350 



M:\V IvNCI.AM) I AKMEIl, 



May 21, 1830. 



as 'The iildiii S|iiiiikiiig Trot;' the ' Kiiiiiiiiij; 

 Trot;' ' The Caiiterer or l,ailie.s' Horse ;' Tlie Gal- 

 lop ;' ' The lIllllter'^* Gallop ;' ' Lea|iiii;; ;' iiii-lu- 

 tliiiff ' The BucUiiij,' Leap' arid ' The Fly Leap.' 



We are not prepared to say that ' The proper 

 stiiily oT inuiikiiiil is' — the horse; hut every per- 

 son who wishes lor a knowleil^e of what are lech- 

 nieally cajicil ' the points' of that nohle aniniui 

 will flnil, we believe, that this work will present 

 great fucilities to the desired acquisition. : 



INSECT 0.\ ASH TKEKS. 



Mr Fes3knde."» — .although innch has hocn said 

 and wrillen I'espeetin^ the insects which ijijure 

 our fruit and forest trees, I hear tio mention of the 

 inseet, which 1 now send to you. I wi-ih you, or 

 some of your correspondents, to inform the puh- I 

 lie and me, through your useful pnper, what will | 

 destroy thetn or check their ilepredations. i 



About the 1st of June 1828, near simset, I no- 

 ticed a white ash tfcc, of which there are twelve 

 standing in front of my lioiise, divested of its fol-, 

 iagc. I ezaMuiied it and found the trmik of the | 

 tree completely covered with them. On the 29rli ' 

 of May, 1829, 1 observed a few of the same in- 

 sects, on the same tree on which they made their 

 appearance th ; year before; and on the 1st of 

 June, early in the morning, on eleven of the 

 trees there was not a worm to be fmind, nor o 

 green leaf to be .seen ; but the ground, fence, and 

 everything around were covered with millions of 

 the worms. Sickness has, till now, prevented me 

 from applying to you sooner for information. 

 Respectfully yours, RUFUS MANN. 



Wrentham, Mass. ^j)ril 1830. 



Remarks by the Editor. — i^everal insects of 

 the sort alluded to, accompanied the above com- 

 munication, and may be seen preserved iti spirits, 

 at the office of the New England Farmer. They 

 are about half the size of the common caterpillar, 

 which infests the apple tree, white, and destitute 

 of hair. We shall submit them to the inspection 

 of scientific cultivators, entomologists, &c, and 

 any information we may be able to elicit respect- 

 ing the kind, habits, and reineilics against the in- 

 sect, will be presented to our readers. 



GOLDEN PIIMMN. 



Thomas G. Feshenden, Esu. ) 



AND Mr J. 11. RussEi-i,. 5 



Gentleme.n — I think so highly of the Goloen 

 Pipri."(, and feel so desirous of doing away the 

 impression that they will not keep through the 

 fall, that I send a few of the last from my farm in 

 this place. The trees can be traced back for near 

 a century. Trees imported by my father about 

 twentyfivo years since, bear well at Byfield ; the 

 fruit 1 think larger and better than from my old 

 trees; and last week 1 found the apples frotn the 

 trees at Byfield perfectly sound and in a proper 

 state for eating. I make no douhl they will re- 

 initin so quite into June. Try them this day, and 

 tell mo plainly how much too far prejudice carries 

 me. Your obiMlirnl servant, 



(JOiniAM I'ARSONS. 



lirifrhton, May 18, 1830. 



0[7^ We lost no time in putting the above men- 

 tioned apples to the test of taste, and our organs 

 of gustation pronounced their eulogy. Wo are 

 glad to find that such veteran varieiies of fruit 

 aro 8o durable, and are cajiable of ministering to 



the .--uliil.ii) 1 ii|.iMiiciji- DlM-MTal suiccssivr gen- 

 erations of their cultivators and admirers. Such 

 of our readers as wish to refer to the celebrated 

 controversy between Judge Ulel, (,"oI. I'ickebl'so, 

 and others, respecting the diirabiliiy of pariiciilar 

 varieties of fruits, including the Golden Pippin, 

 will find it in the New England Fanner, Vol. IV. 

 pages 253, 262, ct seq. 



EARLY VEGETABLES. 

 We have been presented by Captain DA.-niEt. 

 CiiA.NDi.ER of Lexington, witli a basket of As- 

 paragus and Cucumbers of excellent quality. The 

 Asparagus was the Early Large Devonshire, (sold 

 at Mr Russell's Seed Store;) one of the stems meas- 

 ured 4.'J inches in circumference. 



Car.* have commenced running on the Balti- 

 more Rail Road, the distance of 13 miles. The 

 Baltimore editors say the prospect v\a8 never bet- 

 ter, for a successful completion of that great un- 

 dertaking. 



GRAPES— ASPAR.AGUS. 



