NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



ihuls easily and fits close to the frame on wliich 

 it hnngs ; for without this it is impossible ever 

 o regiihite a fire so as to reap every advantage 

 rem its effects. 



Having experienced the benefit of ash |>it 

 loors, I have for several years been in the 

 jraclice oi' having my fire-places fitteil up \vi(h 

 louMe doors and frames ; thai is, I have a strong 

 ron franie ca'it, ivilh two openings ; to one a 

 lonr i-; hnng for the fire place, and to the Unv- 

 ;t opening I adapt another for the ash pit. — 

 The peculiar advantage of this is, that a dun- 

 )le frame of this sort is most easily fixed, and 

 ;an he attached more firmly to the brick work, 

 ban it uonid be possible to fix two frames, one 

 mmedialely above the other. 



These doors and frames are expensive at 

 irst, because they are weighty ; but in the end 

 hev will be found to be more economical than 

 nv ready-made sale-doors that can he found. 



Besiiles, since I have had these doors to the 

 sh-pits I have dispensed with the registers in 

 be chimneys ; for I find that by a proper at- 

 ention to the opening and shutting of the asli- 

 lit door, I can admit any portion of atmospheric 

 ir into the fireplace, and thus have a complete 

 ommand of the temperature and its applica- 

 lon. 



For some time I had registers in the chimney, 

 s well as doors to the ash-pits ; but finding that 

 oth were more than servants would attend to, 



have now discarded the former altogether, 

 nd perceive that every eiTect that can be desir- 

 d may be produced by the ash-pit doors alone. 



However deep the ash-pits may be, it is al- 

 ays advisable to have doors to them. Some 

 •.ientific men in the metropolis have had doors 

 three feel in height to the ash-pits of their 

 rewing coppers, and liave found them very 



onomical. 



1 have sometimes had moveable registers- in 

 18 centre of the ash-pit doors ; these are too 

 oublesome to be managed by ordinary ser- 

 ants; and a common plain ash-pit door, when 

 roperly hung, may be readily opened an inch, 

 more, or entirely shut, according to the 

 ll aoice of the laboratory-man employed. 



From the Boston Daily Advertiser. 



THE SEASON. 

 Roxbury, May 20, 1824. — In some remarks 

 hich 1 sent you early in this month, I observed 

 lat the season was unusually forward, and the 

 romise of fertility in fruit, grain, and grass, 

 bundant. Knowing however the great preca- 

 ousness of our climate, and the hazards attend- 

 ig early seasons, which I have uniformly dread- 

 d, I added, that late frosts and cold winds might 

 ill blight our fair hopes. It certainly was not 

 itended to be prophetic, but it was the result 

 f my fears — and the event has realized them. 

 n the 6th of Jlay we had a killing frost ; the 

 xtent of the injury cannot be ascertained at 

 lis moment. How far it may have affected 

 le cherry and peach blussoms cannot yet be 

 nown. The quantity of blossoms on both these 

 irts of Irnit was unusually small, and it may be 

 ifely aflirmed, that the peach trees have 

 arely suffered more severely than during the 

 ast winter. If we may venture to suggest a 

 Tactical remedy, not indeed effecting the 

 resent season, (tor the evils alToctiiig that are 

 rremediable, in a great degree,) but in regard 



to the health of peach trees in future years, it 

 , would be (he expediency of very bold pruning 

 and shortening of (he branches. We have 

 j been generally deficient in this respect. In all 

 1 other countries, the peach is much more severe- 

 ) ly pruned. Its growth is rapid — it bears prun- 

 jing as much as the willow ; and the practice of 

 ! [icrniilling it to grow, till there is only a small 

 I tuft of live wood at the lop, cannot be "too much 

 j condemned. 



I The frost of May Glh of course operated 

 more severely in some places than in others. I 

 will stale its general efTecls. 



It killed all the shools of asparagus above 

 ground — early potatoes and squashes — it in- 

 jured cabbage plants, and put them back at 

 least fourteen days — it killed the shoots of the 

 butternut trees so as to destroy the fruit — of 

 course it injured all other tender shoots and 

 [)lants. It is said that one gardener who sup- 

 plies the market cslimalod his loss at six hundred 

 dollars, but this may be exaggerated. Potatoes 

 and early corn recover by new shools, and as 

 the effect was very general, and all suffered 

 alike, the chief consequence will be, that vege- 

 tables will come to market a little later. Still 

 the loss to early gardens, and active, intelligent 

 men, is great, because the late sown seeds will 

 overtake those early sown, and the special 

 rewards of superior industry and enterprise will 

 thus be lost. 



The comparison of this season with the few 

 past seasons will now stand as follows. 

 The cherry opened lis Jirst blossoms. 



In 1817, May'eth— 1818, May 17th, 



1810, May 6th— 1820, May 2d, 



IBii, May 9th— 1822, May 1st, 



1323, May 7th— 1824, May 1st, 



The pear opened its first blossoms. 



