VOIi. XI, NO. 47. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL 



371 



MASS. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Saturday, June 1, 1833. 



Flowers presented. By Mr. S. Walker, of Rox- 

 I)ury. Iris two varieties ; Roses ; Phlox Alba, 

 Poeania, double white ; Hesperus Matronalis 

 (Double White Roillet); Spiroea Filii)enclula,(Com- 

 luou Dropwort) ; V'eronica Gentioiiaides, (Gentian 

 leaved Speedwell); Sa.xifraga Unibrosia, (London 

 Pride); Minulus Aurea, (Monkey flower); Viola 

 Graudiflora, alba ; do. ])urpurea, do. tricolor, do. 

 Maria Louisa, do. do. Adelaide, do. do. Nigra, do. 

 do. Seedliiijr, very large ; William Wallace do. do. 

 Tani O'Sliantcr ; Lychnis Chalcedonica, (Double 

 red Ragged Robin); Hyacinth monstrosus; Henrjro- 

 callisFlava; Pinks; Achillea jEgyptiaca (Egyp- 

 tian Milfoil) Tradescanlia Alba, do. Rubra, do. do. 

 Purpurea. Acpiilegia Cerulea, do. Alba. Cle- 

 matis Integrifolla ; Campanula flosculi, do. Lon- 

 icera. 



By John Prince, Esq. Scotch Roses. By Mr. 

 John A. Keurick, Spartiumsco parium ; Azalea 

 flamma. Poenia, Double White, do. Decora, do. 

 Rosea ; Aristoloehia sepha.; Calycanthus floridus ; 

 Viburnum oxycrocus ; Magnolia glauca. Rose 

 Acacia, new variety ; Honeysuckle, four varieties ; 

 Scotch Roses, &c. 



Messrs. Winships, their usual exhibition of 

 flowers, of wliich there were about sixty varieties. 



Mr. Thomas Mason, of Charlestown, presented 

 on the 25th idt. some fine tulips, which were ac- 

 cidentally omitted in last week's report of Horticul- 

 tural proceedings. 



For the Com. J. Winship, Chairman. 



Fruits presented. Two Boxes of Early Virginia 

 and Royal Scarlet Strawberries, raised in open 

 ground, ripe and fine flavored, by Mr. Rufus Howe, 

 of Dorchester. 



Green Peas, of a good size, from the garden of 

 E. Vose, Esq. of Roxbury, were exhibited. 



For the Com. B. V. French. 



On the motion of Mr. Winship, the Society 

 Voted, That the flowers exhibited on Saturday be 

 sold at auction, precisely at 12 o'clock, and the 

 proceeds thereof appropriated towards the erection 

 of a Monument to the memory of the late eminent 

 Horticulturist Robert Wya-tt. 



Rapid mode of raising excellent vine plants. At 

 the pruning season leave a shoot of young strong 

 wood, over and above what may be wanted for 

 training of a suflicient length to bend down as a 

 layer into a pot ; and also for training it during 

 its growth, when the vine begins to push, displace 

 the buds from the shoot intended for laying, except 

 the leading one. When this is grown to about all 

 eight inches or one foot long, bend down to the 

 pot and lay it so that the top joint, whence the 

 young shoot has sprung, may be fixed with a 

 strong crook at about one inch under the surface 

 of the mould. As soon as it begins to take root, 

 weaken its resources from the mother plant by 

 making an incision in the wood behind the pot, 

 which enlarge by degrees, as fast as the young 

 plant will bear it until it is quite separated from 

 the old one — Card. Mag. T. Rutger. 



Bunkerhill Monument. An eflbrt is now making 

 without a doubt of its success by the Massachusetts 

 Charitable Association to complete the Monument. 



COTTON SEED OII< FACTORY. 



The Missisippi Journal gives a very detailed ac- 

 count of a factory, establislied in the city of Natch- 

 ez, and now in operation, for manufacturing oil 

 from cotton seed. The factory belongs to Messrs 

 .Samuel Plummer & Co. of which firm 3Iajor An- 

 derson Jliller is a partner. It is an inunense un- 

 dertaking. Their building is eighty-four feet by 

 eighty, one and a half story high, and contains a 

 steam engine of 2'!^ inch cylinder, and five feet 

 stroke, driving eight hulling machines, five setts of 

 stones, and a macliine to prepare and grind the 

 seed for heating; eight cylinders for heating the 

 meal ; a corn and seven lever presses in preparation, 

 to carry on the business with despatch, aud to the 

 saving of manual labor. The establishment is the 

 largest of the kind in the United States, and is ca- 

 pable of making from one to two thousand gallons 

 of oil per day. The oil is used for painting and 

 burning. — Boston Transcript. 



Rhubarb Plant. Edward Bevan in the Hor. 

 Reg. observes "that it is I believe an ascertained 

 fact, that allowing plants to seed has an exhaust- 

 ing efl'ect, as well upon the plants themselves as 

 upon the soil they grow in. Some, which if 

 prevented from seeding, would prove perennial 

 uniformly die the following winter, if allowed to 

 seed. Others if raised too late to blossom the year 

 in which they are sown, are well known to pro- 

 duce more vigorous plants, aud consequently finer 

 flowers, the year following. 



