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NEW ENGLAND FARr^lEU. 



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rtf HCluiil (iict^, io eniieavnur tnooiTPct a radicstl 

 error, ivliich nimost cvfrv nillivalor, ;\nil I be- 

 lieve every loriner \vnter, has iaiiorod iimlor. 

 rnileavoriner to illscovcr means of rciiov.ilin? 

 riir peach treos, hy llie apphcallim ol' arliliciiil 

 riTneche-, inslead of adoplina; a more careliil 

 aiid impr -ved mnde of ciihivatiori hy which a 

 lien, a more hPallhy, and \ia;nroii< race nf pear h 

 f.ees m.iy he once more iiili'odnced tliioughoiit 

 this liulv ccinfreiiial chnie. Thi<, it is true, will 

 ri-qnire tlie work of time; yet, if the suhjecl 

 could nnf.e ho i^enerallv onder-itond, a very or- 

 <hnarv degree of care and illcniion on ihe pari 

 of the cultivator, might effect it in a few years. 

 'I'lie great evil exists in the want of a proper 

 degree ol care and skill, in inlrodiicinc; and se- 

 leclnig such sorts only as are worthy and proper 

 for our future cultivation. By the eslahlishment 

 of a bolantc;al garch'n, under the management of 

 experienced men, ihe greatest henelits to socie- 

 ty, in the improvement ol' liiis and every other 

 iVuit, might be elfecled. Here a liheral portion 

 ol ihe grounds might he ad.ipted particularly 

 for tlie introduction and cullivalion id' every 

 proper and improved variety, worthy of being 

 retained or recommended for general cultiva- 

 tion ; and here ihe most imjirovcd mode ofcul- 

 tivation might always be ready lor the acliial 

 iiives'igalioo ol all such as might he desirous 

 of obtaining such henelits as are always to he 

 derived by men of discernment from such mod- 

 els. The si;ienlitic spixtilator too, mis;ht here 

 have a tine opportunity of testing the efl'ects of 

 all his favorite theories, and the i>i!blic would 

 not he lell at a loss to know how fir they 

 would be sale in I'olUnving such rules as his su- 

 perior sagacity and skill might discover worthy 

 of being recommended. 



Great mistakes are generally entertained, and 

 much mischief done, by the improjier pruning 

 of pe.ich trees; and those unacquainted with the 

 jiroper method of managing this part of tlieir 

 ciiliurc, would derive more henelit hy contem- 

 jda.ing, for a few moments, the actual form ofa 

 tew trees properly managed, than reading the 

 wrillenor printed directions of a volume. 



The stale and form of the trees are often so 

 diflerent when obtained from the nurseries, thit 

 no parlicuhir rule can be laid down that would 

 lie applicable to the whole. The great art for 

 securing a proper form for the head of a peach 

 tree, depends upon cutting off the leading or 

 maia stem at the desired height the head m;iy 

 be wished to commence at, which should never 

 be more than four feet high — 1 prefer two or 

 three feet. The selection of lour or tive limbs, 

 if possible, from the opposite side of the stem, 

 as near this point as can he got, and in moder- 

 ately upright positions, sliould be sulTered to 

 form the main stems of the toji of the tree; 

 ;vnd, as these generally forni«h abundance of 

 shoots from all parts as they advance in hei;fht, 

 they ought never, in such case, to be shortened. 



It is seldom that the peach tree requires much 

 pruning, after th.:; main branches of the head are 

 thus formed. Wherever ttie inferior limbs be- 

 come too close, they should be cut out ; and if 

 any supply be any where necessary, some branch, 

 it any he found conveniently silnated, m.iv be 

 shortened, so as to throw out a greater supply. 

