Vol.VIlI.— No 44. 



AND HOIITICULTUIIAL JOURNAL. 



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To viake Rice Cukes. — Take u pint of soft hoil- 

 eil rice ; a hull" a pint of milk or water, to wliicli 

 aild twelve spoonfuls of the flour ; iliviile it into 

 small cakes, and bake tlieni in a brisk oven. 



To make IVi'fcrs.—'V-.ike a |)int of warm 

 water, n tea spoonful of salt; aiM a pint of the 

 flour, and it will give yon two dozen wafer.s. 



To make Rice Puffs. — To a pint of tlic flour add 

 a tea .spoonful of salt, a pint of boiling water; beat 

 up four eggs; stir lliem well tojjetlier ; put from 

 two to three spoonfuls of fat in a pan ; make it 

 boiling hot, and drop a spoontui of the mixture 

 into the fat as you do in makuig common fritters. 



To make pap Puddincr. — To a quart of milk add 

 a pint of the flour; boil them to a pap ; beat up 

 si.t eggs, to which add six spooufids of Havana 

 sugar and a spoonful of butter, which when well 

 beaten together, aild iliem to the milk and flour ; 

 grease the i>an in whiih it is to be made, grate 

 nutmeg over the mixture and bake it. 



After all tliid is done, the sooner they are eaten 

 the better. 



vert those which you have into railways. If the 

 pioprietors do Tiot take the hints they wUl repent 

 it.' 



climate 



VINEYARDS. 



It is among the strange things that in a 

 that will pioduce gooil grapes, there are no vine- 

 yards. The grape, if cultivated solely for the 

 fruit, will yet W(dl repay the expense of cultivation. 

 We recommend it to all persmis who have half an 

 acre of land, to appropriate a warm corner fm- a few 

 vines. They will not only grow while he sleeps, 

 hut will (iresent him when lie awakes with a re- 

 freshing luxury. 



TRIMMING GRAPE VINES. 

 Extract from an ariiide, published in the Amer- 

 ican Farmer for March 12, 1830, by Thomas 



GiMBREDE. 



' Having ol).serve<l that in this country the fall 

 is always remarkably fine, I trim my vines as soon 

 as the leaves are off, in so doing, I give a chance 

 to that slow but constant vegetation, which is ear- 



In the last nnmher of the Amcriraii Farmer, 

 there is an essay on the relative advantage, to far- 

 mers, of cni|)l)ying mules and horses. The es- 

 say is from the pen oI'Mr Hood, of Maryland, who 

 presents his obsi'rvations as the result of thirty 

 years practical experience, and illustrates them 

 by distinct and di^tailed estinuites. 



Eirbj Cucum/jer*. — The Middleton (Conn.)Sen- 

 lin.d mentions, that the proprietor of the Palestine 

 Gardni and Prnsptct House, in that city, exhibited 

 to the Editor, several fine Cucumbers, grown in 

 his garden this spring — the largest of which was 

 about six inches in length. 



Impoiiatious of Corn. — On Thursday ni>vvards 

 of 15,000 bushels of corn arrived at Torlland 

 from .soulhern ports in 7 diff'ercnt vessels. Im- 

 portations diiriiig the week about 27,000 bushels. 

 .And (luring the tnouth of April between 60 and 

 70,000 bushels. 



riod on with all its force to perfect the buds and 

 wood which are left on the vines. 



This principle of vet;etation is very remarkable 



•We have a strange notion thSt tins should be neither 

 Jonny nor Journey, but Jenny Cake. We have not the 

 slightest que-tion but that it was called so by some rustic 



lover, in compliment to his mistress, who possibly excel- 1 ,•„ our forests during the fall and winter. 

 eil in the art of picpaiing it. Let it then, in future, be 

 called 'Jenny Cake ,' and whoso (man) shall henceforth 

 call it by any other (masculine) appellative, let him 

 Dot partake of the delicacy. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the Newburyport Herald, 



A iiractical Agriculturist has handed us the 

 following memorandum which we think wor- 

 thy the attention of every person who has fruit 

 trees: — 



Canker fl'orms. — Perhaps it would be well for 

 our agricultural friends who have faithfully tarred 

 their fruit trees iliis season, to examine in aii'l 

 about the tar, where no doubt they will find thou- 

 sands of can!;-r worms just hatched, and by stir- 

 ring the tar, eygs without number yet to hatch. 

 Now if the worms ti.m batched are capable of 

 ascending the tree, \vc .-.cc at once that the object 

 of tarring will in a great mea.sure he defeated, — 

 except the tar, w.inns and eggs are carefully re- 

 moveil from the trees and destroyed by fire or 

 some other eflTectual mode. 



RAIL ROADS AND CANALS. 

