Vol. VIII.— No. 0. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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■ the season. The grapes alone filled about 

 lirty dishes. Upon the side tables were ranged 

 le melon in all its varieties. Anotlier apartment, 

 Qd subsequently the table, exhibited the choice 

 *) ilinary vegetables, such as celery, broccoli, egg 

 ants, tomatoes, potatoes, cabbages, beets, turnips, 

 nions, and the like. 

 1'" At two o'clock the annual election of officers of 

 le society was held, and the following gentlemen 

 hosen for the ensuing year. 

 Jesse Buel, President. 

 Alfred Co.\kli.\g 1st Vice President. 

 Edwarb C. Delavan, 2d Vice President. 

 Isaac De^iniston, 3d Vice President. 

 Douw B. Slino'Erland, Treasurer. 

 Lewis C. Beck, Corresponding Secretary. 

 R. JM. Meigs, Recording Secretary. 

 At three o'clock, the members of the society, 

 .nd citizens, assembled in the large hall of the 

 i^cademy, where the following Address was deliv- 

 ired by Jesse Buel, Esq., President of the soci- 



Uy a copy of which lias been obtained for 



Lublication, at the re(pie*t of the committee of 

 irrangoments. [The excellent Address of Judge ' 

 Buel, we are obliged to defer.] 



From the Academy, the company ])rocceiled to 

 >uttenden's, and at foin- o'clock between seventy 

 md ein-lity gentlemen sat down to a dinner pre- 

 pared in the usual style of that well known eslab- 

 ishraent. The president presided, assisted by T. 

 Van Vechten and E. C. Delavan, Esqrs. vice 

 presidents of the society, and by Isaac De>'.ms- 

 roN, Esq. chairman of the committee of arrange- 

 ments. It was attended by many of the judicial, 

 state, and city officers; and by the Rev. Messrs 

 Ferris and Welch, and the Hon. C. C. Cambre- 

 len". Professor Renwick, lion. John I. De Graff, 

 and other gentlemen, as invited guests'. The table 

 offered all the delicacies of tlie season, which 

 were not the less palateable, the vegetables and 

 fruits particularly, from being t^e |)roducts of our 

 own "ardens : and they were partaken of, after 

 grace by the Rev. Mr Ferris, with much social and 

 reasonable enjoyment : and thanks were returned 

 by the Rev. Mr Welch. After the cloth was re- 

 moved, many toasts were drunk, of which we have 

 been able to procure only the following for publi- 

 cation : — 



By J. Buel, Esq. President. Horticulture — It admin- 

 isters to our wants, gratifies our senses, and refines our 

 manners— it was the employment of primitive inno- 

 cence—it is the residence of social and rational enjoy- 

 By Chancellor Walworth. The Members of the Alba- 

 ny Horticultural Society— Ue who causes two flowers 

 to o-row where but one grew before, does more good 

 thai) lie who conquers kingdoms. 



By Hon. C. C. Cambrcleng. Horticultural hospital • 

 j(,, —Primitive, yet refined. • 



By Hon. W. L. Macey. Mr Jefferson s chosen j'co- 

 p/f— the cultivators of the soil. 



By Professor Renwick. Flowers and FniU— the 

 flowers of youthful anticipation— the fruit of aged en- 



■" 'By H. W. Delavan, Esq. of Saratoga. The .many 

 Horticultural Society— May its fruits be friendship and 



By A. C. Flagg, Esq. T/ie Members of the Albany 

 Horticultural Society — -Judged by their fruits, they 



e entitled to the approbation of all persons of correct 



sic. 



By Isaac Denniston, Esq. chairman of the committee 

 of arrangements. The Albany Horticultural Society— 

 If the present be tlie fruits of its youth, what may we 

 not anticipate from its manhood ? 



By E.C. Delavan, Esq. second vice president. The la- 

 bors nf the Horticulturist— They must elevate and puri- 

 fy the mind, for these were the amusements of the first 

 pair in Eden. 



By Jiis. Porter, Esq. Horticulture awl Mental Cul- 

 ture — Tlie improycnient of the latter is sure to improve 

 a taste lor the former. 



By Vhilo Ruggles, Esq. of Orange county. The 

 Gantrn — May our Horticultural associations render 

 it hereafter, as it was primevally, — Terrestrial para- 

 dise. 



By Capt. Fay of the United St.ites army. The spare- 

 rib of Father .'i(/am— May Heaven receive our united 

 thiinks, for having formed of it such a superior article, 

 and so finely adapted to our comfort. 



By C. Butler, Esq. of Geneva. The first good fruits 

 of tlie Albany Ilorticultural Society. 



By John S" Van Renselaer, Esq. The presiding di- 

 vinities of our horticultural feast — Pomona, the goddess 

 of fruits, and Flora, the goddess of flowers ; and " mine 

 host of the hill, the prince of good cheer." 



By Mr D. B. Slingerland, treasurer of the society. 

 The' Albany Horticultural Society — May its members 

 augment, and its funds rapidly increase. 



By T. Romeyn Beck, M.D. Agriculturc-rlhe em- 

 ployment of the wisest and best men, both of ancient 

 and modern times. 



By Mr Paul Clark. The Hon. Stephen Van Renselaer 

 — The patron, alike of Agriculture, Horticulture, and 

 all useful and charitable institutions. 



