Vol. Vllf.— No. 21. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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nail one, feeble and iniinatuie. And I think the 

 lant doe.-5 not receive nourisliinent from the pa- 

 nt, after it lias protruded its roots into the soil, 

 id developed its radial leaves. Upon no 

 her supposition can we account for the fact, that 

 e eye and s|)roiit, when separated from the tuber, 

 ill grow and produce a crop, as stated by Col. 

 CKERiKG and Mr Dkrbt. The potato scoop 

 used in Europe to take out the eyes, for seed, 

 at tlie potato may be reserved for human food, 

 'o often find the seed solid and sound in autumn, 

 ithout any apparent diminution of product. 



3. That moist ground is best for this vegetable, 

 regard both to product an<l quality, I infer from 

 alogy, and know from experience, Ireland, 

 ova Scotia, and the West of England, jiroduce 

 e best flavored and the most abundant crops of 

 is vegetable. The climates of these countries 

 3 cool and humid, and very similar; and what 

 ght there ho considered a dry, warm soil, would 

 re be denominated a cool and moist one. I have 

 Itivated the same variety, in a season, upon a 

 y warm sand, and upon a well drained reclaim- 

 bog. The advantage, both as to quality and 



antity, was decidedly in favor of the bog. And 

 relieve it is a conceded fact, that the potato de- 

 iorates as we go south from lat. 42 on our con- 

 lent, owing probably to the increase of tempe- 

 ture. 



4. The gasses given off moderately by the fer- 

 nlalion of manure in the soil, seem peculiarly 



apted to the wants of the potato jilant. Be- 



Patent Doffer We had an opportunity of ex 



amining " Atwood's Transverse and Cii-cular Doft- 

 er," while in operation at the Satinet Factory of 

 Mr Estfs, last week, and it cannot but be consid- 

 ered an important improvement. The great ad- 

 vantages which result from its use, are the do- 

 creasing of the hands in the proportion of 2 to 5, 

 thus diminishing an important expenditure, and 

 producing one continued roll, which is perfectly 

 even, saving the labor of the splicers. It can be 

 attached to an old carding machine, and in the 

 o|)inion of manufacturers, will be au invaluable ap- 

 paratus in expediting the work, performing it bet- 

 ter, and saving much expense annually.^— Z?erA- 

 shire American. 



The committee of French physicians, sent to 

 Egypt in order to try the effects of chloride in 

 arresting the propagation of the plague, have sent 

 some important and curious results to Paris. The 

 shirts and other clothing of persons who had died 

 with the worst forms of the disease, proved, after 

 being steeped iji a preparation, entirely harmless 



when worn next to the skin of the physicians 



The experiment which killed the famous DrValle, 

 at the Havana, was found innoxious at Tripoli, 

 with that precaution ; so, likewise, the dissection 

 of bodies just dead from the plague, when they 

 and the hands of the dissectors were well washed 

 with the cMorurds. 



researches to the high land which separates India 

 from the Russian empire. 



Indian Plaster. — All the fine plaster with which 

 the walls of the houses are covered in India, and 

 which is so much admired by strangers, is com- 

 Jiosed of a mixture of fine lime and soapstone, 

 rubbed down with water ; when the I'laster 

 is nearly dry, it is rubbed over with a dry piece of 

 soapstone, which gives it a jiolish very much re- 

 sembling that of well polished marble. 



The Viceroy of Egypt is about to make an'ar- 

 rangement with an English Company for lighting 

 Cairo and Alexandria with gas. lie has already 

 made an experiment at a palace of his own near 

 Cairo, and is said to have been much delighted 

 with the effect produced. 



Indian Corn — The cultivation of Indian corn 

 las been carried on in this neighborhood, by way 

 les, the fermenting process is highly beneficial of experiment, to a considerable extenft The 

 the soil, by rendering it open- and porous, by (finest we have had an opportunity of noticing is 



ich the roots penetrate more freely, and have 

 neater range for food, the tubers are less re- 

 ned, and the agency of the atmosphere is ren- 

 reu more active. There is seldom a lack of 

 )isture in putrescent vegetable matter wiien ex- 

 ided from the drying influence of winds. 



The same reasons that govern in the pre- 

 iing rule apply to this, with this additional one. 

 It the sward, according to the testimony of a 

 uable correspondent in a late New England 

 rmcr, adds more than twelve tons to the fertili- 

 g properties of every acre of soil. A know- 

 ge, and practical use of this single fact, is worth 

 ire than ten years' subscription to every farmer 



10 has not before appreciated it. The substitu- 

 n of fallow crops, on the first furrow, for naked 

 lows, is one of the greatest improvements in 

 idern husbandry. The excellent suggestions of 

 rrain, to jilough superficially for the second 

 )p, after a fallow, so as to leave the vegetable 

 itt«r below the wasting influence of the sun 

 d winds, and where the roots of the new crop 



11 seek it, are also worthy our highest conside- 

 ion. 



