VOL. XIV. NO. 3g. 



AND GARDKNER'S JOURNAL 



3)1 



iintry around Boston, in fact, a part of tlio city, 

 thus turning our cj'ms to the country, wc koop 

 adily in view the growth and prosperity of tliis 

 , of wliich we are justly proud." — Centinel. 



Krom the Esses Norlll Register. 

 Curious. — We suppose it is known to most of 

 our readers, tliat there is a hird ealled the Cross 



Singular Trek. — We are credibly informed 

 that there is now slaiidiiifj in the north part of 

 Haverstraw, an apple tree set out hy a Mr Te- 



ITEMS. 



Caulioti against Poisons. — Housekeepers should 

 cautious about usini; glazed earthen vessels for 

 ling confections, either preserved in acids, or 

 lie to undergo acetous fermentation. The lead 



eJ in the process of glazing is deadly poison, 

 lisengaged by the action of the acids, and 



Tuses itself through the entire contents of the 



ssel tVom which it is corroded. Many persons, 

 aware of this fact, preserve pickles and sweet- 



sats in glazed earthen jars, and from the dele- 

 ious change which the confections undergo, in 



nsequenee, lose their health, if not their lives, 

 thout ever suspecting the cause. 



Tomato Tt is said that the juice of the tomato 



le contains a most superb innate green coloring, 



ich is said to have been used as a dye, and may 



made of all the various shades of green, from 



dark to light pale green, and when mixed with 



ner colors, this green coloring is thought to have 



tronger basis than any other vegetable. 



Colton Jor Tooth-ache Among the best reme- 



s for tooth-ache, and swollen face, is cotton ; 

 t as much into the mouth as can conveniently 

 kept in, and in a few hours the pain and inflam- 

 ition will be gone, if the swollen ])art of the 

 e is covered with cotton, the swelling will soon 

 ppear. 



Vinegar in Cream Sir : The difficulty and 



••or frequently at_tending the churning of butter, 



me to try a variety of experiments ta ascertain 



method could he discovered for making butter 



■me quicker than the usual mode. After trying 



'•eral things, I found that by adding a table 



jonfull of good vinegar to four gallons of cream, 



lien put into the churn, I obtained butter in from 



•en to eight minutes. If this information will 



of any service to your subscribers, you are at 



lerty to publish it. — Far. and Mec. 



^Potato Balls. — A lady of our acquaintance re- 

 unmends the following preparation : Mix mashed 

 aatoes with the yolk of an egg — roll them into 

 Ills — flour them, or egg and bread crum them, 

 d fry them in clear drippings, or lard, or brown 

 m in a Dutch oven. 



To preserve Books. — A few drops of any per- 

 ned oil will secure libraries from the consiKning 

 s of mould and dumjj. Russian leather 

 )ich is perfumed with the tar of the birch tree, 

 ver moulders; and irierchants sufler large bales 

 this leather to remain in the Loudon doeks, 

 owing that it cannot sustain any injury from 

 rap. This manner of preserving books with 

 rfumed oil was known to the ancients. The 

 )mans used oil of cedar to preserve valuable 

 SS. Hence the expression used by Horace, 

 Digna cedro," meaning any work worthy of 

 ing anointed with cedar oil, or, in other words, 

 Drthy of bei ig preserved and remembered. — 

 reen. Gaz. 



To kill Rats or Crows. — Bruise half an ounce 

 IX vomica, and soak twentyfonr hours in warm 

 ater; then add four quarts corn, and soak it 

 <elve hours; then sow the corn on the grouud 

 imediately after planting. 



bill, on account of the fact, that the extremities of neyek upwards of thirty yars smce, and which 



its beak cross each other. It is an instance of j now exhibits the followmg singular ],henomena. 



defect of adaptation, as has been alleged bv those, I About twenty years smce and late m the fall, 



' who charge God foolishly.' The ingenuity and | after the leaves of other trees had Jallen_ to the 



research of Dr Paley even, did not enable him 



give a good and satisfactory answer this allega- 

 tion. It remained foranght we know to the con- 

 trary, for a naturalist in our own county, [Mr 

 Oakes of Ipswich,] to make the full discovery of 

 the use of such a formation of the beak of this 

 bird. We heard him iu a lecture give an account 

 somewhat like the following. Being out one day 

 in ques't of some new variety of bird, he shot at 

 one upon a pine tree and having broken its wing, 

 it fell into his possession, and proved to be the 

 cross-bill. He immediately resolved to find out 

 if possible, what was the substance on which it 

 fed, and the use of such peculiar conformation of 

 the mouth. On presenting to it various substan- 

 ces, he found it unable to pick them up, and 

 after many vain efforts to find a substance which 

 it could or would eat, lie almost despaired of suc- 

 ceeding, and feared the bird must die of starva- 

 tion. 



