voir. XI' NO. 4r. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



373 



will be acknowledged a very conipeteiit tribunal, 

 gave, as their opinion, that vegetables are & whole- 

 some and safe food, and rather a preventive of 

 cholera. But it would be well to have the record- 

 ed opinion of our own physicians in this matter, 

 and our gardeners are interested in its obtaiunieut 

 and publication. 



From tite Hagerslomi Torch-Light. 



The wheat crop is the most important of all 

 crops to the farmer. A man who has one liun- 

 dred acres of cleared land, of comiiiou quality, 

 ought to raise on an average one thousand busltets 

 of merchantable loheat, and also rye, corn, oats, ;ind 

 potatoes, sutiicieut to defray the expenses of cur- 

 rying on the farming. The wheat crop should 

 always be clear gain. 



Don't startle at this, farmer. A man who has a 

 farm of one hundred acres of cleared land, cjai 

 yearly put forty acres of it in wheat; and if the 

 land be in order as it should be anti as every far- 

 mer may have it, every acre of the forty will give 

 25 busliels, amomiting ahogethcr to one thousand 

 bushels. I shall now show how land must be 

 farmed, in order to produce in this way. Never 

 break your land before harvest and stir it after, as 

 is customary with many fanners. Much plough- 

 ing impoverishes land, and is prodnelive of no 

 good eftects. Your wheat ground must be heavi- 

 ly set in clover, and broken up after harvest with 

 three horses, when the seed in the clover is ripe. 

 By thus turning clover dovvn after harvest, when 

 the seed is ripe, it will never miss coining up in 

 the spring, which is frequently the case when 

 sown in the spring with seed. You also save be- 

 tween forty and fifty dollars' worth of seed annually 

 which it would take to sow your ground. When 

 the clover is ploughed down after harvest, before 

 you seed the field, you must harrow it lightly the 

 way you have ploughed it, in order to level the 

 ground, and prevent the seed from rolling between 

 the furrows and coming up in rows. Never 

 plough your seed in with shovels, nor harrow it 

 in across the ploughing, when you have turned 

 down clover after harvest, lest you raise the clo- 

 ver, but always harrow it in by twice harrowing 

 with light harrows the way you have broken up 

 your ground. Many farmers have ploughed down 

 clover once, and finding that their crop was not 

 bettered by it, but injured, as they believed, have 

 never attempted it again. This is almost invariably 

 the case the first time clover is ploughed down af- 

 ter harvest, especially if the fall be dry, and the 

 winter frigid and close. In turning clover down 

 you must necessarily plough the ground deep, and 

 the first time you do it you turn up the clay, 

 which being unmixed with manure of any sort on 

 the top, is in a bad state to sow wheat on. The 

 wheat after some time will sprout and come up, 

 but will look yellow. and very spindling. Its roots 

 after some tijuc, will get down among the unrotted 

 clover, and there will choke, and for want of mois- 

 ture a great deal of the wheat will dwindle away 

 and die. The unrotted clover, too, below, will 

 keep the ground loose and springy, so that the 

 frost will injure the wheat not a little. But 

 when the clover is ploughed down a second time, 

 the bad effects to the wheat crop arising from un- 

 rotted clover, are not experienced. You then turn 

 up the clover from below which was jiloughed 

 down before, and which is a manure on the top. 

 The seed sown on it now springs up directly, and 

 before the winter sets in has taken deep root. The 



clover now turned down rots very soon, in con- 

 sequence of the rotten clover turned up, which as 

 manure always keeps the ground moist, however 

 dry the fall. You may now go on farming in tliis 

 way-^every time you turn up a coat of clover, 

 turn down one, and your wheat crop will never 

 liiil, until your land becomes so rich, that you will 

 have to reduce it with corn. 



From the Nem York Farmer. 

 NATIVE ORNAMENTAt. PLANTS. 



" It' ill llie liekls I meet a smiling rtower, 



IHclliii.ks it whispers, Goil created me, 

 Ami 1 to him devote my little hour, 



Jn lonely sweetness and humility." 



I find many of my neighbors pleasantly attracted 

 ' over hills, through vallies and by river brink,' in 

 search of our native uncultivated flora, and their 

 gardens begin to show a brilliant collection of all 

 that is pleasing. 



This appears the most suitable season to make 

 selections, the flowers being now mostly in bloom. 

 Removals of plants may be made with a small hall 

 of earth round the roots, and about half of the 

 flower stem left standing ; in this way, with some 

 shading and watering for a short titrie, one can 

 have at once, all the shades of blue, pink, scarlet, 

 yellow, purple, and white of the present and past 

 month, blooming in our flower borders with all 

 their charming wild native sweetness. 



*' Your voiceless lips, O flowers ! are living preachers, 



Each cup a pulpit, each leaf a book. 

 Supplying to my iancy numerous teachers 

 From loneliest nook." 



