1025.] 



m:\v engi.axd farmer. 



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may not live to see your city moving retro- 

 gnile in comparison with your neighbours at the 

 South. 1 am, Dear Sir, 



willi much respect, 



Your lniml>io servant, 

 ELIAS HASKET DERBY. 



I'O Tim EDITOR OF THE .NEW ENGLAND FAHJIER. 



Dear ?ir,. — Will you be so oliligina: as to say 

 in ynur next paper, what kind of Potatoes virc 

 the best to plant topjel an erirlij crop ; and where 

 !--uch seed can be obtained ? 



Your.s rcspcclfnllv, 



A SUBSCRIBER. 



[remarks by the editor.] 

 We find it not a very easy matter to give a 

 correct and sati?tactory ansvver to tbi* question. 

 There are numberless varieties of potatoes, and 

 som.e sorts are known by many dift'erenl names 

 by different cultivators, it is likewise a tact, 

 so far as we can learn, that, as a general rule, 

 those polal'jes, which are earliest are the least 

 prndnrlive. Wliat are commonly called Eng- 

 lish Whiles are recon]nieiided in Jlr. Butler's 



pot forth flowers, which at a short distance re- 

 semble roses. They say loo, that it is very or- 

 namenlal for borders. A liberal portion was 

 sent to the New York HorticuKural Society ; — 

 and given to numerous cultivators and improvers. 

 And dislribiition will continue to be made, until 

 the whole shall be expended. 



HORTICULTURAL MEDAL. 



The Horticultural Society of New York, as 

 an e.'[[)ression of their gratitude to Dr. Milchill 

 lor his large donations of seeds, roots, &c. have 

 (iresented him with a silver medal, with the 

 simple inscription " The A'ew York Hurticuttural 

 Society to Dr. S. L. Mitchili:'' 



Since the union of the County Society and the 

 Slate Society into one poweriul and respectable 

 ^■^t\y^ high expectations have been raised of its 

 future and increasing usefulr.ess. And with the 

 consolidations of so much industry, skill and cap- 

 ital, as the reformed association contains, and 

 the extensive intercourse, held by means of nav- 

 igation, with all the frequented parts of the 

 globe, it is a matter of reasonable calculalion, 

 that every valuable vegetable that it is adapted 



Farmer's Manual" as a very good variety, i *" °"'- climate or worthy of being reared in 



and he says " they will ansvver to begin to dig 

 in July." But we learn on inquiry of some of 

 our cultivators, who raise vegetables for Boston 

 market th it there are many sorts of potatoes 

 dilTiTing materially in their qualities, which are 

 known t'V the name of Engli-h Whiles; some 



green and hot houses, will soon enrich and adorn 

 our soil. 



Elliott's botanv. 

 Mr. Elliott, of South Carolina, has been en- 

 gaged lor a long time in preparing a work on 



are early, some late, some yield abundantly, ^°'7>'- ^\e are happy to learn, (rom the last 



wiio has a Stand No. 2, Old Market. Boston, has [''""' "^^ '^^ subscribers to this work resnie in 



potatoes, (of which he can spare a few) which ^■«rope— many of them the counlryn.en ol Lin- 



he calls Early Whites, and recommends them as' "=^"- "^e '>''''er ol flowers. A production which 



yielding well, ripening early, and being very] ^-'^'"•"'^s ^" '"''di interest abroad cannot lail to 



good for the table. We should be glad to re- ^O'""™"''' '"ti^rRSt "t home ." 



ceive inlbrmalion from our friends and Corrce- 



pondeuts on this subject. . t"'^"' °^" ■-"^=J=-'--'^'-'5h papers.] 



A rail-wav from Edinburgh to Dalkeith, dis- 

 itaman clover seed. ,3j,gg Q ,.^ilg-j,^ i, j^ 5.,i,,^ 1,.,-^j recently been sold 



Dr Mitchili has just received a specimen of for £35,000 or 15,').400 dollars. A rail-w.iy is 



Eastern clover seed Irom Naples, which is there 

 called " Semenza di Prate.'''' It is famed as the 

 best food tor cattle — grows luxuriantly and veri' 

 high — and has a gaudy red appearance when in 

 blossom It was sent home by Dr Kissam of the 

 U. S. navy. Com. Creighton, also, has purchas- 

 ed a quantity of it for the Agricultural Society 

 in Rhode Island. 



The bag which contained the seeds, on being 



about to be made from Edinburgh to Glasgow. 



