Vol. IX.— No. 48. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



379 



Ming hot liouscs, or viiiories, or iiulceil nny 

 ler houses. 



Where hot water is used, stenin is iinnecessn- 

 ; — the moisture of tlie lioiise is siitticiont wilh- 

 t being excessive, as it is with sieaiii apparatus ; 

 i it has this advaiitaire over it — if your slciim 

 jaratus he connected with the (iirnace that heats 

 ir flue, all phints in the house will, during its 

 ;ration, he perCeetly wet, — this, wliile the liouse 

 warm, may do no harm — but so soon as the fire 

 s out tlie air l)Ci'omcs chilled, while your plants 

 still- wet, which e.\|ioses them to he injured 

 ch more than if they were dry. — Now with 

 water, although the nir of the house is not 

 , it is not icet as in the steaming process, and 

 going down of the fire, or its total e.vtingiiish- 

 nt, does not expose your plants to get injured. 



have written too much I fear on this subject 

 the patience of my readers, and must there- 

 close it by subscribing myself 

 Your obedient servant, 



Samuel G. Perkins. 



tesolvej, That the committee on a garden of 

 Timent and cemetery be instructed to petition 

 Legislature for an act to enable the Society 

 old real estate, for a garden and cemetery, 

 en. Stephen Van Rensselaer was elected an 

 irary member: and Joseph R. Van Zandt, Esq. 

 Ibany, Wni. Shaw of New York, Judge Strong 

 ochester, corresponding members. Adjourned 

 aturday next. 



Ilorliciillural Hall, ) 

 Saturday, June ) I, tSJl, ! 

 f R U I T S . 



■RAWEERRiES. — A bo.1 of Very large and superi- 

 eens' Seedling,' presented by Mr D. Haggerston, 

 8 Charlestown vineyard. This splendid speci- 

 of this excellent variety, excited great admira- 



ibox of very fine Pine Apple, from Hon. H. A. S. 

 > Iborn. 



box of large Mulberry, and another of Seed- 



, raised from seed of the same kind, from MrN. 



ey, Waltham. 



Dox of large and fine Strawberries, presumed to 



; ' Chili,' from Z. Cook, Jr. Esq. 



basket of large and fine Wilmot, from Mr S. 



:er, Roxbury. 



specimen of White Alpine, without runners, 

 V^Mr E. Vose, Dorchester. 



Bse last were raised from seed received by the 

 JC ty from M. Vilmorin, of Paris, very highly per- 

 il 1, and bid fair to become a valuable variety. 

 1 o small and beautiful silver netted Melons were 

 ■s itod by Mr Thomas Brewer, of Roxbury. 

 F e Early Cabbages and Cauliflowers were exhi- 

 ; by Mr Thomas Leonard, gardener to E. Her- 

 • erby, Esq., of Salem. 



NOTICE. 



Aitated meeting of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 a Society will be held on Saturday next, at the 

 iiy's Room, at 11 o'clock, by adjournment. 



R. L. EMMONS, Secretary. 



From Ihe American Farmer. 



ENCH PREPARATION OF COFFEE. 



Smith — In all tliat concerns the table, the 

 h far excel all other nations. Their dishes 

 ivory, palatable, soluble, and wholesome. 



ed your receipt for making coffee in the 

 h mode, though the ground coffee be wet into 



and kept in a glazed vessel over night, before 



the morning ; but you have omitted two ini- 

 JOlJt particulars which I will supply — one I deri- 



m the published letters of Mr Carter, of 



rt 



NowVork, who lately travelled in France, and tli 

 other from n gentleman who had resided in 

 French family which came to this country from St 

 Domingo. Mr Carter says, the French aild boiled 

 milk to their coffee, which gives it a mellowness 

 not to be imparted by cold milk or cream ; and my 

 other information is, that the French sweeten their 

 coffee with sugar candy, or sometiines with what 

 is about the same thing, with clarified syrup, not 

 yet reduced to a state of crystallization. The pro- 

 cess for making either o( these is sufficiently simple, 

 but as the last has abridged labor, and many con- 

 veniences to recommend it,I will speak only of that. 

 An egg with its shell is beat up to n froth and add- 

 ed to two or three quai'ts of water in a bell-metal 

 kettle — from eight to twelve pounds of sugar 

 (either brown or white) is added to this, (I am told 

 a few glasses of lime water is a useful addition, but 

 I have not tried it,) and it is simmered and scum- 

 med over a bark or coal fire, until clarified and re- 

 duced to a syrup of the proper consistency, when 

 it is put up for use. Besides for coffee, this syrup 

 is also excellent for fritters, puddings, &c, if a 

 little Cogniac is added to it. I have tried all — the 

 strained coffee, the boiled milk, and the clarified 

 sugar, and commend the whole. 



CODSIN Tabitha. 



Mines and Minerals. — During our return from 

 Montpelier week before last, we spent a leisure 

 half hour in visiting a mine just opened in the 

 northeast corner of Braintree. Some specimens 

 which we brought away proved, on analysis, to be 

 composed of Iron, Sulphur and Arsenic; with, 

 possibly, a slight and unimportant admixture of 

 other metals. The vein or bed, we could not de- 

 termiie which it is, is known to he at least a mile 

 in length. An abundance of elegant specimens can 

 be easily procured. 



