:^EW ENGI-AI^D PAKMEK, 



PUBLISHED BY GEO. C. BARRETT, NO. 52, NORTH M.\RKET STREET, (at the Acrjculturai. Warkhopse.j-T. G. FESSENDEN, EDITOR. 



BOSTON. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1833. 



THE NEW AMEKCAhr ORCHARDIST. 



The above cuts are from a work just published,! wile, and niue inches deep. They have ready 

 written by William Kenkick, of Newton, Mass.,iP'' pared, a quantity of cuttings sufficient for the 

 entitled " The New American Orchardist, &c. ;"F " ? ^^^'^^<^ "'■" about two feet long, and from be- 

 published by Carter, Hendee & Co. and Rds-^''^'"'"'" ^',','^ ^ P''^'''' of old wood attached to the 



^ <• f. r, .r:,- 1 F '> are called croissettes, (form of a cross,) but 



sell, Odiorne & Co., Boston. This work con-n,;, «,,.,„ • .,„, „„ . . , • .■ , , m> 



' ' P"i 101 m IS not considered indispensable. These 



tains "An account of the most valuable varieties oAlny lay across the trench at the bottom, with the 

 fruit adapted to cultivation in the 'limaie of tteWj towards the wall, and at the distance of twen- 

 United States, from the Latitude of 'lb degrees to Sify inches asunder, and cover them with four or 

 degrees, loith their tises, modes of culture, and Hiare-P^' '^'^^«^ of soil, and tread them down ; at the 

 agement; remedies for the Maladies to which WT;! ""^^^ ™f -^S «'f "PP^^r end, which was to- 

 * ,- , ^ . . , , ,, -^vf as the wall, nearly to a perpendicular: then fill 



are subject, from noxwus insects, and other rausesj,,,, trench two-thirds full, and spread the residue 

 8,-c. Also a brief description of the most ornamen-o-nv the border. They then put into the trench 

 tal Fruit Trees, Shrubs, Flowers, Sfc." thiee inches of manure, which keeps the plants 



„, X, . ,,,,-■ i**'^^ '""* moist, and prevents the ground from be- 



The Engravings represent the method of traini^oj,-^,^, j^y ^^^^ ^^^.^^ 



ing grapes at Thomery, in France. The plan i{ In March, (November with us,) they cut in the 

 from an engraving in Loudon's Magazine ; thJplant to two eyes above ground ; tbev weed, dress 

 wall is represented as but partially covered. I'^id water the border during the first season, if 



jneedful, for the young planted grape requires a 



The grape border along this wall, is dug o 



manured to the width of five or sbc feet, and tcshoots of the year to some supporters, and do 

 the depth of fifteen or eighteen inches. If thjevery thing to favor its growth. The second year, 



soil is moist or strong, they slope the border so a 

 throw oft" the rains from the walk ; this prevent 



if any of the plants have more than one branch, 

 they preserve only the strongest. They bury the 



gentle degree of moisture. They tie the young 



the accumulation of water at the roots of tin new wood as the first year, and so on till they 

 vines, and is essential to success. When the bor reach the wall. At every time they lay the shoot 

 der is prepared, they open a trench at four fee they cut in, till they reach strong, ripe wood, well 

 distance from the wall, and parallel to it, two fee furnished with good eyes. It will generally take 



three years before it reaches the wall, but in the 

 meaii time, they gather some fine bunches. 



Wo have irot had leisure to peruse this book ; 

 but froiii asglence at its coutents, and our actjuaim- 

 ancc with the Author, have no doubt but it 

 will prove a valuable work, which ought to be 

 found in the library of evci-y American Cultivator. 

 We shall soon give further notices of this useful 

 book. 



COMMUNICATIONS. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 AGRICCI<TURAI< ESSAYS, NO. XI, 



GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD. 



It will contribute not a little to the interest and 

 the comfort of the fanner, to keep up a good cor- 

 respondence with his neighbors : and to do this 

 he must keep good fences, orderly cattle, and bor- 

 row as little as possible. A great part of the con- 

 tentions which have taken place among neighbors 

 in the country, some of which have been carried 

 to the most serious and distressing length, ^vill be 

 found, upon e.\amination, to have originated in 

 poor fences, unruly cattle, and borrowing. A 

 principal object with every farmer, is the security 

 of his crops ; and when he has been at great 

 pains and expense in enclosing his lauds on his 

 own part; and his neighbor's cattle, sheep, or 

 swine, break i'l and desUoy the fruits of his labors, 

 through the inattention he lias paid to liis part of 

 the same, it will give him not a little uneasmess : 

 and repeated inroads, from the same cause, will 

 bring on a coldness, and lead him, at length, to 

 seek a redress, through the disagi-eeable and ex- 

 pensive medium of. law. One unruly ox, horse, 

 or sheep, has proved the ruin of all social and 

 friendly intercourse, between those who had long 

 lived in the most neighborly habits and familiari- 

 ties ; the advantages and pleasure of which, ought 

 not to have been hazarded for five times the value 

 of those creatures. And many farmers, thougii 

 rich in lands, spend more time in running to their 

 neighbors after saws, hammers, awls, hatchets, a 

 few nais, and a little wire to ring an hog with, 

 &c. than would purchase all those articles ort- 

 right. It must be acknowledged that we are all 

 depeuftent upon each other, in a degree; and 

 that eery farmer must borrow, occasionally, or 

 suffer : but obligations of this kind do not arise 

 one-hdf so often from necessity, as from mere 

 carelessness, and a want of manlike attention to 

 things, But if you must borrow, take care lest 

 you aiuse the thing borrowed, and return it im- 

 medictcly after you have done with it ; and never 

 depend upon borrowing it, again and again, as 

 many do, but consider widi yourself, whether you 

 cannot make, or aflibrd to buy it. A farmer 

 should endeavor never to be destitute of meat, 

 meal, butter, cheese, &c. on any day in the year ; 

 and it is scarcely honest to live by wearing out 

 his neighbors' tools. But although he should 

 avoid horrowing as much as possible, he ought to 

 be willing to lend to every neighbor, who would 

 return the article lent in good order, and as soon 

 as he should have done with it ; and it is a breach 



