No. 7. 



Grass Seed, <^'C. — Letter^ from H. Colman. 



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neighbourhoods, has made us acquainted 

 witli many valuable kinds unknown to, or 

 not kept by our nurserymen, which would 

 be desirable to have introduced into our or- 

 chards. If some of the enterprisinof nurse- 

 rymen of the east, would send to Philadel- 

 phia the coming spring, an assortment of 

 their most esteemed young trees, there is 

 no doubt they would be well remunerated 

 for it, for it appears likely there will be an 

 active demand the coming season for trees 

 of the best sorts. 



Send us the Baldwin apple, the Roxbury 

 russetting, Peck's pleasant, the Rhode Island 

 greening, the Jonathan, the Red Seek-no- 

 further, and all others of superior quality, 

 and particularly those kinds which are not 

 tound in our adjacent nurseries, which it is 

 presumed may be known by referring to 

 catalogues which are generally exchanged 

 by nurserymen. A great advantage it is 

 presumed would arise, from an interchange 

 of fruit trees between different sections of 

 our extended country; the facilities for 

 transportation are now so great, w-e hope it 

 will be undertaken the ensuing spring; the 

 west should send on her valuable contribu- 

 tions to the east; her new seedlings of the 

 best kinds would be invaluable, and com- 

 mand a ready market. The selling of fruit 

 trees by public auction, is" rather a new bu- 

 siness in Philadelphia, yet it has given 

 general satisfaction, and should be encou- 

 raged. The writer of this attended most of 

 the sales, and became the purchaser of seve- 

 ral hundred trees, not one of which would 

 he have been likely to have ordered from a 

 nursery. These sales were numerously at- 

 tended, and large quantities of trees pur- 

 chased, were transported by country mer- 

 chants and others, to great distances from 

 the city. 



The Long Island nurseries should send 

 an assortment of their best pears, plums, and 

 cherries, and be sure not to forget the quince. 

 Quince trees are now much sought after, 

 and at the late sales brought better prices 

 than most other kinds of fruit trees — the de- 

 mand for this fruit in the Philadelphia 

 market having out-run the supply for many 

 years past. A. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Grass Seed, «fec. 



The time is now approaching when the 

 farmer's attention will be called to the sowing 

 of grass seed, and although there have been 

 frequent admonitions published in the Cabi- 

 net, on the importance of distributing it 

 thickly and regularly over the ground, yet 

 as some people have treacherous memories, 



and others are too reluctant to purchase a 

 sufficient quantity, another hint on the sub- 

 ject may be like bread cast on the waters, 

 seen after many days. Sow none but clean 

 seed, and if your eyes be not very good, 

 procure a magnitying glass to examine it 

 with ; such a glass is always used by the 

 seedsmen when they buy in their stock, and 

 I perceive no good reason why every farmer 

 should not have one in his pocket when he 

 goes to purchase; it will show that he un- 

 derstands his business, and he will be less 

 likely to be deceived. A glass of the above 

 kind costs but a trifle, and will be very use- 

 ful for examining many objects of interest 

 or curiosity, which are constantly presenting 

 themselves. It will pay for itself in en- 

 abling a person to detect the position of a 

 splinter or a brier in a finger; therefore get 

 an eye-glass before you buy your clover or 

 timothy seed. H 



Remember that the artificial grasses pro- 

 duce no more plants than you sow seeds, and 

 not even tliat number, for some perish by 

 the way ; so that if you want a great many 

 plants, you must distribute a great many 

 seeds, and those of a good quality too, or they 

 may not vegetate. It is not necessary to 

 sow any Canada thistle in Pennsylvania or 

 New Jersey, for there is plenty to keep up 

 the stock already, on some farms tliat I could 

 name not forty miles from Philadelphia: it 

 is a most pernicious inmate, and if those 

 who have it on their farms do not bestir 

 themselves to clear it out, they will have to 

 clear out themselves in a few years, for this 

 nuisance admits of no competition a,fter it 

 once takes fair hold of the soil. David, 



Letter from H. Colman. 



We learn from thq New Genesee Farmer, that the 

 following letter was intended to be read at the meet- 

 ing of tlie New York State Agricultural Society, in the 

 Ninth month last, but was not received in time. We 

 anticipate much pleasure from a perusal of the notes 

 of our friend, and hope to be gratified ere long. — Ec. 



James S. Wadsworth, Esq., 



President of the N. Y Agricul. Society, — 



My Dear Sir, — Should this reach you 

 before your great meeting at Rochester, I 

 beg leave to offer to you and my respected 

 associates in the great cause of agricultural 

 improvement, my congratulations upon the 

 auspicious prospects, and the actual, con- 

 tinual and rapidly extending advancement 

 of a subject, which w-e have so much at 

 heart. I could wish to share formally with 

 you and them in the pleasures of that occa- 

 sion; but it is idle to desire impossibilities; 

 and I shall do my best, in my humble way, 



