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•^'-f^TlCULTUHAL REGISTER, 



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HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 

 la meeting of the Socicly holdon April 30th — 

 id, Tliat Iho fiillowinj letter be publiilied in 



Eii);Iand Farmer. 

 journcU to iSitiirtJay, May l-tili, at 1 1 o'clock. 

 EBKN WIGUT, Jiec. Sic'rt/. 



[cOPT.] 



Routn, (fVavce.) Dec. 20M, 1841. 

 E. VosE. rreaidoiit of tJio M. II. S. : 

 — I havo received tlia loiter nhicli you did 



honor to address to me the 22d August, 

 irliicli was delivered to me by Mr Uosson. 

 h«ve also received a letter from Mr RobL 

 iiie, Corresponding Secretary, advising mo 

 had been elected an honorary member of 

 ociety, and at the same time enclosing my 

 a. I assure you tliat I highly appreciate the 

 vhich has been conferred upon nic, and I 

 u to accept my grateful acknowlcdgemenla 

 same, and also to present them to the Soci- 



which I now feel it an honor to belong. 

 eve me, sir, I shall always be happy of oc- 

 to do whatever may be in my power to ren- 

 : communications more and more agreeable. 

 TO noticed by the Report of iho transactions 



honorable Society for the years 1837 and 

 rhich you had the goodness to send me, how 

 ou have been occupied with horticulture 

 ^ extent of your eflbrls to hasten its progress. 

 ire, gentlemen, in this course, and the whole 

 rill t)>*e to you its benedictions ; for we do 

 'Or for tho benefit of a single nation, but for 

 td in general. Every people now iinder- 

 hal the well-being of one is reflected upon 

 Distance may separate men, but the same 

 90t unites and guides their efToris — the fe- 

 nd happiness of a'l. I have read with much 

 t the remarks of Air J. L. Russell on this 

 , for which, as also tho numbers of the N. E. 

 , which you were good enough to send me, 

 ou to accept my thanks. I shall at all 

 eel gratified for the receipt of similar publi- 



sliould he be with you, it would be still lBtcr,'w)iich 

 delrrmined mo to write you njain. 



I beg you to accept the assurances of ii>y most 

 distinguished consideration. 



I am your obcd't and very hiimlilu scrv't, 



TO U CARD. 



Honorary mcmbrrii/'lhe Tltirlicullural Stirlelij of nosinn, 



of Paris, nf l.itgr, of .'Intwrri,, i,-c. S,( , of ihr Free 



.•iueiely of Emululion of the Department of the iMtcet 



Stine, mtiutir »f tK* A'ormaridt Jisaocialion Roueri, 



For Ihe N. E. Funner. 



them occorou.J '° <l'reclions, and appl.rd the com- 

 position to keep out i..? ""■ »"'' wnter, and puD 

 some of the composition on Iho ends of the scions,, 

 to keep thcni from drying up, I have seldom known 

 one to fail. 



Very respectfully, 



ALLEN COFFIN. 

 Etlgartown, Jlpril 2fi, 1842. 



From iliii Fuiiiiir's Joiiriiul. 



THE SQUASII-VINE DESTROYER— FRUIT 

 TREES, &.C. 



.Ai.i.E.N PirT.N*M, Esq. — Dear Sir — In answer to 

 my inquiries, I was pleased to see in your excellent 

 paper of Feb. l(i, IH-l-J, a very particular descrip- 

 tion of the squash-vine destroyer, by T. VV. Harris, 

 Esq. When we learn the particular habits of de- 

 structive insects, we may have some hope of coun- 

 teracting their ravages. 



This season I think I shall take about four shin- 

 gles to each hill of squashes, and cover them well 

 with eoul tar., By laying the shingles around the 

 hills, I hope the strong odor arising therefrom may 

 prevent the moths from laying their eggs on the 

 vines ; if so, by continuing the practice a few 

 years, they may possibly take their departure for- 

 ever. 



As sea-water is thought to be destructive to the 

 grub (or maggot) ut the roots of cabbages, I think 

 I shall try it this season. 



From my earliest recollections, it has been said, 

 "it is impossible to raise good fruit in this village, 

 because there is so much salt in the atmosphere." 

 We are surrounded with the sea. After a gale of 



re had the honor of presenting you as an 



sly 

 u will accept the appointment, and that it 



the means of drawing closer the ties by 

 Dor two Societies are now connected. I 



herewith your diploma, 

 .•e sent you some of my catalogues, from 



beg you to select, should there be any 

 osired by your Society. It will give me 

 e to receive a list of the plants of your coun- 

 nerican seeds and plants of open culture.) 



