t^ol. Vril.— No. ^7, 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL 



ici|iatcs ill these eiijoyinents. They are not 

 hiiiiible for the most exalted, or heyond the 

 h of honest anJ retiring industry. It is a ban- 

 ; of reason, at which wisdom and beaUh pre- 

 , and where the amphictyons of genius and 

 3 revel, in tlie unsatiating luxuries of nature 

 ntellect. 



' 'he holy scriptures teach us, that the Almighty 



* itioned the peerless beauties and refined plea- 

 of a garden, by planting that of Eden, and 

 lecrating it as a terrestrial paradise for the pro- 



h tors of the human raee. The Elysian Fields 

 3 the heaven of heathen mythology, and to 



il 1 |)art of their prototypes, on earth, was as- 

 ed a tutelary divinity. The promised rewards 



< lie Mahomedan religion are the perennial fe- 

 es of celestial gardens, 

 he bards, scholars, and philosophers of the 



"1 iic ages, have transmitted descriptions of the 

 irpic |)Uuitations of the ancients, from those 

 h Homer places the reg;.l palace of Alci- 

 ul the rustic dwelling of Laertus, to the 

 nificent villas of Pliny and Lucullus. 

 Y numerous works of imagination and instruc- 

 — which have rendered their authors illustri- 

 and established epochs in the grand cycle of 

 ts, since the revival of letters, — we are ena- 

 to ascertain the actual state of cultivation, 

 rceive the relative estimation in which it has 

 I held, and to appreciate the beneficial conse- 

 ices of progressive ameliorations, from the first 

 ble eflbrts of the anchorites of St Basil and 

 enedict, to the splendid developements of in- 

 ual enterprise and public patronage, which 

 fi acterize the period in which we live, 

 he scientific relations of Horticulture are iiu- 

 )us, and require an extensive acquaintance with 

 arious bz-anches of Natural History and Phy- 

 Botany, Mineralogy, Hydraulics, Chemistry, 



II litecture, and Mechanics are called upon to 

 isli their several contributions ; and it is the 

 iai province of the artist, to render them sub- 

 ent to his practical operations, by a judicious 

 ication of each to its appropriate purpose. 

 (To he continued.) 



Brighton Market. — Monday, Jan. 18. 



(Reported for I'ne Chronicle aiidPalriol.) 

 he market today was uncommonly thin of all 

 s of stock, only 378 Cattle and 1224 Sheep 

 e in, being a less number of Cattle than at 



preceding market day since August last. 

 y were divided as follows: — 122 cattle, inclu- 



21 unsold last week, and 533 sheep, at the 

 r market, and 256 cattle, including 1 4 unsold 

 week, and 686 Sheep at the lower market — 



ithstanding the depreciation in the quantity 

 )ck we are not aware that prices varied mate- 

 r from the last 3 or 4 weeks — an attempt by 

 hovers to advance the prices caused the sales 

 ) off rather heavily — a very few best Cattle 

 ght $5 per cwt. ; but the greatest proportion 

 ! sold from 3i to 4^. A few Beef Cattle and 

 It 25 head of stores remained unsold at the 



of the market. We shall begin next week 

 ve the number of the different kinds of Cattle 



r their respective heads. The Sheep at 

 jet today, with one or two exceptions were 



ordinary, and sales were effected with difli- 

 r — good Sheep are in fair request — we no- 

 1 the sales of 1 or 2 lots best at market, as $2 



per head. Swine — only 30 at market — the 

 mentioned in our last — not much doing in 

 T^de. 



This is an improvement on the Silk Reel of Pied- 

 mont, the most approved reel of Europe. The im- 

 provement consists in the simplicity of the machinery, 

 compared with that of the Piedmontese Reel, the 

 operation of both being exactly the same. A, is a 

 cylinder eight inches in diameter and eight in length. 

 B, a circular groove, half an inch deep, which has a 

 sweep of six inches. To lay out this groove, a strip 

 of paper six inches wide, and of the exact length of 

 the cylinder's circumference, is doubled, and with 

 the compass a sweep is made from the middle of one 

 end of the doubled paper to the edge, and thence to 

 the middle of the other end ; the paper is then 

 turned over, and the same sweep made on the other 

 side, in an opposite direction. The paper is then laid 

 on the cylinder, and the groove marked upon it for 

 cutting. Thus on each side of tho cylinder the 

 groove will form a semicircle meeting in the middle, 

 and will thus cause a peculiar motion in the travers- 

 ing bar, (C,) which it will cause to move slowly at 

 the extremities of its course, and rapidly in the cen- 

 tre, tluis giving lime for the threads to take hold of 

 the rails of the reel on the outside of the skein be- 

 fore it begins to move back. C, the traversing bar, 

 with the brass hook through which the silk passes. 

 D, a bar of the frame on which a brass plate is fixed, 

 with small holes, for the silk to pass through, and 

 which stands immediately over the vessel containing 



tho cocoons. E, the drum, eighteen inches diame- 

 ter. P, the pully, ten inches diameter. The size of 

 the drum and pully precludes the possibility of the 

 band slipping. 



The whole frame is five feet long, four high, and 

 two wide in the clear, and the timber about two in- 

 ches square. It is put together with keys, for the 

 convenience of taking down and putting up. 



The necessity of the machinery for producing the 

 vibratory motion of the traversing bar will be under- 

 stood when it is stated, that, if the threads are laid 

 on the rails as cotton is reeled, they would adhere 

 and become useless, as they could not be separated. 

 The traversing bar causes them to be laid on in such 

 a manner as to obviate this entirely. By a small 

 handle near the rim of the drum, the reel is turned. 

 With tliis reel the relative proportionate diameter of 

 the drum and pully is necessary, to produce the pro- 

 portionate movement of the traversing bar, and the 

 revolution of the reel, as the bar must move back and 

 forth five times, while the reel makes nine revolutions, 

 and as the groove is formed, one revolution of the 

 cylinder causes the bar to move out and back once. 

 It has been thought advisable to accompany this 

 drawing of the improved reel with one of the Italian 

 reels, that the improvement may be the more readily 

 perceived. 



PIEDMONTESE REEL. 



The Piedmontese Reel, it will be perceived, requires 

 four cog wheels, a rrank, a carrier bar, and a connecting 

 rod, all which are superseded by the cylinder in the 

 iitiproved reel. Orders for these reels will be received, and 

 ^ny infonnalion given by the inventor, Gideon B. Smith, 

 Baltimore, Md. They can be made in a very neat form of 

 good timber for $18, and can be packed for transportation 

 in abox. All letters must be poit paid. 



inrThe reel is not patented, but a bee privilege is giv- 

 en by the inventor to all persons to make and use it. 



Gideon B. Smith has a large supply of silk worm eggs 

 of the best kinds, 10,000 of which he will send by mail, 

 with ample instructions for making silk, to any person who 

 shall enclose to him/iie doHors— the postage on the pack- 

 age will not be more than one dollar. The winter season 

 being the only lime when they can be sent by mail, no 

 time should be lost in making application. 



