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NEW ENGIiAND FARMER. 



Published by John B. Russell, at JVo. 52 JSTorth Market Street, (at the Agriciiltural Warehouse) Thomas G. Fessenden Editor. 



V OL. YIII. 



HORTIC U L T U R E. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1829. 



No. 4. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FAR.MER. 



j his legs, and not unfiequently was siezed with it I'm- which purpose a green oak tree was cqt 



~ I every night for weeks in succession. Thii-ty years ' (hessed, and placed under liis barn, which was 



I since, I had recourse to the aforementioned rem- ! perfect and sound a few years ago. This tree 



NATIVE GRAPES. !edy, and have not experienced anything of the ; was probably cut in the month of July. Again, 



"(Ir Editor I noticed in tlie New England '^'"'^ niore than two or three times since. You ; there are barns now standing on Long Island, 



■nier of July 1 7, a comnmnication from Mr E. "'" suppress this, if in your opinion want offaith i wliicli have htcn built with timber cut in summer. 

 Bull, of Hartford, on the Co/wmiia)!, or iJiicA "'" pi'event any person from applying such a in those barns we find hickory, gum, and oak 

 ipe. Mr B.'s attention and promptness in fur- 'simple remedy, and would rather sufler the pain. | rafters, with the bark stripped ofl', as hard as horn 

 the desired information is very gratifying 'J^° " wash in Jordan" and be healed, I know, is j and uninjured by worms. Those barns were 



s, also, his liberal offer to forward to the Mas- i '^y '"^"Y deemed impracticable, but if a physician 



lusetts Horticultural Society some of the cut- 8''°"'^ recommend '' some great thing," and which 



As of the grape, and a basket of the fruit. We '"'ffht ^*= attended with expense to the patient, no 



•» ;t this grape will prove a valuable acquisition I doubt the prescription would be strictly observed. 



!} )ur native fruits. Mr B. did not state whether I Bristol, Me. Aug. 4, 1829. A. B. 



From the Lonff Islcind Star. 



built to supply the jdace of those burnt by light 

 ning. 



With such evidence before us, it certainly ap- 

 pears that we are ignorant of the proper time to 

 cut ship timber. Actual experiments, therefore, 

 are necessary to define the proper season. For 

 which purpose, our government should jjurchase 

 SHIP TIMBER' ^ "^'"''' °^ vvoodland, wherein a parcel of timber 



.... ^ , J , 1 , • ■ , should be cut in every week throughout the year. 



At what season of the year should ship tmiber i i i r. . i a • <• i i / 



r,Jt the berries do not dron from the bunches i . i . • ■ i .. i i- -, , and lelt to dccny. A register ol the days of cut- 



lij [ uie oerries uo not aiop iioin tne uunones, be cut down, to msure its longest durabdilv .' .• i . ■ .• i i i c , 



the bnurbpa from the vine as is: snniptimes rrii • • • i- ' •• tmg kept, noimg partbcularly the age of the moon, 



ine uuntncs irom tne vine, as is sometimes This is an interesting subject to every maritime ,. , , ,',, ■ i .i T. r.u 



rase with the Isabella fi-ranp which has a dp- .• i i • i /• i • i tile looseness oi the bark, the weight oi the wooU, 



case vviui iiie isdueiia gidpe, wniLii lias a ue- nation, and nothing short of actual experiments . H 



; in this respect; the berries being easily shaken ^.ill gol^.e the uuestion. We have existed as a , «®/''""' ,, , .• , , 



n tlip br.niiclips when riiip ■ nr , , ■ Such a measure would produce practical and 



n tne oianciies wnen npe. nution fifty years, and are truly a naval power,' 



ad a thick or a thin skin, nor time of ripen-' 

 "!', I have been informed, from another source,! 

 T; it ripens in September, and hangs on the' 

 until destroyed Ijy the frost. Mr B. states ' 



cured it from Mr Adlum, of Washington, Dis 

 t of Columbia. It originated on Mr A.'s farm 

 he District, and is evidently different from the 



iger than tliat whicn is cut in any 

 season of the year, because the sap is then sup- 

 posed to be in the earth and the bark is firm to 

 the tree. But are these sufficient reasons to sai- 



AMERICAN VINEYARDS. 