It is 1 fact not much known, (hat the eel is 

 singularly alTected by high winds. This is well 

 known to the inhabitants of Linlithgow, who 

 have an excellent opportunity of ohserving the 

 habits of that animal, in the loch adjiilning the 

 town. The stream which flows out o( that loch 

 at the ivest end, passes through a sluice, and 

 opened, was found te conlain the seed in the hull ; falls into an artificial stone reservoir, from h hich 

 or cup, or in other words not threshed out or 1 it escapes by a number of holes in the sides and 

 cleaned. The calyx is so characteristic of the ! bottom. These holes are too small to let eels 

 family of Trifolium, to which the clover belongs, | of a common size pass, and hence this reservoir 

 that it is fortunate it had accompanied the seed, answers the purposes of an eel trap or cruive. 

 The botanist learns from it that the species be- 1 The M,, however, are rarely found in it in 

 longs to the sectii^n of the genus di-nominafed /«- 1 calm weather; but when strong winds blow, 

 gopoda, or bare-footed, on account of its villous I especially from the west, these tenants of wa- 

 or hairy covering. The Trifoliion prntcnsc, or ter seem to be seized ivuh a general panic, and 





FRUIT TREES, 6cc. 



.^MES BLOODGOOD & CO. 



have fir sale at their Nur- 

 si-ry at Flushing, on Long Island, 

 near New York, 



Fruit and Forest 'I rces, Flowering Shrubs and 

 Plants, of ihe mo^t approved sorts. 



The Proprietors of this Nursery attend personally to 

 the inoculation and engvatting of a/( thttr Fivil Trtet, 

 and purchasers m:iy rely with confidence, thai the 

 Trees they onler ^^ill prove genuine. 



Orders left v.ilh Mr. ^kbkdke Cook, Jr. No. 44, 

 State Street, LJoston, will be transmitted to us, and 

 receive otir prompt and particular attention. Cata- 

 logues will be deliverfd, and any inforiration im- 

 parted respecting the condition, ic. &c. that may be 

 required, on application to him. 



Persons nho intend to procure a supply of trees the 

 ensiling spring, are invited to rail on the agent at an 

 car/iy ;)£riorf, as their orders will be executed more to 

 their satisfaction than if deferred until the healthiest 

 rees have, been selected. Feb. 4. 



FOR sale at this Office. Ruta Baga, Mangel Wurt- 

 zel, and Sugar Beet seeds, raised this season, by 

 John Prince, Esq. Roxbury. The Ruta Baga seed is 

 from superiour roots, from seed not two years since from 

 Sweden. Feb. 11. 



Red clover, is a member of the section ; and it 

 is not improbable the newly arrived article is a 

 capita! variety of that species. If not so, and it 

 should turn out to be a distinct species, it will 

 nevertheless be very near akin to the common 

 Red clover. 



The Neapolitan clover is said by those who 

 have seen it, to grow several feet high, and to 



hurry from their lodgings like rats from a con 

 flagratlon. At this lime Ihey rush through the 

 outlet in crowd-, and fall peil--niell into the res- 

 ervoir, from which they are speedily transfer- 

 red to the frying pans oflhe burgesses. During 

 the high winds willnn toe last fortnight, a cart 

 load was taken out of the reservoir every day, 

 and in one day not less than two cart-ioads. 



PRICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCE. &c. 



.APPLES, best. 



.\SHES, pot, 1st sort, - - - 

 pearl do. . - . . 



BEANS, white, 



BEEF, mess, 200 lbs. new, - 



cargo. No 1, new, - - 



" No 2, new, - - 



BUTTER, inspect. No. 1. new, 



CHP.ESE, new milk, - - . . 



skimed milk, - - - 



FLAX - '- 



FLAX SEED 



FLOUR, Baltimore, Howard St 

 CJonessee, ... 



Rve, best, ... 



GRAL\,Rye 



Corn - - - - - 



Farley - ... 



Oats - - ■ . - - 



HOGS' LARD, 1st sort, new, - 



HOPS, No 1, Inspection - - 



LIME, 



OIL, Linseed, Phil, and Northern 

 PLAISTKR PARIS retails at 

 PORK, Bone Middlings, new, 

 [ navy, mess, do. 



! Cargo, No 1, do. - - 



[SEEDS, Herd's Grass, - 

 \ Clover . . - . - 



j WOOL, Merino, full blood. wash 

 do do unwashed 



do 3-4 washed 



do 1-2 do 



Native - - - do 



Pulled, Lamb's, 1st sort 

 do .Spinning, 1st sort 



PROVISIO.V MARKET. 

 BEFF, hest pieces . - - - 

 PORK, fresh, best pieces, - . 



" whole hogs, . - - 



VEM., 



MUTION, 



POULTRY, 



BUTTER, kes- & tub, 



lump, best, - . - 



EGGS, 



MEAL, Rye, retail, - . - - 

 Indian, do. - . - - 

 POTATOES, .... 



CIDER, liquor, .... 



HAY, according to quality, 



