Vol. X.-No. 43. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



339 



4. Strong plants of one year's growth may lie 

 transplanted in y^ril, into nursery rows ; or the 

 whole may be left to grow a second summer, in 

 the seed bed ; the ground, as befoi-e, being kept 

 free from weeds and occasionally stirred. 



5. After two summers' growth, all the strong 

 iiealthy plants should be placed in nursery rows— 

 •which may be done thus : The ground being pre- 

 pared as for a crop, draw a line and proceed to 

 open a trench of sufficient breadth and depth to 

 admit the roots freely, leaving the side next to the 

 line straight and perpendicular. Having assorted 

 the plants, and cut oft" the bruised and shortened 

 the tap roots, a man proceeds to place them in tin; 

 trench in their proper position, the heel of the 

 plant towards the line and at the distance of a font 

 apart ; while another man with a spade, or the 

 planter with a gardener's trowel, throws in ear|ii 

 to hold them in their place. The trench is then 

 to be filled, the ]ilants set upright and tread about 

 them. The other rows are planted in like man- 

 ner, three feet apart. The ground to be kept clean 

 during the season. 



New England, there are extensive tracts of coun- 

 try of alluvial or diluvial soil; in which no rocks 

 are found, and in which a stone wall could not be 

 obtained without great expense. Such is the state 

 of the greater jiart of the old colony below Ply- 

 mouth, and of some parts of the county of Middle- 

 sex. But wherever wood fences are required, it 

 may be usefid to substitute live hedges. The 

 (piestion is, what has been our experience as to 

 the comparative value of the various plants em- 

 ployed in New England for live hedges ? In the 

 remarks which follow, I beg it may be understood, 

 that I do not intend to oppose the opinions ex- 

 ju-cssed by a learned and judicious horticulturist, 

 Judge Buel ; nor those expressed by practical gen- 

 tlemen at the south ; but simply the results of my 

 own personal experience and' observation, during 

 the last ]8 years, since the subject of live hedges 

 attracted the attention of our cultivators. Nothing 

 which I may say can in any degree impeach the 

 correctness of their statements, because the causes 

 of the failure of certain plants with us, may have 

 been entirely local. This would not appear re- 



C. After standing two years in the nursery, the '"•■"kable, when we consider that the locust, (Ro- 

 plants will have acquired a sufficient size to plant '"'""■ Pseudacacia) is absolutely interdicted to us, 

 out in the ground where they are to stand ; and if ^^'"'^ " '^ ''^'^ favorite and one of the most valua- 



intended to be grown in hedges or in bushes, they 

 may be taken earlier, even at two years old from 

 the seed bed. For hedges, plant the same as for 

 nursery rows, at eighteen inches, the ground hav- 

 ing been previously prepared by an ameliorating 

 crop, as potatoes. The precautions are necessary 

 with mulberry as with other fruit trees intended 

 for standards, as to distance in planting. Abroad 

 and deep hole partially filled with good surface 

 mold, will always repay for extra labor. When 

 intended to be cultivated as bushes, they may be 

 planted thick and left untriinnied, so as to occupy 

 the entire ground. The mulberry is generally grown 

 in the latter way in India and in some parts of 

 Italy. It facilitates the gathei'ing of the leaves 

 and affords an earlier product. ' 



The mulberry grows well on almost any soil 

 and particularly in one that is stony. Upon poor 

 dry soils it affords the best materials for silk. An 

 ounce of seed will give some thoiTsand plants, and 

 requires a bed four feet broad and forty to fifty feet 

 long. . % 



Although it might be prudent to give the seed 

 sent to you to a tmsty iudividual, v>-ho would take 

 care of it and the plants which it produces, yet as 

 it is designed for general benefit, it would be prop- 

 er to yecpiire a stipirUuron,' that no greater charge 

 should be n^ade for the plants than would afford a 

 libeftil refnurieration for the labor bestowed in cul- 

 tivation. And I have it in charge from the Ex- 

 ecutive Committee, to request that you will advise 

 me, in th<; comnumication which you are expected 

 to make iu aiuunin, of the disposition of the seed 

 and the conilition of the plants. 



J. BUEL, Cor. Stc'y. 



.many, March 15, 1832. 



From Ihe Massactiusetla Agricultural Repository and Journal. 



LIVE HEDGES FOR NEW ENGLAND. 



It is not my intention to recommend live hedges 

 for this rocky part of the U. States. Our own stones 

 furnish the host divisions we could ask for or de- 

 sire ; and on most farms the removal of them from 

 the soil would be economical, and the placing 

 them as partitions for fields is the cheajiest and 

 most natural mode of disposing of them. Still, in 



ble trees of the south 



Suffice it then to say, that the Virginia thorn, 

 introduced here by Mr Quincy, with whom it ap- 

 peared to succeed, is in most cases utterly useless 

 as a fence. This is chiefly owing to the ravages 

 afaworm at its root; Avhether it be the same 

 which attacks the apple and the quince, is a ])oint 

 not settled. The same objection is applicable to 

 the English hawthorn. And to tliis J'alal one is 

 superadded another, the appearance of a fungus of 

 a yellow color on the leaves, which utterly disfig- 

 ures them and strips them of their foliage in Sep- 

 tember. The Glcdttschia triacanthos is not suited 

 for hedges with us. If left to grow they soon 

 grow out of ail reach, if checked they are wintei-- 

 killed. We are indebted wholly and entirely to 

 the experiments of Mr Ezekiel Hersy Derby, Esq. 

 for the possession of a plant, the buckthorn (Rh.am- 

 nus catharticus,) which, from ten years' trial, seems 

 to aftbrd every desirable quality for a healthy, 

 beautifid, and effectual hedge. We refer the pub- 

 lic to Mr Derby's account in the New England 

 Farmer, for particulars. 



