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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



18T 



ccived ; and although rather late in the season, the 

 scions were iu so good a state of preservation, that 

 with the care requisite in sinular cases, we have 

 been enabled to reproduce theui in our nurseries. 

 We beg you, sir, to accei)t our grateful acknow- 

 ledgiaientg for your very acceptable otiering. On 

 the receipt of your esteemed favor, it Avas too late to 

 propose to you any thuig of the last season, neither 

 could we speak to you of the extent of our collec- 

 tions from the i«sult of the opei-ationsof the next, 

 until owr general registry was complete. Since 

 dieu the catalogue having been published, we 

 hasten t« recommend it to you, and we herewith 

 ejjclose it to J. C. Barnet, Esq. Consul of the United 

 States at Paris, to be forwarded to you the soonest 

 possible. We beg you to receive and examine it, 

 and if you observe in it any thing, which may be 

 desirable to you, sir, have the goodness to honor 

 us with your commands, and we will hasten to 

 justify your kindness by proving to you that we 

 are not insensible to it. 



AccejJt, in the meantime, the assurance of our 

 desire to be of service to you in our country, and 

 of the high consideration with which you have in- 

 spired us. 



We have the honor to salute you with great 

 respect, and are, sir, your most obedient servants, 

 Baumam.n Brothers. 



To H. A. S. Dearborn, Esq. 

 President of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society, at Boston. 



From the Daily Albaivj Argus. 

 A SCHOOL, OF AGRICt;L.TT;RE:. NO. H, 



I PROMISED in my last to point out some of the 

 branches of useful knowledge, that may be acquir- 

 ed in an agricultural school, which are not atttin- 

 able, or but imperfectly so, either in our exiting 

 schools, or In the ordinary labors of a farm. 



As I have already remarked, our schools afford 

 no practical, and our farms but very little, if any, 

 scientific instruction in the business of farming. 

 To obtain a good proficiency iu either, it is neces- 

 sary that they be blended together. The mind 

 and the body are then strivmg to reciprocate the 

 benefits and pleasures which each receives from 

 tlie other. Theory and practice are necessary in 

 the learned professions, to attain to eininence ; and 

 they are not less beneficial when combined in the 

 business of husbandry. 



A school which shall combine with a literary 

 and scientific education, practical instructions in 

 farming and gardening, will afiibrd to the student 

 the following, among- other advantages, highly 

 conducive to his future usefulness and prosperity 

 as a fariuer. 



He will acquire in Botany the names and rela- 

 tions of plants, — a knowledge of the fortiis and 

 functions of their respective organs — their habits 

 and economical properties, and their mode of 

 nourishnieut and propagation. 



Chemistri/ will enable him to ascertain the com- 

 position and elements of the materials and substan- 

 ces employed in his labors, of combining and sep- 

 arating them, and of graduating his practice by 

 their known properties, with economy of expense 

 and certainty of result. 



Mechanical science will familiarize to his mind 

 the principles upon which his machinery and 

 implements are constructed, and upon which 

 their relative value depends, — and will assist him 

 to discover the cause of defects, and to supply 

 suitable remedies. 



The study of the Animal Kingdom will make 



him acquainted with the anatomy of domestic 

 animals, with their diseases and the modes of cure, 

 — and with the principles of improvuig and esti 

 tnating the relative profits of diflereut breeds. 



He may learn the properties of eartlis and soils — 

 their distinctive characters, — their uses in vegeta 

 tion, and the means of improving their quality ; — 

 the theory of the operation of manures, — and tin 

 agency of heat, light, air, and water, in the process 

 of vegetation. 



Ho may be instructed theoretically and prac- 

 tically, in the very important business of keeping 

 farm accounls ; by which the profit and loss in 

 atiy particular branch of husbandry, or of any 

 particular crop, is readily ascertained, and by 

 which we can alone make of capital and labor 

 tlie most profitable and judicious expenditure. 



A Garden, which should be attached to the in- 

 stitution, should contain specimens of all hardy 

 platits, which are useful in commerce or the arts, 

 — which administer to our domestic comforts, or 

 which are merely ornamental. This will aid in 

 the study of botany, and serve to illustrate the 



liaracter and relative value of species and varie- 



ies ; atid aftbrd instructions in the propagation 

 and culture of fruits, flowers, and vegetables. 



An experimental department will furnish im- 

 portant data for future guidance. The profit and 

 loss on diflerent crops, and the adaptation of difler- 

 eut soils to their growth, the economy and appli- 

 cation of manures, the culture and management of 

 fartn crops, the utility of alternate husbandry, and 

 the usefulness of new plants, would naturally be 

 among the subjects of experiment ; and the result 

 would not fail of being highly instructive. There is 

 as much benefit in guarding against a bad practice, 

 as in adopting a good one. The one prevents loss, 

 the other increases the profit. Comparisons, 

 which the proverb says are "odious," are iu 

 husbandry the best test of whatever is excellent ; 

 and they may be made in every product of the 

 ^■m and garden, with manifest advantage. 