He suddenly bethought him however, that the 

 bird was found on a pijie tree. He brought 

 therefore some of the seeds of the pine, (i. e. burs 

 some four inches long, composed of scales,) and 

 laid them before the almost famished bird, when 

 immediately he put his peculiar apparatus into 

 successful operation, and gave indication that he 

 felt himself at home. He thrust his closed beak 

 between the scales, then Cfiened his mouth, so 

 that the scales were so far distended as to loosen 

 the real seed, which has a thin dry membrane 

 attached to it, to serve as a lying- to favor its wide 

 circulation. With his slimy tongue which stuck 

 to this membrane, he drew the seed into his 

 mouth, and then withdrew his beak. But how 

 should he swallow the seed with this husky mem- 

 brane attached to it ? This difficulty he remeved 

 in the following manner. — With much dexterity 

 he turned the seed so as to place the membrane 

 between the crossed part of his beak, which he 

 used as a pair of scissors, and trimmed his seed 

 to his own liking, and swallowed it. All this was 

 done with so much facility that he very soon sat- 

 isfied bis hunger. This one fact is worth a for- 

 tune to the naturalist, and demonstrates to vhe 

 humble believer in the Supreme Being, that it is 

 the height of presumption for any man to allege 

 that any thing is made in vainv 'Not a sparrow 

 fails to the ground without bis notice ;' not a 

 bird is fed without his all-wise provision for it. 



round, this tree put forth buds, and on the very 

 eve of winter appeared iu full bloom, with all the 



reen leaves, ihe full grown plossoins, the odour, 

 and beauty, and freshness of May upon it. Since 

 that time, but one half the branches of this tree 

 have borne each year ; that portion of the branche.'s 

 composing the south hall, bearing one year, and 

 those com|iosiiig the north, tlie next year, and 

 thus alternately changing from year to year. The 

 branches that do not bear, during the time of 

 their barrenness, appear entirely dead, but the 

 next season they revive again, and put forth their 

 blossoms, while the opposite branches, as hy pre- 

 concerted arrangement, take their place and seem- 

 ingly dwindle into decay. — JVorth River' Times. 



BusiNESS-^BusiNESs. — A gentleman just re- 

 turned from a commercial tour in the English 

 manufacturing districts, mentions to us, that at no 

 former period, or at least for many years, has 

 there been such briskness in nearly all the de- 

 partments of manufactures as at the present mo- 

 ment. Many of the manufacturers and|merchants 

 hive orders on hand which it would require 

 twelve months to execute. Some are literally 

 refusing orders for goods, and not sending out 

 their travellers, but trensacting business by letter. 

 A vast quantity of goods now preparing is for the 

 United States of America ; the stagnation of trade 

 in that country, caused by the agitation of the 

 Bank question, having been succeeded by a cor- 

 responding activity of all kinds of traffic. A mer- 

 chant the other day, received an order from Amer- 

 ica for £1,000 worth of nails, which he could get 

 no nail-manufacturer to begin executing sooner 

 than three mouths afterwards. Such accounts as 

 these are exceedingly gratifying, and we are glad 

 to say that a similar healthful demand is in oper- 

 ation for several of our Scotch manufactures. — 

 Scotchman. 



Profits of the White Ash. — A perso.n in 

 this town last season happening to pass p. white 

 ash tree that had just been felled for firewood, 

 took a fanry to it for sawing, and buying it very 

 cheap, carried two cuts to mill. He sawed them 

 up into two inch plank and carried them to New 

 Haven to market, and soli! them at the rate of §1 

 per thousand, board measure. The butt-log, very 

 clear stufl^, brought 14,40, and the next cut, about 

 S26, say $70 in the whole. Supposing we should 

 cultivate white ash trees, as well as locusts and 

 mulberries. — J^orth Hampton Gazette. 



The only Agricultural School in the United 

 States, is Rensselaer School, at Troy, in NewYork, 



Garlic. — The medical properties of garlic are 

 various. In dropsical complaints, asthmas and 

 agues, it is said to have been successfully used. 

 Some instances have occured, in deafness, of the 

 beneficial eff'c;cts of wrapping a clove of garlic in 

 muslin aaa putting it into the ear. As a medi- 

 cine internally taken, it is usually administered as. 

 a brtliis, or made into pills. Its smell is consid- 

 fefid an infallible remedy against vapors and as. 

 useful in nearly all nervous disorders to which 

 females are subject. An oil is sometimes pre- 

 pared from gaalic, which is so heavy as to sink m 

 water; but the virtues of this pungent vegetable- 

 are more perfectly and more readily extracted by 

 spirit of wine than in any other way, A syrup- 

 also is made from it. 



The juice of garlic is said to be the best and 

 strongest cement that can be adopted for broKem 

 glass and china, leaving little or no mark if i ised- 

 Wth care. Snails, worms, and the grubs or ',arVJe' 

 of bisects, as well as moles and, other vermi' j, maj" 

 ba <lriv en away by placing pnaparatious o f garhc- 

 itl or near their haunts. — Domestic Bnv jdoptdia-, 



Atte.Blion to decorum is one -of « ,he greatest 

 bu Iwar ks to female virtue. 



