Vol.VIlI— No.4. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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jiss of iiieii, whose name I have pronounced with 

 little innoceut entliusiasm ? No, never may it 



Tol so, 



T^orth Carolina Gold Mine. — Earlj' last spring,six 

 terprising citizens of Salem, four of them ship 



'isters, set out for tlie gold mine district in North 

 irolina, with an outfit of one thousand doUa 

 ch in cash, hesides inijdeaients considered ne- 



'■ ssary for mining, &c. &c. After selecting their 

 aund, they labored diligently and perseveringly 

 til the whole property embarked in the under- 

 ting was exhausted. A few days since they 

 lurned to Salem, having spent their last dollar, 

 le of them was arrested for debt immediately 

 er his return, and now lies in jail. 

 This statement wc have received from a gentle- 

 m, who has left his name ; and \viio thinks, 



'" th us, that, if any of our enterprising young 

 in should have a fit of the mine fever, it might 

 of service to make it public. — Boston Courier. 



N'ewhuryporl Stocking Factory. — We have seen 



lie of the stockings manufactured at this estab- 



iment, quite equal to any imported for strength 



Md durability. They can also be afforded, we 



derstand, as cheap as those imported of equal 



eness. The factory employs a cai)ital of about 



flee thousand dollars oidy ; it has thirty frames 



weaving stoi kings, all of which are wrought 



females. The enterprising proprietor has or- 



•m rs as fast as he can supjily them. The stock- 



EW ;s we have seen, are made of Sea Island Cotton, 



ee-threaded, and can be retailed for about sixty 



Its ; they arc actually worth one third more 



nil imported hose at that price. — Ibid. 



In the market place at Cadiz are sold grasshop- 

 •a, confined in little traps to enliven the cham- 

 s of the Cadiz ladies with their evening chirp. 

 Seville, a pet-lamb is quite as common an in- 

 te of the house as the dog, and it is by no means 

 e to see' a full sized merino, grown up in fami- 

 favor, following its master about t!ie streets to 

 M I daily avocation. — jVat. Gazette. 



1 " Transactions of tlia Dcitanical and Horticullural Society of 

 Counties of Durham, Northumberland, aud JVewcastlc-upon 



CANKER IN TREES. 



"" Much has been said and written on the dis- 

 "1' ie called canker in apple trees: it generally seizes 

 .™ h varieties and great bearers ; but the soil, and 

 )ecially the subsoil, have often a great share in 

 jdueing it, and some varieties have a far greater 

 "idency to it than others, as Sir Walter Black- 

 's Favorite, the Royal Russet, &c. &c. Mr 

 light conceives that this disease, as well as the 

 aring out of the old varieties, arises from the 

 e of the variety ; for, of coiu'se, in all cases of 

 W )pagation by grafting or budding, the scion or 

 ! bud is of the same age as the original plant, 

 t, as it is engrafted or budded on a vigorous 

 f' idling stock, I imagine that its growth is by 

 »|s means in some degree renewed. And I think 

 s has been clearly proved by a very ingenious 

 perimeiit made by a gentleman in Hereford- 

 ire, who, having a very old Golden Pippin apple 

 4 e which was in a dying state, planted around 

 several young seedling crabs, and when they 

 ib1 d established themselves, engrafted or inarched 

 eafcm into the trunk of the old tree ; the conse- 

 ence was, that in the course of a year or two, 

 old tree became nearly as healthy as ever it 

 d been, from the vigor that was infused into 



it by the sap of the young crabs that had been 

 introduced into it. And yet I am strongly in- 

 duced to think that the scion, in some cases at 

 least, has a very great effect on the stock on 

 which it is placed, as in the case of engrafting an 

 apple scion, or that of any of the varieties of crab 

 on the same kind of stock. The apple will have 

 a nuich more fibrous, and a smaller root, while 

 the crab will have a large, strong, wiry root, 

 which, after standing three or four years, will be 

 far more difficult to take up than that of the ap- 

 ple. There is another curious fact, which it may 

 not be amiss to mention here, and which confirms 

 me in my opinion of the stock being affected by 

 the .scion or bud that is introduced into it. There 

 is a blotched leaved variety of the English La- 

 burnum, a bud even of which being inserted in 

 the bark of the common laburnum, whether the 

 bud lives or not, the laburnum invariably becomes 

 blotched in its leaves like the bud. If the blotch- 

 ed or striped leaves of the plant arise, as I think 

 is generally admitted, from a disease, this may 

 justly be considered as virulent a disorder in the 

 vegetable world as the small pox is in the human 

 race, and this operation may very fairly be said to 

 be inoculation." 



From the U. S. Telegraph. 



WHITE MUSTARD SEED. 



Having derived great benefit from taking the 

 Tf'hite Mustard Seed, I feel irresistibly impelled to 

 publish what I know of its virtues ; hoping that 

 others may thereby be tempted to try it, and may 

 experience, in like manner, its salutary effects. 

 This publication m.\v be the means of relieving 

 many fellow beings from extreme suffering ; but 

 should I hear of a single one, I shall be more 

 than rewarded for my pains — I shall contemplate 

 it with feelings which I W'juUI not exchange with 

 the warrior monarch, who has desolated countries, 

 and ruined the repo.se of ihousands. 



