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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



Feb. 4, 1S3L 



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BOSTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1831. 



Parisian populace are siifRciciitly cultivated not to 

 toucli either the hlossoiiis or the fruit oC trees thus 

 coufitled to their care for their advantage) the en- 

 tire atniosi)here would be that of the Island of 

 At the suggestion of many of our subscribers, St Michael: nor would ibis perfuming en masse 

 we contemplate publishing the New England Far- surpass other improvements of the age ; lightmg 

 mer, after tills week on Wednesday evening, so ' by gas for example. By the judicious distribution 

 that they can be packed and sent away by the , of orange trees, aud of other odoriferous flowers 

 mails of \Vedne3day night. By this arrangement shrubs and plants, or even by mignionette alone, the 

 a large jiroportion of our subscribers, living out of , air of any city might be rendered as odoriferous as 

 this State, who do not now receive their papers , that of a garden. When the many have once con- 

 till the beginning of the ensuing week after they are ^uered from the few what is necessary and con- 

 publislied", will receive them two, and in many | venient, they will then attenii)t what is agreeable 



and refined ; and with the knowledge of the 

 wonderful resources of nature and art, requisite 



cases three days earlier. 



LEGALIZING THE STUDY OF ANATOMY. 



We have received a long, elaborate aud very 

 able Report of the Committee oj the House of Repre- 

 sentatives on this subject, neatly printed in a pamph- 

 let of 118 pages, 8vo. A cursory perusal con- 

 vinces us that this document contains a large mass 

 of interesting matter — that it is ably written, and 

 displays an extent of research, and ability and 

 judgment in selecting and compiling worthy of 

 the importance of the topic it di,scusses. We 

 shall advert to this valuable document again as soon 

 as we can find roo n and leisure. — We under.stand 

 it is from the able pen of Johx B. Davis, Esq. of 

 this city. 



COLD WEATHER. 



TEltract of a letter from a si-ntleman, dated JnhnBtown, N. Y. 

 Jan. 21, 1331, to the Editor of theX. E. F.iriiier.] 

 While writing this, the thermometer stands (ex- 

 posed on the north side of the building) at /iccnf^- 

 two degrees helow zero ! Alas for my Altheas — 

 French Tamarisks, Chorchorus Japonicaand Mag- 

 nolias. This is much the greatest degree of cold 

 experienced here for many years past ; and here- 

 tofore I have not been able to keep any of the 

 above plants from freezing to the ground. Is there 

 np variety of the Althea that vvill withstand the 

 winter here ? If so I should like to know it. 



TRANSPLANTING. 

 All experiment of a novel and extraordinat; 

 description was undertaken at Derby last week, i 

 the transplantation of a tree of large dimension! 

 the Weeping'Ash, which has so long been the ad 

 iiiirtition of the public. This beautiful tree ha 

 been removed without sustaiuing any damage, t 

 the picturesque domains of Ciialsvvorth, where hi 

 Grace the Duke of Devonshire has selected a mot 

 appropriate situation for it in the noilh front c 

 his princely mansion. On wresting up the tie 

 with the well-adapted and powerful machine ap 

 plied for the purpose, it is calculated that the re 

 sistaiice of about (burtecn tons of soil, in which it 

 widely spreading roots were embedded, was ti 



to give them the sovereignty of society they will be overcome. The weight of the tree in the stats 



in which it has been conveyeil, a distance of iwen 

 tyeight miles, to its present situation, is understooi 

 to be from seven ta eight tons. One of the root 

 drawn lip had extended itself more than twenty 

 eight feet from the bole of the tree. 



succeed. 



CHINESE COW 



An English publication states that 'a Chinese 

 cow, now in England gives milk so very rich, 

 that one pint of it gives as much butter, (4 onncesj 

 as 7 pints of a Sussex cow's milk, both churned 

 immediately from the cow without being set for 

 cream. The Chinese cow is small and, says Mr 

 Young, the beef is superior in fatness, aud in but- 

 ter the superiority is as 1400 lbs. to 200 lbs. from 

 a very good coui:try cow.' This is such a superi- 

 ority in milk and beef as might make it an object 

 to the owners of American ships to China, to im- 

 jiort some of the stock which is native to that 

 country. 



We beg leave to call the attention of our readers 

 in the Western states to the advertisement of Mr 

 Parkhurst in this week's New England Farmer, 

 believing that he has begun an Establishment that 

 will result in great and permanent advantage to 

 their interests. He is thoroughly acquainted with 

 the business which he has now commenced at 

 Cincinnati ; and we happen to know that he has 

 taken out with him one of the most extensive and 

 valuable assortments of Seeds and Agricultural 

 Imidements ever shipped from Boston; comprising 

 uU the most esteemed and early varieties of veg- 

 etables anil valuable grasses ; and all the improve- 

 ments in the construction of ])loughs, hoes, and 

 other implements of daily use with the farmer, that 

 Yankee ingenuity has yet suggested. 



PERFUMING THE ATMOSPHERE. 