An interesting locality of sulphurets has been 

 opened in Vershire. It is about three miles from 

 Post Mills Village, and about five miles north from 

 ihe copperas works in Strafford, and nearly in a 

 range with the vein wrought at that place. Of 

 three specimens given us for examination last win- 

 ter, one was pyritous copper, containing 18a per 

 ;ent of copper ; another was a magnetic snlplui- 

 ret of iron ; and the third was sulphuret of iron, 

 with an extra charge of iron. This last ore is not 

 nentioned by Cleaveland ; nor could any informa 

 ■.ion concerning it he found in the books in this 

 Village, beyond the fact that Hauy mentions its ex- 

 istence. — Probably the copper at this mine varies 

 lonsiderably in its richness. In what proportion 

 the several ores exist, we are not informed. Their 

 qjantity is abundant, and their situation extreme- 

 ly favorable for working. 



About five miles nearly northwest from this, in 

 Coriaih, about 2 miles south from the meeting 

 house in that town, is a locality, from which we 

 have seen what appeared to be fragments of very 

 heauiful crystals of oxid of Titanium — several va- 

 rieties. We think the spot wortliy of the atten- 

 tion «f any mineralogist passing that way. Sien- 

 ite is said to be abundant and beautiful in its imrae- 

 diatevicinity. — Windsor, Vt. Chronicle. 



coverablo, and not the slightest |)article of copper 

 in green Tea, as vulgar i)rejudice will have it. 

 The injurious effects of Tea, if any may bo 

 ascribed to the heated state in which it is drank. — 



Geneseu Fannir. 



Spontaneous C'oinhustion. — On Tuesday last, a 

 noon, a small quantity of rye straw took fire at the 

 McLean Asylum, in Charlestown. The fire was 

 discovered immediately and extinguished in 4 or 5 

 minutes, the damage not exceeding five dollars. 

 The straw, as usual, had been emptied from beds 

 into a bin adjacent to the straw house, both of which 

 are detached from all other buildings. The bin is 

 8 feet by 5 feet, open at lop, exposed to the direct 

 rays of the sun from II to 1 o'clock. The straw 

 had been wet by recent rains, was two feet deep, 

 and very compact. The whole mass was hot down 

 to the bottom of it. It is improbable that sparks 

 had fallen upon the straw from a neighboring, 

 though distant chinuiey, as the wind at that time 

 would liave carried them in a contrary direction. 

 Daily Mvertiser. 



Management of Poultry. — Break shells of oys- 

 ters and clams to about the size of grains of corn, 

 or smaller, and place them where your barn-fowls 

 can have constant access. They will eat of this, 

 and it greatly assists in forming the shell of the 

 egg. To insure success in the raising of poultry, 

 the newest laid eggs should be gathered with the 

 utmost care, to avoiil any small break or fracture of 

 the shell ; the setting hens should be each in a 

 barrel or box by itself, so that they can be cover- 

 ed up in order that they may sit undisturbed. 

 Once a day and that in the morning, they should 

 be gently lifted off their nests and fed, and the 

 moment they return, be again covered. They will 

 in two or three mornings, become quite habituated 

 to this order, and almost every egg put under them 

 will produce a chick. The feed of chickens, and 

 more especially ducks and turkeys, should be In- 

 dian meal, ground coarse, and mixed with sow 

 milk. 



T^A. — The present yearly consumption of this 

 plan^in Great Britianis 20,000,000 lbs ; in 1716 

 it wis only 800,000 lbs. The reason why the 

 goutor stone are unknown in China, is ascribed to 

 the aniversal use of this beverage. From analyti- 

 cal experimets, made some time since on green and 

 blade Tea, there were no deleterious qualities dis- 



Simple means of purifying water. — It is not .so 

 generally known as it ought to be, that pounded 

 alum possesses the property of purifying water. 

 A large table spoonful of pulverised alum, sprink- 

 led into a hogshead of water, (the water stirred 

 round at the lime) will after the lapse of a few 

 hours, by precipitating to the bottom the impure 

 particles so purify it, that it will be found to pos- 

 sess nearly all the freshness and clearness of the 

 finest spring water. A pailful containing four gal- 

 lons, may be purified with a single tea spoonful. 



GOOSEBRRY BCSHES. 



A gentleman who has for several years protec- 

 ted his gooseberry bushes from the disease or insect, 

 which is so destructive to this fine fruit, informs 

 us, that the disease (which he thinks is an insect) 

 originates in a kind of moss, which is observable in 

 spots on the stock and branches of the bush, and 

 that whenever he finds it on them, he immediately 

 cuts off the limb. He has left with us several 

 pieces of the bush with the moss on them, in 

 which he entertains no doubt the egg of the insect 

 is deposited. Since he began cutting off these in- 

 fected limbs, he has had abundance of fine goose- 

 berries, which he could seldom obtain before. 

 It would be well to try the experiment at least.— 

 American Farmer. 