6. The potato is furnished with what may be 

 med two sets of roots, viz. the proper roots, or 

 iicles, which shoot down into the earth, and 

 pply the plant with food ; and the urabellical 

 )ts, or stolens, which strike off horizontally, and 

 )duce the fruit. These last nmst be near the 

 rface ; and if the plant is earthed after these 

 formed, and the tubers set, the stolen ceases 

 elongate, or produce new tubers ; but a new 

 of stolens start out nearer the surface, which 

 Te seldom time to bring their progeny to matu- 

 j. Thus repeated earthings may increase 

 number, while they diminish the size of the 

 oduct. J- B. 



Jllbany, Dee. 1. 1829. 



grown in the garden of Mr Charles Hale Jessop 

 it ripens quicker than the corn introduced by Cob- 

 hett, and the plant is larger and more productive; 

 and being ])lanted by the side of a patch of Cob- 

 bett's corn, the diffei'ence is observable to the dis- 

 advantage of the latter. Blr Jessop may lay claim 

 to the merit of having cultivated the Indian corn 

 before Cobhett, and notwithstanding the wetness 

 of the season, there is every prospect of the grain 

 which he recommends coming to perfection. — 

 Cheltenham (Eng.) Chron. 



Cautions to Mothers. — Avoid the use of tight 

 bandages for your infants, especially round the 

 body, for fear of producing fits, obstructions in the 

 bowels, or a slow decay. 



Avoid giving them Godfrey's Cordial, Daffy's 

 Elixir, Dalby's Carminative, Bateman's Drops, or 

 any other warm anodyne, for fear of producing 

 fits, fever, or palsy, a common consequence of 

 quack medicines indiscreetly given. 



Avoid giving them any quack medicine, for fear 

 of bringing on decline, or sudden death. — Journal 

 of Health. 



On the banks of Lake Huron, there is a Button 

 Wood tree, hollow in the trunk, but in good con- 

 dition, in which hollow it is said eiglit men have 

 stood erect, and it is believed that twenty men 

 could stand in it with ease. 



The learned Abbe Mai, Librarian of the Vati- 

 can, to whom the world are indebted for the dis- 

 covery of Cicero's Republic, has presented to the 

 Pope some curious fragments of Sallust, Tacitus, 

 and Cornelius Nepos, lately discovered by him. 



HumholdVs Journey to Sibena. — Humboldt, al- 

 though now past his 60th year, will leave Ger- 

 many in the spring, accompanied by Professor G. 

 Rose, for Siberia. He will probably extend his 



A London Magazine says, that prussic acid has 

 been obtained from the leaves of green tea in so 

 concontratad a state, that one drop killed a dog al- 

 most instantaneously. A strong infusion of 

 souchong tea, sweetened, is as eflectual in poison- 

 ing flies, as the solution of arsenic generally sold 

 for that purpose. 



Militia Systems. — These are undergoing a rapid 

 decline. That of Delaware, indeed, is already 

 dead. That of Vermont, is, to all human appear- 

 ance, very near its end ; and that of Rhode Island 

 seems hastening to the same catastrophe. In Ver- 

 mont the Dumber of trainings has been reduced 

 from four in each year to a single one; and in 

 Rhode Island the same reduction is likely to take 

 place. And in both these cases the result will 

 probably be, an entire abolition of the militia sys- 

 tem. — A". Y. Constellation. 



Composition. — One thing I always" set my face 

 against ; and that is, exercjses in English compo- 

 sition ; this calling upon lads — (lads, be it under- 

 stood, is the old fashioned university word for un- 

 dergraduate) — this calling upon lads for a style 

 before they have got ideas, sets them upon fine 

 writing, and is the main cause of the puffy, spongy, 

 spewy, washy style that prevails at the present 

 day. — Personal uhd lAierary Memorials. 



The quantity of cheese made annually in North 

 Adams, in this Slate, is 400,000 lbs., and nearly 

 824,000 in value. 



The po|)uhtion of London is nearly a million 

 and a half. This is more than twice as great as 

 the population of the whole of Massachusetts, and 

 one eighth of that of the United States. 



Near Edinburgh a farmer who was troubled 

 with rats, recently caught 400 by placing a largo 

 copper kettle in his corn loft, filling it about half 

 fiill of water and strewing a thin sjirinkling of 

 chaff over it. By a few boards extending from 

 the wall to the kettle the rats could jump among 

 what they took to be a fine lot of grain, and died 

 the death. 



At a recent session, the Legislature of New 

 Jersey passed a law to exempt minors from the 

 requisitions of the militia law. 



The ladies of the little town of Mansfield, Cl. 

 have realized the past year §2.5,000 from the man- 

 ufacture of silk. Such hints ought not to be lost 

 ujion those ladies who imagine gentility consieta 

 in doing nothing. 



