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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



JUNK 15, 183C. 



BOSTON. VVEDNKSDAY EVENING, JUNE 15, I83G. 



FARMERS' AWO GARDENERS' WORK. FOR 

 JUNK. 



VVaterisg Pla.nts, &c — It w.is remarked by Mr 

 Loudon lliat" If the season be at all dry, vegetables will 

 stand in need of artificial watering. Many kitchen crops 

 are lost or produce a very infeiior quality for want ol 

 watering; lettuce and cabbages are often hard ind stringy; 

 turnips and radishes do not swell, onions decay, &c. Co- 

 pious waterings in the evening, during the dry seasons 

 would produce that fullness and suceulency, which we 

 find in the vegetables produced in the low countries, and 

 in lh2 Marsh Gardens at Paris, and in fiitgland fit the 

 beginning and latter end of the season. The vegetables 

 brought to the London market from the Neat's houses 

 and other adjoining gardens, where the important article 

 of watering is munh more intended to Ihiin in private 

 country gardens, may be adduced as affording pioof of 

 the advantage of this practice. 



Vegetables that are newly transplanted, as they have 

 their roots more or lessdiminishedjor otherwise injured, 

 often need watering, until they have taken new roots. 

 But this should be done with caution. If a dry season 

 follow the transplanting let them be watered if they ap- 

 pear to droop, only at evenings and cloudy weather, and 

 with water which has been exposed one day at least to 

 the shining of ihc sun; not with water directly from a 

 will or cold spring as it will give a chill to the plants.- 

 Only a small rpiantity should be applied at once; that it 

 may have an effect siniil.Tr tolliat of a refreshing rain; 

 for water applied plentifully nr forcibly, or falling from 

 a considerable height is apt lo wash away the finest of 

 the mould from the roots, or make little cavities about 

 them, which admit too muih air. 



In dry season, whole gardens sometimes need water- 

 in"; and in doing it lite above mentioned precautions 

 .should b(! regirded. It is of very great convenience to 

 have a piece of standing water or a brook or rivulet near 

 at hand by which water miy be furnished in sufficient 

 abundance without a great degree of labor. 



Cut Worm — A friend informs us that he succeeded 

 in destroying cut worms by watering ground infested 

 by thein with biine in which bams had been preserved, 

 diltiled with a large proportion of water. In his first 

 application he destroyed some of his vegetables, as well 

 as the worms in con-oquence of using the brine without 

 diluting it sufficiently. In succeeding trials he attained 

 his object, and destroyed the worm without injuring the 

 vegetables. 



Bees — We have received a pamphlet of 73 pages 

 written by John M. Weeks of Salisbury, Vt. entitled " an 

 easy metlicd of managing Bees in the most profitable 

 manner to their owner, with infallible rules to prevent 

 their destruction by the Moth." We have not yet had 

 lime to give the work a thorough perusal, but from a 

 cursory view are inclined to think favorably of the work. 

 We will give further notice of this useful tract as soon 

 as we can command leisure for that purpose, 

 • P«ts are selling in Fanueil Hall Market fiir $6 00 per 

 bushel. Stravri)erric3 75 cts. to 1 dollar a box. 



.inolher Silk Periodical.— A semimonthly paper has 

 been issued from the pre.<s of R. Cook, Keenc, N. JI. 

 The price is one dollar a year. 



Several prepared articles, favors from correspondents, 

 &c. postponed for want of room lo our next. 



Protection of Plants. — We hear complaints all around , 

 of the destruction made by the cut worm among cab- 

 bages, and other plants. 



Our plan is to wrap the stem of the plant with a bit of 

 paper. The pressure of the earth will keep the wrap- 

 per in place, and the worm finding it not convenient to 

 gel over the top of the wrapper, and not being sufficient- 

 ly learned and intellectual to breakfast on a bit of news- 

 paper, he is compelled to iibandon the enterprize,and 

 liko a disappointed politician, retires in despair, and 

 hides himself in the earth as near the plant as lie can 

 wmvenientiy get ; where, it you rise early, you may nnu 

 and make him a prisoner. — Indiana Farmer, 



PKiCTicil, IliJirs. — The, following items relating to 

 rural ec»)nnniy are derived from i;onversations which -we 

 liave from time to time eiuered into with sundry practi- 

 cal farmers. 



Tar for Sheep. — A gentleman who keeps a large flock 

 of sheep says that during the season of grazing be gives 

 Ills 6lie(p t, at the rate uf a gill a day to every twenty 

 sheep, lie puts the tar in troughs, sprinkles a little fiire 

 f;aU over it, and the 8hee[i consume it with eagerness. 

 This preserves them from worms in the head, promote 

 tlieir general health, and. is thought tu be a specifi 

 against the rot. 



Botts in Horses. — A traveller informs us that the 

 stage drivers on the routes leading from Albany to the 

 western parts oftlie Slate of New York, in giving water 

 (O their horses on tlie road, mix a little wood ashes with 

 their drink, which xUey say, efl'eetually preserves tlicni 

 against butts. 