Applying this principle to my Rhubarb, I re- 

 move its blossom buds in their earliest infancy 

 except when I wish to perfect a few of its seeds, 

 this, however, I have rarely attempted, as like the 

 potato it is much moie speedily propagated through 

 tiie medium of the roots than by sowing tlie seed. 



Whenever I have allowed a rhubarb plant to 

 ripen its seed I have found it sufl'er in the vigor 

 of its leaves, not only during the year of its flow- 

 ering, but on the following year also." 



Mr. Randolph, it is said, has provided for the 



EMANCIPATION OF ALL HIS SLAVES. Ho liaS alsO 



made provision for the support of such of them as 

 are children, until they are able to take care of 

 themselves — and for the aged and infirm, durin 

 life. 



The first specimen of an Anglo Chinese Calen- 

 dar and Register has been published in China for 

 the year 1832. According to this authority, the 

 population returns of the celestial empire, in 1831, 

 amounted to 362 millions ; of which number the 

 capital, Pekin alone is said to contain five millions. 



The steamboat built by the Boston Coal Com- 

 pany, plies regularly between the Boston coal 

 mines about twenty miles above this, and Muncy 

 dam, passing down one day and returning the next. 

 She draws about fifteen inches of water is near one 

 hundred feet in length and sixteen in width, aud 

 moves with speed aud majesty. She came from 

 Williamsport to Jersey Shore yesterday, a distance 

 of about 17 miles by water, in two hours and 

 twenty minutes. The use to which she is now 

 applied is to tow arks and carry passengers. — Penn. 

 Paper. 



A town has been built in the gold region of Geo. 

 by the name of Araria. This town has been erec- 

 ted in less than twelve months and has a newspa- 

 per already. 



The directors of the old bridge in Charlestown 

 have voted to appropriate one half of the nett tolls 

 of the month of June to the purpose of completing 

 the Bunkerhill Monument. 



It has been determined to take the frigate Con- 

 stitution into the new dry dock in Charlestown, 

 Mass. about the middle of June, where she will 

 undergo a thorough repairng, and be coppered 

 anew. The Constitution is one of the oldest ships 

 in the navy — she was built in Boston in 1797, and 

 is considered by seamen as " the fortunate ship." 



Strawrebries from the garden at the House of 

 Industry South Boston were in the Boston market 

 on the morning of the 1st inst. 



Accelerated movement on Canals. — It has been 

 ascertained by experiments on Paddingtou Canal, 

 near London that canal boats, by using superior 

 horses, may be drawn at the rate of 10 miles an 

 hour. 



In the temple of Isis is the identical spot where 

 the priests concealed themselves while delivering 

 oracles that were supposed to proceed from the 

 mouth of the Goddess ! Here were found the bones 

 of the victims sacrificed ; and, in the refactory of 

 the abstemious priests, were discovered the remains 

 of hams, fowls, eggs, fish, and bottles of wine'. These 

 jolly friars were carousing most merrily, and no 

 doubt laughing heartily at the credulity of man- 

 kind, when Vesuvius poured out a libation on 

 their heads which put an end to their mirth, and 

 more efiectually disturbed their digestion, than did 

 the denunciation of our amiable Henry VIII. anni- 

 hilate the appetite of Cardinal W'oolsey ! One 

 priest seems to have had an eye to business in the 

 dreadful scramble ! He helped himself to three 

 hundred and sixty jiieces of silver, forty-two of 

 bronze, and eight ot gold, which he wrapjjed in 

 cloth so strong as to stand the wear and tare of sev- 

 enteen centuries. He fled with these spoils of the 

 temple, but was overtaken by death near the trag- 

 ic theatre, where his skeleton was found, grasping 

 the treasure, in 1832 ! Few indeed, have been 

 able to clasp the mammon of unrighteousness so 

 long in the cold embrace of death. 



We learn that the Messrs. Winships of Brigh- 

 ton liave presented the Selectmen of Lexington, 

 from their nursery at Brighton, with a dozen of 

 their beautiful Weeping Willows, which are placed 

 around the Monument in Lexington, where the first 

 blood was spilt in the American Revolution. 



Two canal boats recently passed Palmyra, N. Y. 

 eastward, freighted with two hundred and fifty 

 barrels (twenty five thousand dozen) eggs from 

 Ohio. These valuable cargoes were owned by a 

 speculated from " down east." 



Mr. Avery's Acquittal. The Providence Journal 

 of the 3d inst. states that after being out sixteen . 

 hours the Jury in the case of the Rev. E. K, 

 Avery returned a verdict of acquittal. 



Temperance. The report of The National Tem- 

 perance Convention states that within the last six 

 years there have been formed 6,000 Temperance 

 Societies, embracing one million members, that 

 2000 distillerie shave ceased, and 5,000 merchants 

 discontinued vending ardent spirits: that there are 

 I 700 of our vessels which do not carry it. 



