Vol. XI.-No. 19. 



•AND HOIITICULTUIIAL JOURNAL. 



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proved |iUui, and one dollar on every 100 mulber- 

 ry trees set out in the manner prescribed. This 

 example of the wooden nutmeg lady is worthy of 

 being followed — and we would say to her sister 

 Massaclnis<-tts, "Go thou, and do likewise." 



Stimulated by the encouragenjeiit received 

 from the State, the single town of Mansfield has, 

 from a carefid estimate, grown four tons of raw 

 silk this season, which, when reeled, will bring 

 about 35,000 dollars ; and when thrown into sew- 

 ings (as most of it probably will be, in the fami- 

 lies of the producers,) its value will be enhanced | 

 to nearly double that sum, say $J)0,000 ! Four or j 

 five adjoining towns have, from fair estimates, I 

 each produced a quantity equal to that grown in ] 

 Mansfield. It is not doubted than another year j 

 the stock will be increased one third. A Connec- ' 

 ticut farmer calculates that one acre of land well 1 

 stocked with mulberry trees is worth foriynint 

 acres of the rest of his farm ! 



The business of silk-growing, then, must be 

 profitable; but our farmers are deterred from em- 

 barking in it, because some time and money must 

 be spent in the outset, without aflbrding immediate 

 profit. To meet this difliculty the state should 

 offer some encouragement to induce people to 6e- 

 gin — and once begun, Yankee industry would 

 be able to compete with the world in the cul- 

 ture, [f government manages rightly, it can- 

 not be doubled that ten years hence, more than 

 100 tons of raw silk will be annually raised in this 

 country. Will not this quantity invite artisans 

 and manufacturers? and may we not conclude 

 that the time is not far distant when the people of 

 this western continent will be clad in silken robes 

 of their own manufacture? — Dedham Politician. 



therein, giving them no further attention than 

 keeping down the weeds. The consequence has 

 been, the splendid bloom above described for two 

 months past. — Jim. Farmer. 



PROSPECT FOR HOPS IN ENGLAND. 



The plantations near Canterbury have not so 

 promising an appearance as they had. Some 

 grmmds high in sap are getting very foul and hon- 

 eyed, and the mould is also on the increase. The 

 plait is in a very precarious state. Near Maid- 

 st<ne tliere was an alteration in the hop plauta- 

 tidis for the worse last week. The increase of 

 vfrmin is consideralile, and particularly in those 

 grounds where a very little fly has been seen all 

 the year. In some parts the bine is covered with 

 lite. At Cranbrook and its vicinity, the planta- 

 tions look extremely thriving, and from present 

 ajipearances an abimdant crop may be expected. 

 Al Tenterden the bine is looking very heaUhy, 

 aiid more free from fly than at this period last 

 year. The plantations at IMarden and adjoining 

 pirishes betoken an abundant crop. The bine is 

 tolerably good, but from the rapid increase of 

 honey dew, and the already enormous quantity of 

 Ice, we doubt whether such an impression is not 

 made that the grounds will with difficulty recov- 

 er, and more particularly so where they are short 

 of bine. Accounts from Yalden state the bine to 

 bo very backward, but in general it is remarkably 

 gnod : but if no alteration takes place in the 

 veather, the blight is expected to affect it. The 

 nould has attacked the plantations in and about 

 lllcomb. — London Morning Chronicle of July 18. 



DAHLIAS. I 



We really wish our cottage garden was located 

 nearer town, that the citizens generally might 

 have au opportunity of seeing our splendid bloom 

 of djihlias. Those who have never seen this flow- 

 er, (and very few have ever been seen in Balti- 

 more,) can form no idea of their splendor and 

 magnificence. The flower is formed very much 

 like a large camelia japonica; there are single, 

 serai-double and double varieties ; and all sizes, 

 from a disk of two to six or seven inches diame- 

 ter. Their color comprises every Shade, from the 

 purest white up to the deepest black crimson. 

 We have about thirty varieties and about twenty 

 of them constantly in bloom, affording a display 

 altogether unequalled by any other garden plant. 

 Besides this, we have succeeded in producing 

 several splendid new varieties from seed, among 

 which are two very superior semidouble black 

 crimson. The colors of the dahlias are remarka- 

 ble for their brilliancy and clearness — nothing 

 dull or common-place in them. 



The cultivation of dahlias has been hitht,.'I>» 

 very unsuccessful in this city and neighborhood ; 

 attributable, as we know from experience, to our 

 following the directions of English gardeners, who 

 direct us to put them in poor sandy soil. This 

 may be necessary in England, where the climate is 

 not so subject to excessive droughts as ours. We 

 practised upon this plan for several years, and 

 never obtained a flower worth looking at. This 

 year we went to the opposite extreme ; dug a 

 deep trench, filled it with rich vegetable mold, 

 stable manure, and door yard scrapings, with a 

 moiety of good garden mold, and planted them 



KEEPING SHEEP. 



