NEW ENGtANB FARMER. 



Published by John B. Russeh,, at JVa. 62 A'orth Market Street, (at the JigricuUiiral Warehouse).— Thomas, G. Fkssehbek, Editor. 



t^oL. yiii. 



iPLENDID PLANTS FROM MEXICO. , „ „ . . , ■ Hr t ■ .• , 



[>• Pr.nce, proprietor of the Linnwaii Botanic ^ a" Eclipse) by Old Messinger. Grand clam the grown ii. the West In.lies for the same purpose is 

 den, has just received from Professor Rkat- celebrated PotSos mare, in.ported by the late Mr i I- and, an herbaceous biennml. The ind.go .s one 

 now in Mexico, a most extensive collection K'oi'Stablo. The blood of this horse therefore is of the most profitable articles of culture in Hm- 

 he native plants of that interesting country ; I eqiKil to any in this country. His dam is of so -lostan because an immense extent of land ,3 re- 

 Mr Poinsett, our ambassador there, has also ! """^!^ value as a brood mare, that $2000 has been quired to produce but a moderate bulk of dye, be- 



i BOSTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1880. 



No. 24. 



HORTICULTURE. 



jlent stock. 7^he dam of Sportsman was Sports- ,' Elegant free flowering shrubs of easy culture in 



niistress by Hickory. Her dam the noted run- j sandy peat. I. tiuctoria is the plant most cultiva- 



iug mare Millers Damsel (the darn also of Anieri- 1 ted in the East Indies for the dye, while that 



l|i,i sniitled to him many of the most valuable 



3 and plants of that region, including those 



are natives of tlie highest mountains. In 



Kil e collections arc comprised the whole of the 



us family as far as was possible to be obtain- 



The far famed Cheiroslemon platanoides, or 



d (lower tree, three evergreen species of the 



with beautiful and peculiar foliage ; the 



f'j -.hsia arborescens with large lanrel-like leaves ; 



ll Cestnan noctumum, or night smelling Jasmin, 



, lonia jasminifolia, stated by Mr Po^^-SETT to season against Mr Stevens' Rattler. In the au 



reiieatedlv offered for her. 1 cause labor and land here arc cheaper than any- 



The Sportsman has proved himself not only re- | where else, and because the raising of the plant 



niaikable fleet, hut enduring ; /jc Jiewr ji'as teafen. and its manufacture may be carried on without 



He was entered in the spring of 1828, at the 

 U.nion Course, Long Island, for the first day's 

 purse, ybjtr mile heats, against Betsey Ransom and 

 Revolution, but falling sick with tlie distemper, 

 was withdrawn. At three he won the sweep- 

 stakes at the Union Course against Jive horses. — 

 On the same course he won a match race the same 



ne of the most beautiful cliuihiiig jilants in j '""'" of 1827 he ran upon the same course and 

 rtorld ; Passijlora ligularis or large Mexican | V»n at three heats the second day's i>urse, three 

 tidilla with eatable fruit, i?«/iard«om'a tain- {«'''? ^^^'s. betiting Richard the 3d from Virginia, 

 ; Ztphyranlhes carinata, rosea, ami canAWa, ^"'f 'wo others. He has never given way in hmbs 

 It Mamee apple ; Laurus persca, or Alligator p"" '" '"s wind. 

 ; Mon^anoa arborescens ; Hibiscus rosa-monta- 1 (X/^ We understand that this beautiful horse 



even the aid of a house. The first step in the 

 culture of the plant is to render the ground which 

 should be friable and rich, perfectly free from 

 weeds, and dry if naturally moist. The seeds are 

 then sown in shallow drills about a foot apart — 

 The rainy season imist be chosen for sowing, oth- 

 cnvise if the seed is deposited in dry soil it beats, 

 corrupts, and is lost. The cropb ing kept clear 

 of weeds is fit for cutting in two or three months, 

 and this may be repeated in rainy seasons every 

 six weeks. The plants are not allowed to come 

 into flower as the leaves in that case become dry 

 and hard and the indigo produced is of less value, 

 nor are they cut in dry weather as they would not 



several magnificent species odmaryUis, CW- will be in Boston in April for a few davs before ^I'""= ■''S"'"- ^ '•'''"P generally lasts two year 



Pancralium, and Bignonia ; the very singu- Iproceedine to Worcester county. He kt present P'"''S° ""^ not extensively cultivated in India be^ 



carlet leaved Euphorbia; several species of is at Weslborouffh, where farmers have a fi„e fore the British; s-ttlements were formed there— 



■" Its profits were at first so considerable that as in 



similar cases its culture was carried too far, and 



pins and Echiles ; the round fruited Calabash I opportunity to improve tiieir breed of horses 

 or Crescentia : several original sfiecies of th^ 

 m JO, or Georgiana ; black flowering Gonolobus ;. 



SUGAR FROM THE BEET ROOT. 