I will make a brief and simple statement of 

 facts ; and, to jircvent suspicion of fiction, sub- 

 scribe my pro])er name. 



For more than twenty-Jive years prior to Decem- 

 ber, 1828, I had been subject to frequent and 

 violent attacks of the sick-headach ; sometimes 

 two or three in the course of a month. I believe 

 that I never esca])ed an attack longer than a 

 month, except once, in .simmier, in the Western 

 coimtry, when I had nothing of it for about two 

 months, during which time I slept in the open air 

 in the woods, and travelled on foot every day 

 iteen or twenty-five miles. But the Mustai-d 

 Seed are far preferable. 



About the first of last December, Dr Cooke's 

 Treatise on JHiile Mustard Seed falling intor my 

 hands, I was so struck with the force of his rea- 

 soning, that I resolved on giving them a fair trial 

 according to his direction. I did so: took the seed 

 four or five weeks, and have not had a spell of the 

 sick-headach since. — In May I felt sijmptoms of an 

 attack from my old enemy, but on having recourse 

 to Mustard Seed, I checked his approaches in- 

 stanter. I continued about a week fortifying my 

 citadel with the same materials ; and not having 

 discovered any hostile movement since, I think 1 

 have no reason to apprehend an attack in future. 



I know a young lady who has been cured of 

 the same disease, by the same means. 



One of my sisters whose liver was affected, 

 took Mustard Seed, and is well. 



A. gentleman, (formerly a surgeon in the Navy,) 



who was in the same house whilst I was under 

 this course of Mustard Seed, was, on reading but a 

 few pages of the treatise, inspired with faiih 

 enough to try the Seed for his complaint. He had 

 suffered for years with a severe disease of tho 

 stomach and viscera ; and having tried v^ithout 

 effect, almost dvery prescription, he had nearly 

 concluded that his disease was irremediable. But 

 he had not taken the Mustard Seed longer th.^.n 

 two weeks when he declared himself cured. He 

 said that he had not known a well day prior 

 thereto, for si,r>/eai-s — and added, that the Mus- 

 tard Seeds acted like magic. He took them in mo- 

 derate doses, in molasses. 



Very few persons find any difficulty in taking 



them ; though they must be swallowed whole 



three times a day, and usually from two to four tea- 

 spoonfuls at a dose. They shoidd be taken an 

 hour before breakfast, — an hour after dinner, 

 and the third dose an hour before going to bed. 

 Persons who dine later than 4 o'clock, should 

 take the second dose an hour before, instead of 

 after dinner. 



The seed should be well washed before taken, 

 to free them from dust or other vicious matter 

 which may adhere to them from negligence in the 

 persons who prepare them for market. Those 

 who experience any difficulty in taking them in 

 cold water, or without anything, would do well 

 to pour a little hot water on them. This immedi- 

 ately prodnces a mucilage, which renders them 

 more easily to be swallowed. But at all events 

 they can be taken without difficulty in a little 

 jelly, molasses, mush, or the like. 



Persons much dispeptic require a dose or so of 

 cpsom salts, or sedleitz powders to assist the incep- 

 tive operation of the seed. 



An over-dose may be known by an immoderate 

 operation on the bowels, or by unusual resile^^sness 

 at night, or an eruption about the mouth. In ei- 

 ther case, the quantity should be reduced. Three 

 teaspoonfiils is the common dose ; but in one 

 instance, only ten seeds were sufficient. 



Regularity is to be , observed strictly. It is a 

 sine qua non. The patient must not expect to be 

 cured in a day, nor a tceek, nor two weeks. To stop 

 short of three weeks at least, were no wiser than 

 one who, nearly across a stream, turns back be- 

 cause it still runs rapidly. Let no one condemn 

 the ff'hite Mustard Seed, who has not taken ihem 

 as above directed, with perfect regularity, for 

 three weeks at least. 



Whilst taking the Mustard Seed, a rigid absti- 

 nence from all kinds of ardent spArits, wines, and 

 fermented liquors must be observed, or the Must- 

 ard Seed will have very little, if any effect. And 

 I would advise such as prefer health to poison, 

 in order to prevent a recurrence of disease, to con- 

 tinue this rigidjibslinence. It Were well also to 

 use no vinegar — eat no pickles — no raw vegetables 

 — very sparingly of cabbage, and other "reens 



and of fruit of all kinds — use no milk. 



except in 



coffee and tea, unless it is well boiled. 1 have 

 always beeu exceedingly fond of some of those 

 things ; of milk in particular — (it is a great iiro- 

 moter of sick-headach ;) but I have nearly quit 

 them all. I know that cny habit may be broken, 

 and any propensity ;;ontrolled ; and he whowoidd 

 not do all this, and more, for the sake of health, 

 why let him (ns Cobbett says,) be strk — he ought <» 

 be sick — and I would almost add, he deserves to die. 

 JOSIAH F. POLK. 

 fVashington City, July 22, 1829. 