 The Baltimore American publishes an extract 

 if of a letter from Robert Benson, Esq. of Liverpool, 

 addressed to Thomas Ellicott, Esq. of that city un- 

 der date of Liverpool, 1st February, 1830, which 

 contains a most satisfactory and interesting ac- 

 count of the late experimeius on the Liverpool 

 and Manchester Rail Road, and discusses the sup- 

 posed relative advantages of the several recent 

 improveuicnts in locomotive engines am! rail road 

 cars. The writer is a director of the Liverpool 

 and Manchester Rail Road Company. He says, 

 ' I consider the question in relation to Canals a 

 settled, and that where the proprietors cannoi 

 convert them into Rail roads, (which is under the 

 serious consideration of some,) they will he worth- 

 less, no matter whether there be an abundant sup- 

 ply of water or not. Canals or river navigation, 

 excepting under particular circumstances, such as 

 tide ways, or in rivers like tlie Hudson, requiring 



BOSTON, F R I 1) A Y, .M A V 2 1 , 1830. 



The vine also presenting less surface to the 

 storms, is much less injured. Finally, by an early 

 triinuiiuga considerable quantity of stiii is gene- 

 rally raised t> the surface of the cut, which fills 

 up the pores of the wood, coagulates, and thereby 

 nature plasters them to meet the severity of the 

 winter or bleeding in the spring.' 



PRESERVATION OF POTATOES. 



Potatoes at the depth of one foot in the gronrd 

 j>roduce shoots near the end of the sjiring ; at the 

 depth of two feet they are very short, and never 

 come to the surface ; and between three and five 

 feet they cease to vegetate. In cofisei]jience of 

 observing these effects, sever.il parcels of potatoes 

 were buried in a garden at the depth of three feet 

 and a half, and were not removed until after in- 

 tervals of one and two years. They were then 

 found without any appearance of germination and 

 possessing their original freshness, firmness, good- 

 ness and laste. — Ann. de la Soc. d'Agric. 



VEGETARLE ORIGIN OF SILK. 



The parenchyma of the white mulberry is com- 

 posed of a tissue of beautiful white fibres of silk, 

 much resembling China silk, which would lead us 

 to the inference that silk is n vegetable, not an 

 animal product ; that is to say,that the basis of the 

 material, in its proximate form, is derived from 

 the vegetable kingdom, thfuigh the spinning of its 

 substance info a lengthened thread is entirely due 

 to the mechanical functions of the silk worm. 

 The silk tissue of the mulberry becomes very ob- 

 vious by breaking some decayed twigs of two or 

 three years growth. — Gar. Mag. 



It is predicted that in the course of a few years 

 one can hire at a cheap rate his locomotive vehi- 

 cle which shall waft him across the country at the 

 rate of 30 miles in tlie hour without inconven- 

 ience. 



The editor of the American Farmer advise: 

 r.o outlays to make them navigable, and where ! every owner of a horse to purchase the edition of 

 steam power can be used, — must be abandoned. : Hirul's Farriery, just published by Mr Grigg, ed- 

 Your country ought to witness the construction of; iteil by Thomas M. Smith, Veterinary Surgeon of 

 no more Canals, and the best way will be to con- ■ Philadelphia. 



GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE 

 HORSE. 



We hnvc seen a curious book, just published by 

 Carter & He.ndef., Bostiui, entitled. The Beau- 

 lies and Defects in the Figure of the Horse, compar- 

 alivelij delineated ill a series of Engravings. From 

 Pendleton's Lithographic Press. 



In the introduction it is remarked that 'By a 

 detailed series of graphic and descriptive illu.stra- 

 tions, it is the iiileiition of the author of this work, 

 lo show the good and bad points in I hat most no- 

 ble and ti!(t'ful aKimal, the horse. The publica- 

 tion is also inten.led as a Book of Lessonsfor such 

 yonug artisis as are inclined to ])iirsue the study 

 of the horse IH all the ditferent jioints of his figure 

 and action. 



' There is no animal whose countenance com- 

 bines such correct and powerful expressions of 

 character. The physiognomy of the Horse, 

 therefore, illustrating the different passions to 

 which he is subject, as well as the natural bias of 

 his temper and disposition, is an important hriinch 

 of study to gentlemen of the turf, and to young 

 purcha.s^-rs ; for it is generally considered that to 

 timiil riders and drivers, the temper of the beast 

 i.^. an object of more conseipience that atiy slight 

 bodily blemish.' 



It may seem incredible, that certain qualities in 

 horses, relating to their dispositions, passions, &c, 

 should be cai)ahle of being indicated by the pencil 

 of the artist. Yet in the.se portraits of the aniiHal, 

 we see, or .seem to see, 'raits of good humor, spirit, 

 sluggishness, rage, ferocity, sullenness, &c, so 

 plainly depicted that the character of the creature 

 seems tosiare you in the face, and is as easily read 

 as the alphabet. The limbs, bodies, attilueds, &c, 

 &<•, of different 'sorts of horses are represented. 

 Here is a fair leg formed I'or speed, and perhaps 

 action ; but not calculated fiu- permanency ; then 

 one which 'is formed lo do much work, and last 

 long at it.' Next, one which ' is good in sub- 

 stance, but rather round ami too straight.' 

 Item, ' a pair of legs well formed for strength and 

 action.' 'A pair of legs, weak, badly formed and 

 good for nothing, &c. Then come ' hin<l legs, 

 quarters,' &c, succeeded by complete figures of 

 the animals in different modes of action. Such 



