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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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From the Tiiunlon Advocate. 



WHITE MULBERRY TREES 



Messrs Danfortu and Thurber — As the 

 attention of tlie public has lieon niiicli engaged 

 on tlie subject o(" propagatiiii; Wiiite Mulberry 

 trees, and tbe rearing of Silk Worms fi)r the pur- 

 pose of manufacturing silk, I wi-ih to suggest to 

 the Bi'istol County Agricultural Society, tliroiigl 

 the mediuni of your useful paper, the propriety of 

 offering a premium for the best mulberry nursery, 

 which shall contain not less than one thousand or 

 even two thousand trees — not less than one or two 

 years old. A premium might be proposed for I'lc 

 greatest number of trees whether in orchard funn 

 or not ; also for the best orchard, containing not 

 less than one hundred mulberry trees, not less 

 than five years old. A pn;ttiium of ten Or fifteen 

 dollars I think would turn the attention of farm- 

 ers to this subject, and in a few years they would 

 have as many mulberry trees in a course of cul- 

 tivation as would be necdeil for the purpose ff 

 nicking silk. Why I suggest the above is, becanss 

 the Society offered a very liberal |)remium last 

 year, but made no distinction in regard to age, cr 

 whether they should be transplanted from tie 

 nursery or not. I believe the premium has nrt 

 been awarded to any one, although there are per- 

 sons in the county who have commenced the cul- 

 tivation of nuilberry trees in good earnest. 



The white mulberry tree grows well on almrst 

 any barren waste land, and does not impoverishit 

 as many trees do, on account of their suckiig 

 their nourishment considerably below the surface 

 of the earth. I believe mulberry trees, if not 

 planted too close together, will greatly benefit and 

 improve light sanfly pasturage. I should suppose 

 this consideration alone would induce more io 

 plant them than what have as yet undertaken it ; 

 but when we consider the importance of the tree 

 for feeding the silk worm, and the profit that will 

 arise from silk making, if properly msnaged, I 

 should think that every person who haj an acre 

 of poor land that will hardly produce ive-finger 

 vines, would plant it to mulberry trees — as worms 

 fed on foliage from trees grown on dry high land 

 make superior silk to those fed on wet rich land. 

 A Friend to Improvements. 



TREES. 



Among the duties which the present generation 

 owes to that which is to follow, are the establish- 

 ment of schools aiid the setting out of trees. We 

 shall urge the former upon our contemporaries at 

 suitable seasons — to promote the performance of 

 the latter duty, we copy the following from (he 

 Boston Palladium, and earnestly request thereto 

 the attention of readers in town and country. — U. 

 S. Gazette- 

 There are trees in every American forest, that 

 are seldom transplanted into cultivated grounds, 

 which, if they were exotics, woidd be cultivsted 

 with great expense and care. The Sassafras is 

 almost unknown in gardens, and yet, in shape, 

 deep glossy green of the leaf, and aromatic qiiili- 

 ties, it is not inferior to the orange, and has, more- 

 over, the advantage, in being of more rapid growth. 

 It is of a growth nearly as rapid as the Lonibady 

 poplar, which, after a forced popularity, is bow 

 deemed the meanest of all trees — yet who can find 

 a grove of Sassafras, while there are so many 

 tasteless avenues of poplar. Hut it is a trail in 

 our patriotism to favor foreign productions and le- 

 glect better that we have at home. 



The priuci))le extends wider than to include 

 trees — we dare not admire or praise a book, till it 

 has been praised in Europe. 



Another neglected tree or shrub is the Sumach, 

 a beautiful plant in shape, leaf and berry — in sum- 

 mer, the leaf is green and waves upon its peculiar 

 stem, well contrasted with its crimson berries — 

 when the first breath of Aiitinnn comes, the whole 

 bush is of a color without parallel. 



The Maple, the Ash, and till- Spoonwood, (we 

 know no other name for the last) must be sought 

 in forests, for seldom is a good specimen of them 

 found near the habitation of men. The hickory, 

 (and it may surely be praised without connexion 

 'vith politics) is, when growingin a field anil throw- 

 ing out horizontal branches, one of the most im: 

 l)osing of trees : the hush has a rough and even 

 rugged look, that is rather becoming by the side of 

 the slender twigs and smooth laurel-like loaf. 

 There are many other trees, shrubs, and vines, 

 that are transplanted to Europe and cidtivated for 

 their beauty, which no one thinks worthy of c are 

 at home. — That which is familiar is not prized. 



HINTS TO AMERICAN FARMERS. 



It has frequently been remarked, that the ex- 

 portation of Corn, from any country, if long con- 

 tinued, must tend to exhaust the soil, unless some 

 articles capable op being converted into manme, 

 are introduced to compensate for the injury. Many 

 parts of the North of Africa, and of Asia Minor, 

 which formerly supplied large quantities of corn 

 to Euro|)e, have since become deserts. Perhaps 

 one of the chief causes of the progress, we (tbe 

 Engli.sh) have made in agriculture, and of the su- 

 perior productiveness of our fields, has arisen 

 from our exporting but few, and importing many, 

 of the articles which are capable, when decom- 

 posed, of becoming manure, and being applied to 

 renovate the soil, as much or more as it is exhaust- 

 ed by cropping. — Jacobs on the Corn Trade. 