In 1817, May 7lh— 1818, May 241h, 

 1819, May 17th— 1820, M.iy Pth, 



1821, May 13th— 1822, May 5th, 



1823, May 13tli— 1824, May 4th, 

 ^sparasus first cut, 



"in '1820, May 1st— 1821, May 9th, 



1822, May 1st— 1823, May 5th, 

 182}, April 28th. 



%/lpples Jirst opened their flowers. 



In 1820, May I'oth— 1821, May 13th, 

 1822, May 9th— 1823, May 19th, 



1824, May 10th. 



On the whole, therefore, the season, though 

 unusually early at the opening of it, has been 

 retarded, and the apple trees are not at this day, 

 the 20th May, more generally open, than in 

 rather later seasons. 



The prospect of grass crops is certainly 

 uncommonly good, and that of apples rather 

 more than an average, though not equal to the 

 summer of 1822. Ihe verdure has not been in 

 any degree affected by the frosts, and it would 

 seem to be too late to apprehend injury from 

 droughts. The great complaint seems to be of 

 a superabundant moisture, and a deficiencv of 

 heat. A FARMER. 



Roxbury, May 28, 1824. 



Mr. Hale, — The Frost on Wednesday morn- 

 ing last was not so severe as that on the 6th 

 instant. It did not affect the shoots of perfect 

 trees, or stiffen the soil — but it was far more 

 extensively injurious to market gardeners. 



It very generally killed squashes, cucumbers 

 and melon vines — potatoes, a second time — ear- 

 ly corn and beans. It is difficult to calculate 

 the extent of the loss, but it must bare been 



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considerable to those who supply the Boslou 

 market, and must enhance the price of all the 

 articles which are sent early to market. 



Peas were not atl'ccted— but the very cold 

 weather of the last ten days will retard Iheni 

 very much. There is great danger that cher- 

 ries will fall unripe — and some hazard, that the 

 pears will suffer. I have no fears about the 

 apples, unless this severe weather should con- 

 tinue. It is to be hoped that the country at 

 large will not suffer, as the distant firmcrs plant 

 later than we do. Those will be the most fortu- 

 nate, who planted latest. y\ F.\RMEH. 



It is very hard upon our enterprising market 

 farmers who have been nearly three months 

 employed with their hot beds in bringing for- 

 ward early vegetables, to see Ihe whole cut off 

 in a few hours. 



Graphic Kekidoscope. — An invention of great 

 importance in the arts, and particularly in bank 

 note engraving, has lalely boon perfected h\ 

 Mr. William J. Stone, of Washington, by which 

 an endless variety of figures can be produced, 

 in a manner that we believe to be inimitable. 

 W^e cannot give the reader a belter idea of the 

 peculiar powers of this maclwne, than to com- 

 pare it to a Kaleidoscope, forming combinations 

 of the most beautiful figures that can be imagin- 

 ed. — They are formed of one continued line, 

 crossing and entangling themselves in the rich- 

 est variety. 



This apparatus is composed of two cylinders, 

 on the surface of which levers are attached, with 

 moveable fulcrums, and, as Ihe cylinders pass 

 and repass each other, they shift the fulcrnms 

 in the evolutions, which give motion to another 

 lever of singular construction, and to which a 

 chisel is attached for culling the figure. Noth- 

 ing that we are acquainted wilh, in the whole 

 circle of of the arts, presents such a formidable 

 obstacle to forgery ; and we are assured, by 

 the inventor himself, that no two machines of 

 this description can evtr produce the same 

 work. 



Here, then, it is probable, is the disideratum 

 so long sought for by the Bank of England, and 

 for which so tempting a premium has been 

 offered. The inventor, we are told, is so confi- 

 dent of the utility of liis discovery, that he in- 

 tends to repair to London, ibr the purpose of 

 submitting it for inspection in that metropolis. 

 [ (Vash. Gaz. 



A beautiful Arabian. — Lt. Parker of the United 

 Slates Navy, who arrived a few days since in 

 the Constitution, brought with him from the 

 Mediterranean a full-blooded Arabian colt, 

 which he jobtained at Tripoli, as a present for 

 Gen. Bogardus, of this city. He is the hand- 

 somest animal of the kind we have ever seen — 

 age 22 months — 14 hands high— proportions 

 perfect — body a mouse colour — legs black — 

 star in his forehead, hair soft and glossy as silk 

 — hoofs small and semi-transparent. He is ex- 

 tremely docile and playful, the sailors having 

 taught him on his passage to shake hands with 

 them. Immediately alter he was landed at 

 Brooklyn, a gentleman offered §500 for him, 

 which was of course refused, as he was intend- 

 ed as a present. A filly of the same description 

 is on her passage, ami the two will doubtless be 

 of use in iMiproving the breed of our horses. — 

 jV. Y. Stateftnan. 



