vol,. XX. NO. I«. 



A N D H C) R T I C U L T U R A L REGIS T E R 



13.1 



■or BiilVnlo berry ; I'liysnlis I'oruviann, .'1 kind:* ; u 

 new fruit from Calcutta, South .Atnerica and tliu 

 Stato of Michigan. 



Frarm Pnincis R. Digolow, McHford : Grapes — 

 habelln. 



.'tpplfs — Rambour Franc ; .Mi>nstrous Pippin ; 

 Red nnd (Jroen Sweet. 



Pear.i — Spnniali (iood Christian ; St. Michael. 



From Benj. V. French, llraintrec : Pears — Flo- 



rcHo ; Hoiirro Remain ; Jaininette ; l,ong Green ; 



Louij Bonne ; Beurro Van Mono ; BulTuni ; Beurre 



pris ; .'> kinds unkmnvn. 



.Ipplr.1 — I")iitch Coillir); Canada Reiiioi:e ; Yel- 

 low Bellflowcr; Jericho; Monstrous Pippin; Rug 

 jrles : .M.>orc's Red Winter; French's Sweet ; Gar 

 diner's Striped ; Gardiner's Sweet ; fi varieties 

 nanios unknown. 



From .■\. D. WilliamfS Roxbury : .Ipplu — Por- 

 ter; Ramshorn ; LaHy ; Gravenslein. 



Peara — Bartlflt ; n. kind unknown. 

 Grapes — Black Hambur;:. 



From Dr. Burnet, Soutliboro' : Penr$ — Konrick 

 of Van Mons ; Burnet; Henrietta of Van Mons. 



.Ipples — Seedling. 



From Walter Cornel, Milton, by Jos. Arnold, Jr. 

 Grapes — Black Hambur?. 



From John Hovey, Ro.xbriry : Grapes — Sweet- 

 water (open culture.) 



Peaches — Red Rareripe. 



Apples — Pumpkin Sweet. 



Pears — name unknown. 



From S. Sweetscr, Woburn : Peaches — Martin 

 Rareripe. 



From SjmucI Walker, Roxbury : Pears — Cap- 

 sheaf; Bnrtlelt ; Foodante Bergamet, of Van Mons ; 

 kind naxic unknown. 



From Elijah Vose, Dorchester : Pfors — Napo- 

 leon; Marie Louise ; Urbaniste ; Duchesse d' An- 

 gouleme ; Buffuin; I)ix ; Bezy de la Alotte ; Long 

 Green ; W'arden; Gushing; Pope's Quaker; Roi 

 de Wirtemberg. 



Apples — Gravenstein; Boxford ; Summer Pear- 

 main ; Hawthorndean ; Lady Haley's Nonesuch ; 

 Large Red Sweeting. 



From N. .N. Dyer, Abington : Apples — Hightop 

 Sweeting; 'i Stedliags. 



From Dana Dowse, Brighton : Apples — Mon- 

 strous Pippin. 



From George Lee, West Cambridge : Apples — 

 Ribstone Pjppins; Swan's Sweeting. 



Pears — unknown. 



.^'tclariites — Elruge. 



Grapes — Native Perry. 



From J. Fisher, Brookline: Pears — Bartlett ; 

 Seckle; Sl Michael ; Andrews; Wilkinson; Roi 

 de Wirtemburg ; Passe Colmar; 1 unknown. 



From Nath'l Clapp, Dorchester: Pears — Bart- 

 lett ; Broca's Bergaraot. 



Peaches — Seedling ; Clingstones. 



From Edward W^inslow, Roxbury ; Pears — Roi 

 de Wirtemburg. 



Peach — Melacatune. 



From D. K. Wilder, Lancaster, by Mr Carter, 

 Boston : Apple, known as the Graft — large and 

 handsome. 



From S. R. Johnson, Charlestown : Grapes — 

 White Chasselaa — open culture. 



P. P. Spaulding, Chelmsford : Pears— St. Mi- 

 chael's ; unknown (French.) 



From James Vila, T.exington : Grapes — Black 

 Hamburg. 



From Hovey &. Co., Boston : Pears — Long 

 Green ; Autumn. 



I By Alix. Ahl.tnnun, fnii.i .Mr I'rait'r.. Wnt.-r- 



! town: Grapes — Black Ilainburg ; Sl. I'llurs ; lluy. 



I al Muscadine ; Sweetwater. 



j Prnrj — Bartlett. 



[ Vf<m Wni. Kurd, Newton: I'tars — Bartlett. 



1 App'.rs — Fall Iliirvey ; Cathead. 



From Stephen Fnuiicc, Jr., Roxbury : Grapes — 

 I White Chasselaa and Black Hamburg — both open 

 I culture. 



Peaches — Seedling — fine. 

 I From John A. Keiirick, Newton : Peaches — 

 Spring Grove ; Vnnzundt Superb. 



Apples — Bflldwin ; Hiyhtop Sweeting ; Hub- 

 bardston None.-suili. 



From Samuel Pliipps, Dori:hest«r : Pears — Bart- 

 lett, of groat siae anil beauty. 



From Frederic Tu lor, Nahant : PeucAe**— Win- 

 ship's. 



Pears — Bezy Vaet ; Wilkinson; Beurro Ranee; 

 Napoleon ; Brown ileurre ; Bleokor's Meadow 



From John Hill, West Caiubridge: Peaches — 

 Lemon Rareripes, a large quanlily, of delicious fla- 

 vor. 



From Amos Hill, West Cambridge: Apples — 

 Porter. 



From Edward Newberry, Brookline : Peaches — 

 a Inige ht.^ket of Jacque's Yellow. 



From N. D. Chase, Lynn : Peaches — Crawford's 

 Early. 



