Vol. IX.— No. 4l. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



323 



Beamy of Kent, kitchtn, nutumii, and winter. 

 Blenlieini |ii|i|>in, dessert aiiil kitchen, au- 



iunni, 2S, Pom. .M. 

 Bearlu'tiiwell Seedling, iless., winter and 

 sprinit, 82 do. 

 Coiiiisli Gillyflower, dess., winter and spring, 



140 do. 

 Golden Harvey, dessert, winter and spring, 



39 do. 

 llawth.ornden, kitchen, Aug. 34 do. 

 Kerry Pippin, dessert, Aug. Sept. 107 do. 

 , SlinsliuH'sCrnl), iiVf/ieii, winter. 



Aslin, dessert, Sept. 5 do. 

 . Ribston pippin, D. aiirf A"., winter, 146 do. 

 Der. Quarendian, (sack,) dessert, Aug. Sept. 



94 do. 

 Scarlet Nonpareil, dessert, W'inter and spring, 



S7 do. 

 Gravenstein, D. and K., autumn, 98 do. 



Received from Germany. 

 Alfisston, kilcheyi (very large) winter and 



spring. 

 Diiclie.«s of Oldenburg, dess. Sept. Oct. 

 King of Pippins, rf. and k. Oct. Pom. M.177. 

 Dowiiton (the eldest progeny of the old 



goMen) dessert, winter, do. 113. 

 hall be happy to receive from the Society any 

 3 or cuttings of new or valuable plants. 

 Very respectfullj', 



Your obedient servant, 



Jesse Bcel. 

 N. De.*.rbors, 



I'res. Mass. Holt. Sociely, 



lie repeated acts of liberality, and the kind atten- 

 of Mr Buel claim the gratitude of the So- 

 . That intelligent Horticulturist, and distill- 

 led patron of the various and extensive braii- 

 of rural economy, has not only done much 

 vance the taste and interests of gardening and 

 ing in the state of New York ; but, with com- 

 Bable zeal he extends his beneficence toall parts 

 3 Union. His own grounds illustrate hisprac- 

 skill and our |iublic journals are often enriched 

 s scientific communications, or lucid exposi- 

 of the interesting experiments, which he is 

 nually making iu the numerous departments 

 orticulture and Agriculture. 



Respectfully submitted by 



H. A. S. Dearborn, 



•solved. That the ;ipple scions presented by 



Buel, Esq. he distributed among.the mem 



•« ^f tlie Society, ou Saturday next, at twelve 



k. 



INSECTS IN FOWLS, 

 le following curious fact is mentioned by \lr 

 ivorth, in a communication on the cleanliness 

 limals. — (Journal Royal Institution. JVo. II.) 

 (ing one day along the shore of Holy island, 

 le coast of Northumberland, I disturbed an 

 ilored sanderling (Calidris islandica, Steph.) 



flew heedlessly, and as if injured. On shoot- 

 he bird, I found that it was covered with 

 n, more e&pecially about the heird; so much 

 at the poor thing must have fallen a victim 

 ir tornienting ravages ; on further examination 

 id that it had lost one of its legs, so that it 

 ■cm its incapability to rid itself of these in- 



that their extraordinary increase was to be 



ited. Poultry (the same naturalist remarks,) 



run about in stony or paved yards, wear 



the point of their claw's by friction and dig- 



ging, which renders them unfit to pcMiclrate their 

 coating of feathers; they are, therefore, more 

 covered with vermin, and iu consequence more 

 sickly than fowls from the country.' — Gen. Farmer. 



ASPARAGUS. 



I think an error |)revails in the method ordina- 

 rily adopted in cultivating this delicious vegetable. 

 The object is to grow a long blanched stock ; 

 which, to bo sure, is inviting to the superficial 

 buyers — liut at the table is found stringy, tough, 

 and bitter. The roots must He deep and tlie growth 

 be comparatively slow ; my roots have but a su- 

 perficial covering of earth. Their growth is early 

 and rapid : and as I cut at the surface, the grass is 

 tender, succulent and well flavored, and the whole 

 of it eatable. 1 cover my beds in winter with 

 manure, but rake it off and fork the ground in 

 the spring. J. B. 



Mbany JVursery, Dec. 1830. lb. 



Sick Peach Trees. — It was mentioned some 

 time since by a correspondent in the papers of 

 this city, that certain facts 'had lately cotne to his 

 knowledge, which were stated, inducing the be- 

 lief, that powdered charcoal strewed about the 

 roots of peach trees, would be a great preserva- 

 tive against disease, produced by insects, worms, 

 iVc. The Boston Courier, in a recent notice of 

 this subject, corroborates the above opinion, by 

 his own experience : and adds that, trees planted 

 in burnt land are universally healthy and free from 

 worms at the root. 



