Vol. IX.— No 1. 



AND HORTICUTTURAL JOURNAL. 



PiTsiiiii, ill 1715, nil J which w.is cxlracicil iit his 

 (loath, ill 17.>j : "O'l Air i'orcivul <;ive.saii ticcoiiiit 

 of a burgt: burso tliut died in his Bixty^ecuiKl 

 year. 



Lii^hlning. — U ia ciii-ious ti> fiml that tho con- 

 diicliir or lightning nul, which so iiiaiiy men of 

 genius, Icai'iiiiig, iiiiil iiigjiiuiiy, have heen at tht- 

 pains to com|ileti', which ill fact lias ahvajs been 



of the hark of the jtMow pojilar, or AiiieriiMii 

 tnh|) tree, niatlc, with which the ^wellcil part wax 

 washed oflrn, a half jiiiit ;;ivi'n him to ilriiik every 

 half hour, and t!je hrniscil haik put on as a |iuiil- 

 tiee. — The pain soon ceased, the swelling sub- 

 sided, and the man got well. 



VALUE OF riMK. 



An Italian pliilosopher expressed in Iirs motto, 

 regarded as one of the proinlest trophies of j that ' time was his estate;' an estate which will 



science — was known nml eniphiyeil by a people 

 of no more refiiieil cnltivalion than tiie wild peas- 

 antry id" Loiiihardy. 'I'lie Alilje IJcrihollet, III his 

 work on tlie^elec.nicity of Meteors, describes a 

 practice used in eonie of the hasiioiis of the Cas- 

 tle of Diiiiio, on the, shores of the Adriatic, whieli 

 has existed froi;) lime iniinemnri I, and which is 

 literally neither more nor less than the process that 

 enabled Frai-khn to bring ilowii lightning from 

 tbc clouds. Ai! iron staff, it seems, was erected 

 OH the bastion of the casile during the siiniiiit'r, 

 mid it was part of the <|uty of the sentinel, when- 

 ever a storm llirealened, to raise an iron pointed 

 albi'rd towards this staff. If upon approach of 

 the hallierd, sparks were eniiited (which to the 



ndeed produce nothing without cnltivaiinn ; but 

 which will always ahunilaiiily repay the labors of 

 industry, and satisfy the most extensive ile.sires, if 

 no part of it be suffered t,i lie waste by iiegli'ience, 

 to be overrun with noxious jilaiils, or laid out for 

 show rather than use. 



To deslrai) insects thnt infest Peach Trees. 

 Take 2 lbs. soft soap, 2 lbs. of flour of siilphi 

 2 oz. of mix vomica, and a half gill of the oil of 

 turpentine; boil tlieni togetlier in S gallons of wa- 

 ter until re.ln.-ed to six, and set it aside for use. 

 Remove the ground around the tree unill the up- 

 per roots are left bare, clean it to the main branch- 



es, make the liquor milk warm, and with a soft 

 Erieniitic mind, would show that the stafT was, brush carefully ap|ly it to the body of the tree, 

 charged with electric^ity from a thiinrter cloud,) the! Let no one condeinn this prescription without giv- 



gentinel was made sure that a storm impended,! ing it u fair trial jVurristuwn Free Press. 



Olid he tolled a bell which sent forth the tidings 



of ilaiiger to the surrounding coiiniry. Nothing It is said that at Mulberry Grove, Leicester, Ms. 

 can be more delightfully amiable than the parent- j about 50,000 silk worms are iio%v at work. Mr 

 «l care of its subjects which this ini'-resting pro- 1 Abbi.lt has been active in introducing them. 



vision of the local governineiit exemplified. The 

 adinonishing sound of the bell was oln-yed like a 

 |ireternatiiral signal from the depth of the firma- 

 ment ; shepherds were seen luiriying over valleys 

 orgin;; their flncks from the exposed fields to 

 plai'.es of shelter. The fishing boats, with which 

 the co.nst of tlie Adriatic was generally studded, 

 forlhwiih began to crowd «.iil iin I m:ike for ihe 

 nearest port, vvbile many a supplication was put 

 up from many a gentle and devout heart on shore, 

 before some hallowed sb-iiie, for the safety of the 

 li.tle AcKt.— Monthly Rr.rieio. 



If you woiilil have the slate prosperous, yon 

 must make the men of principle, the [irincipal 

 men. 



MKOIIANICS. 

 If we look round within the circle of our no- 

 qiiaiutance, we shall find that many of our most 

 respectable <-itizeii3 are mechanics. Several of 

 the first inerchauts in this lity were once mechan- 

 ics, many of onr proli-ssinnal men were in youth 

 meidianics. Several of our most di.stingiiished 

 legislators, philosnjdiers and statesmen, were also 

 once mecbanicH. How did they rise-tr their pre.<- 

 enl eminence? It was by the cultivation of ilieir 

 minds in useful knowlediC, by feeling a proper 

 respect for themselves wbi. h led them to fi 

 re;;nlar, industrious .and frugal haldts, and thus 

 have they secured the respect and confideine of 

 llieir employers, and risen to the afBiienee and 

 respectability which they now enjoy. The same 

 ]iath of honor and nsefiilnefls is opened to every 

 person in onr happy republic ; and we hope thai 

 these examples will stimulate every mechanic 

 among 118 to imitate th^se examples, that they ma 

 become, as they deserve, respected for their worth j*^'''c'" distinguishes a man Iroin a beast. — IFm. 



