5 V<il.VlU.-N». 21. 



A USEFUL SCHOOL BOOK. 

 We hnvc perused with pleasure a little work, 

 etititled ".? Geography of JMew Hampshire, with a 

 tredby Coxe, measures but 12 by 13 J inches I *A-e«c/t of Us JVahmil History, for Schools. By 

 iritumfereuce. Tliis is inferior in size, liowev- Cua.nmore VVallacr. fyith a Map and Cuts. 



which I liave any knowledge. The 

 icrican niiple. jVeic York Gloria Mandi, one of 

 ifl largest cukivated in the United States, as 



to a new variety culled the Baltimore apple. 

 There is a celebrated apple cultivated in Walla- 

 ,, a native ot' that country, called Domniaska ; 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



163 



Published by Carter Sf Hendee, Boston. Its plan 

 is designed to enable the young scholar to begin 

 with an account of what is remarkable in llie 



„ ich TnoR.vroN says " is, perhaps, the finest in place of his residence ; to i)roceed thence to the 

 rope, both for sue, odor, and flavor." Is not geography, or, perhaps, rather the topography of 

 the Dominiaska, or Pomme du Seigneur of i neighboring towns ; to take, in the next place, a 

 NCK ? Apples of such iincomtnon size make ' survey of the county in whicli he dwells; and 

 jlendid appearance, but are not considered «o ; then of oth(!r parts of the State in succession ; 

 lionable for the desjerf, as those of smaller and lastly to combine these particulars in a gene- 

 !, such as the Pomme d\ipia, or Lady apple of ral account of the State, as a whole," &c 



]\ IV York. 



agree with BIr Prince that the apple nien- 

 ed by TooKE under the name of .Vah'vui, is 

 balily the same as the Transparent Moscow, 

 ich has long been cultivated in Europe under 

 t name, but which is celebrated only on account 



ignlar appearance and beauty. 

 The Yellow Spanish Cherry, described in the 

 table little " Treatise" of Mr Pri.nx'F., (page 28) 

 which he has often highly reconunended as a 

 erior fruit, I am inclined to believe is injured 

 he estimation of amateurs, by the name which 

 las given to it. Every author that I have con- 

 ed who describes the Yeltotv Spanish cherry, 

 3 it is not of a rich favor, and, being an indiffe- 

 t bearer, is not mueli cultivated, 

 'lie Hawthorvdean apple, recuntly presented to 

 " Boston Horticultural Society," by Mr Buel, 

 bus described by G. Bliss, autlior of the " Fruit 

 wers Instructor." 



This apple, for the beauty of its bloom, the 

 uty of its fruit, its fine flavor when in season, 

 3ther with its wonderful bearing, surpasses every 

 le now in cultivation ; the fruit is handsomely 

 ned, of a whitish ypllow ground, and a brilliant 

 k next the sun ; they are full of juice, and the 

 or universally admired when in season. Ripe 

 September and October." It is figured in 

 orer's " I'omona Londinensis," (t. 44) and 

 SYTH, in whose last work it is minutely de- 

 bed, says " it is princi[)ally useful as a kitchen 

 t, the flavor not being high or very rich." This 

 iety is a native of Scotland, and notwithstand- 

 the contradiction of these two authors on hor- 

 Iture, is unquestionably a very popular and 

 ch admired fruit in Great Britain at the present 



Your obedient servant. 

 Providence, Dec. 5, 1S29. A FOSTER. 



CAMELLIAS. 



VIr Russell — A lady wishes, through the mo- 

 ra of your paper, to request the favor from the 

 hor of the communication on the culture of 

 uiellias, in your paper of 20th November, of a 

 re particular description of the insect which he 

 rs is so destructive to the flower buds of the 

 mellia, as to the size, whether it requires a mi- 

 iscope, whether it is a winged insect, or of the 

 kind, and if it gives an^y token of life after be- 

 removed ? I have two, which I value highly, 

 1 have taken as good care of them as I know 

 Since reading that communication I have 

 imined thera carefully, but find no insects. — 

 ivertheless, one of the buds has already fallen, 

 i I am sadly afraid the rest will follow the ex- 

 iple. If your correspondent could give some 

 sa of how wet they should bo kept, he would 

 afer ao additional favor. 



It has been too much the practice in seminaries 

 of education, to teach last, or omit teaching at all 

 that kind of knowledge, which is most frequently 

 wanted for practical use in the concerns of life. — 

 To look abroad and to olden time for information, 

 but overlook that which may enable us to act 

 well our ]iart in life's eventful drama. This mode 

 of accumulating ideas, which are of no use but 

 to make pedants, and lead astray from what is, 

 and is interesting, to what was, and is not inter- 

 esting, is now becotning less fashionable. We 

 hail every attempt at reform in this particular, and 

 therefore welcome the small manual before us. — 

 It begins with explanations of geographical terms ; 

 gives topograpliical descriptions of each county, 

 containing notices of each township, with brief 

 sketches of curiosities, remarkable objects, &c. 

