NEW ENGLAND I AIIMER, 



Dec. 11, IS-iS- 



Uopasar, .nethifoliu.. e. 5. March, June. » l'""^ '/»«• j 

 formo.u.. e. •» Marc!., June.wliito. 1-SOo. | 



New Holland i-lauis wl.icli thrivo l)i-.-t in one- 

 third loam, one-.h.rd i-cat, and „nt-tl..r.l sand 

 The pots sl.oidd 1... w,,-ll drained. ll.c usual 

 mode of propagating iliein w by s.-o.l ; but cm- 

 tings of li.e ripened wood will root m sand, and a 

 little earll, in iho botton, of ll.c pots under a 

 hand-gluss. They must l.e nncxivLrfd frciuemly 

 Bnd the glass dried, as they are apt to damp off il 

 kept too close. 

 Dryandria floribunda. e. 3. Jan. Doc. 



timuifolia. c. 2. March, May 

 New Holland plants, with yellow flowers, allied 

 in habit to the species of Banksia'introduced iii 

 1S03 which thrive best in very sandy Inmn and 

 peat in well drained pots. Cunin-s made from 

 ripened wood taken otV before they l-e-in to push, 

 planted in sand without shortenin- any of the 

 leaves, and covered with a hanclslns-*. "'" ^^°^ 

 without dirticulty ; as soon as they have struck 

 they must bo taken out of the sand, as it is apt 

 to injure their roots. 

 Bauera rubiajfolia. o. IJ. July to Dec. pink. 1703. 



A hardy, free flowering plant from New South 

 Wales, of easy culture in sandy loam and peat, 

 and cuttings root in the same soil under a hand 



glass. 



Chorozemia rhombca. e. U. April, June. 1^113. 



A New Holland plant, with yellow flowers, cul- 

 tivated in sand and peat ; and propa^'atcd by seed, 

 which is pro<liiced in great abundance, or by cut- 

 tings in saiid, under a bell glass. 

 Daviesia ulicina. c. 3. April, Aug. 1792. 

 lalifolia. c. 3. May, Aug. 1305. 



Plants like furze, from New South Wales, with 

 yellow flowers, cultivated in sandy loam and peat. 

 Cuttings somewhat ripened, root in pots of sand, 

 under a hand glass. 

 Cineraria ainolloidcs. c. l.VFeb. Sept. blue. C. G.Hope 



'ianata. c. 3. May, Sept. purple. Canaries. 1780. 

 Handsome ])lants, which do best in peat and 

 loam ; the former is the most beautiful of llio ge- 

 nus, and 13 propagated by cuttings, and the latter 

 by seed. 



Hormanica irrossularifoVia. e 2. AprU,May, yellow. 1731. 

 flamuiea. e. 3. Jan. Dec. orange. 17!I4 

 cureifolia. c. 2. Aug. Scpt- yellow. 1780. 

 odorala. c. 3. Feb. Oct. yellow. 1780. 

 Cape plants, which grow Ireely in any light 

 rich soil, and are readily increased by cuttings. 

 Aotus villosa. o. 2. .\pril, June. 17;!0. 



A new llidlan.l plant, with yellow flower;?, near- 

 ly allied to Pulteiia;a, which does best in sandy 

 peat, and is incrcascii by seed. 

 Correa! alba. o. April, July, 3. white. 1793. 



apcciosa. o. 3. April. July, crimson. loOO. 



vircns. 0. 2. May, Nov. grocn. IriOO. 



From flew South Wales, which thrive in sandy 



peat, and ripened cuttings will root freely in sand 



under a bell or hand glass. They are pretty jdant*. 



