Published by John B. RnssEii., at JVb. 52 M'orth Market Street, (at the Agricultural Warehouse). — Thomas G. Fessenden, Editor. 



vo\u. yiii. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1829. 



No. 1. 



HORTICULTURE. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Ir J. B. Russell. — A particular friend of 

 e in Virginia, who is a great connoisseur of 

 ts, made, tlie past season, a selection of the 



cest kinds of apples to be foiuid in that State, 



sent me the grafts of them — accompanied by 

 tils of tlie merits of the most of them. The 

 with his remarks I transmit you, and as there 

 ms at present so much excitement in regard to 



native varieties of fruit, it may be well to add 

 t I believe the most of them are of that char- 



r, and possibly No. 1. may be the only excep- 

 Yours very respectfully, 



WM PRINCE 

 [linncean Botanir. Garden, 

 J 



GREAT GROWTH. 



xtract of !i letter to the publisher of the New 

 land Fanner, dated Dover, N. II. July 15, 

 9 — " Of the difl'erent pear scions procured of 



the last spring, I am happy to give you the 

 wing favorable account. Of the Barlletl pear 

 Qs, one o( them, set in the early part of April, 



grown by the first of June to the length of 

 t feet — another has made six feet of wood, 



contained on the first of June, three pears, 

 of which now remains, and is about the size 



hen's egg, though the first year of its being 

 'ted. Every one of the others is growing fine- 

 particularly the Heathcot, Gov. Gore's new 

 iling. Yours truly, 



WM FLAGG." 



anir. Garden, i 

 Jul J o, 1829. \ 



APPLE GRAFTS FROM VIRGINIA. 



1. Royal Pearmain, a large superior autumn 

 apple, nearly or quite as large as the fall 

 Pippin. 



2. Ji'iiiler Cheise apple, very superior. 



3. Hen House apple, a seedling that came up 

 where au old hen house stood, is a fine 

 pleasant tasted and tender fruit, of a pale 

 gold color, ripe from the middle of July to 

 the middle of August. 



4. Cur!is, a fine, red, smooth skin, juicy, and 

 pleasant taste, ripe from the middle to the 

 last of August. 



5. Rholl, or RaioWs Janctt, shape similar to 

 R. I. Greening, color a mixture of red and 

 green, flavor much .superior to the New- 

 t-wn Pippin, more juicy, skin thinner, very 

 frigrant, and keeps equally as long. 



6. Beverley''s Red, a very large winter fruit, 

 smooth crimson skin, the fruit very white, 

 and of a pleasant flavor, keeps well. 



7. Pryor''s Red, a very large winter fruit, of 

 a brownish red, and when mellow is juicy 

 and very fine. 



8. Gloucester ffhite. 



9. Spice apple. 



10. Virginia Greening, a. winter fruit, of mid- 

 dling size, greenish, with red stripes, t'fry 

 superior flavor, and different from any 

 greening I have seen. 



11. Limber Twig, so called from the branches 



hanging in the manner of the weeping 

 cherry, the fruit internally as well as ex- 

 ternally is of a greenish color, frequently 

 a blush of red on one side. The fruit is 

 very hard, and not pleasant till kept some 

 time after being gathered, when it becomes 

 mellow, is very juicy, and very pleasant. — 

 It is one of the longest keeping winter ap- 

 ples. 



12. Striped June apple, ripe the last of June or 

 first of July, and as fragrant as a Pine Ap- 

 ple melon. 



13 Summer Cheese apple, a delicious fruit. — 

 The only tree now known to exist is the 

 one from which tb^se grafts were taken. 

 It was brought from Old Jamestown 75 

 years ago, and planted by my grandfather. 



14. Clark's Pearmain, a fine apple. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



SUPERB LILY. 



Mr Editor — It is well known that the com- 

 mon Meadow Lily (Lilium, Canadensis) in its un- 

 cultivated state, grows from two to three feet high, 

 and produces from five to seven leaves in a whorl 

 round the stalk, and with a raceme of from one to 

 three blossoms, rarely five. 



My attention w as attracted this morning; by one 

 of these superb plants growing in my garden ; the 

 root of which has been about five years under cul- 

 tivation, or rathfr permitted to grow in cultivated 

 ground, without, however, receiving any i)articular 

 attoution. Its height measures five feet nine 

 Indies — the stalk contains clever whorls of from 

 nineteen to twenty six leaves each, and the whole 

 terminated by a conical raceme of fifty-two blos- 

 soms, forty-five of which are now in full bloom ; 

 the other seven have not yet opened. The stalk 

 from the ground to the first whorl which is eight- 

 een inches, is nearly round, and then becomes 

 flattened. The great variety in the lengths of 

 the peduncles with pendant flowers, gives the 

 whole plant the appearance of an inverted chan- 

 delier. . T. ABELL. 



