 Sows and Barrows at 4 ; one entire lot of 160 at 44 ; & 

 lot old Barrows at 44. At retail, 5 for Sows and 6 for 

 Barrows. 