[To be continued.] 



ly well when li.ey were fed the mgl.t before, j 

 Others did not die ipiite as sudden. Several other 

 cattle, within a few miles' distance have died in 

 the same way. The subject has caused much 

 conversation among us, and many are of opinion 

 that the cause must be poison. I was present at 

 the opening and dissecting of one of the cow.i, 

 atul conld discover nothing about it but what ap- 

 peared perfectly healthy, except the nult, which 

 was twice the common size, and had the appear- 

 ance of mortification. U is desirable that this 

 subject should call up the attention of those ex- 

 perienced in the umnagemeiit of stock, (also of 

 farriers, if any such there are) when a disorder 

 so fatal prevails to such a degree. Quere-Has 

 there been anything peculiar in the state of the 

 air, the season past, that had an etTect on ve^geta- 

 tion which the cattle fed on? ^'- "• 



Taunton, U Dec. 1829. 



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FOR THE !<tw EHOLAHD FARIIKR. 



POTATOES. 



DISEASE IN CATTLE. 

 Ma Fesse.nuem — I have observed in two late 

 numbers of your paper, something said on a<li.s- 

 ensc of cattle the past season. The communica- 

 tion struck me very forcibly, on account of many 

 losses in my own immedi.ite ni'ighborhood, which 

 appear to be similar to those of Mr Pattk.m. A 

 Mr Reeh, living about si.xty rods from inc, has 

 lost six horned cattle since the 'iOlli Septetnber 

 last, four cows, one ox, mid one. yearling. Two 

 of the cows wore found dcul in the stall, at dif- 

 ferent times in the morning, which were appareut- 



Mr Editor— To ascertain the often disputed 

 fact, which was the best to plant, whole or cut ; 

 potatoes, and what part of the potato was the i 

 most prolific, the following experiment was made 

 by " No Theorist," which in iierformance of hw | 

 eii<'a"emcnt is now communicated.* 



The potatoes were the kind known in this vi- 

 cinitv by the name of the St John's, with blue 

 skill' very white when boiUd, and about middle 

 «i/ed', and were selected as near of a size as pos- 

 sible. The seed ends of those which were in- 

 tended to be cut were then cutoff; ilicn the 

 root ends, and then the remainder, or middle 

 piece cut in two, thus dividing the potato into 

 four pieces, intending to have them about equal 

 in size, though it happened that the middle pieces , 

 were considerably the largest. 



Seventyone pounds of whole [.otatoe?, thirtyone 

 and a half pounds of middle pieces, eighteen an.l | 

 a quarter pounds of seed ends, and nineteen and ] 