I can only say, and I feel it a duty to say, that 

 I have tried this plant for six years. It is hardy 

 and rapid in its growth, of impenetrable thickness, 

 and so far as that exteiit of experiment enables me 

 to judge, not subject to any disease, or the visita- 

 tion of any insect whatever. As it is very pro- 

 voking as well as expensive to cultivators, to be 

 led astray, and to find after five or ten yeais, that 

 they have been deceived, they would do well to 

 examine the growing hedges of the buckthorn, or 

 Rhanmus catharticus, at BIr Derby's, Mr Brooks', 

 Dr Jackson's, or at my place. 



JOHN LOWELL. 



ty, but which their incredulity would not allow 

 them to consider any other than the celebrated im- 

 ported Stilton cheese. This story may excite a 

 desire in some of our enter|)rising agricultmists to 

 imitate an article, which ranks so high among 

 professors of gastronomy ; and we will tell them 

 how we have ever understood the famous Stilton 

 cheese is made. 



It is in fact cream cheese, the cream of the 

 night's milk being added to the morning's milk, 

 along with the rennet. The curd is not broken, 

 but put into a sieve to drain and very gently press- 

 ed ; when the cheese is sufficiently firm, it is put 

 into a wooden ring and kept on a dry board. — 

 These cheeses are mostly made in Leicestershire, 

 and weigh from six to twelve pounds. They are 

 not marketable until they become blue and moist, 

 which requires alftiut two years' keeping. A little 

 wine is sometimes added to the curd, to bring for- 

 ward the blueness earUer ; others place the cheese 

 in buckets and cover them with some moist sub- 

 stance. Indiviihuils have buried their cheeses 

 separately in the shore below high water mark, to 

 produce the desired qualities. A thicker sort of 

 this is called Cottenham cheese. — Boston Traveller, 



STILTON CHEESE. 



There is scarcely an article in which a greater 

 variety of appearance and taste exists than cheese ; 

 the inhabitants of almost every valley on the face 

 of the globe, make a different kind. A very good 

 anecdote lately originated in a Worcester pajier, 

 which has gone the rounds, of Gen. Knox, an 

 Englishman, and others, who were deceived at a 

 boarding-house in this city some years ago, iu n 

 piece of cheese actually made in Worcester coun- 



STRAWBERRIES AND RASPBERRIES. 



Mr Theodore Sedgewick, in a communication 

 in the New England Farmer, says, " Neither Bal- 

 timore nor Albany are supplied even with garden 

 raspberries or strawberries. I speak of these cities 

 because I know the fact." — If Mr Sedgewick will 

 pay us a visit at tlie strawberi-y and raspberry "ea- 

 sons, he will find our markets as well supplied 

 with both these fruits, as those of any other city 

 in the Union, we will not except any. So plenti- 

 fully are they supplied, indeed, it is a common 

 thing for large quantities of straA\berries to be 

 taken hence to Philadelphia. We do not hesitate 

 to say, that for both quantity and quality, there is 

 no city better supplied than Bahimore with any 

 kind of fruit. During the strawberry season, we 

 can find at the diffisrent stands, as many as a dozen 

 varieties on the same day, pines, hautbois, scarlets, 

 &c, with their numerous sub-varieties. And as 

 to raspberries, there is not a variety cultivated in 

 the Union with which our market is not supplied, 

 Antwerps, English, and indigenous. How Mr S. 

 should have made such a mistake, in so positive 

 a manner, ("I knoic the fact,") we cannot con- 

 ceive. We know thai such an impression prevails 

 " down east," and extends even to our vegetable 

 market ; and it has been the cause of gardeners 

 coming here to commence business — when they 

 have found that they would only be " carrying 

 coals to Newcastle" — and had to return where 

 they Avere more needed. — American Farmer. 



POTATOES. 



Let us call the attention of our good agricultu- 

 rists, to the importance of choice varieties of this 

 valuable crop. It is not every kind that w ill yield 

 the most per acre, that is the most profitable. — 

 The price in this market at this time, varies from 

 twrntyfive to fifty cents per bushel. Those who 

 raise potatoes for this market, woidd do well to in- 

 quire into the cause of this difference, and regulate 

 their crops accordingly. The pinkeye, Soult St 

 Marie, Mercers, and Foxites, at present are con- 

 sidered the most valuable. — Genesee Farmer. 



May day.~We understand several parties were 

 prevented from going out flaying for want oCsnow 

 shoes. — Avgusta Courier. 



