VOIi. XI. NO. 33. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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he placed the potatoes, or pieces, from each other 

 in the drills. His reply through your useful jour- 

 nal will gratify A Practical Farmer. 



Hortkultund Hull, Feb. 16, 1833. 



The followiug fruits were forwarded hy Stepheu 

 H, Smith, Esq. of Providence : 



Apples. — Seek no further. A large red apple, 

 roundish oblong; the size of the Baldwin; flavor 

 sweet, relieved by a slight acid. It ripens from 

 October to March, and the tree is a prodigious 

 bearer. There are many varieties of this name ; 

 this variety has existed in Rhode Island during 

 several generations. 



Dartmouth Sieeeling, — rather large ; of a pale 

 green color, slightly stained with red next to the 

 sun -, of a sweet, rich and excellent flavor, wth a 

 slightly perceptible and agreeable acid. The tr(;e 

 is productive, and the fruit keeps till May. This 

 variety is esteemed by many the best of all sweet 

 apples, and by some the best of all npples. 



Mnrygold. A medium sized fruit, flattened in 

 form ; striped and stained with pale red on a yel- 

 low ground; the flesh yellow, firm, sacchai-ine, 

 stibacid and fiue. This fruit keeps till June. The 

 tree is productive, but does not suddenly come iu- 

 to bearing. 



Belle el Bonne. A small, yellow, round fruit, 

 spotted, and slightly colored with red next tc the 

 sun; the flesh firm, sweet and excellent; it kseps 

 till April, aud the tree is very productive. 



William Kenrick. 



I5y Gen. Lynch. Agriculture, Coimnerce and 

 Manufactures, mutually dependent — Their success 

 is essential to the independence and comforts of a 

 nation. 



By Mr. Walsh. Our President, Le Ray de 

 Chaumont — His motto is our motto, "The Plough 

 is of no party." 



By Mr, Briggs. The old fashioned doctrine — 

 Principles, not men. 



By a gentleman. Men who support principles. 



By Mr. Grove. Albrecht Van Thayer, the cel- 

 ebrated agriculturist of Mocgelin, in Germany. 



By Mr. Viele. Our yeomanry, the lords of the 

 soil — the true nobility of the country. 



By Mr. A. Knickerbacker. Agriculture, Hor- 

 ticulture and Manufactures — corner stones of the 

 Union, may they be protected. 



By a gentleman. The wool-growers of the 

 United States — They merit the patronage of the 

 government, and conduce to the real independence 

 of a nation. Albany Argus. 



GEOLOGY OF MASSACHUSETTS. 



The Geological Map of Massachusetts is an 

 honor to the Legislature which ordered, and the 

 Professor who executed it. It is one step, and a 

 very important step, towards extending a know- 

 ledge of the very interesting and very practical 

 science of Geology, through our whole commu- 

 nity ; and by this knowledge to acquaint our 

 citizens with the productions and the resources of 

 the mineral kingdom. — Family Lyceum. 



The Montgomery (Alab.) Journal of the 26th 

 ult. says : A very destructive tornado passed 

 through a part of this county on Wednesday last. 

 Its ravages in some places were very great. We 

 have heard but little as to the particulars of the 

 loss sustained by our citizens who were the suffer- 

 ers. — It passed over the plantation of Dr. Samuel 

 C. Oliver about ten miles distant from this ])lace, 

 and levelled every building to the groimd. We 

 understand that with the exception of the Gin 

 House, (which) was situated some distance from the 

 other buildings not a house is left standing! — Dr. 

 Oliver had just built a new dwelling house. His 

 family, we understand was in the house at the 

 time it was blown down, but the kind interposition 

 of the hand of Providence preserved them almost 

 uninjured, amidst the wreck surrounding them on 

 all sides. — Some of Dr. O's negroes were injured. 

 We understand that Mr. Birch, on the Lime Creek 

 Road has suflered, but we are not informed to 

 what extent. 



WOKDERS OP NATURE. 



There was lately dug up, at Madison ; Starke 

 county. State of Ohio, two large Tusks, measur- 

 ing each nine feet six inches in diameter! the 

 weight of one was as much as two men could lift ; 

 the outside covering was as firm and hard as ivory, 

 but the inner parts 'were considerably decayed. 

 They were found in a swamp, about two feet be- 

 low the surface of the ground, and were similar to 

 ;hose found some time ago at the Big Bone Lick, 

 'u Kentucky; the size of the animal, from the 

 tones found, was at least 60 feet in length, and 22 

 t»et in height, and 12 across the hips. Each tooth 

 found weighed 11 pounds. This animal as much 

 aupasses the Mammoth as the Elephant does the 

 Ox. — Clearjield Banner. 



