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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



67 



..-ty, and fearlessly and successfully striven with 

 ead enemy of man, I would prefer the prayer, that 

 voluntary retirement from the business and cares 

 ssional life, you may find that peace and tran- 

 Ihat is ever the attendant of a life devoted to 

 nd honorable pursuits. 

 11 only add, with your permission, sir, — 

 Stiitc of New York — Fertility to her soil, and suc- 

 hcr cultivators. 

 j Com. Chauncey. Agriculture and Horticulture, 

 ,[ isters — the only two arts that can stand alone. 

 Dr J. W. Francis. The Fair Se.'c— always partial 

 bandmen. 

 (, re. P. Ilallet, Esq. Our distinguished Guest, Wm. 

 Esq. — As the proprietor of tlic celebrated Lin- 

 arden at Flushing, deservedly standing on the 

 le of Horticnltural Science — May his name be ever 

 ed to her devotees. 



'ice President Wm. Prince, Esq. J. C. Loudon, 

 the very intelligent and distinguished author of i 

 ee F.ncyclopedias and the Gardener's Magazine — 

 e renders him her homage. 

 Parmcntitr, Esq. Le Viscount de Thury, Presi- 

 i ' the Horticultural Society at Paris. 

 ^■' I. Rdliert Prince, Jun. The Horticultural Union 

 uutry — May its remotest points be cemented by 

 lis of the vine, and perpetual harmony flourish 

 lie shade of the olive. 



.1. E. Hosarl:. The productive soil of Italy, 

 uiiod for its Flower Gardens, afterwards for 

 r. May our clime prove as fertile. 

 /,. Stone. The memory of De Witt Clinton, as 

 iculturist — His memory lies richer in our hearts , 

 1 his tomb. 



Vm. M. Price, Esq. Intemperance — A narcotic 

 vithout use and without ornament, the most loath- 

 ^eed of the garden. 

 F. R. 'Ji'vhr, Secretary of the Society. Tlie Rake — 



i lii '!;.; Garden and on the Farm. 

 I. r,i !■;,:, iiii'er. M. Le Chevalier Sontonge Bodin, 

 ry ■■'■' ilio Horticultural Society of Paris, and 

 r of liie Horticole Institute of Fromont. 

 ', ll<iin, Esq. Doctor David Hosack, our late 

 lit — Distinguished alike in the walks of science 



/ iijiiinin Poor. The Massachusetts Horticultural 

 — A star in the east — May its light extend to 

 .\iw Hampshire and Vermont. 

 '.;. I]', jh-nold. The Practical Horticulturists of 

 ti'd States — May their gardens, like those of the 

 ides, yield golden fruit. 



rich broths, &,c. have acquired not a little more 

 reputation iVom these qualities than tliey deserve. 



ALCOHOL FROM BLACKBERRIES. 



Mr Evans lately showed the editor of the 

 Technological Repository a very fine specimen of 

 pure alcohol which he stated he had distilled from 

 a very comnion and well known English vegeta- 

 ble, but which he had never before known applied 

 to this purpose. The alcohol had the flavor of 

 French brandy. Mr Edwards said, that an ex- 

 j)eriment was now making on a large scale in 

 North Wales to cidtivate the brambles for this 

 purpose ; that they readily grew from cuttings 

 planted in a good soil, and which jiroduced fruit 

 the same year. They were to be trained on low 

 frames to prevent them from trailing upon the 

 earth, and the berries were greatly increased in 

 size from the culture. lie does not intend to pa- 

 tent his discovery, but to exercise it for the benefit 

 of the public. 



PRESERVATION OF BODIES. 



Col. Trumbull, the artist, has stated in a letter 

 to the Sjieaker of the House of Representatives, 

 that much useful investigation, has established the 

 fact, that common bees-wax was a principal ingre- 

 dient in Egyptian embalming, and that it preserves 

 not only bodies, but cloths fuid colors from decay. 

 He therefore recommends, that an application of 

 this substance should he made to the backs of the 

 paintings in the Capitol, to keep them in good 

 preservation. The bees-wax must be melted over 

 a fire, with an equal quantity in bulk, of the oil of 

 turpeniine ; the mixture must be laiil on with a 

 large brush, and rubbed in with a hot iron, till the 

 cloth is saturated. 



From Ihe " Art of i 



■ Life.' 



ANIMAL FOOD. 



he!it tests of the restorative qualities oj" food 

 mill quantity of it satisfying hunger, — the 

 111 iif the i)ulse after it, — and the length of 

 Inch elapses before appetite returns again. 

 ling to the rules, the editor's own experi- 

 ivcs a decided verdict in favor of roasted or 

 beef or mutton, as most nutritive ; then 

 md poultry, of which the meat is brown ; 

 Jeal, and lamb, and poultry, of whieli the 

 white ; the fat kinils of fish, eels, salmon, 

 ''^s, &e. ; and least nutritive, the white kinds 

 such as whiting, cod, soles, haddock.s, &c. 

 ebrated trainer. Sir Thomas Parkyns, &c. 

