NEW ENGLAND PARMER. 



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Cork Elm. It grows to a large size, and is suffi- 

 ciently unique to ensure its cultivation by the lov- 

 ers of native trees. 



The Vermont Poplar, also called the Necklace 

 Poplar, is a handsome tree, with an altitude of 60 

 feet. Mr. Emerson says it has been cultivated for 

 many years in Europe, where it is called Virgini- 

 an Poplar, and Swiss Poplar, the last name being 

 given from its having been extensively propagated 

 in Switzerland. It is also known in England, by 

 the name of Black Italian Poplar, from its having 

 been introduced frorajtaly. It is valued for its 

 rapid growth, which is, in the climate of London, 

 between 30 and 40 feet in seven years; and even 

 in Scotland, it has grown to the height of seventy 

 feet, in IG years; thus becoming of a size for tim- 

 ber, sooner than any other tree. Male trees are 

 much to be preferred, in the vicinity of dwelling 

 houses, as the cotton of the seeds adheres to 

 clothes and furniture in a most troublesome man- 

 ner. 



The chesnut is a tree well suited for landscape 

 gardening, being of a rapid growth, easily culti- 

 vated, and is one of our largest trees. There is a 

 dwarf chesnut, called the Chinquapin, not more 

 than six or eight feet high, very much resembling 

 the commofi chesnut, a native of the Middle 

 States, but hardy in the latitude of Boston. It is 

 a very small tree or shrub, bearing its fruit Vvlieu 

 quite young, and very desirable for cultivation in 

 a garden. It is to be found in the nunseries 

 around Boston. 



Some of the willows can be used to advantage 

 in landscape gai-dening, to embellish low wet 

 grounds, the borders of ponds and lakes, brooks 

 and streams of water. The whole number of spe- 

 cies to be found in the United States exceed 100. 

 Torrey enumerates thirty species as growing 

 in New York, and Emerson has found twenty- 

 one in Massachusetts. One dwarf species of the 

 willow, not hitherto noticed in this State, was 

 discovered last summer, at one of the botanical 

 excursions of the Essex Institute, on the sandy 

 banks of the Merrimac river, at North Andover. — 

 It was the long-leaved Sand Willow, the Salix 

 Longiflora described by Torrey in his l)otany of 

 New York, volume 2d, page 209. 



The willows most noted for their beauty, and 

 natives of Massachusetts, are the Glossy Willow, 

 Heart-leaved WilloAV, Torrey's Willow, Stiff- 

 leaved Willow, and the dense flowering early 

 Willow. The foreign species introduced and now 

 common are, the Weeping Willow, Golden Wil- 

 low^. Crack Willow, Varnished Willow, and the 

 Bedford Willow. This last species was the fa- 

 vorite tree of Dr. Samuel Johnson, at Litchfield. 

 The Ring-leaved Willow is a singular variety of 

 the Weeping Willow, with curled leaves The 

 willows are mostly early flowering, and some of 

 them have their l^ranehes and young shoots beauti- 

 fully colored with crimson, a reddish brown or gol- 

 den yellow, rendering them very conspicuous in 

 winter. All willows, it is well known, arc of the 

 easiest cultivation, readily growing iiorn cuttings 

 or truncheons planted in the ground. 



The threc-thorned Acacia, found in the Western 

 States, is somewhat cultivated in New England, 

 and is thought by some p?rsons worth}' of cultiva- 

 tion, as an ornamental tree.. It is distinguished 

 for its small, delicate, light foliage, and for its seed 

 pods, five or six inches in length, and its branches 



and trunk are armed with triple thorns. When 

 the Acacia makes a large growth, and consequent- 

 ly the wood is imperfect, oi not well matured, the 

 ends of the branches die in the winter. There is 

 a Chinese species of the Acacia, with large leaves, 

 and triple thorns, presenting a most formidable ap- 

 pearance. S. P. FOWLEK. 

 Danrcrs, Jan. 10?A> 185L 



[To be Continued.] 



For the JVetu England Farmer. 

 FARMING IN COBB CO., GEORGIA. 



Mr. Editor: — As I don't like to write to an ag- 

 ricultural paper, in renewing my subscription, and 

 merely do it as a matter of business, I will throw 

 in my mite with a view of cultivating the kindly 

 feelings which are, I can almost say, peculiar to our 

 avocation, and make an effort to inform, if I cannot 

 interest my fellow-laborers of the north; and to this 

 end I propose a slight sketch of the agriculture of 

 this county, lying to the north and west of the 

 Chalahoochee river, which was in possession of the 

 Cherokee Indians until May, 1838, when they were 

 removed; and the land was taken in hand by the 

 whites, almost an uncultivated wilderness. The soil 

 is gencraUy poor and very hilly, being (geologically) 

 primitive formation, mostly the debris of Feldo- 

 pathic granite, iorming a tough clay soil, covered 

 with a thin mixed vegetable soil, which when first 

 cleared produces from 10 to 30 bushels of corn, but 

 soon wears down and washes away. Native growth, 

 red, post and white oaks, chestnut, hickory and 

 scattering pines and poplars. Cultivation much in- 

 fested with weeds and cral>b, or crop-grass. Oats 

 grow finely froin 20 to 30 bushels per acre; corn 

 10 to 30; wheat 3 to 10, being mnch injured by the 

 Hessian fly, and subject to rust; rye sonmch affect- 

 ed by the same causes as to be neglect?ed; the cow 

 pea from 3 to 5; usually fed off by stock. Carrots 

 suit the soil, but beets, caltbage, turnips and pota- 

 toes (Irish) do not .succeed; the deficiency in the 

 last is, however, made up by the sweet potato, pro- 

 ducing 100 buslicls; all this is the product unas- 

 sisted by manure. 



There is, however, aconsiderable portion of creek 

 and river bottoms very good, apparently the debris 

 of Hornblende rocks; these last produce nearly double 

 the above quantities per acre. The grey land is 

 grateful for and tenacious of the little manure we 

 have tried it with, and in addition to the above pro- 

 ducts known at the North, we have the staple pro- 

 duct of the South, which gives very satisfactory re- 

 turn after the land has been cultivated a few years, 

 producing from 1 to 5 hundred weight of clean cot- 

 ton to the acre, according to the quality of the land, 

 and being about 50 per ct. more expensive to culti- 

 vate than corn. Our uncleared lands can be bought 

 for from $1 to 10, and farm partly cleared and log 

 house improvements, from $3 to 25 an acre. Some 

 innocent soul, up east, may now be thinking about 

 pasture and cattle and manure; well, we are begin- 

 ning to think of them too, but generally our cows 

 have a few corn shvrLs thrown to them in the lane, 

 and may lean against the fence to ruminate. Here 

 and there a farmer may be fo>md whose attempts to 

 cultivate the (ainc grasses make him the laughing- 

 stock of the neighborhood. Good grass is not nat- 

 ural to the soil, though I have found red-top and 

 orchard grass and striped clover all growing wild 

 Red clover will not grow without manure, and the 



