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Charring Vegetable Refuse. — ^-c. 



Vol. XI. 



absurd operation is, I give you my word, 

 openly recommended to us republicans and 

 free citizens, and is really performed by one 

 or two weak men, who prefer spending their 

 money in this ridiculous manner, rather than 

 to aid in the support of generous and high 

 minded persons like us, by building such 

 noble institutions as those 1 told you of in 

 Philadelphia. It is not to be expected that 

 we shall ever commit such follies, far be it 

 from men of our independence of character, 

 to take such liberties with the designs of 

 nature. What! to throw over our grounds 

 any offensive fluid, that is nothing more than 

 refuse matter, instead of taking the obvious 

 hint, to let it run away. What nfext will 

 these industrious people dol Our plan, on 

 the contrary, appears more rational, we let 

 this mattter sink into the ground, where it 

 naturally goes, or if we can, we let it run 

 into some stream, and if this should chance 

 to be one that goes through our spring-house, 

 so much the better, it will give a taste and 

 smell to the milk and butter, that to many 

 persons may be extremely agreeable. 



Charring Vegetable Refuse. 



The great advantage of employing refuse 

 which has been submitted to this process, in 

 the cultivation of plants, is now pretty well 

 known. A simple way of charring the ve- 

 getable refuse of a garden, is this : — take a 

 few dry faggots, mixed with dry straw, and 

 set up for a centre ; around these build up 

 the rubbish, placing the chippings of wood, 

 (fee, next the faggots, and the greener parts 

 together with tree prunings, near the outside. 

 Around this, build with saw-dust or green 

 turf, leaving an avenue for lighting the fire. 

 When properly lighted, the hole at the top 

 is closed by degrees, and holes are made 

 lower down the heap, which are in their 

 turn closed up as the fire draws down, and 

 this is continued to the bottom of the heap. 

 When all is charred the holes may be all 

 stopped, and additional covering laid on, to 

 prevent entirely the access of air ; in a few 

 days the heap may be opened, and the ma- 

 terial will be ready for use; the larger parts 

 for draining flower pots, the smaller for ap 

 plying on the ground. — Practical Florist. 



Indian Meal Cakes. — Stir to a cream a 

 pound and a quarter of brown sugar, a pound 

 of butter — beat six eggs, and mix them with 

 the sugar and butter, add a tea-spoonful of 

 cinnamon or ginger»— stir in a pound and 

 three-quarters of white Indian meal, and a 

 quarter of a pound of wheat flour, — the meal 

 should be sifted. Bake it in small cups, and 

 let it remain in them till cold. 



The Apple. — Of all the productions of 

 the earth given us through the agency of a 

 tree or a shrub, by the bountiful Dispenser 

 of every thing that is good, the apple stands 

 preeminent. There are none amongst others 

 of our cultivated fruits, but which some of 

 us would lose with regret; they would, how- 

 ever, be parted with as we part with a lux- 

 ury. The apple, on the contrary, is not 

 alone a superfluity, but has woven itself 

 into our list of necessaries. We speak, of 

 course, comparatively; for the absolute ne- 

 cessaries of life are few indeed. In the 

 dessert, in pastry, in marmalades, jellies, 

 pastes, confections; in medicine and the 

 arts ; in all these departments the apple 

 takes its allotted place. If so multifarious 

 be its uses, it may readily be supposed that 

 its qualities must be variable to meet these 

 purposes. — The Fruitist. 



Curious Fact. — A farmer in Vermont, 

 last season, was behind his neighbours in 

 cutting the grass in his meadows; at night, 

 some waggish boys went into one of his 

 meadows and cut down all the grass in it. 

 They also went into his potatoe patch and 

 cut a few swathes through it. At the time 

 of digging the potatoes they were found rot- 

 ten, except where the boys had cut off" the 

 tops, and there they were all found good and 

 sound. This would seem to show that the 

 disease begins in the tops, and it suggests 

 as a means of saving a crop the cutting off 

 the tops so soon as the tops begin to die. 



Iron a Remedy for Blight in Pear 



Trees. — A correspondent states that he has 

 found iron ore, or cinders of iron, placed 

 round the roots of trees, drives away the in- 

 sect which deposits the eggs that produce 

 the worm. Having tried this remedy in a 

 sandy soil, and in a stiff soil, and in places 

 distant from each other; and having driven 

 off the insect when the trees of others were 

 very much injured or destroyed in the neigh- 

 bourhood, he advises all those who are trou- 

 bled by these insects, to try the use of iron, 

 rather than be under the necessity of con- 

 tinually topping off the limbs which contain 

 tlie worm or young insect. He thinks it 

 probable that the iron is unfavourable to the 

 worm, which drops from the branches and 

 makes its wintering place at the root of the 

 tree, and then the insect avoids an unfavour- 

 able place for its young. But whatever may 

 be the theory, it is sufficient that iron has 

 the desired effect. — Gardeners^ Gazette. 



Honour and shame from no condition rise; — 

 Act well your part; there all the honour lies. 