Thistles. — It is said that rf thistles are cut after they 

 Hro in full bloom an inch or two atove the ground they 

 will be more easily subdued than those cut at the s ime 

 time with the hoe l>olfiw the surfice In the former case 

 the remaining stub of the thistla gels full of water, which 

 jesting on the crown of the plant injures it so far as to 

 Mccasion a few feeble shoots only lo rise, whilst in the 



c-.V.CT ftrcutf iind luxuriant s'ems were produced. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL.TUUAI. SOCIETY. 



.Saturday, June 11, M.ii. 



FKUITS. 



Early Virginia Strawberry, large and very fine, a Box, 

 and also a fine specimen of Russelt Peariiiain, from JMi 

 Geo. Newhall, Dorchester. 



EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 



Bouquets, containing many choice flowers were pre- 

 sented by the Messrs Winship; Messrs Hovey ; Col. 

 Wilder; Messrs Jno. A. Kenrick and S. Walker. 



The Scotch roses of the Messrs Winship, and the yel- 

 low roses, and peonies of Mr Kenrick, were fine speci 

 mens. In Col. Wildei's bouquet we noticed the follow- 

 ing 0owers, viZ! — 



Pancralium Amancoes, Alslromeria pelegrina, Alstro- 

 nuTia Psitt.icina, Als romeiia Var., Calceolaria Grand 

 Sultan, Calceolaria 2 varieties from seed. . 



Gladiolus Colvilli, Marica cerulea. Plumbago cerulea, 

 Tigrida pavonia, Nierembcrgia plienioea, Maurandin 

 Barclayana. i?o«s— Tiiuiiiph of Bidlwiller, Lady By- 

 rim, Bell.idonna, Saiiguinea, f)i iible while rocket. Ver- 

 bena malindres, Tartarian Honeysuckle, Ornilhogaluin 

 varieties, Melrosideros Saligna. 



Messrs Hovey and S. Walker exhibited in addition lo 

 their bouquets.several specimens of seedlin.: Viola grand- 

 flora. For the Cominiltec, 

 S. WALKER. 

 The members of the Flower Committee arc requested 

 to meet at their halj, on Saturday, I8lh inst , at II 

 o'clock, to make choice of a Chairman agreeably to a 

 vote of the Society of the 4lli iiisr. 



A gentleman having occasion to manure a certain por- 

 tion of land lately, the carts bearing the manure passed 

 through a field that appeared one entire bed of co.mmon 

 thistles. It was observed that wherever the cart went 

 the thistles were entirely destroyed. He then rolled 

 the v\'hole field wilh a cast iron roller in the latter end 

 of May, and twice in the beginning of June. This field 

 has been perfeclly free from thistles ever since. The 

 expense was ouly three shillings per acre. Fern and 

 closefoot have been exterminated in the same way with 

 most complete success — Scottish paper. 



Geological. ■•• James G. Percival and Charles U. Shep- 

 herd, Esqrs of New Haven, have been appointed by the 

 Governor, the C\)mmiltee lo make a Geological Survey 

 of this State nnder certain resolves of the last General 

 Assembly, making an appropriation for this purpose. 

 They are to proceed on the work immediately.— -Wew 

 Haven Herald. 



The Journeymen Tailors in New York, convicted of 

 unlawful combination, were sentenced on Siturday. 

 The President of the Society was fined $150, the neX( 

 officer $100, and each of the others $.">0. No serious 

 disturbances took place, although a mob was feiired.-- 

 Daihj Herald. 



Instiyict of Plants.-- Dr. Hancock says, if a vessel of 

 water is placed wiihin six inches of a cucumber vine, that 

 in 24 hours time, will alter the direction of its branches, 

 and not stop till it crmies in contact with ihe water. And 

 if a pole is placed at a lonsideruble distance from an un- 

 supported vine, the branches of which are proceeding in 

 a contrary direction from that towards the pole, the vine 

 will in a short time alter its course arid not stop till it 

 clings around the pole. But the same vine will careful- 

 ly avoid attaching iiself to low vegetables neartT to it, 

 as the cabbage *S:c. Dr. Darwin gives several instan- 

 ces of the instinct of plants. 



Stair Carpets should always have a slip of paper put 

 unler them, at and over the edge of every step, which 

 is the part where they first wear out, in order to lessen 

 ^he fricticm of the carpets against the boards beneaih. 

 The strips should be, wiliiin an inch or two, as limg as 

 the carpet is wide, and about four or five inches in 

 breadth, so as to Ilea little distance upon each step This 

 simple plan, so easy of execution, will, we know, pre 

 servo a stair carpet half as long again as it would last 

 without the strips of paper.— Picton Bee 



Legisltilitte Bimnty onSilk.-.-A gentleman writes to 

 us as follows: " Will you have the goodness to inform 

 me through the next Farmer, if it was the intention of 

 our Legislature to pay t.he bounty on silk to Joint stock 

 companies, who are not incorporated or to any copart- 

 ners in the growing and manufacturing .silk, ctmsisting 

 of two or more persojis, oroni}' to individual growers ''? 



The 6th section of the act referred to is as fidlows : 

 " The provisions of this act shall not apply to bodies 

 politic and corporate." We have noi hud time to inves- 

 tigate this subject, but as at present advised aie of 

 op.nion that no company, firm or association would bo 

 considered as a body politic, or be alTected by this sec- 

 liim, which had not been incorporated by a special act 

 of the Legislature f"r that purpose. 