Hontezuma rose, and the red and white Mexi-i-^^^*^'^/""*^"' 



1 I .-A I c ^ ■ y ^'''■^ — I nave seen in your valuable tieriodical 



■ose trees ; several beautiful species of .^Tcaaa i _ . , ,. , •. ' '■"'•>-<" 



frequent mention made of the sugar ireevand of 



the beet sugar, &c., but no description of the pro- 

 cess by which the sugar is extracted and prepared 

 for use. If some of your readers, who are ac- 

 quainted with the subject, would give us this de- 

 scription ; and, in connexion with it, the quantity 



species < 

 Mimosa : the Mexican Schinus, which adorns 

 oad sides, and whose branches are pendant 

 ;hose of the weeping willow, and are loaded 

 scarlet fruit : Stcvia alba and various other 

 ts calculated to elicit the greatest interest 

 g* botanists and horticulturists, 

 is a pleasing circumstance to .see our coun- 

 eii Professor Keating and Mr Poinsett, 

 in a distant country, thus giving their atten- 

 to the subject of transmitting to their own, all 

 egetable productions most calculated to en- j 

 ts collections ; and no American can view ) 

 ircumstance without regret that Mr Poinsett, I 

 has been so preeminently useful to his country ', 

 ■ery situation in which he has been placed, 

 vho possesses such high and honorable sen- 

 its in regard to our intercourse with other 

 ns, should have been calumniated by some 

 Mils of the nation near which he has for some 

 been our accredited minister ; these calum- 

 froni whatever source they have originated, 

 it is conceived, found as yet no believers in 

 juiitiy. 



the market glutted with the commodity. The in 

 digo is one of the most precarious of oriental crops, 

 being liable to'fc/ cesnoyeii by hail storu)S which 

 aa coiiiparaiiveiy Dut Utile injm-y to the sugar 

 cane and other plants. In the West Indies the 

 seeds are put in little shallow pits hoed up irregu- 

 larly but generally within four, five, or six inches 

 of each other, and immediately covered. The 

 plants grow to full perfection in two or three 

 of sugar which can be procured from a certain j months, and are observed to answer best when 

 quantity of the beet, they would, I presume, con- cut in full blossom. They are cut with reaping 



fer on the public a favor. 



This beet is raised by a few individuals in this 

 region of country with much snccess. It is, at 

 least, a very excellent root for the table ; and 

 should its saccharine qualities equal, in every res- 

 ])ect, those of the cane, many of our frugal farm- 

 ers will shortly become wise enough to cultivate 

 it, and to make from it sugar sufficient, at least, 

 for the use of their own families ; and, thereby, 

 save to themselves the payment of an annual cash 

 bill, by no means inconsiderable, these hard times. 



Maine, Dec. 24, 1829. G. S. 



Reriiarks by the Editor. — Wc have frequently, 

 since the commencement of the New England 



hooks a few inches above the root, and laid in the 

 steeper. Seventeen negroes are sufficient to man- 

 age twenty acres of Indigo, and one acre of rich 

 land well planted, with good seasons and jiroper 

 management will yield five hundred pounds of in- 

 digo in twelve months ; for the plant ratoons (i. o. 

 it sends out stolones) and gives four or five crops 

 in the year, but must be replanted afterwards. — 

 Indigo has long been cultivated in Spain, but is 

 on the decline in that country, owing to the more 

 favorable circumstances of the East and West In- 

 dies. It was tried in the South of France, and 

 Italy, during the reign of Napoleon, but found not 

 worth following for the same reason. 



Farmer, communicated such information as we Nerium oleander, c. 8. June, Oct. crimson 1590. S. of 



j could procure on the subject of manufacturing 



PEDIGREE OF SPORTSMAN. } sugar from the beet root ; and as we have obtain- 



e beautiful blood horse Sportsman which we j ed nothing new on this subject, we must beg leave 

 oned as having been exhibited at Brighton, | to refer the author of the preceding to articles on 

 e informed will stand the ensuing season at ^ extracting sugar from the beet, &c. published in 

 ester, Shrewsbury, and Westborough. He the N. E. Farmer, vol. vii. pages 346, 362. 



aised by Gen. Coles of Dosoris, Long Island ) ~~ _ 



^Iso bred the famous rac^r American ! <^^'ULTIVAT10N OF EXOTIC PLANTS, &c. 

 le,) and was foaled in 1823. He was sired I (Continued from page 178.; 



5 Bussorah Arabian, well kuown as one of '"''ieofefaangustifolia. e. June, Oct. purple. 1772. Cape. 

 . , ..,. , , • . 1 • . .1 • t tinctoria. e. 3. July, Ausf. \7?t\. East Indies. 



est beautiful horses ever imported into this australis. e. March, June. pink. 1790. N. S. 



ry from Arabia, and the sire of a most excel- 1 Wales. 



Europe. 



V. .<:pIeiideTis. e. 7. June, Oct. crimson. 1814. 



odorura. e. G. June, Aug. pale red. 1()83. East 



Indies. 

 Beautiful evergreen shrubs of easy culture and 

 propagation, and free flowerers great part of the 

 year. N. oleander is very common in the Le- 

 vant, and especially in the Isle of Candia, and in 

 Sicily, Magna Grtecia, by rivers and torrents : the 

 leaves are acrid and jioisonous. Young cuttings 

 planted under a hand glass and placed on a little 

 heat, root freely. N. odoruin though treated as a 