A LATE New Orleans paper says: — "But our 

 <ity is yet in its infancy ; its resources are not de- 

 i'elo|)ed. We have even now a Levee near five 

 iniles in length, crowded with ships, steamboats, 

 keel boats and flat boats ; their number is in pro- 

 portion to the quantity of produce which is receiv- 

 ed from the western territories. Who can then 

 calculate the extent, the importance which our 

 city will attain, when those territories are filled 

 with population." 



Oregon. The great portion of the party which 

 ing; the friend and associate of Washington in our proceeded last year on an expedition for Oregon, 

 revolutionary conflict— the patriot and "the states- 1 we understand, have returned, after reaching the 

 man, whose pride it was during a long life, to aid American Alps, the Rocky mountains. It is said 

 and foster the agriculture of his country. llicy found them covered with 8 or 9 feet of snow, 



BvMr. E. Savage. Agriculture, the father and and a snow storm prevailing when they arrived 

 mother of all arts— "Honor thy father ami thy there, though it was midsuunner. Capt. Wyeth 

 moth.^r, that thv davs may be long in the land." and 13 men reiuained to prosecute their original 



By Mr. B. Knower. Manufactures and the Me- determination. The Rocky mountains are said to 

 clumic arts— the sons and daughters of Agricul-jbe 400 miles from Oregon. There was consider- 

 ture. able suffering before they reached the mountains. 



By Dr. Beekman. The Farmers of the state of and two men had separated from the company. 

 New York. — Cent. 



AGRICULTURAL. DINNER. 



On Friday last, duriug the meeting of the State 

 Agricultural Society, several gentlemen partock of 

 an Agricultural Dinner at the Mansion House, pre- 

 pared l)y Mr. Bradstreet, in his best style ; the Hon. 

 A. Spencer presiding. Three samples of excel- 

 lent American wine, comprising a dozen bottles, 

 were furnished for the occasion, by Maj. John 

 Adlum, of Georgetown, District of Cokunbia, from 

 his vintage of 1831. After the cloth was remov- 

 ed, the following sentiments were given: 



By the President. John Adlum — He has de- 

 monstrated to us that our country is as capable of 

 producing good wines as it is good bread. He 

 merits and receives our thanks, for the book and 

 the box which he has presented to us, to instruct 

 us in our practice, and to exhilarate us on this oc- 

 casion. 



By Mr. Le Ray. The promotion of temper- 

 ance, by every farmer producing his own wine. 



By Judge Buel. Agriculture, the first and best 

 pursuit of man — a trade, an art and a science. 

 The triple powers of strength, skill and science, 

 are necessary to develope all its benefits to man. 



By Judge Hickock. The Farmers — the liberal 

 supporters of every interest but their own. 



By Mr. Webster. The late Timothy Picker- 



A if'olf caught. A large wolf was killed in this 

 town last Satmday, within a mile of the State 

 House. His track was discovered in the north- 

 western part of this town, and followed by a party 

 of hunters from the West Parish, for nearly a 

 week, until the wolf was driven into a swamp 

 south of the village, which was surrounded and 

 he was shot by Caj)t Enoch Dow, one of the party 

 who first started in pursuit. — JV. H. Patriot. 



The following from Naples, is of Dec. 22 : — 

 " For two days the eruption of Vesuvius has 

 assumed an alarming character ; the flanks of 

 the mountain are furrowed in every direction 

 by vast torrents of lava. We can perceive three 

 small craters that have formed themselves in the 

 centre of the great crater, the edge of which is in 

 several places rent by crevices 30 or 40 feet wide, 

 and 15 or 20 deep. Anew stream of lava, which 

 Ibrmed itself in the night of the 20tli, has taken 

 the direction of Portici." 



J^ews. Few persons, we believe, even among 

 the learned, know any thing of the true derivation 

 of the word news. Its leal signification is deno- 

 ted by the cardinal letters of which it is composed. 

 N. E. W. S. ; — the initials of North, East, West, 

 and South — which njeans " Intelligence from the 

 four quarters of the globe." 



Social intercourse. We should make it a princi- 

 ple to extend the hand cf fellowship to every man 

 who discharges faithfully his duties, maintains 

 •rood order — who manifests a deep interest in the 

 welfare of general society — whose deportment is 

 upright, and whose mind is intelligent, without 

 slopping to ascertain whether he swings a hammer 

 or draws a thread. There is nothing so distant 

 from all natural rule and natural claim as the re- 

 luctant — the backward sympathy — the forced 

 smile — the checked conversation — the hesitating 

 compliance — the well oft' are too apt to manifest to 

 those a little down; with whom, in comparison of 

 intellect and principles of virtue, they frequently 

 sink into insignificance. 



Cut timber for building aud fencing. Secure 

 your grain from rats. Cover your horses after 



severe exercise in cold weather, 

 your poultry and feed them. 



Look well to 



