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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



A Pbactical Tkeatise ox the Construction, Heat- 

 ing, AND Ventilation of Hothouses, including 

 Conservatories, Greenhouses, Graperies, and other 

 Kinds of Horticultural Structures, with practical 

 Directions for their Management in regard to Light, 

 Heat, and Air ; illustrated with numerous Engrav- 

 ings, by Robert B. Leuchars, Garden Architect, 

 Boston. John P. Jewett and Company, 17 and 19 

 Cornhill. 



The design of this work is sufficiently indicated 

 by its title. The author is distinguished for skill and 

 thoroughness in his profession, and he has given to 

 the public the result of much experience and exten- 

 Bive observation. It is a most excellent vi'ork, and 

 we hail it with great pleasure, both on account of its 

 high rank among the valuable productions of our 

 country on cultivation, and as well adapted to fill a 

 void, as we have no other work of this character 

 before the community. The engravings, which 

 amount to about seventy, are remarkably neat, both 

 in design and execution. The whole work is very 

 neatly executed, forming a beautiful volume, so that 

 its execution is a credit to the publishers, as well as 

 the matter to the author. The price is one dollar, 

 and very cheap. 



Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture is an excel- 

 lent work, published monthly, at $2 per year, by 

 Hovey & Co., Boston. A new volume commences 

 with the year. Each number contains outlines and 

 minute descriptions of several varieties of fruits. 



Downing's Horticulturist is among the most 

 interesting periodicals in our country. Published 

 monthly, at $3 a year, by Luther Tucker, Albany, 

 N. Y. J. Breck & Co., agents, Boston. Besides the 

 general subjects of horticulture, this work embraces 

 landscape gardening and rural architecture. 



American Flora. — This beautiful and splendid 

 work is published monthly by Green & Spencer, New 

 York, at $3 a year. A new volume begins with 

 the year. Dr. Strong, editor. This work has a large 

 number of beautifully painted engravings. It ranks 

 high in utility as well as in beauty. 



Illustrated Natural History, by the same pub- 

 lishers and author, is issued once a month, at only 

 $1 per year. The engravings are executed in so 

 fine a style, that they look like living animals. 



Water-Cure Journal The first number of this 



popular journal for 1851 has already made its appear- 

 ance. It is much enlarged, without any addition to 

 the price, which is only $1 per year. It contains 

 a great variety of useful matter. The simple and 

 abundant element, water, is, under judicious treat- 

 ment, performing wonderful cures. Fowler & Wells, 

 publishers, New York. 



Farmers' Guide. — No. 13 of this valuable work 

 is received of Fetridge & Co., Boston. The greater 

 part of this number is devoted to the culture of the 



turnip and cabbage. It has numerous illustrations 

 of seed drills, and insects that infest these plants. 

 This is a valuable and cheap work. 



The Illustrated Domestic Bible, by Rev. In- 

 gram Collin, is a highly valuable work on account of 

 its candid and able commentaries, references, and re- 

 flections. Hotchkiss & Co., Boston. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 



Of J. W. Noyes, Chester, N. H., Hunter apples, 

 which are considerably cultivated in that section. — 

 A good grower, and good bearer every year. The 

 fruit usually fair, and in use in November and De- 

 cember. This fruit, in size, form, and color, is nearly 

 the same as the Hubbardston Nonsuch, and the flavor 

 is nearly the same. As fruits vary from many cir- 

 cumstances, we cannot determine whether they are 

 identical. We raised the Hubbardston Nonsuch this 

 year in Maine, and when we received them we 

 thought there was a mistake in the mark, as they 

 varied from the usual form and color, and were gen- 

 erally russetty. But the flavor was true, and the 

 finest that we have tasted for the season. 



Of Henry Vandyne, Cambridgeport, a pear of 

 medial size, very tender, and middle quality. He 

 had it under the name of New Long Rosewater. 

 He observes that some call it the Long Green of 

 Autumn ; but it differs in time and in form from that 

 variety. Also, a good-sized Ladies' Sweeting apple, 

 from scions set a year ago last June, which indicatee 

 that it is an early bearer from scions. 



Of P. L. Converse, Woburn Centre, cooking pears, 

 rather less than medial size. They keep through 

 the winter. A great bearer. He found this tree on 

 his place, and it is probably a native. We have 

 cooked them, and they are of the finest quality. 



Of James Baker, Newport, N. H., apples that are 

 sweet and sour. Fruit having these qualities com- 

 bined are generally very uneven on the surface, 

 having ribs or prominences ; and these projections 

 differ slightly from the hollows between them. Yet 

 we have never seen much diff'erence, though we have 

 tried many of this character. In these, the promi- 

 nences are hollow, and are acid and sweet. The 

 reverse of this is generally the case. 



TERMS. — The New England Farmer is published 

 every other Saturday, making a neat and handsome 

 volume, at the close of the year, of 416 pages, at $1 a 

 year, or five copies for ^4, payable in advance. It may 

 be elegantly bound in muslin, embossed and gilt, at 25 

 cents a volume, if left at this office. As it is stereo- 

 typed, back numbers can be furnished to new subscribers. 



1^ The Postage .^ 



On this paper is only 1 cent, or 26 cents a year, within 

 the state, or within 100 miles out of the state ; and lij 

 cents, or 39 cents a year, beyond those distances. 



stereotyped at the 



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