William Prince, Proprietor of the Linnrean 



_,,,,_ , , - I Botanic Garden, New York, desires to add to his 



nieiit.oned by Mr Bull. It has never yet ^ i,,y ^^ ^f „,,, truth of their position .' We know j work on the Vine, now in progress, a list of all the 



' ""' that a white oak free cut down in February, and j vineyards existing in'the United .States, and the 



lift laying until June, will send out small sprouts j success attending them ; and he will be gratified 

 '....r. the body, and that thn bark will loosen and; to receive i. n 'lie proprietors of vineyards in 

 may be stripped off, and the like of chesnut and I every section of our country, the required iiifor- 

 other wood; hence it is evident that there is much j matioii, per mail, as soon as possible, as the work 

 sap in wood in February. will be published duiing the present or ensuing 



Tlae most durable woods in the United Slates, month. 



are red-cedar, locust, live-oak, white-oak, and I ■ — 



pine. That there is a proper season to cut mate- j PRESERVATION OF HEALTH. 



rials for ship building is certain. Locust wood it t ^'^^ °^ •h^ ^^^^ '"°^''^ °^ preserving health, 



is generally supposed will last fifty years, and i ^"^ invigorating the constitution against the evils 



ne witii me. 



Vhile s]jeaking of n-ative grapes, I will remark 



['^Jt they look very promising,, this season, witi, 

 and with others in this vicinity. The Bland's, 



~ huylkill, and Elsinburgh, are vigorous in their 

 wth, full of fruit, and vie with the Isabella. — 

 e vines of Z. Cook, Jr, Es(|. and of the Messrs 

 NSHirs, of five and six yeaj's old, laden with 

 ir five and six hundred bunches of fruit on 

 h vine, must gratify every admirer of horticul- 

 il pursuits. S. D. 



Dorchester, Aug. 5, 1829. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



PREVENTIVE OF THE CRAMP. 



S Mr Fessenden — I noticed in the New Eng- 



d Farmer of July 17, No. 52, an article taken 



:n the Middletown Gazette, over the signature 



A Customer," to cure or prevent the cramp. 



s recommended when the cramp siezes a per- 



" , in bed to lie soniething rountl the limb be 

 ;en the pain and the body. I regret that the 

 ter had not described that something, whether 

 3 intended a twine string or a cart rojie, and 

 jrmed .at the same time how long the applica- 

 1 must be continued, in order to prevent a re- 

 rence of the disease. 



From actual experiment, I will point out a 

 re simple, and equally certain remedy. Any 

 son subject to cramp wlio will take the precau- 

 1 to wrap a piece of brimstone in its crude 

 te, the size of a large bean, in paper, and wear 

 in his pantaloons pocket, it will save him the 

 ible of cording his limbs, or jumping out on the 

 3r to rub the parts affected. The writer of 

 s was afflicted for several years with cramp in 



that it may be cut at any season of the year. ! "^ ''^'= ''PP'"°'"^'""ff "''"'er, is the daily use of the 

 This is certainly wrong.— The writer of this arti- ! ^'"^'^ '^^•'^- ^° "'''"^ habits, however, the plung- 

 cle, in the year" ISOl, purchased from Hicks, Ti- I "'" "^^'^ '^ '^"'■"'"'' ^y ''''' absence of that reac- 

 tus, & Co. lumber merchants of New York, one ' "°° "''"•='' <^^"^<^^ "'«' S'""' «" "'S ^^in of those 

 hundred and fifty locust posts, and fifty red cedar ^^"^ ''"■" •'•'uefited by bathing. In these case 

 posts, which were used for fencing ; the locust '"^^ shower bath is often useful ; but, when no re- 

 posts were from Queens county, and the red ce- ''^"°" '=^'^" ^""""'^ "^ "^''' t''" individual should 

 dar from the south. The locust posts are rotten spon?^ the trunk of the body with cold salt wa- 

 and removed, the red cedar are perfect and sound. 1 1'^''' "■■ ^'"^'S'"" '*"'' ""^t*""' '^*^'«''e rising in the 

 In June of the same year, he cut thirty locust "'"mins, whilst the limbs are kept wa rm in bed. 

 posts which were used in fence, and those were PENNSYLVANIA HORTICULTURAL SO- 

 good. In March of the same year, he cut a quan- [ , CIETY. 



tity of chesnut posts, which were set the same ; A stated meeting was held en the 3d instant, 

 summer; those lasted sixteen years, and were re- ; Among the collections of fruit, flowers and jdants, 

 placed with chesnut posts which were cut in May, the following deserve particular notice, 

 the latter have stood twelve years, and are rotten, j Mr Hibbert presented a fine Agapanthus Vm- 

 We know moreover that there are seasons of bellatus, or African blue Lily, in flower. 



the year, between March and November, when 

 brush-wood may be cut which will dry perfectly 

 hard. 



After the British evacuated Philadelphia, in 



A Mandarine orange. The branch bearing 

 a fruit was inserted in the stock last October, 

 and the fruit has since grown to perfection. Se- 

 veral other branches bearing flowers at the time, 



June, 1778, Mr Cooper, the owner of Cooper's i were engrafted, and have since matured th^^ 

 Ferry, near said city, began to repair his buildings I fruit. 



which had been injured by the British, and it was | 3. Pyramidalis alba and rubra, verj' large ai 

 found necessary to place a new cill under his barn, fine. 



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