Sowed three bushels of oats to cure before they 

 arc quite ripe, for niy sheep ; this I have found 

 to be the cheapest and best method to winter 

 sheep, of the many ways that I have tried. The 

 sheep will eat it all clean, straw and all, and with 

 it get grain enough, (and that being green, I be- 

 heve it far better than ripe,) to keep them in good 

 condition. I never h.ad a distempered sheep that 

 was kept in this way. Two good sheaves per 

 day, will last twenty sheep through the winter; 

 some days three sheaves, and some but one, viz. 

 When they get to the ground ; I have tried it, and 

 do know. Now, say five months, 150 days, 300 

 sheaves, that would make twelve bushels to the 

 hundred ; would be <hirtysix bushels oats, and the 

 straw. If any of your correspondents can do bet- 

 ter, and witli less expense, I should be glad to 

 know it. With a sheep-shed and manger, which 

 I intend to build after the direction given by a 

 celebrated manufacturer and wool grower, I think 

 that I shall be able to let each sheep have its share 

 without being trodden down. 1 have not seen 

 the plan of the shed and manger in any work on 

 the raising or keeping sheep. Before winter I will 

 try to give it on paper for the farmer. — Gen. Far. 



soon correct the scouring. If the horse has much 

 fever, take half an ounce of ipecacuanha, add to it 

 about two quarts of hot, but not boiling water, 

 put about half a ])int of this tea to a pail of water 

 and let the horse drink it. About three half a 

 pints should be drank in the course of the day 

 while any fever continues; when this is removed 

 then, and not till then, take a quart of oak bark 

 (such as is used for tanning) with the ross taken 

 off", add to it two quarts of hot water, and let it 

 stand till cool, then add a pint of this tea to a pail 

 of water, and let the horse drink freely of it through 

 the day. I have never known these remedies to 

 fail in eflfecting a cure. Yours, &c, R. M. W. 



FOREST TREES. 



Sir — I have lately read with much pleasure, 

 Washington Irving's article on Forest Trees, 

 in the first volume of his Bracebridge Hall, and 

 would recommend its perusal to our farmers gen- 

 erally, with modifications. I think it is peculiar- 

 ly adapted to our own country. Most of our 

 farms contains gullies and other spots, inaccessi- 

 ble to the plough; these, if transplanted with a 

 few of the Yellow Locust, would in a few years 

 aflTord an invaluable supply of the best fencing 

 timber. This tree may likewise be set in every 

 other length of crooked fence around the fai-ni 

 and will in a few years furnish a plentiful supply 

 of this invaluable timber, besides it is one of our 

 best ornamental trees, and would add greatly to 

 the beauty of our rural scenery. It is of rapid 

 growth, and easily propagated and spread, and I 

 think should be more generally attend to. 



Yours, R. M. W. 



[JV. 1'. Farmer, 



Case of Rumination. — David Hunter, aged 39, 

 living in Bethnal green, applied recently at the 

 hospital for relief as an out-patient, under the fol- 

 lowing circumstances. About a quarter of an 

 hour or twenty ijiinutes after every meal, the food 

 which has been taken into the stomach is brought 

 up into the mouth, (o be subjected to a second 

 process of mastication. He has been accustomed 

 to this ever since he was five years of age. His 

 bowels are regular, and he has always enjoyed ex- 

 cellent health. It is completely an involuntary 

 act, and is unattended with any feeling of sickness, 

 being rather pleasant than otherwise. It occurs 

 in a great degree after taking animal food, being 

 small in quantity after a meal consisting of veg- 

 etables. The man was formerly a patient of the 

 late Mr Hadington, who mentioned the case in 

 his lectures. He was induced to apply for relief 

 in consequence of the habit being offensive to his 

 companions. Some tonic medicines were pre- 

 scribed for him, from which he experienced no 

 benefit. — Medical Gaz. 



SCOURING OF HORSES. 



Mr Editor — This complaint has been very 

 prevalent among horses at different times. The 

 following remedy I have never found to fail. Take 

 a quarter of an ounce of gum gamboge, half an 

 ounce of aloes, half an ounce of saltpetre. Re- 

 duce all these to a fine powder, add flour and wa- 

 ter until it is of a consistence of unbaked dough. 

 Divide it into four pills, about the size of an egg, 

 give one pill evei-y night and morning ; they will 



Wool. — Many of our readers may probably be 

 surprised vlien they are informed that from twen- 

 ty totvventyfive million of pounds of foreign wool, 

 and more than one hundred and forty millions of 

 British wool, are annually consumed in the man- 

 ufactures of Great Britain ; that the value of 

 woollens exported is from five to seven millions 

 sterling, and that the consumption in the United 

 Kingdom is estimated at from twenty to twenty- 

 five millions sterling per annum. — HuU Packet. 



Merit. — True merit, like a river, the deeper it 

 is the less noise it makes. 



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