I This school will aSbrd, moreover, tlie best 

 pfactical instruction in the various departments of 

 rural labors ; and what is of incalculable impor- 

 tance, it will inculcate and tend to establish, in 

 tke student, habits of industry and frugality, (al- 

 most synonymous with virtue,) of system and of 



usefulness ; and will tend to inculcate a taste for 

 scientific and literary studies, in the hours of leisure 

 ifhich every employment gives, that never fails to 



promote the interests of humanity. 



I I have thus enumerated some of the advantages 

 yhich the proposed school will aflbrd to the young 

 generation of farmers, who are to become the fu- 

 ture guardians of our liberties, and who are to 

 give the impress to our public character. The 

 benefits which promise to result to the coirmiuni- 

 ty at large from such a school, by increasing the 

 products of the soil, by multiplying the resources, 

 and augtnenting tlie revenues of the state, by giving 

 a new impetus to commerce, manufactures, and 

 the mechanic arts, and by raising the standard of 

 of our moral and intellectual power will form the 

 subject of further remark. B. 



From tlie Gen£see Farmer. 

 TO DESTROY MICE. 



Middlesex, Mi/ 20, 1832. 

 Mr. Goodsell — Take one ounce of Nux Vom- 

 ica, bruise it in a mortar, pour on to it a quart of 

 boiling water and let it stand from six to twelve 

 hours, then pour into it a quart of wheat and let 



it stand again from six to twelve hours, by which 

 time the wheat Will have swelled and absorbed 

 nearly all the water, it may then be spread on the 

 floor to drain and dry. If a larger quantity is re- 

 quired, (observing the same proportion,) it may be 

 increased to any extent desired. This wheat inky 

 then be scattered over the field, and ]iut iu the 

 way of the mice, and in the woods if any harbor 

 there. 



I know that this will destroy rats and squirrels, 

 and I believe will be found equally effectual with 

 mice. Yours, &c. K. M. W. 



Frcrm the New York Farmer. 

 WASHINGTON CHESNUTS. 



The editor of the Washington Globe acknow- 

 ledged the receipt of a beautiful young Chesuut 

 tree the oft'spring of a Chesnul planted by the 

 Father of his Country, from Maj. John Adlum 

 who gives the following history of it, in a letter 

 to the editor : — 



" I send you a Washington Chesnut TreQ. The 

 history of it is this : On the day that the late John 

 Adams was inaugurated President of the United 

 States, General Washington and Col. T. Pickering 

 stood at his right hand ; and when he finished 

 delivering his inaugural speech, Gen. Washington 

 and Col. Pickering (I was present at the tune) 

 went out, and I followed in their wake, as the 

 crowd was very great. They walked down Ches- 

 nut street, and I turned into 5th street, and at the 

 corner of Market and 4th streets, I met the above 

 named gentlemen buying chesnuts of an uncom- 

 mon size from a foreigner. The General then 

 rode out to Belmont, the seat of the Hon. Rich- 

 ard Peters, and the General himself planted some 

 of the nuts, one of which has become a large 

 tree ; and from the produce of that tree the Judge 

 cultivated numbers, two of which he sent to me 

 at this place. They were one year old then ; and 

 one of them is now a large tree, and has borne 

 nuts for several years ; the other perished. So 

 that the nut which produced the grand parent tree 

 (if I may so call it) was planted by the Father of 

 his Country ; and the nut which produced my 

 tree, was planted by the Father of our Agricultu- 

 ral Societies ; and the nut which produced the 

 tree I send you was planted by myself. Yours, 

 respectfully, JOHN ADLUM. 



P. S My Chesnut Tree was planted early in 

 the year 1817." 



Platting Chesnuts. — After the ground has been 

 carefully loosened with the plough and harrow, 

 luies are drawn six feet apart, in which holes 

 about a toot in depth and in diameter are formed 

 at th( distance of four feet. A chesnut is placed 

 in eah corner of the holes, and covered with three 

 inches of earth. If the soil has been tliorotighly 

 subdued, the nuts will spring and strike root with 

 facility. Early in the second year, three of the 

 youiig plants are removed from each hole, and 

 only the most thriving are left. The third or 

 four:li year, when the branches begin to interfere 

 with each other, every second tree is suppressed. 

 To secure its success, the plantation should be 

 begun m March or April, tcith nuts that have been 

 kept in the cellar during the winter, in sand or veg- 

 etable mould, and thai Itave already begunto vegetate. 

 — Mkhaux. 



The thrift of a saving man is regular and 

 certain. 



