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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



MARCH 9, 18"6. 



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BOSTON. WEDNESDAY EVEiNING, MARCH 9, 1S3G. 



FARMER'S -WORK. 



Cut, split and pile wood for vour fire-places and oven, 

 till you have at least as much as you will use for one 

 year from this time. We have no very strong ohjections 

 to your using a quantity of green wood in winter for back 

 logs and fore sticks, in open fire-places, unless you have 

 stone, or iron substitutes for said articles. But to u.se 

 green wood in summer for cooking is monstrous; and 

 if we ever come to codify domestic economy we shall 

 make it criminal. We shall place the orni.'ision to pro 

 vide wood for summer's use, during or before the montli 

 of March, under the head laches, in English, laziness; 

 and authorize your better half to impeach you in a cur- 

 taiji lecture, and inflict a dreadful sort of punishment, 

 which the learned style objurgation, but vulgar folks call 

 scolding ! ! 



This is about, if not precisely, the time to cut scions 

 for grafting. They should be taken just as the buds be- 

 gin to swell, and placed wilh their lower ends in the 

 ground in some dry part of a cellar till wanted. They 

 should be cut from the extremities of the branches of the 

 most thrifty and the best bearing trees; sever the scion 

 from the trees in the old wood, leaving enough, including 

 the bulb which separates the two last years' growth, af- 

 ter being prepared for insertion to form the wedge. 



It is high time for us cultivators to be making prepara- 

 tions to take the field furnished with every implement 

 necessary to force the stubborn soil to yield the tribute 

 due to agricultural skill and industry. Every tool and 

 implement which will be wanted for use the ensuing 

 season, should be critically inspected, thoroughly repair- 

 ed, and such new ones of the best quality added as will, 

 probably, be needed when we may have less leisure to 

 select and procure tlicm. None but a rich farmer can 

 afford to use poor tools, and if a wealthy cultivator un- 

 dertakes to carry on farming with dull, unhandy, ill- 

 constructed implements, he is in a fair way to become as 

 poor as he is foolish and improvident. The signs of a 

 poor farmer, and the indications o? a good farmer, are at 

 least as legible in his farming tools as in the appearance 

 of his stock, his crop or his farm buildings. Covering 

 over wooden as well as iron tools frequently with oil or 

 grease will have a tendency to preserve them. 



Take a critical survey of your fences, repair every 

 breach, and keep your cattle from your wood lot with as 

 much care as you would from your corn field. As soon 

 as the snow disappears you will please to parade your 

 pastures, with a company of boys, by way of light infan- 

 try, and beat about and spread evenly those petty manure 

 heaps, which, without such spreading, would be of little 

 or no service. 



Grain, or roots fur fattening cattle, or swine, will go 

 about one third farther, if steamed or boiled, than if used 

 raw ; and when it is wished to cook food for cattle in 

 small quantities, it may be done evenings over a kitchen 

 fire. 



Attend to drains, water courses, &c. By a little at- 

 tention to directing the water which runs from highways, 

 barn yards, &c. lands, in many cases and locations, may 

 be greatly fertilized. Directions given by Hon. Mr Lin- 

 coln, concluded in this day's paper, on the subject of irri- 

 gation, should, he read with attention by every cultivator, 

 and many may derive practical benefits from his obser- 

 vations. 



Mr Noah Frisbie, of Litchfield, killed a hog, weighing 

 .682 lbs. ; sold for $79 38 ; age 2 years and 4 months. 



SIASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAl, SOCIETY. 



Satiirilay, March 5. 



A stated quarterly meeting of the Society was held at 

 their rooms, this day, 12 o'clock, M. : the President in 

 the chair. 



A letter was read from Mr William Kenrick, accom. 

 panying a present of books. 



On motion of Mr Richards, the thanks of the Society 

 were voted to Mr Kenrick, for his gratifying donation. 



A letter was read from Mr Walsh, of Lansingburgh, 

 N. Y., a correspondent of the Society. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Flowers stated, 

 that he took ch:ir2e of the seeds referred to in MrWalsh s 

 letter, in order to make a catalogue of them, but owing 

 to some difficulties, being unable to make a satisfactory 

 one, they had been distributed to the members for culti- 

 vation, and the results were to be reported. 



Several gentlemen acknowledged a leceipt of the seeds, 

 and intended liereafler to report upon the same. 



On motion of Mr Davis, the thanks of the Society were 

 voted to Mr Walsh, and a reply directed. 



Mr French moved that measures be taken to promote 

 an interchange of scions, and that a committee be raised 

 for that purpose. After debate, the subject was post- 

 poned. 



A letter was received from Messrs Hovey, with a copy 

 of the American Gardener's Magazine for the year 1835, 

 conducted by them, and also with the numbers of the 

 present year. 



Here business was suspended. Adjourned to Satur- 

 day next, 12, M. 



EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 



Saturday, March 5. 

 The Messrs Hovey, and M. S. Sweetser, of Cam- 

 bridgeport, decorated our tables, this morning, with spe- 

 cimens of flowers from their respective green houses 

 The specimens from Messrs Hovey consisted of twelve 

 varieties of Camellia japonica, viz : — 

 Camellia japonica Elegans, 

 " " Variegata, 



" " Venosa,* 



" " Eximia (of the French), 



, " '■ Anemonefiora alba, 



** " Corallina, 



" " Elegantissima,* 



" " Splendens, 



*' " (iueen of Brazil, 



" " Insignis, 



" " Double White, 



" " name unknown. 



The more we see of this class of flowers, the more 

 closely do we cling to our " first love," the old double 

 ichite. The Eximia of the French is a fine flower, but it 

 will not bear a comparison with the flower of the same 

 name of the English. Corallina, so far as'color con- 

 tributes to the beauty of a flower, has but few rivals. 

 Elegantissima is, and will remain, in our mind's eye for 

 future inspection. So far as the Messrs Hovey have 

 unmasked their stock of fine things, we have reason to 

 look forward with the expectation of having our friends 

 often pleased, and our own eyes gratified, with their ex- 

 hibitions. 



Among other pretty things in Mr .Sweetser's bnuquet, 

 which was much and deservedly admired, we noticed 

 Rhododendron hybridum ; Eup;itorium odoratum ; Aza- 

 lea hybrida; Wclianthus major; Clarkia elegans; 0.x 

 alls; Iris chinensis; Y'ellow tea rose ; Cyclamen, &c. 

 For the Committee. 



Samuel Walker. 



(From llie Daily Advertiser.) 

 MOVNT AUBURN. 



Mr Editor : — The Trustees of Mount Auburn beg leave 

 through your paper, to present lo those who have an in- 

 terest in that institution, the Annual Report of their 

 Treasurer ; and they avail themselves of this opportunity 

 to correct the erroneous impression, which ihey are in- 

 formed is entertained by some persons, that this institu- 

 tion is a private speculation, got up and maintained for 

 the pecuniary benefit of its projectors. Koihing can be 

 further from the truth. The land was originally pur-. 

 chased by one hundred subscribers, who conveyed it to 

 the corporation without any additional consideration. 

 The soil is sold in small lots, usually containing about 

 three hundred square feet, and is conveyed to the pur- 

 chaser, subject to a few restrictions and regulations im- 

 posed alike on all for the common benefit; and each 

 person who takes a conveyance of a lot, becomes there- 

 by a member of ihe corporation, and entitled to all its: 

 privileges. But it is not one of these privileges to makt- 

 money. Every dollar realized by the Corporation from 

 the sales of land, except what is paid over to the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, (being one fourth amount 

 sales less $1,400, allowed for expenses,) is, by the very 

 terms of the charter, to be forever devoted and applied 

 to the preservation, improvement, embellishnienl, and 

 enlargement of the Cemetery, and the payment of its in- 

 cidental expenses. The money is thus applied, not only 

 for the benefit of the proprietors, who have a direct in- 

 terest in the improvement of the grounds, but also in 

 some measure for the public benefit — fiir surely the 

 public do derive benefit from the preservation and era* 

 bellishment of a place so beautiful, and consecrated to so* 

 sacred a use. 



The institution is no longer an experiment. Its sue 

 cess is placed beyond all doubts : and the favor which i 

 has found in our communitv, is producing many of i 

 similar character in other places, which will, it is hoped 

 remove from our people the imputation, that we are care 

 less of the associations connected with the dead. 



While, therefore, the proprietors feel a just confidenci 

 in the success which has altended their efforts, and i 

 strong desire that many others should avail themselve 

 of the benefit resulting from them, they perceive the lani 

 is taken up wilh a rapidity, which in view ofthepresen 

 expenses and future wants of the Cemetery, require 

 that the price of the lots should be increased ; and the; 

 invite the attention of the public to the advertisement o 

 their Secretary on this subject. 



Joseph Storv, President. 

 Samuel Appleton, 

 George Bond, 

 Jacob Bigelow, 

 Benjamin A. Gould, 

 Charles Brown, 

 Charles P. Curtis, 

 Joseph P. Bradley, 

 James Read. 



*New varieties, and the first lime specimens have been ex- 

 ibited at the Society's rooms. 



Railway Travelling. — Dr Lardner, in the new edi- 

 tion of his work on the " The Sleam Engine," expressei 

 a conviction, that on the line from London to Liverpool 

 express coaches will go at the rate of fifly miles an hoof 

 and that even a hundred is within the limits of mechan- 

 ical probability. 



Execution. — Wednesday, 16th inst. is assigned for th 

 Execution of Russell and Crockett, convicted of settiDI 

 fire in this city, some time since. 