Lempster, M H. July 14, 1829. 



for the new ENGLAND FARMER. 



CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS 



for the " contributions to entomology." 

 By T. W. Harris. 



When the first number of the contributions was 

 published, it was stated that should any of the 

 supposed new insects prove to have been previous- 

 ly described, it would give me pleasure to ac- 

 knowledge it when duly informed. About the last 

 of April I obtained two volumes of the " Species 

 general des Coleop^eres" of Count Dejean. Al- 

 though this work was commenced in 1825, only 

 the first and second volumes have yet reached this 

 country. They contain ample descriptions of 

 many North American insects ; and in them we 

 are anticipated in several of our supposed non- 

 descripts, betides the two following which have 

 been pubhshed in the Farmer. 



ZuPHiuM? bicolor, N. E. F. vol. vii. p. IIX, is 



the Helluo prceuslus, Dejean ; and Dica;LUS 

 Leonardii, ibid, p. 132, is D. politus, Dejean. 



Through inadvertence the description of Dytis- 

 cus thoraeicus, (N. E. F. p. 156) was oficred for 

 publication ; it is identical with D. liberus of Prof 

 Say, who described it in the Journal Acad. Nat. 

 Sciences, in 1825, from spec^jmens s.ent him by 

 me. The following should have occupied its 

 place in the Farmer. 



Dytiscus %asillaris. Black, levigated, impunc- 

 tured ; dilated frontal spot and transverse vertical 

 line on the bcod, lateral margins and transverse 

 narrow fascia of the thorax, humerus, obsolete ex- 

 ternal margin and interrupted basal fascia of the 

 elytra, yellovish. Palpi and foi*r anterior feet 

 pale ochreous yellow ; hinder pair piceous, thighs 

 paler. Elytra with three series of punctures, ex- 

 ternal one faintly impressed, sutural series none. 



Length two-fifths, breadth a little more than 

 one-fifth of an jnch. 



Specimen a male in the cabinet of W. Oakes, 



Esq. 



The follovring supposed new species of Colym- 

 BETEs, for which I am indebted to Mr Oakes, was 

 captured by Mm in Ipswich, in November 1828, 

 and was received too late for description hi the 

 sixth number of the Contributions. 



CoLYMBET^s *scxdplilis. Black, acuducted ; 

 head, before, nnd external margins of the elytra 

 yellow ; a transverse, ferruginous, vertical sjiot ; 

 thorax yellow w ith black spots ; elytra transverse- 

 ly striated ; feet ferruginous. 



Length eleven-twentieths, breadth over three- 

 tenths of an inch. Body black, elliptical. Head 

 with minu?, , short, irregular, acuducted lines, 

 black ; nasus ochreous ; a transverse, fexiuginous, 

 vertical spot, and au oblong indentation near each 

 eye. Thorax, with rivose impressed lines, ochre- 

 ous ; two confluent, transverse, central spots, a 

 lunated oblique one on each side, and two linear 

 ones, sometimes interrupted into four, near the 

 base, all black. Elytra polished, transversely and 

 regularlj' striated or acuducted ; a subsutural, two 

 central, and a submarginal dilated series of punc- 

 tures ; external margin and epipleura ochreous.— 

 Body, beneath, with abbreviated, irregular, trans- 

 verse, acuducted lines, black, ventral segments pi- 

 ceous at tip. Feet dark ferruginous. 



This species is of a much more attenuated and 

 elongated form than DYTiscusyuscK* and striatus, 

 F. to both which Europeau species it is closely al- 

 lied. The anterior orbitar process, which projects 

 over the eye in front, is very conspicuous in this 

 species, and we find it more or less so in every 

 one of the genus, for the determination of which 

 it is an excellent auxiliary character. 



The following errors of press, in Contributions 

 No. vi. N. E. F. vol. vii. p. 164, remain to be cor- 

 rected. 



Colunm 1, line 4, for Genus Dytiscus, read Fam- 

 ily Dytiscidie. 



Column 1, 19th line from bottom, after liberus 

 insert a comma. 



Column 1, 19th line from bottom, for Colymbatcs, 

 i-ead Colymbetes. 



Colunm 1, last line but three, between apical 

 and ochreous insert these words — and basal spot 

 black ; elytra with about four series of punctures, pale. 