Canal tolls. — Several of the western, New York, 

 papers take exception to the recent advance made 

 in the canal tolls by the commissioners. Several 

 public meetings have been held deprecating the 

 measure, as one that will injure the trade on the 

 Erie Canal and benefit the Welland. It is stated, 

 also, that much of the produce of the West wil. 

 find its way to Montreal market instead of New 

 York. 



JVova Scotia. — In the Legislature of Nova Sco- 

 tia, Mr Morton has suggested a grant of from $16,- 



000 to .$20,000, to encourage Agriculture by boun- 

 ties on the packing and curing of Beef and Pork,, 

 improvement of Stock, erection of Oat Mills, &c. 



Cure for the Dysentery. — It is probably not so 

 generally known as it should be that Boiled Milk, 

 thickened with flour, and taken in tlie first stages 

 of Dysentery, is, in all conunon cases, an invalua- 

 ble remedy. Boiled milk without flour is too 

 harsh. 



IrishCourts. — Mr O'Conuell, at a i)ublic dinner 

 in Cork, thus describes some Irish judicial pro- 

 ceedings. ' At the present assizes, during the trial 

 of a man for felony, the judge on the bench was 

 asleep ; let any man petition on the subject, and 



1 will ])rove it. I am a freeman and should not 

 like to violate the law ; but on this very trial the 

 attorney was examining three witnesses at the same 

 time ; one of the jury was reading, and three of 

 them cheapening plums with a fruit girl.' 



ANCIENT RELIC. 



Considerable curiosity was excited in this city on Fri- 

 day last, by the accidental discovery of a grave .stone, by 

 the workmen employed in digging about Iho underpinning 

 of the Old State House, bearing the following inscription : 



[On one side,] 

 'hear lyeth the body of: mr willi am paddy, 



I aged 58 YEARS : departed THrs LIFE AUGUST 



THE [broken oH"] 1658.' 



[On the other,] 



■ hear SLEAPS THAT BLESED ONE, WHOES LIFE 

 GOD HELP US ALL TO LIVE THAT SO WHEN TIEM 

 SHALL BE THAT WE THIS WORLD MUST LEVE 

 WE «VER MAY BE HAPPY 

 WITH BLESED WILLIAM PADDY.' 



* A number of human bones, and pieces of cofhn,' says 

 the Commercial Gaz., 'were also taken up by the work- 

 men, and it is supposed, that during the day, eight or ten 

 thousand persons came into State-street, to examine them.' 

 lu the Historical Extracts, MS. 105, mention is made that 

 Mr Paddy's* name is on the list of freemen in Plymouth 

 Colony, in 16.36. He removed to Boston in 1651. 



In Davis' New England Memorial, under date of 1658, 

 after mentioning the death of ' one John Phillips by 

 thunder and lightning, the records proceed as follows. — B. 



'Also, in the month of August, it ])leased God to 

 take away, by death, Mr William Paddy, who was 

 a precious servant of Christ, endued with a meek 

 and quiet spirit, of a courteous behavior to all 

 men, and was very careful to nourish an intimate 

 communion with God. He was instrumental in 

 his place for common good, both in church, (being 

 sometimes by office a deacon of the church of Pli- 

 mouth) and in other respects very officious, as oc- 

 casion did require. He having a great temporal 

 estate, was occasioned thereby to have abundance 

 of business upon him, hut when he was to put off 

 his Ci^rtlily Jftbernacle, he laid aside all his earthly 

 incumbrances and occasions, even ss one would 

 have taken off a garment, and laid it down ; and 

 without any trouble of spirit, on that behalf, pre- 

 pared himself for his journey to the everlasting 

 mansion.s, prepared for him by his Lord and Mas- 

 ter in the highest heavens, whereof he was well 

 assured ; as to the like effect he spake to Mr Nor- 

 ton, near unto the period of his life ; and so falling 

 asleep in the Lord, he was buried at Boston, with 

 honor and great lamentation, in the year and 

 tnonth above mentioned. 



' One who was well acquainted with his worth 

 and gracious endowments presented this following, 

 as a testimonial of his good respects for himi 

 W eep not dear wife, children, nor dear friends, 

 I live a life of joys that never ends, 

 L ove God, and fear him to end of your days : 

 L ive unto him, but die to sin always. 

 I n heavenly place of bliss my soul doth rest, 

 A mong the saints and angels I am blest ; 

 M uch better here than in the world at best. 



P raising my God is now my great employ, 



A bove such troubles as did me annoy. 



D id but my friends know what I here possess, 



D oubtless it would cause them to mourn the less: 



Y our souls with mine ere long shall meet in bliss.' 



* Mr William Paildy, who had been a distinguished per- 

 son in the colony, whose name stood at the head of the 

 first list of deputies from the town of Plymouth chosen in 

 1G39, and who was also a deacon of the church, a man of 

 courteous manners and great wealth, died at Boston in 

 1658, to which place he had removed in 1651. 



The making of the Rail Road from Charleston, 

 S. C. is prosecuted with spirit. 



