Vol. X.-No. 28. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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air-chamber of brick. Tlie meal is sifted; the year 1826, at the period when the cherry trees 

 cloth as open as the common middhngs cloth in a were in fruil, I noticed that this variety was by 



sup-reel, and about 4 feet long. 



The weight in each hhd. 800 lbs. and the hhd. 

 must be branded with the name of the maker and 

 kiln. dried corn meal, TVo. \. 800 lbs. The meal 

 must be of a bright yellow, aud smell strongly of 

 the kiln, or it will not pass inspection. Ten hhds. 

 per day is moderate work for a good pair of burrs 

 aiid a good kihi, sixteen bushels of good corn will 

 make a hhd.— old corn less. Ten to 12,000 hhds. 

 are made in N. York yearly for the West Indies. 



It would not be safe for a new hand to conduct 

 a kiln, without the presence of an experienced 

 workman who has put theni up.— The sheet iron 

 pans are better than the cyhnders. 



The price in New York varies from $13 to 1.5 

 through the year, when corn is plenty. The cost 

 of a complete kiln with pans, is $400 to $500. 



The vegetative principle must be entirely 

 destroyed, and the point of sufficient dn'ness can 

 be easily ascertained by the smell of the nical while 

 grinding. Great pains must be taken in making 

 the hhds. wM, and of stuff long seasoned ; or the 

 meal will make them shrink so much that they 

 will fall to pieces before they reach the market. 



From PriQce's Pomological Manual. 



GRAFFION. Pr. cat. For. 

 Sigarreau. Hook. Pom. For. and of the English pub- 

 lications generally, and of .some American collections. 

 Jligarreau. Graffion. Lond. Hort. cat. 

 Cerise ambrce. Guindoux Mane. ? vr n i 

 t'erisier a fruit ambre , fruit blanc. \ tJU''- 

 Amber, or Imperial. Coxe. 

 Yellow Spanish, of most American collections. 

 Harrison heart of some English gardens, according ;o 

 Forsylh. 



This tree is one of the largest of all the varie- 

 ties that belong to the same species ; its branches 

 are strong and vigorous, and form a handsome and 

 well supported head. The gro^vth of the young 

 trees is particularly thrifty ; their lateral shoots are 

 remarkable for taking an almost horizontal direction 

 and the bark is marked with small dots. The 

 fruit is the largest I have ever seen, except the 

 Prince's duke ; it is round at the extremity and 

 somewhat flattened at the base, borne upon pedun- 

 cles of from fifteen to twentyfour lines in length ; 

 the skin is delicate, a little firm before maturity, of 

 an amber yellow, partially tinged with red in small 

 spots when at full maturity, and especially on the 

 side exposed to the sun ; the flesh is white, bland, 

 and luscious, with a honied sweetness. This fruit 

 ripens in Jime, and if there are long continued 

 rains at the time of its maturity, it is apt to rot. 

 It is remarked in the New- Duhamel, that this 

 cherry is but partially disseminated in France, and 

 that it would merit culture more than any other, 

 on account of its excellence, if it were not for the 

 defect of its fruit not being apt to set well. On 

 this point, so far as my opportunities have allowed 

 me to judge, and they have been rather numerous, 

 as the tree is much cuhivatcd in this vicinity, I 

 have found it to produce good crops and to be a 

 constant bearer. Tliis tree was imported from 

 London, by the father of the author, in the year 

 1802, under the name of Yellow Spanish, and 

 one of the original trees is now growing in his 

 garden, where it produces abundantly, and there 

 is little doubt that from his stock have originated 

 most of the trees of this kind now in our country, 

 ^'he has taken much pains to recommend it. 

 During a visit to the vicinity of Boston, ia the 



some called the Bigarreau, and by others the Car- 

 nation, but the error has no doubt been corrected 

 ere this, through the great intelligence and accura- 

 cy of their Horticultural Society. There is another 

 European cheny, called Ambree or Amber, which 

 is far smaller than this, and also very inferior in 

 flavor ; its only advantage being that of ripening 

 at an earlier period. 



CARNATION. Pr. cat. Law. Lang. Mil. 



For. Lond. hort. cat. 



Late Spanish. Wax Carnation. Wax Cherry. 



Griotle d'Espagne, erroneously. 