By Mr L. Cruttenden. The Albany Horticulture 

 Society — A blessing on its exertions to improve our 

 flowers, our fruits, and our plants ; may its eflbrts con- 

 tinue as long as there is a dew-drop to moisten, or a sun- 

 beam to warm them. 



By a tyro. The .llbany Horticultural Society — " By 

 tlicir /)■;/(';»- shall ye know them." 



The proceedings were all gratifying ; and not- 

 withstanding the society is in its infancy, and but 

 two days' notice was given ofthc celebration, and 

 notwithstanding also, the usual deficiencies of the 

 season, the exhibition of horticultural and agricul- 

 tural iirodiictions was extensive and rich beyond 

 cxiiectation, and the company numerous and high- 

 ly respectable. 



The Society has reason to congratulate itself 

 upon the result of its first efforts. If so much is 

 done in the green tree, what will Jiot he done in 

 the dry ? If it can almost at the day of its birth 

 exhibit sucli varieties, and excite such emulation, 

 and effect such improvements, what will not be its 

 results when it shall have obtained root and Vigor, 

 and when, instead of a few of our ])ublic-spiritcd 

 citizens, it shall number among its members the 

 mass of our enterprising and intelligent population? 

 That it will attract the attention, and receive the 

 aid of our citizens generally; we have little doubt, 

 for its objects are closely connected with the wants 

 and comforts of all, — and, in no slight degree, 

 with the jirogress of moral and intellectual cul- 

 ture among us. But upon the advantages of this 

 and similar associations, we can add nothing to the 

 excellent address of the President, which will 

 commend itself to the notice of the reader. — Al- 

 bany Argits. 



From the New York Courier. 



The following remarks on the treatment of 

 Horses, by Mr Carver, are worthy the attention 

 of those who properly apiireciate these noble and 

 serviceable animals. 



To the editors of the Courier and Enquirer. 



Should you think proper to publish the fidlow- 

 ing remarks, the writer presumes they will prove 

 a benefit to those gentlemen who are owners of 

 fine horses. 



A great number of fine horses are destroyed in 

 this country by those that have them placed under 

 their care. It is a custom to wash horses with 

 cold water, sometimes after hard driving, in the 

 hottest time of the year, by which practice I have 

 known many of them take the lock-jaw and die ; 



others have been foundered by only washing their 

 legs and feet ; it stops all perspiration and pro- 

 duces violent fevers. No gentleman in England 

 will [icrmit his horses to be washed : the horse ia 

 not a water animal ; he wants the particular fos- 

 tering hand of care, when placed in a domestic 

 state. 



Another bad practice prevails : — the grain ig 

 thrown into the manger without sifting, and sand 

 or gravel being heavier than the grain, it will set- 

 tle down on the stomach of the horse. A few 

 years jiast I brought a stone from a horse, which 

 was believed to have been formed by thus feeding. 

 I placed the stone in Peale's Museum: it is as 

 large as a goose egg, and cased round like a cocoa 

 nut shell. 



I would suggest a better plan for building sta- 

 bles, than that in use at present. All stables 

 should be ventilated, so as to admit a constant 

 circulation of fresh air, without which horses are 

 continually breathing on their lungs foul putrid 

 matter. No stalls should be less than five feet 

 wide, as the horse, like man, wants to stretch him- 

 self when lying down to rest ; many horses have 

 died in the night, by being confined in narrow 

 stalks, and being lied with a rope round their necks, 

 All horses should have head stall halters, with a 

 rein on each side, that should run up and down 

 with blocks in pulleys, on each side of the stall. 

 The mangers should draw in and out, like a 

 drawer in a bureau, or desk ; by being thus fixed 

 as I have described, the horse will rise with ease ; 

 but on the old ])lan, the horse by struggling to rise 

 often gets his head under the manger, and is 

 found dead in the morning. The hay racks 

 should be placed in front of the stalls, and not on 

 the side. 



Any gentleman wanting farther information 

 on the subject, can find me at 147 Leonard street. 

 Few men have had the opportunity to observe the 

 evils that have occurred by the bad inanngeinent 

 of horses, and very few have doctored so many as 

 myself. I presume none of my fellow-citizens 

 will doubt, but I have acquired some knowledge 

 of the structure and economy of the hor.se, after 

 fifty years' extensive practice. I have found many 

 gentlemen who have objected to have their horses 

 removed from their own stables during their sick- 

 ness ; I will, therefore, attend them as usual, and 

 treat them as if my own property. 



WILLIAM CARVER. 



N. B. I could have said a great deal more on 

 this subject, but tbp work that I wrote, entitled 

 "The Practical Horse Farrier," will shortly be 

 published, being the fourth edition, in which the 

 subject will be treated on morf; largely. 



Rice Bread. — A correspondent of the Journal-' 

 of Commerce recommends the mixture of rice 

 flour with wheat flour in making bread. Il 

 greatly improves the quality. — "My family," he 

 says, " reside in the c 'iiitry, and I took an early • 

 op|.ortiinity to send a quarter of rice to mill to be 

 ground, in the same manner as corn, without 

 bolting. We made an experiment with a pound 

 of wheat flour and a pound of rice flour in the 

 first place — the rice floux hfiving been swollen, or 

 scalded before it was niixed, by placing it in a 

 clean vessel, with water, over a moderate fire, as 

 rice is ordinarily cooked, and then kneaded in 

 with the wheat flour, wet in the u.-^ual way, with 

 milk, in the evening. — It was fpund in the" morn- 

 ing, so soft, that it was necessary to stir into it 