you desire seeds from here, be good enough 

 le know it, and they shall be forwarded, 

 he present parcel is somewhat voluminous, 

 ^ent it through the medium of your legation 

 but you can forward letters to me by the 

 packets, to my address, (" Mons. Tougard, 



nt de la Sociele d'horticulture a Rouen me 



wind, the grass, leaves, &.c. taste very s.i!t. I 



think it is ten years this spring since I concluded 



to see if it was possible to raise good fruit. 1 



bought a few apple, cherry, plum, quince and pear 



trees. 'J'here was a man here who professed much 



skill in selling out trees : I employed him. Soon 



he had all but one apple tree set out. On that one 



I thought I would try an experiment. I dug a hole 



.««„(,<,, «r „.., o -;». k IK ; three feet deep and ten feet in diameter. I had 



member ot our Society, by which you .. ■ , , , ., , , ,,,,„,, 



, , . , r. a ■ ,^ the subsoil red earth removed, and the ho e fied 



unanimously elected. It flatters itself ■,, , . ., , ,, '"""="""=""<=" 



with sods, rich earth, die., till within nine inches of 



ihe top of llie ground. I then placed tlie tree in 

 the hole, carefully extending every root and fibre, 

 and filled all the vacant places under the roots. I 

 then drew in the earth until the tree was as deep 

 in the earth as it originally grew. Tlie ground is 

 a black sandy loam, and would bear a middling 

 crop of corn. This spring I measured the tree 

 which I measured the tree which I set out, and 

 found the circumference to be twenty five iuclies, 

 and it bore as much fruit as all my oilier nineteen 

 apple trees. The largest of my other trees was 

 aevtnleen inches. If I had paid a man ten dollars 

 apiece, to set out niy trees in a proper manner, I 

 doubt not I should in the end be a great gainer. 



I planted some large potatoes, cut in four or five 

 pieces, and some small >vh<ile ones, in alternate 

 niniers.") Should the parcel be somewhat rows. Tlie weight of each was equal. When 

 ou may send it to the address of " .Mons. | they were dug, the large produced at the rate of 

 etNego, Marchard de Vire, Ruedela Cinque I 191 lbs. 'I'lie small, 102 lbs. On an average, the 

 re" — to be forwarded to me, and that friend potatoes from the large, were four times as Isr^e 

 the needful at the custom house. as those from the small ones. 



nearly a year since I addressed you a let- j I have budded plum, cherry and peaches, many 

 b I friend who proposed to visit Boston, and I i of them failed. But when I have taken short sci- 

 1 earned that he had not been there, and that ona, with no mure than two buds, and inserted 



WHOLE I'OTATOra vs. KNDS. 

 Mil Cole — Dear Sir — Lnst season I made seve- 

 I rnl experiments on the potato, in order to ascertain 

 ' as far as practicable, whether the theory is really 

 ; and philoiophically based, which inculcates the su- 

 i perior value and productiveness of whole tubers 

 when planted for seed, over mere sectional cuttings 

 or " seed ends." 



The soil selected for these experiments was a 

 bed of rich loam, resting upon a substratum of sand 

 so light and porous in its texture as easily to ad- 

 mit the infiltration of water frmii above as well as 

 tho ascent of moisture from below. Upon this 

 soil, which was accurately furrowed, I first planted 

 eight hills of Rohans, putting one tuber only, of 

 the size of a hen's eg^, in each hill. The next 

 row was planted with slips, upon each :)f which 

 there were eight eyes ; third, with slips having 

 but two eyes, and the fourth with pieces containing 

 but one eye each. The covering was performed 

 througliout alike, and the after culture was, so far 

 as I can recollect, in every respect the same. At 

 first, tlie whole potatogs were much more promising 

 than the rest, but as the season advanced, the hills 

 in which I had deposited the slips and nuttings, 

 gradually come on, and at tlie harvest were equally 

 as large and vigorous, tj all oppcarance, as tliosc 

 which had sprung from tiie potato which had been 

 planted whole. TlSfe p oiiucc of each of the rows 

 was nearly the same jn-weight, 'although there was 

 a very obvious difference as regarded size-: thos« 

 produced from the whole potatoes being much lar- 

 ger and fairer, and those from ihe ciitlings, with a 

 single eye, being the Uast, but most ntwierous ot 

 all. My other experiments were attended by simi- 

 lar results, or indeed so nearly similar as not to 

 require n recapitulation in detail. 



Yours, in haste, H. D. WHITE. 



Jfimlhav,, Me., March II, 1842. 



SOAKING CORN TO FEED HORSES. 



One of the best farmers in the vicinity of Balti- 

 more, saves one third of-liis corn, by soaking it be- 

 fore he feeds it to his horses. He places two hogs, 

 heads in his cellar, secure from the frost, and fills 

 them with ears of corn, and pours on water to cover 

 it. When well soaked, he feeds it to his horses, 

 and when one cask is empty, he fills it again and 

 feeds from the other. liy the time one is empty, 

 the corn in the other is well soaked. The cobs 

 are so well soaked that the horses eat the whole, 

 and they require only two thirds as much corn 

 when prepared in this way, and there is no doubt 

 that this preparation and the eating the cob with 



the corn, renders the food more wholesome Par 



mer's Jour. 



It is estimated by Count Rumford, that a cord of 

 green wood contains 1,443 lbs. of water — equal lo 

 one hogshead an. I two barrels. 