 This fruit, which derives hs title from its color, 

 h of a large size, and nearly of a round form ; the 

 skin is a yellowish white, beautifully mottled with 

 red ; the flesh yellow, rather firm, and of a pleas- 

 ajit taste, but less sweet than many other varieties ; 

 tlie juice is sprightly and of a pale color. If 

 eaten before it is fully mature, it has a slight 

 degree of bitterness. This cherry ripens among 

 the late varieties in July, and is lield in high esteem 

 for preserves. The tree is of low statui-e, being 

 niore spreading than lofty, and its branches have 

 often somewhat of a horizontal or even a drooping 

 appearance. Its foliage indicates much vigor, and 

 tiie fruit is less subject to the attacks of birds and 

 insects than most of the other fine varieties of 

 cherries, and also remains without decay or rotten- 

 ness for a longer period than other sorts usually 

 do. The tree bears tolerably well, but not abund- 

 antly. A tree imported from London, some years 

 suice, as the Late Spanish, and one from the north 

 of France, under the title of Griotte d'Espagne, 

 have both borne fruit of this kind ; the latter 

 variety, however, is in fact a dark colored fruit, 

 and the above circumstance must have arisen from 

 eiTor. 



to pay in ready cash the^highesl price for hemp-stem 

 as soon as delivered at the factory. ' 



From several experiments which have been tried 

 at the late Factory of Messrs. Haines & Winslow 

 we are convinced the business may be made a very 

 profitable one to the farmers of Maine whenever the 

 best methods of cultivation are resorted to.— With 

 these views and intentions the company will prose- 

 cute the business, trusting the Legislature and a 

 generous public will render them their aid. 



I will only add— our Factory will be capable of 

 fitting for market annually, about one hundred tons 

 of Hemp. Several of the farmers in this vicinity, 

 who have used good management, have obtained 

 fifty or sixty dollars from one acre of Hemp. This 

 information we are willing should be made public, 

 that our neighbors may share with us this lucrative 

 business. 



HEMP IN MAINE. 



LivERMORE Hemp Company. — We understand 

 that Messrs. Haines and Winslow have disposed of 

 the works which they erected for the dressing and 

 manufacture of Hemp, and a company has been 

 formed of practical farmers who design to give the 

 business a fair trial. This they will be the better 

 enabled to do, as they will have large quantities of 

 hemp to be worked by their own machinery. The 

 water where the new factory is to be erected is of 

 a temperature favorable to its continuing in opera- 

 tion in winter as well as summer. 



We rejoice to learn that such an enterprising 

 spirit prevails, and have no doubt that the under- 

 taking will be crowned with success, and that the 

 culture and manufacture of Hemp will become an 

 important and profitable branch of industry in Maine. 



We subjoin an extract from a letter from one of 

 the gentlemen engaged in the enterprise : 



I will give you a short history of our intentions 

 and the business generally, and you may make such 

 use of it as you see fit. 



Well then to begin, a number of us (consisting of 

 fifteen) have formed ourselves into a company for 

 the purpose of dressing hemp — have purchased a 

 first rate water-power in the centre of Livermore, 



and intend erecting a Factory, to be ready about , '^''^ P"'l'' of coals:has risen everywhere in Eng- 

 , _ ., ° .X-. ,•„. land. At Lewes It IS ten shillings a chaldron higher 



the first of August next. It is the design of the I than the customary price before the duty of six shil^ 

 company to invest such funds as shall enable them I lings was taken oft", 



STEALING FRUIT. 

 An esteemed friend presented mo with Noah 

 Wehsttr's Elementary Spelling Book for examina- 

 tion ; and among the great number of useful re- 

 marks which this indefatigable author has selected 

 or prepared for the instiuction of children, I was 

 particularly pleased to find the following : , 



' It is no mure right to steal apples or water- 

 melons from another's garden or orchard than it is 

 to steal mcnci/ from his desk. Besides, it is the 

 meanest of all low tricks to creep into a man's enclo- 

 sure to take his property.' 



For this sarvice, if I lived near JVoah Webster, I 

 would treat him to the earliest and best fruit of my 

 garden. 



Much as I am pleased with the course taken by 

 our Legislature for suppressing the plundering of 

 gardens and orchards, and much as might be done 

 by editors and periodical papers, I am satisfied that 

 to eradicate the evil, the axe ought to be laid to the 

 root — that is, it ought to be imperatively enjoined 

 on all teachers who derive any part of their pay from 

 the funds of the state, to lecture their scholars on. 

 the leading principles of morality ; and as stealing 

 fruit is the nost common of all larcenies, that its- 

 enormities si ould be particularly pointed out. We^- 

 might then lope in a very few years that the fruit 

 in a garden, or an orchard, would be as safe as the- 

 clevis on a plough in the field, or an axe in the 

 door-yard. 



It is said tiat a clevis or an a.xe would be more 

 easily detected ; and that it is harder to resist temp- 

 tation when J, leads to immediate enjoyment — let it 

 be remembered that the temptation is not greater 

 than what is hourly presented to the youth of a city, 

 and that a craving appetite is oidy one of the mo- 

 tives that leal to the plundering of fruit: a frolic, 

 and the idea of doing something smart or cunning 

 is no inconsidemble inducement with many grown 

 boys. Let pubfic opinion render this vice as dis- 

 graceful as tiie J-obbing of hen-roosts — which might 

 be done by proper lectures in common schools— 

 and one branch of iniquity would be lopped. — Gen- 

 esee Farmer. '• 