 There is one particular season which i have al- 

 ways I'ound to succeed better than any other, for 

 cutting the main stem for forming the head of 

 the tree, and that is in April. Just as the buds 



begin to break, wherever any irregularity of the 

 In, inches occur, in Ihe growing seasons they 

 m:!y he regulated hy the knife any time ; hut no 

 pruning ought ever to be performed on these 

 trees at the approach of, or during the winter 

 season. It is not the object of our present un- 

 dertaking to enter into any particular invesliga- 

 tion of those external evils, which have, for 

 many years, been generally considered as an un- 

 conquerable scourge of the peach tree; nor 

 have we any objections to the man of science, 

 developing the results of those profoitnd re- 

 searches, arising from the pursuits of natural 

 philosopliy. Our object has been to prove, by 

 a long series of fads, (which can be well au- 

 thenticated,) both the erroneousness and absurd- 

 ity of ascribing the great failures of our peach 

 trees to any malignant cause, but to other na- 

 tural detects, which an improved mode of culti- 

 valion has been actually aijle to resist, and which 

 if more universally adopted, would greatly facil- 

 itate the complete renovation of this delightful 

 fruit. 



SUMmAHIT OF IHJSWS. 



The appropriations of Congress for Internal hnprnre- 

 menls, llie last year, e.xceeded hall'a railliou of dollars. 



Gen. Lnfa;ielle arrirfd at .Montgomery, Alaliama, 

 on llie 3d ult. and left llicre on the evening of 4th, in 

 tlie steam boat for Cahawha. It was expected lie would 

 icaivh .Mobile on the 6th and New-Orleans on the 9th 

 or lUth, at which places splendid preparations were 

 makings to receive him. 



Major Uenham, appointed on a nit'.= ?ion to the interior 

 of Aliica, has arrived at Tripoli on his i-i.Uiru to Eiiiif- 

 land. 



.Another timber sliip is building- at Qnehrc, COO feet 

 deck, 60 feet beam, 36 feet in her hold, aen 5,050 tons. 



The Emperor of Russia has presented a diamond ring 

 to Capt. Htouehouse, of the London brig Paris, and or- 

 dered a medal struck for him as a reward for saving 

 the lives of several Ru5sian*seameii and an oiTicer, dur- 

 ing the inundation. 



The rail-road? now prcjerted, if carried into effect, 

 would consume iron to the value of '?8 millions sterling! 

 The ill miles of road planned betwetn Birmln,:^ham 

 and Liverpool will require 60.000 tons of \\\<i. for the 

 rails alone, at the cost of 030,000/. 



Itappears by a statenien' in the ATedlcal Intelligencer 

 that there are at present in the dilferent Medical Insti- 

 tutions in the United States no less than 1890 .Medical 

 Students. 



In the early part of February, five irdiabitants of the 

 village of Mors-ine, were overwhtlmed hy a Inige mass 

 o{ snow, from the mountain uiider v.'hich they were 

 walking. Their lifeb s^ bodies were found beneath the 

 snow, in the very position in which they had been walk- 

 ing, and with their knapsacks on their backs. 



The canal naviga'ion has commenced this year un- 

 der ver-y favourable auspices. One house alone in 

 Troy has already received from the west, on the Erie 

 Canal, 3500 barrels of flour, provision, fcc. which have 

 been forwarded to this city. — jV. i'.Cai. 



Canals in Maine. — \ writer in ihe Alfred Star is 

 calling the attention of the people in York County to 

 the subject of internal iniprnvemenls. He says canals 

 may be cut through a considerable pbr'inn of that 

 County with very little expense. Little Ossipee fond 

 in the town of Watt rborou;^h, he says, is eight miles in 

 circumfeience, about eighteen miles from Saco, and 

 and twenty from Kennebunk. Thewrittr thinks ca- 

 nals rnay easily be constructed to connect this pontt 

 with Siico, Kennebunk, or Well-;, and adds," if the 

 Congress of the United Stales are determined to ex- 

 pend their surplus i-evenue in internal improvements, 

 let our citizens turn their attention to their own affairs 

 and «hile other stales are calculating for themselves, 

 let us put in for a share." 



liurnci Jlt/re.s. — Accoimtsfiom Buenos A vren, receiv- 

 ed at lloston, by the late arrivals, stale that thi" 

 confederacy was in fntuve to be known by the name 

 of " the tinited Piovinces of South .''.inerica, " and 

 that tiie general gortrnnient was to be invested witli 

 powers similar to those con fern d on the executive of 

 of the United Slates. The celebration of the installa- 

 tion of the National Congress, at the capital, had been 

 authorized by the governors of the provinces, who had 

 issued proclamations expressive of their warm approba- 

 tion of this great event. The liberation of Peru had 

 been celebrated at Buenos Ayres with every demonstra- 

 tion of joy. 



