NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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of some pleasant day and allow them to stand until I'ul, but not sufficiently li^je for us to judge of their 



three or four o'clock in the afternoon, by which 

 time they will become wilted a little. Then cut 

 off the roots, and tops, and pack the edible part in 

 barrels in dry sand, not allowing the plants to touch 

 each other. The barrels may be placed in the cel- 

 lar, if it be rather dry; celery thus prepared will 

 keej) fresh and sweet through the winter. 



quality. 



SPRING BOW PINS. 



LATS WORK IN THE NURSERY. 



All seed not sown in the fall should be mixed 

 with fine loam, a little moist, put in kegs or boxes, 

 and buried in a light soil, a short distance below 

 the surface. If the kegs or boxes are tight at the 

 bottom, holes should be made through them to let 

 off the superfluous moisture. In this way the seed 

 will keep perfectly good till wanted for sowing in 

 the spring. 



Seedling trees, of this year's growth, on wet 

 land, had better be taken up and laid in by llie 

 heels, on liigh light soil; otherwise they will be 

 liable to be thrown out and winter-killed. Tread 

 early snows down around trees, to prevent mice 

 from marking them. A few trees may be conve- 

 niently protected by putting bands of tea-chest lead 

 or yellow birch around them; where many nursery 

 trees are laid in by the heels they may be protect- 

 ed from the mice by scattering the earth full and 

 high around them. 



If the nursery is very liable to wash, it should 

 be prevented by drains and dams, else the finer soil 

 will wash into the low land, or worse still, into the 

 streams, where it will be lost. It is very impor- 

 tant to guard against this'joss, which in some nur- 

 series is very great. The water that cannot be 

 drained from the nursery should be scattered over 

 it as evenly as possible, that it may not run in 

 channels and wash away the fine land. 



Where's the bow pin, John? Don't know — I 

 put it in place after I unyoked the steers. Come, 

 boys, we must contrive some way to get over this 

 trouble; this having no bow -pin when a shower is 

 coniitig up is bad business. Well, father, I saw 

 the very thing the other day in the newspaper. 

 Here it is now. It is made of what they call mal- 

 leable iron and won't break, and you can buy them 

 for 25 cts. a pair. By pressing the little thumb 

 and finger pieces on the right of the engraving, 

 the circular part flies open so that the straight pit, 

 passes through the hole in the bow, and then the 

 circle springs back and keeps the pin in place. Ah, 

 that looks well, my son; novv find the advertise- 

 ment and see where they are for sale, and send at 

 once for two or three sets. Be sure to put a leath- 

 er string in the hole made for it in the pin, and 

 tack the other end to the yoke, then you won't have 

 occasion to ask John again lohere the bow pin is. 



ACKI^OWLEBGMENTS. 



From Joseph Hains, Lynn, Diana and Catawba 

 Grapes. We find in these two varieties nearly the 

 same distinctive properties, but the Diana is much 

 superior for being earlier and better ripened. The 

 Diana is about ten days earlier than the Isabella, 

 and" ripens well in this climate, but the Catawba is 

 several weeks later, and seldom comes to perfec- 

 tion in ihis climate. The grapes which we pre- 

 viously noticed fiom Joseph Harris, should have 

 been Joseph Hains. , 



From John Fatler, gardener to George Hitten- 

 ger, Watertown, two very splendid Cauliflowers, re- 

 markably large and excellent quality. 



From Col. Henry Little, President of the Bangor 

 Horticultural Society, a large, fair and very beauti- 

 ful apple, of excellent quality. We do not recognize 

 this variety as cultivated in this country. 



From Enoch A. Wiggin, Maiden, specimens of 

 apples for a name, from October to February. 

 These apples are large, remarkably fine and beauti- was extremely warm, evaporation was rapid, and 



For the Neiv England Farmer. 

 THE SEASON OF 1851, AND OTHER 

 NOTIONS. 



BY SILAS BROWN. 



Gentlemen: — Many people feel an interest to 

 know the state of the weather, and the influence it 

 iias had on the crops, in different locations through- 

 out our great country. We have had reports of se- 

 vere drought in some places, and deluges of rain, 

 tornadoes, earthquakes and other disastrous irregu- 

 larities, in others, which have a powerful influence 

 upon the agricultural interests in those places where 

 such dreaded dispensations take place. In the east- 

 ern section of this State, the sunshine and rains 

 have been dispensed with uncommon uniformity; 

 we have had rains in such quantities that at no 

 time in the growing season the most strenuous 

 fault-finder could have wished them distributed dif- 

 ferently. Nothing like a drought has caused ap- 

 prehensions of short crops among us, or a profusion 

 of rain deranged our regular farming operations. 

 Our rivers and small streams have rfcuiained quiei. 

 not disiuvbing or injuring our bridges or public 

 roads; such a season seldom happens here, and 

 ought to remind us of the obligations we are under 

 to a benevolent Providence. Seed time was de- 

 layed beyond the usual period, the weather beii c 

 cold; the fruit trees were late in opening their blos- 

 soms. June was cool till the 21st; there was fro^t 

 on the mornings of the 6th and ITth, enough to in- 

 jure the cranberries, and tender plants and vines. 

 From the 21st to the last of the month the weather 