Mr Samuel Martin, through the medium of 

 the Philadelphia Evening Post, ofl^ers to give ,f 10 

 if 20 more are added, as a reward for the best 

 essay on the usefulness of having at all seminaries 

 for the education of females, as many silk-worms 

 raised, as will be necessary to teach them the course 

 to be pursued in maturing them. He believes 

 that this will be the best means of difliusing know- 

 ledge on this subject. 



Horseradish. — One drachm of the fresh-scraped 

 root of this plant, infused with four ounces of 

 water iu a close vessel for eight hours, and made 

 into a syrup with double its weight of sugar, is 

 an improved recipe for removing hoarseness. A 

 tea spoonful of this has often proved suddenly ef- 

 fectual. 



Transparent door plates of colored glass are 

 in use in Philiadelphia, by physicians and others, 

 which, lighted by the entry lamp, are convenient 

 at night. 



The son of a dentist, same city, died from swal- 

 lowing gum elastic (India rubber) at school. The 

 tutor liad discovered that several of the pupils were 

 chewing it, and threatened to chastise those who 

 did so, when this lad having a piece in his mouth, 

 swallowed to avoid detection. It swelled within 

 him and caused death in a few hours. 



Ingenious. — An ingenrous plan, says an English 

 Review, of increasing the power of the voice has 

 been carried into execution at Atterclifl^e Church, 

 Sheffield. It is effected by erecting a concave 

 sounding board, to act as a reflector behind the 

 reading desk and i)ulpit, with the speaker's voice 

 near the focus of the concave. The eflfect of this 

 reflector, it is said, increases the power of the 

 voice five times beyond the ordinary volume, so 

 that it can be heard in the most distant corner of 

 the church. 



Seed Corn. — Last year several persons in this 

 viciniiy, tried the experiment of soaking seed 

 corn ill copperas water before planting, to protect 

 it from t'lc attacks of the worms and crows. The 

 experiment in all cases, wo believe was successful ; 

 and we mention it to call the attention of our 

 readers to so imporiant a fact. — Gre^vjield Gaz. 



The Shawueetown (Illinois) paper, notices the 

 death of a very promising young man named Wood, 

 occasioned by taking through mistake a dose of 

 Saltpetre instead of Salt, 



Iu New Orleans, anthracite coal, instead of 

 wood is used for baking of bricks. The bricks 

 are said to be more thoroughly burnt, and far better 

 than those made in brick kilns, where wood is 

 used. 



Danl. Brown, Esq. of Portsmouth, N. H. lias re- 

 cently put in operation a manufactory of potato 

 starch, which has already used 15,000 bushels of 

 potatoes, and it is tliought will use 40,000 bush-, 

 before 1832. A ready market is found for it at 

 the factories. 



The ' Skeleton of an individual of the human 

 race, measuring nearly ten feet in length,' has 

 liecn discovered in the Western country — so says 

 a letter from Missouri to Dr Mitchell of New 

 York. 



Temperance. — Bishoj) Doyle, of the Roman 

 Catholic Church in Ireland, has addressed an en- 

 ergetic appeal in favor of the cause of Temperance, 

 in the form of a letter to the ' Hibernian Temper- 

 ance Society.' He says of drunkenness, I call it the 

 root of all ((vil, for verily, I do not know of any 

 vice which daeS not spring out of drunkenness or 

 derive increase from it. 



Population of the principal cities of the United States, 

 above 5000 souls, according to the census of 1830 : 

 New York, 213,470 



riiiUdelphia, 101,412 



Uallimore, 80,519 



Boslnn 4- Chiirlcstown. 70,164 

 Orlean 



Cliarleslnii, 



Cinclnnali, 



Albany., 



(Vasliington, 



Providence, 



Pittsburg, 



Richmond, 



Uocliesler. 



30,589 

 26,513 

 24,216 

 18,833 

 17,823 

 17.365 

 16,085 



The above table, is from the Courier des Etats Unis. — 

 The populaliun of New Orleans is about 50,000, and that 

 of Rochester between 10 and 12,000, but we cannot at the 

 present moment state either with accuracy. 



Mr Caleb A. Ore, boot and shoemaker of Phila- 

 delphia, has discovered a new method of manufac- 

 turing boots and shoes, for which he is about to ob- 

 tain a patent. The invention consists in manufac- 

 turing those articles with but one seam, that of the 

 boots in the heel — of the shoes over the instep. 



In the family of Mrs Stilwell, Gravesend, N. Y.a 

 colored women, who is 102 years old, has lived since 

 she was 28. She is industrious, milks the cows, and 

 does the washing for a family of ten persons, and 

 will not suffer others to assist her. — Her faculties 

 are good, particularly her eye sight. 