J. S. Ski.n.ner : 4//i wo. 7th, 1830. 



The individual who takes the liberty to address 

 thee at this time, is not a practical farmer, or a 

 finished horticulturist. In regard to either, his 

 pretensions are humble, yet humble as they are, 

 he ventures to say, no individual in our slate takes 

 more pic.isure in viewing the advancement of that 

 great source of national wealth — agriculture; and 

 that most pleasing of employments, gardening or 

 horticulliire. I have paid some attention to the 

 cultivation of the grape, and have found from ex- 

 perience, that the coal dust, cinder.s, and scales of 

 iron, or black oxiile of iron, from the blacksmith's 

 fi>rge, when properly mixed with _/ine^ar</cn moulS^ 

 to be incumparablij the best manure for the grape 

 that can be used. It is a well known fact, that 

 grapes thrive best in volcanic districts ; that led 

 me to use the above as a dressing for the grape, 

 and found it to exceed my most sanguine expecta- 

 tion. I am not aware, that the material in cpics- 

 tion, has been used by any except myself and a 

 few of my friends in this county. I mentioned it 

 to a most indefatigable and correct botanist and 

 horticulturist, David Thomas, of Cayuga i-oimty, 

 last winter — he sjioke of it in high ternis of com- 

 mendation, although he had not used it. It had 

 not occured to him. Before this will reach biin, 

 he probably will have made use of it. For as- 

 paragus, I have also made use of finely pulverized 

 oyster shells, well incorporated with the earth, in 

 which it is planted, or well dug in about the roots 

 of old beds. Its effects are astonishing, especially 

 on old beds — it in fact regenerates them. The 

 asparagus is, as is well known, a marine plant. 

 fWsh oyster shells partake largely of marine qual- 

 ities. What could be more simple, or more nat- 

 ural, or better suited to the growth of marine 

 plants? It is also well known, that disintegrated 

 carbonate of lime, when mixc<l with a suitable 

 proportion of vegetable mould, forms a soil, almost 

 perpetually fertile, and that few or no plants, or 

 vegetables with which we are acijuaintcd, but are 

 benefited by its admixture with the soil in wtricli 

 they are placed. As there aro many persons turn- 

 ing their attention to tho cultivation of the grape, 

 espei-ially in the neigbborbnod of Baliimore, and 

 as I w ish them all success, and abundanc crops, I 

 lake the liberty to address an individual with w hoin 

 I have not the jiersonal good fortune to claim an 



ncipiaintnlice. May lde.^sings attend thee, i:.. ' 

 fnind, ill thy laudable exertions to render ugrici 

 tore both honorable and proliiable. 



Thy friend, J. W. SMITH, M. I). 



Lockpurt, ^a^ara County, jYeio York. 



PRESERVATION OF BITTER. 

 .M. Thenard recommends the n>etbod used by 

 the Tartars ; which consists in infusing the butter 

 in a warm bath, at a tcinpe.'-ature of 190 ' Fahr., 

 anil retaining it quiescent in that state, until il 

 caseous matter has settled, and the butter become 

 clear; it is then to be <lecanted, passed through u 

 cloth, and cooled in a mixture of salt and ice, or, 

 at least, in spring water, without which it would 

 crystallize, and not resist so well the action of air. 

 Preserved in close vessels and cold places, it may 

 be kept for six months as good as it was on the 

 first day, especially if the upper part he cxceiited 

 If, when used, it be beaten up with one sixth of 

 cheese, it will bavf all the appearance of fresh 

 butter. The flavor if rancid butter may, accord 

 ing to M. Thenard, b' r -uioved almost entirely by 

 similar inellin'.' and .-.lolings. — Quarterly Journal. 



Cement for Hard Stones, Porcelain, and Glass. 



This cement is a natural product, n Iiich, with 

 out being abundant, is in sufficient quantities for 

 all ordinary uses. The large snails which are 

 found in gardens, ind woods, and are sometimes 

 nsi'd for food, have a vesicle at the extremities of 

 their bodies, fillcil with a whitish substance, liav 

 ing a greasy and gelatinous appearance. If it be 

 applied between two surlaces, whatever be their 

 hardness or compactness, and the surfaces be 

 brought together throughout, so strong an adbe 

 sion is ultimately occasioned, that if violent blows 

 or thrusts be given to the substances, they fre- 

 quently break elsewhere than at the junction. A 

 flint about the size of a fish having been broken 

 into two pieces, and rejoined by these means, be- 

 ing thrown with violence on the pavement, broke 

 into fragments by fresh fractures crossing the 

 former junction, but not going along with it. All 

 that is necessary to give this cement its full power 

 is to allow it time to dry. — lb. 



Process for preserving Milk, for any length of lime. 

 This process, invented by a Ru.ssian chemi>t. 

 named Kiicoff, consists in evaporating new milk 

 by a very gentle fire and very slowly, until it i.- 

 reduced to a dry jiowder. This powder is to h 

 kept in bottles carefully stopped. When it is to 

 be employed, it is only neces-sary to dissolve tl 

 powder in a sufficient quantity of water. .\c- 

 cording to .M. Kircotl' the milk docs not by this 

 process, lose any of its peculiar flavor. — lb. 



liorford Bonnets.* — Bonnet-, of r fashionable 

 air, and well adapted to the season, have recently 

 been made, at Buxford, about 25 miles from this 

 city, from rye straw. The first edition of them 

 was (tarried to New York and sold to the most 

 fashionable milliners, as English Bonnets of recent 

 manufacture and importation, at an exorbitant 

 price. The New York milliners furnished their 

 Boston Correspondents with the new article, and 

 many ofibeiii were sold in ihiscity, at from 12 to 

 10 dollars. The new English straw bonnets com- 

 manded such prices, that the Indiislrioiis Boxford 

 niunufacturers sent in large supplies of them ; and{ 

 they can now be purchased at from 3 to I dollars. I 

 Palladium. 



' {.llias DcsMABLE Straws.) 