 ly prelorred beef-eaters to sheep-biters, as 

 IIliI those who ate mutton. By Dr Stark's 

 'urious Experiments on Diet, \>. 110, it ap- 

 that " when he fed upon roasted goose, he 

 ich more vigorous, both in body and mind, 

 ith any other food." That fisli is less nu- 

 thaii flesh, the speedy return of hunger 

 dinner of fish is suflicieiit proof. Crabs, 

 i, prawns, &c. unless thoroughly boiled 

 those sold ready boiled seldom are,) are 

 dou.sly indigestible. Shell-fish have long 

 high rank in the catalogue of easy digesti- 

 I speedy restorative foo Is ; of these, oysters 

 ly deserve the best character ; but we think 

 <;y, as well as eggs, gelatinous substances, 



We are informed that there is now standing in 

 the garden of Peter Ellis, Jr. at Crosswick's, Bur- 

 lington county, N. J., a pear tree, from the trunk 

 of which, in April, 1828, the bark was completely 

 strip|)e(l, all round, to the height of between one 

 and two feet. Last season this tree produced 

 three kinds of pears, and all came to perfection. 

 One bough bore twenty-nine pears, growing so 

 close as to touch each other, and weighed al o- 

 gether twelve pounds and three quarters. The 

 tree has now bloomed and set as usual. No new 

 bark has formed, but the trunk remains dry and 

 hare where it was injured. 



EGGS. 



A Chemist of Geneva says, that eggs may be 

 preserved fresh and eatable for six or seven years, 

 if kept tightly corked in a round bottle with a 

 short neck, filled with very strong lime water. 



The people of Cochin China, have a very sin- 

 gular fancy in regard to eggs. Mr Craufurd, in 

 tiie account of his embassy to Cochin China, after 

 describing part of an entertainment at the house 

 of a person of rank, says — " One of the Cochin 

 Chinese dainties served up on this occasion ought 

 not to be omitted : it consisted of three bowls of 

 hatched eggs. When we e.xpressed .some surprise 

 at the appearance of this portion of the repast, 

 one of our Cochin Chinese attendants observed 

 with much naivete, that hatched eggs formed a 

 delicacy beyond the reach of the poor, and only 

 adapted for per.-ons of distinction. On inquiry, 

 we, in fact, found that they cost some thirty per 

 cent more in the market than fresh ones. It 

 seems, they always form a diatinguished part of 



every great entertainment ; and it is the practice^ 

 when invitations are given out, to .set the hens to 

 hatch. The fete takes ))lace about the tenth or 

 twelfth day from this period — the eggs being then 

 considered as ripe, and exactly in the state most 

 agreeable to the palate of a Cochin Chinese epi- 

 cure." 



NO COLDS AT ST. PETERSBURGH. 



It is a fact which will startle my readers, that 

 " a cold" is seldom to be heard of in St. Peters- 

 burgh. That anomalous species of disorder is in- 

 digenous to England, and above all to London. It 

 does an infinity of mischief, and covers many a 

 blunder. In the capital of Russia, few people 

 complain of "a cold;" and if a person of conse- 

 quence (who has been for a great length of time 

 dying of a disease ill understood, or badly man- 

 aged,) does actually fall a victim to the complaint, 

 the candid physician does not as in some other 

 capitals, atteitjpt to mystify the friends, by remark 

 iiig that "the patient was getting better, hut caught 

 cold and died." There are, seriously spi^aking, bo 

 few diseases of the chest, catarrhs, and defluxions, 

 and feverish colds in the Russian capital, that I 

 was quite surprised at hearing consunqition quoted 



as an almost endemic complaint GranvilWa 



Travels to St. Petersbursh. 



TO CONVEY FISH. 



A crumb of bread is to be soaked in brandy ; 

 anil when swelled, the fish's mouth is filled there- 

 with, into which a half glas.^ more of the spirit is 

 then to be poured. The fish remains motionless, 

 and as if deprived of life, in which state it is to be 

 wrapped in fresh straw, and afterwards in cloth. 

 In this condition they may be kept or conveyed to 

 any distance for eight or ten days. When arrived 

 at the place of destination, they must be unpacked 

 and thrown into a cistern of water, where they 

 remain a quarter of an hour, or sometimes an hour 

 without shewing any sign of life ; but at the end 

 of that time they disgorge very abundantly, and 

 recover their life and ordinary motions. — Archives 

 of Useful Knowledge. 



WINE. 



The rage for superannuated wine is one of the 

 most ridiculous, vulgar errors of modern epicur- 

 ism. "The bee's wing," "thick crust," loss of 

 strength, &c. which wine fanciers consider the 

 beauty of their tawny favorite, " fine old Port," 

 are forbidding manifestations of decomposition, 

 and of the departure of some of the best qualities 

 of the wine. — Kitchener. 



Wines bottled in good order, maybe fit to drink 

 in six months, (esjiecially if bottled in October,) 

 but they are not in perfection before twelve. From 

 that to two years they may continue so ; but it 

 would be improper, to keep them longer. — Enci/- 

 clopedia Brilan. 



TO MAKE FINE BISCUIT. 



To two pounds of flour, and one table spoonful 

 of butter, a tea cup full of cream, a little sour, 

 small tea spoonful of pearlash — make them as soft 

 as i)ossiblc, roll very thin, cut them out and bake 

 in five ininutes — the whole process, 15 minutes. 



Food. — Some theorists would have us live on 

 animal food, and assert that the human viscera only 

 bear vegetables in a grumbling way ; whilst others 

 would reduce us to the diet of Nebuchadnezzar, 

 and leave not a flesh-pot in our kitchens — Villag* 

 Resister. 