The prolific hand of Nature, has scattered more 

 than one hundred and twenty varieties of her- 

 baceous and flowering shrubs, — within twelve or 

 fifteen miles of this village, and every hill and dale 

 is now made tributary to add to the domestic floral 

 wreath. How pleasant to notice this growing 

 taste — and it is fondly to be hoped this national 

 kind of feeling, for the collection of many fine 

 plants to be found all around us, may spread all 

 over the country, great and prolific as it is in 

 vegetable wealth, till at least, samples of what is 

 useful, grand and beautiful, may be secured frotn 

 the rapid advances made by the axe and the plough, 

 in all directions among our great host of native 

 beauties. 



Iti elegancy of shape and brilliancy of color, 

 many of our wild flowers will be found to bear a 

 fine contrast with the exotic plants of any nation. 

 At this moment, several indigenous plants are be- 

 fore me, which are superior to many green-house 

 platits that require great care to obtain a dingy 

 flower and sickly foliage, froin a poor shaped 

 plant. 



To the amateur cultivator of flowers in the 

 open ground, little need be said in praise of our 

 elegant hardy plants, which are easy of culture, 

 show their beauties plentifully at the proper season, 

 and stand the cold of our severest winters. Our 

 climate in this, and many other states, is found 

 eciual to that of any country for the cultivation of 

 culinary vegetables and fruits; and when we look 

 at our numerously fine and graceful forest trees, 

 with the whole extensive variety of superb shrubs 

 and flowers, we are led to conclude the time is 

 not far distant when the ornamental department of 

 gardening, in all its elegant branches, will be fully 

 fostered, and prove our climate, soil and capability 

 of our people in this tasty, fascinating art, not to 

 be second to those of any country. 



Lansingburgh, Sept. 6, 1832. 



1'he editor of the Easton Centinel gives the fol- 

 lowing as a certain cure for the tooth ache ; "Take 

 a Ititnp of unslacked lime about the size of a hickory 

 nut and dissolve or slack it in two-thirds or three 

 quarterof a tumbler of water. Hold the lime water 

 in the mouth contiguous to the aching tooth and 

 certain relief will ensue. If the relief is not per- 

 manent, repeat the application as often as the pain 

 returns. If the jiain is stubborn and refuses to 

 yield, the lime may be tnade thicker and stronger." 



The editor says he has tried this remedy fre- 

 quently, and never knew it to fail, notwithstanding 

 the Fire King's elixir has been tried in \aitf. 



From the jVcui York Fapiier. 

 YEIiliOWS IN PEACH TREES. 



Sir, — As I am a cultivator of the jicach, and 

 have been for some years past, and have given 

 my attention to the diseases of the tree, I do believe 

 that I know something by experience. First, it is 

 a fact the yellows can be given to a healthy tree by 

 inoculating it from a diseased tree, or by trim- 

 ming a diseased tree and then passing on with the 

 saiTie knife to a healthy tree ; and the moment you 

 amputate a limb with the knife that has got the 

 seeds of death on it, it will be sure to take, as it 

 would be to inoculate a child with the small-pox. 

 In 1830, I had sotne cions brought to me by Mr. 

 S., some that had the yellows in its first stage, and 

 some from a healthy one. They were budded on 

 young trees of that summer's growth. They were 

 fine and healthy young trees. Now I will give 

 you the result of the two lots of cions. In the 

 first lot there were about 140 trees budded from 

 it ; 120 trees grew from the 140, and they had 

 the yellows, all of them in 1831, and the 20 were 

 not cut down for the buds, because the buds did not 

 start to grow, then these 20 natural trees, all of 

 them, had the yellows. Second lot ofcions — part 

 of them were budded on the same row where No. 

 1 was, and the remainder on the next row ; there 

 were 250 buds inserted ; 220 grew. They are 

 all healthy, and the natural ones were healthy, and 

 buds inserted into them again. 



How often do we see advertisements to cure the 

 yellows in peach trees ; but that has never been 

 done, nor never can be. The only remedy is, 

 when you see a tree that is attacked with that dis- 

 ease, dig it tip ; do not leave it for the fruit. If 

 it bears, the fruit is not worth any thing — poor 

 tasteless trash. 



I think by proper management a peach orchard 

 could be kept fiojn the yellows for six or eight 

 years. I have 120 trees 5 and 6 years old, and not 

 one of them has got the yellows. When I got the 

 the trees, there was one kind among them that the 

 yellows made its appearance on the first summer 

 after planting. As soon as I discovered it, I dug 

 them up and planted out good ones, and now they 

 are all healthy, and I believe will continue so for 

 five years to come, with proper management. 



Mddletown, JVeiv- Jersey, 1833. SEVIS. 



Tliorburn's Seed Store. Every time we visit 

 this establishment, our pleasure is not only renew- 

 ed, but increased. At this time the plants are in a 

 most admirable condition, making a most taste- 

 ful and beautiful display of nature's beautieg. 

 The Messrs. Thorburn are deserving of much cred- 

 it for thus adding to the charms of nature. — AT. Y. 

 Farmer. 



Horse Chcsnut. The wood of the horse ehes- 

 nut makes very durable stakes for y'mea.--Hor. Reg. 