,Greeee. — Letters from Augsburgh mention, that Sir 

 Frederick Adams is negotiating with the Greek govern- 

 ment, and that satisfactory results are expected. It 

 is also stated that the object of .Mr. Stratford Canning's 

 j mission to Russia, is Ihe independence of Greece.— 

 I The report of the reduction of Patras is contradicted 

 I by letters from Trieste. 



Such is the advarce upon wool, that we have good 

 , authority to stale, that three growths ofRomney Marsh 

 i wool were sold at the high price of I8(. per park, with 

 'every probability of its being '201. before Ihe 1st of 

 ' March. A short time since it fetched only 12/. 



Two hundred thousand sheep are stated to have 

 died of the rot in Romney Marsh alone. — Lond. paper. 

 Silk Traile. — So flourishing is this important manufac- 

 tu:e, that it is impossible to keep pace with the de- 

 mand for goods. 'I here is a general cry for more hands, 

 and by an advertisement, from •1,(]00 to 5,000 would 

 find immediate employ. Their instant arrival here 

 might, perhaps, occasion some inconvenience as to the 

 lodging of them, which will soon be obviated, as we 

 have pretty good anihority for stating, that not less 

 than a thousand houses. -ire about to be built. Sever- 

 al plats of land iiave been nrark'-d out for the purpose, 

 as Well as for the erection of four or five silk factories. 



[.MaccUsJicId paper. 



Inlerctiins: F<ic'. The Paltiniore Federal Gazette 

 relates a curious fact, illustrating the vast extent of 

 niu" territory, and Ihe increased facilities nf intercourse 

 with Europe. The annuniralion of President Adams' 

 election -was received at that office at the same time, 

 in the Liver| ool papers, and in the Arkansas Gazette, 

 pub^shed at Little Rock. The Liverpool paper stat- 

 ed tile fact correctly, the -Arkansas paper mentioned 

 it as ;i rumor, aufl says that the choice was effected on 

 the second ballot. 



At a magniiicrnt public dinner giren to Bolivar at 

 Bogota, one of the company gave for a toast, "Should 

 at any time a monarchical government he established 

 in Colombia, may the liberator, Simon Bolivar, be the 

 F^mperor",. -A high spirited public character, Senor 

 Pebe Paris, then requisted permission to give a toast, 

 which being acceded to, he fiilid bi- glass, and ex- 

 claiming — "Should Bolivar, at any future period, allo-nr 

 himseli to be declared Fmperor, may his blood !;■. v. from 

 his h( art in the same manner as the wine does from my 

 glass," — he poured the wine out olhis glass upon the 

 llonr. Bolivar immedialely sprung from his chair, ran 

 to Senor Paris, and most warmly embracing him, ex- 

 r'aimed, "Jf such feelings as those deilaied by this 

 honorable man .«hall always animate the breast of the 

 sons of Colombia, their liberty and independence caij 

 never be in danger." 



PASTURE WANTED— ■^^'anted to hire for a month 

 or six weeks, to commence about 15th .May next, 

 a piece of pasture land in a dry sitnation, in or near 

 Brookline, sufficient for a flock of about 150 sheep. A 

 level tract of high land, with some shade, and if possi- 

 lle a stream of water ru.ining through it, would be pre- 

 ferred. Apply at the office of the New England Farmer. 



E PARSONS i: CO. City Furniture warehouse, 

 • Union Street, near the Union Stone, keep con- 

 slantlv on hand for sale, a general assortment of furni- 

 ture, chairs, looking glasses, feathers of all kinds, fire 

 sets, brushes, bellows, &:c. &c. Boalnn, March 25- 



PATENT HOES— Notice is hereby given, that the 

 subscribers are irjipointed the sole agents for ven- 

 dino- J. k A. FaWs FalenI Hoes, which are offered for 

 sale'at factory prices by A.D.WFXD & J. FRENCH Jr. 

 Boston, March 25, 1825. No. 713 VVashington St. 