 three quarter pounds of root ends were then 

 jdanted in three rows, each 91 feet 4 inches long, 

 2 feet lOJ iiiche*' apart ; the ground occupied by 

 each kind" about one fifty-si.xth part of an acre.— 

 To have planted an acre at the same rate, it would 

 have taken, estimating the bushel at 70 pounds, 

 about r,1 bushels of « hole potatoes, 2.5 bushels of 

 middle pieces, 15 bushels of seed end.s, lb bush- 

 els of root ends. Two of the rows of whole po- 

 tatoes were planted only tiir.e inches apart in the 

 rows, one row was planted one foot apart, the cut 

 pieces were planted abo^it eight inches apart in 

 the rows. The groun.l was in good or.ler, anil 

 well manured, the manure being spread. The ex- 

 periment rows of potatoes wore in the miihlle ot 

 a large piece, potatoes, therefore, on each side. — 

 The intention of " No Theorist" was to nscertnin 

 the truth, not to fortify an opinion. On the 6th 

 of October, the potatoes were dug and carefully 

 measured. The whole potatoes gave 6} bushels, 

 or at the rate of 3.H2 bushels the acre, the middle 

 pieces r,^ bushel.s, or at the rate of 326 bushels, 

 the seed ends jirociselv the same as \\i- mi.ldic 

 pieces, the root ends Ij bushels, or at the rate of 

 262 bushels. The nelt gain resulting from j.lnnt- 

 ing whole potatoes, after deducting the extra 

 •Minntity of seed would have been 21 bushels 

 more i.er acre than the middle pieces, M bushels 

 more than the seed en.l.s, and 79 bushels more 

 than the root ends. This experi ment is decidedly 



in favor of the whole potatoes over the root e 

 and mid.lle i.icces, but when the extra vnhn ^,J, j^, 

 potatoes in the spring over potatoes in the fal ^^,,, p 

 tiiken into consideration, it may V)e doubled whetj .. Ti 

 a «aving might not be made by cutting ofl 

 seed ends of the potatoes as they are used in 

 course of the winter, and reserving them for M ^ 

 as decidedly the most productive pan of the 

 tato, and yielding very near as much to the I 

 as whole potatoes. My comparing this stutein 

 with the verv candid one given by Mr Ware, 

 viii. No. MJit will be perceived that the dit 

 ence in the result might be occasioned by the 

 fercnce of situation in his experiment rows, 

 ' seed ends and root ends being out.-ide rows. 

 At the same time to ascertain whether then 

 of w hole potatoes were not over seeded, 23'} 

 of whole potatoes, and 21 J lbs. middle jneces \ 

 planted in three rows, each r<pw eightyiwo 

 long ; the whole potatoes two feet apart in 

 row, the middle pieces eight inches apart, ■ 

 the first experiment ; the result was 3'^ bus) 

 from the whole potatoes, 5J bushels from the 

 pieces ; which proves conclusively that two 

 1 apart was too great a distance in the rows. 

 j CHARLES JARV1£ 



Ellsworth, Me. Aot. 3, 1829. 



See N. E. Farmer, vol. vii., p. 343. 



P. S. It may not be amiss to slate that in c 

 sequence of the exces.sive drought, that not c 

 two thirds of an average crop has been raised 

 year in this vicinity. The account of the Eiii; 

 turnip exhibited at Brighton, which weighed n 

 the top, l.'i Ib.s, has, in the present dearth of n.- 

 been going the rounds of the papers. One • 

 raise<r«t Surry, Me., on the farm of E. S. Ja» 

 which weighed 16 lbs. without the top, and 

 thought noting- of it— .Wai>ie/or««r .' 



1 SUPE^IOrTV-^RIETIES of FRIIT. 

 Mr Ff.ssi .\pe.>— The two Russian appU s n 

 'tioned by Mr Prince, in his "Treatise lu Hi 

 I culture," (page 7) and taken by him from " Mor 

 Geography," are described by Tooke in his '• V 

 I of the Russian Empire," (vol. 3, p. 223.) 



Mr TooKE observes that '-all the villages on 

 Volga, and the Oka, have their orchards, or a| 

 gardens ; and numbers of boors live there with 

 husbandrv, merely hy horticulture, in good 

 cumstaiices." Many villages get above ten ih 

 sand rubles [about 7200 dollars] for the fruit gr 

 iii^ upon the trees, the different varieties of w h 

 orTginally came from Astracan, and Persia. '. 

 most remarkable is the Kirefskoi apple, wl. 

 often grows so large as to weigh four pmiii 

 " having an agreeable acidulous flavor, and ke 

 ing a iong time." .\ transparent kiml, broii 

 orTginally from China, is cultivated in the mi, 

 borliood of Moscow. It is called AudViit ( 

 melting) is well tasted, and " so full of juice a 

 be ready to biiist. The flavor is a prcasant ac 

 and on bidding tlirni up to the light, tho corej 

 distinctly seen, ami the pips may be counted 

 The first is i>robably the .Iternndernyih- >' 

 and described in the "Traiisitclions of the 1 

 Hort. Society," (vid. ii. p. 407, f. 28, and vol. ir 

 524.) It is the largest apple in tho catnlo-tie 

 Loino.v, measuring 16 by 14 inches round, and 

 described hy him and every (ithcr author ai 

 "most magn'iticent fruit." It i» supposed to ha 

 been introduced into Western Europe during! 

 reign of the late Emper.>r Alexander, whence 

 name. Although the average weight of this fr 

 falU short of two pounds, yet it is the largest i 