 &c. And " having made the torn- of the several 

 comities, and noticed what is most remarkable in 

 each," the author gives a general description of 

 the whole State ; including its natural history, 

 comprising plants, trees, wild and domestic ani- 

 mals, fowls, and fishes, rocks, and minerals. At 

 the bottom of each page questions are proj)osed, 

 which have a tendency to fasten on the memory 

 such facts as are most important. 



The following extract must terminate our no- 

 tices : 



"Washington, in the north-east corner of Sulli- 

 van county, is broken and hilly, and contains 

 several poniis, and Lovowell's mountain, so called 

 from a circumstance wliich lia|)pened on it to the 

 celebrated Ca])tain Lovewell. He was splitting 

 wood on the side of this eminence, alone, when 

 seven Indians suddenly came upon him, seized his 

 gun, and made him prisoner. He cooly request- 

 ed them to jiut their fingers in the log, which he 

 was splitting, and help him finish it before he went 

 with them. The Inciians complied, when he sud- 

 denly struck out the wedge, caught them fast in 

 bis traji, and soon killed them all." 



I'Voni the Journal of Health. 



ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE FOOD. 



It is amusing to hear a nervous female, whose 

 daily exercise consists in going up and down stairs 

 two or three times a day, and shojiping once a 

 week, complain that she cannot ])reserve her 

 strength unless she eats freely of some kind of 

 meat, and takes her twice daily potations of strong 

 coflte, to say nothing of porter, and wine san- 

 garce. The same opinion prevails among all classes 

 of our community. A child (in the arms) cannot, 

 it is thought, thrive unless it have the leg of a 

 chicken, or piece of bacon in its fist to suck : a 

 boy or girl going to school must be gorged with 

 the most substantial aliment at dinner, and per- 

 I haps little less at breakfast and supper. The 



child is cryitig and screaming every hour in the 

 day ; has, after a while, convulsions ; or obstinate 



diseases of the skin, or dropsy of the brain 



The little personage going to school coniplaina 

 of headache, is fretful and unhappy, and becomes 

 pale and feeble. The |)oor books are now blamed 

 for the fault of the dishes, and school is given up. 

 The doctor is next consulted on the best means 

 of restoring strength to the dear creature, that has 

 lost its appetite, and can eat nothing but a little 

 cake, or custard, or at niost some fat broth. — 

 Should he tell the fond mother the unpalatable 

 truth ; and desire hor to .suspend the system of 

 stufiing, and allow her child, for sole food, a little 

 bread and milk dilutetl with water, and daily ex- 

 ercise in the open air, she will be heard exclaim- 

 ing in a tone of mingled astonishment and re- 

 proach, why doctor, would you starve my child. 

 For the information of such misguided persons 

 we would beg leave to state that the large majori- 

 ty of mankind do not eat any animal food, ^f g^ 

 sparingly, and at such long intervals that it can- 

 not be said to form their nourishment. Millions 

 in Asia are sustained by rice alone, with jperhaps 

 a little vegetable oil, for .seasoning. In Italy, and 

 soutlicrn Europe generally, bread made of the ■ 

 flour of wheat, or Indian corn, with lettuce and 

 the like mixed with oil, constitutes the food of the 

 most robust part of its population. The Lazzaroni 

 of Naples with forms so active and finely propor- 

 tioned, cannot even calculate on this much ; 

 coarse bread and potatoes is their chief reliance ; 

 their drink of luxury is a glass of iced water 

 slightly acidulated. Hundreds of thousands, we 

 might say millions, of Irish, do not see flesh meat, 

 or fish from one week's end to the other. Pota- 

 toes and oatmeal are their articles of food ; if milk 

 can be added it is thought a luxury ; yet where 

 shall we find a more healthy and robust popula- 

 tion, or CTic more «ncltrring of bodily fntigue, and 



exhibiting more mental vivacity .' What a con- 

 trast between these people and the inhabitants of 

 the extreme north, the timid Laplanders, Esqui- 

 maux, Sainoideans, whose food is almost entirely 

 animal ! 



BaiGUTON Market.— Monday, Dec. 7. 

 (Reported for the Chronicle and Palriol.) 



Cattle — 769 at market, including from 75 to 100 

 unsold last week ; about the same number re- 

 mained unsold at the close of the market this day ; 

 ;. small advance on former prices was realized, we 

 believe, on all kinds of cattle. The market is not 

 sufficiently steady at present to enable us to give 

 prices with any degree of accuracy, but shall be 

 able, probably, in the course of a week or two. 



Sheep — 1946 at market, including from 3 to 400 

 unsold last week. Sheep are in fair demand in 

 consequence of a slight improvement in wool ; but 

 purchasers are unwilling to advance on former 

 prices; but very few sales were effected today 

 until near the close of the market, when the dro- 

 vers yielded, and all the sheep were taken imme- 

 diately. 



Swine — 8G only at market, which were taken 

 by the speculators at 3i cts. per lb., succeeded by 

 a brisk retail trade at 4 a 5. 



About 2,000 tons of stone were bj-oken nt the 

 House of Correction in Boston, last winter, for 

 the purpose of M'Adamizing the streets in that 

 city. Thus these culprits being put to labor to 

 make them mend their own ways, contribute to 

 mend the ways of the city. 