The conductors of the Gardener's Magazine ob- 

 .serve that whoever has walked in the orange or- 

 clKirdsat Nervi, knows that the quantity of orange 

 trees distributed in the Garden of the Tuilleries 

 if allowed to retain and expand their blossoms 

 wr>uld scent not only the air of the garden but of 

 halt' Paris. If there are any who deny this, we 

 ask them to account for the orange fragrance of 

 the air for miles around Genoa and Naples, both 

 by sea and land. If all the public gardens in Paris 

 were moderately stocked with orange trees and a 

 ievi distributed along the Boulevards (and the 



GARDENS. 



Mankind at the creation were placed in a gar- 

 den planted ' eastward in Eden,' containing not 

 only what was ' good for food,' but ' every tree 

 that is pleasant to (he sight' — a garden therefore 

 seems to be peculiarly adapted for the pure in taste 

 and innocent in life. It has been the fiivorite task 

 of the highest jioets to describe paradise ; and 

 even the least poetical of mankind retain so much 

 from the wreck of a better nature as to preserve a 

 love for gardens. The taste is manifested in vari- 

 ous ways, and he whose heritage includes no glebe, 

 has his plants in a vase, which are tended with 

 care, that he may have 



' A peep at nature, if he can no more.' 

 With a few exceptions, cities the most distin- 

 guished for refinement give the greatest support 

 to the cultivation of gardens ; yet there is none 

 open to the public (except the small one at Cam- 

 bridge) in the vicinity of Boston. If a person 

 would devote a hundred acres or less, within a 

 short distance of the city, to an ornamental garden 

 shaded with our best fruit trees and the hardy for- 

 eign plants, with a green house for such exotics 

 as shrink from frost — if the garden were diversi- 

 fied with wood, and lawn, and water, it woulil 

 be to the proprietor a better estate than ships or 

 spindles. The nursery department alone would 

 give a profit, which however would be the least 

 of the gains were the place made really attractive. 

 The man who will do this will gratify two tastes at 

 once ; one founded on the principle that leads 

 men to seek their own interest, and the other on 

 that which gives them pleasure to do a ^ kindness 

 and a service to others. — Tribune. 



A letter from New Orleans, dated 29tli Dec. 

 states — 'We have had a frost here which will cut 

 oft' the crop of sugars one fourth, say 20,000 hlids. 

 less than was expected two weeks ago. Other ac- 

 counts correspond with this. 



THE CHOLERA MORBUS. 



This fatal epidemic, having ravaged a large pow 

 tioii of Asia, is fast spreading into EurOjie. — Fear 

 are entertained, and not without reason, that it ma; 

 extend to America. Providence seems to have di 

 recte 1 that the human race, at stated periods, should 

 be visited with pestilence. The cholera moriiu 

 may succeed to the cfiice of the plague and tli 

 small pox. — Whether this disease be contagion 

 or not is disputed, and is of little moment: for cci, , 

 tain it is that it has been propagated by the move, 

 ment of large bodies of men from the infected dis j 

 ! tricts into those whence it had been unknown ^ 

 If Russia sliould ])r(isecute a war against France j 

 the pestilence which she will carry into westerly 

 Europe, will be more terrible than her arms ; am || 

 will, perhaps, greatly facilitate her designs of can J 

 quest. The following account of the progress o! ji 

 the cholera morbus is from the late French jiapers f 

 Cholera Morbus. — At a meeting of the Frcncl , 

 Institute, communications from various parts Q \ 

 the Russian Empire were made by M. Moreai \ 

 de Joannes, on the progress which the Cholen , 

 Morlius has made in that empire, to which M. dl , 

 Humboldt added some very curious facts, he hai , 

 obtained during his recent travels in Asiatic Russia 

 his statemen: began with its first appearance ir i 

 the Bombay army, in 1818, from whence in 1819 I 

 it sjiread to the Isle of France and Madagascar. 

 In ,1821 it appeared at Bussorah, from whence ill 

 spread by the Euphrates to Syria ; it diminishetl 

 ill violence for three years, although' it spread 

 along nearly the whole of the northern coasts of 

 Africa. In 1823 it a|ipeared on the borders o( 

 the Caspian Sea, and made dreadful ravages al 

 Astracan, spreading from thence into Central Asia, 

 whence it was supposed to have been brought by 

 the caravans, whicli generally consist of three oi 

 four thousand men and camels, but this s\\^ 

 position, M. de Humboldt proves by facts, could 

 not have been the case. In 1829 it broke out on 

 the Persian frontiers of the Russian Empire, from 

 whence it spreail into Georgia, where in one city 

 of 30,000 inhabitants only 8,000 escaped. 



On the 31st July, 1830, it again appeared at As- 

 tracan, where 21, 000 (lersons died, from whence 

 it exteniled into the country of the Don Cossacks, 

 and arrived at Moscow, having spreail over 46,500 

 square leagues of country. The official bulletin 

 published at Moscow states, that from the 28tb 

 September to the 11th October, one in three of 