In France there are few soups or sauces made 

 without a portion of sorrel ; and so much is it es- 

 teemed in that country, that they take the greate.st 

 care to have a store preserved l<)r winter use. It 

 is a common saving among the French, that a 

 good housewife is known by her pots of sorrel. 



In the vegetable ulaikets, as well as at tbedoors 

 of the green-groiers in Paris, the picking of sorri 

 is as common as the shelling of peas in Loudon 



The value of ihe silk manufacture of Great Brit 

 ian is reckoned at .^45,000,000, and gives support 

 to 600,000 .souls. — Yet she impnrts all the raw 

 material, and her iiianiifnctiirers have hitherto been 

 obliged to pay a duty of one dollir per pound oii 

 that raw material. The wages of the -.vorkinen 

 emploved in itsdiffereiit branches amount to $15,- 

 000,000. 



A strong deroclion of wormwood is said to be 

 a perfi-ct cure Pir the delirium tremens, to wbii h 

 drunkards who suddenly leave off the use of ar- 

 dent spirits are so liable. — Portland y^rgtis. 



Drunkenness. — All excess is ill ; hut drunken- 

 ne.ss is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dis- 

 mounts the mind, niid unmans men. It reveals 

 secrets, is quarrelsome, la.-civious, impiiilent, ilai 

 gerous, and m;id. In fine, he who is driu'k is not 

 a mail ; because be is, so long, void of reason. 



and usefulness. — A'. Y. Even. Jour, 



A CURE FOR THE BITE OF A SVAKE. 



Mr James Johnson, of Pikeville, Md. states 

 that Inst summer, a black man was bitten upon 

 the finger in the dark, by a snake snp|io3ed to be 

 a Copperhead. His arm swelled to twice its or- 

 dinary size. A physician bad a strong decoction 



Penn. 



L/iw. — Jews ruin themselves at their passover 

 the Moors at their marriage-, and the Christians in 

 their law-suits. — Spanish Proverbs. 



Qualifications.-- Five ihiiigs are requisite to 

 a goo I officer. Ability, clean liands, despuleli, 

 paiieuce and imparliHliiy. — /rnt. Penn. 



UOSTON, PRIDAV, JULY 93, 1830. 



From the National /Egia 



PEAR TREES. 

 Koine three or four years since a disease appear- 

 ed on pear trees, which from the appearaiic<; as- 

 sumed after the attack, was called the Jire blif^ht. 

 Some insisted that the rapid decay of the branch- 

 es of ap]iiirently healthy trees, was occtisioiied 

 by tiK'ir being girdled by a small bug which eats 

 its way in the snp wood nearly or quite round ibo 

 limb, that this bug was not more than one tenth of 

 an inch in length, and various other particulars. 



Others urged that it vvas a new disease among 

 fruit trees and probably arose from a change of 

 the sap, eflfecied by the powerful rays of the dim- 

 mer sun operating upon an unusually luxuriant 

 growth of new wo<id, that the sap became sour or 

 its (pialities materially changed. 



Communications sn|iportiiig these two oppo.site 

 theories appeared, and the writers on both sides 

 fier much disciission remained satisfied of the 

 correctness of their differeut theories. 



riie writer of this, in order to satisfy himself, 

 examined a nuiiiher of limbs affected with the fire 

 blight, some of which were more than three feet 

 in length ; he separated the limbs from the parent 

 tree, so close to the boily as to take a piece oltha 

 hark from the trunk, then carefully split ihe l.mbs 

 from end to end, keeping the split as near tho 

 centre of Ihe limb as possible, and for most of >ha 

 length ill the pith. He then minutely and thor- 

 ou>;lily examined the halves of the limbihusprcpar- 

 ed with a good compound microscope, (its niagiiily- 

 ing power about ten degrees,) and was not able to 

 liscover the slightest irace <if a perforation mode 

 by any hug or insect in either of ihe pieces. 



Ill order to bo more sure of the fact, he ugaiit 

 divided the halves of the limb into two cpial loii- 

 gitiidiiial sections, and subjected the fresh sides 

 thus exposed to the test of the microscope, still 

 no appearence <if the work of an insect lOiild be 

 discovered. It vvas evident that the cause of thid 

 decay of the limbs was somewhere in tlieiiisclves, 

 for the limbs examined wire in that part next to 

 the trunk of the trees in a still flourishing coiulilioo, 

 the extremes for near half the leng:l; were dead, 

 and the limbs were taken otf close to the wood of 

 the trunk. If it vvas the work of lings or insecta 

 that caused this premature decay, the part eat niiis^ 

 have extended nearly or quite round the limbs bc- 

 Ibro they woulil perish for want of the ueee.>-Bary 

 supply of sap, Hy the result of the investigaiioi) 

 it appears that if any bugs or insects were in Ihe 

 limbs at all, their path could not have extended 

 round one quarter part of the circumferencK of 

 the limb, and of course coulil not have cut off so 

 iiiucli of Ihe supply of sup as to injure the limb. 



The bark of the limbs vvas all taken oft", niiil 

 the sdbiirnum and bark both rarcfiKiy examined 

 by the eye, and with the microscope ; here seem- 

 ed to be the seat of the disease, the alburnum was 

 at the small ends of the limbs black and di.scolor- 

 ed for half their le'nglh towards Ihe trunk of iha 

 tree; this discoloration did not extend equally 

 round the trunk, but would on one side perhaps, 

 be an inch in advance <if its opposite. 



The writer does not undertake to assign n cause 

 for the fire blight, but mcri'ly says, that from a 

 minute and careful examination, lie is Well ^at•s• 

 lied that iu the limbs he exainined it never tvas 