Vkoetables. 



From M. P. Wilder, Dorchester — White Car- 

 rots. 



From S. Downer, Dorchester — Missouri Mar- 

 row S(iuash. 



From Win. Mcintosh, Roxbury — Chenango Po- 

 tatoes. 



Prom S. Sweetser, Woburn — Tomatoes. 



From Elijah Voso, Dorchester — Lima Beans. 



From Francis R. Bigelow, Medford — Cherry 

 Tomatoes. 



From J. L. L. F. Warren, Brighton — Wiite Al- 

 trinolinm Carrots ; Sugar Beet; Yellow, Crimson 

 and Scarlet Tomatoes. 



From Mr Everett, Wrentham — Peach TomatoeB. 



From Otis Johnson, Lynn — Parsnips, Carrots 

 and Watermelons. 



From Marshal Wyman, Woburn — Tomatoes. 



From Josiali Lovett, 2d, Beverly — Beets, Car- 

 rots, &c. ; a groat variety. 



From A. D. Williams, Roxbury; Squashes, 

 Beets, Carrots, Purple Egg Plants. 



From John Hovey, Roxbury — Toir.atoes. 

 Per order, 



S. WALKER, Chairman. 



IMPROVEMENT OF POOR LANDS. 

 Another way of mending land, is what they call 

 n England, green dressing ; this is by sowing 

 buckwheat, oats or ryo, and when it is grown up 

 and is full of sap, they plow it in; iifter this, let it 

 lie till fully rotten, then plow again and sow your 

 wheat. I am told the Dutch people, on poor pine 

 plains, in this way, have fine crops of wheat; but 

 for green dressing, I should prefer above all, sow- 

 ing millet, on the account of the cheapness of seed- 

 ing the land ; the cost is but a trifle ; the stalk 

 and leaf growjng large, it must afford a good large 

 coat to turn in when plowed. Being once in Kent, 

 an old country farmer told me he had been in the 

 practice of green dressing ; he had plowed in green 

 oats ; it seemed to alter the color of tlie land ; it 

 looked much belter than the rest of the lot, which 



had not bein no .M'rvud. Thu farmer mini, tliiit he 

 could ruiiie land ur increoso the (trcngth tu a great 

 [ degreo in a few yeura, in the following manner : 

 , uflur his oalR worn liarveslcd, he added hoiiiO locd 

 I to iho scattered oats, plowed it in, at the end of 

 I Scpteiiilior plowed in the grcrii oat.", and »owed it 

 I with rye ; the next Hunimcr, when the ryo waa well 

 I grown and full of aap, plowed that in, at common 

 I sowing time; it would be fit to produce a hirgc 

 crop of wheat. All the cnkl of plowing and seed, 

 is not HO much os the cost of dung, carting and 

 [Spreading, if we can get it; birtthe difficulty il, it 

 j is not to be had upon any linns; there are very 

 few such bad hiisbandii as to sell their dung. 

 I Mr Edmund Quincy, of Bofiton, a gentleman of 

 learning and ingenuity, to whom I am indebted 

 for many useful hints and ob.'jcrvationg — infornii 

 ine, tliat having a son reaiding al Porlinore, in 

 England, the young gentleman writes, that some 

 farmers in that neighborhood are- entered into a 

 new practice, which is to sow their dry land which 

 is not fit for pasture, with rye, ond feed their sheep 

 upon it, so tliat it may not spindle' or grow op; 

 that this feed makes excellent .-rrtilton, and will 

 continue to grow from year to .<year, without any 

 tillage or resowiiig; he doth not say how long it 

 will continue : possibly the practice is so new that 

 they do not know themselves. ' 1 have obseryed 

 that where sheep are well kept, 'and remain upon, 

 the land night and day, the land will grow better. 

 As rye will endure the heat of a strong sun much 

 better than grass, 'tis seldom hurt with dfoughL 

 I suppose this may be of great service in our South- 

 ern Colonies, where the heat comes so fast that the 

 grass has not time to cover and shelter the roots 

 from the picrcin? rays of the sun. The advantage 

 of the grass growing up before there is a strong 

 heat is, that the grass gathers nnd preserves the 

 dews for tlic benefit of the roots: when dew falls 

 upon naked and un^lieltereJ land that is not plow- 

 ed, made soft, and so fitted to drink up and retain 

 the dews, '>r w3il clothed with grass, what falls in 

 the night is exhaled in the day, and thus the ground 

 is robbed of that which is tho chief riches.of the 

 atmosphere. 



If I understand it right, this being the state of 

 some of our Colonies, the ."vbove named method of 

 making artificial pa.'^turo with rye, may be of ad- 

 vantage to them, and of use tlso to ua where the 

 soil is dry. 



That wheat and rye bear drought much better 

 than gross, is an old observation preserved in one 

 of the English proverbs — 



" VVet May makes short corn and long hay. 

 " Dry May makes long corn and short hay." 

 As the old English proverbs contain truth and 

 good sense, founded on due observation and expe- 

 rience, 1 have a fondness for them. — Elliot's Es- 

 says, piiblishe-l in 17-17. 



FOUL MEADOW GRASS. 

 In a former essay, I mentioned the strange and 

 peculiar property of foul meadow grass, that it will 

 hold out to be in season for cutting, from the bo. 

 ginning of July till some time in October; this 1 

 wondered at, but viewing some of it attentively, I 

 think I have found the reason of it : when it w 

 grown about three feet high, it then falls down, but 

 doth not rot like other grass when lodged ; in a 

 little time after it is thus fallen down, at I'very joint 

 it puts forth a new branch : now to maintain this 

 young brood of succors, there must be a plentiful 

 course of sap conveyed up through the main stem, 



