122 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEH. 



Nov. 10 1,-ii;, 



113 



114 



115 



11(5 



117 



118 



119 



120 



12! 



122 



123 



124 



125 



126 



127 



128 



12) 



130 



131 



132 



133 



134 



135 



13G 



137 



138 



139 



140 



141 



342 



143 



144 



145 



140 



147 



148 



149 



150 



151 



152 



153 



154 



155 



150 



157 



158 



150 



160 



161 



102 



103 



164 



165 



166 



107 



108 



169 



170 



171 



172 



173 



174 



175 



176 



177 



178 



179 



180 



181 



182 



183 



184 



185 



186 



January 

 autumn 

 August 



November meltin 

 Deceiyjlipr brittle 

 December brittle 



Louisa bonne, 

 Madame green, 

 Tbe magdalena, 



Maria Louisa, 



Marquise 



Martin sec 



Martin sec at Provins. 



Mary pear 



Marveille d'hiver, 



Golden Messire jean. 



Grey do. 



Mervielle d'ete, 



Milanese or Great Brituin, Nov. Dec. 



Cavelier Milanese, 



Mouille bouche, 



German muscat, 



Muscat Robert, 



Napoleon, 



New golden. 



Summer orange, 



Winter do. 



New orange. 



Swan's egg. 



melting large good 1826 



melt, sweet middling good 1827 

 melting small I'eebl 



large good 1826 

 large feebl 

 middling feebl 

 November melt, sweet small feebl 

 Sept. Oct. melt. Bweet large good 1827 

 November melt, sweet large 

 Hutumn melting large 

 November brittle middlin 



September meltin, 



brittle 

 melting 

 melting 

 melting 

 half melt. 



Palentin, 



Pass* tutti, 



Passa colmar. 



Grey pafTa colmar of Preccl 



Dec. Jan. 



Septembc 



April, Ma 



July 



November melting 



Sept.' Oct. melting 



August brittle 



Feb. March brittle 



Septombcr melt, sweet middling feebl 



November brittle large feebl 



August melting middling good 



November brittle very lar. feebl 



Jan Feb. melting large 



do melting large 



feebl 



feebl 



feebl 

 middling feebl 

 large good IBa^f 

 large good 1627 

 middling feebl 

 middling feebl 

 middling feebl 

 large good 1826 

 large good 1827 

 middling feebl 

 middling feebl 1826 



December melting large 

 autumn melt, sweet large 

 September brittle 



melting 



melting 



melting 



brittle 



Pastorale, 



Pastorale or coniperette. 



Grey skin, 



Pepin sauve, 



Petit blanquet, 



Almond pear. 



Pear of belloeil. 



Canning pear, 



Pear Chartotte, 



t ear of capucin, 



Silver pear. 



Pear of austrasia. 



Pear of jesus, 



Pear of prince, 



Quinte pear. 



Shepherd's pear. 



Pear of jesuite. 



Pear of seigneur. 



Fig pear, 



Golden pear, poire d'or. 



Gray pear of cassieman. 



Pear oflouvain, 



Pear mondieu or rousselet September melting 



Pear of noirchain, Septemb. melting 



Without skin pear, October melfiiig 



Without kernel pear, November brittlo 



Santa Cru.x pear, Septemb. melting 



Sugar pear, poire de sucrc October brittle 



Apri 



August 



October 



August 



winter 



winter 



Jan. Feb 



August 



October 



October 



August 



October 



Januarv 



melt, sweet large 

 melt, sweet large 



good 1826 

 good 1826 

 good 

 good 



middling feebl 



middling feebl 



small feebl 



large good 1827 



middling good 



good 1827 

 feebl 1827 



brittle 



melting 



brittle 



brittle 



melting 



melting 



brittle 



large feebl 

 middling feebl 

 large good 1826 

 small feebl 

 small good 

 middling feebl 

 middling feebl 



Feb. March half melting middling feebl 

 autumn melt, sweet middling good JS27 

 October brittle 

 October halfmeltin 

 December melting 

 Oct. Nov. melting 



large 

 large 



small 



Peach pear, September melting 



Portail du poitu, April melting 



Ramelier, May, June, melting 



Q,ueen Caroline, November melting 



Robine, August melting 



King of Rome, Dec. Jan. melting 



Rousselet of Rlieims, September melting 



Winter rousellet, autumn 



Summer royale August 



Royalc d' hiver, winter melting 



Sang-'e d'ltalia, ileur rouge, April brittle 



Sanguinolo or Wine pear, August brittle 



Winter St. Bernard, winter 



Saint Germain pear, Nov. Dec. melting 



Paiut Ghillain pear, Sept. Oct. do 



Saint laurent August do 



middling feebl 1826 

 middling feebl 

 middling good 1827 

 middling good 1827 

 small feebl 

 small good 1827 

 feebl 

 feebl 



good 1827 

 feebl 

 middling feebl 

 middling feebl 

 large feebl 

 large good 1897 

 middling good 1826 

 middling good 1827 

 small good 1820 

 melt, sweet middling good 1826 

 melting small good 1826 



large feebl 

 large feebl 1826 

 middling feebl 



melt, sweet large good 1827 

 large good 1826 

 middling good 

 middling feebl 



Sanspareille, 100 couronne autumn melt, sweet middling good 1827 

 Sartiere, November melting large good 1827 



Green satin, autumn melt, sweet middling good 



187 Early cluster, 



188 Soguette, 



189 Somelier of claizor, 



190 Red sugar, Sucre rouge, 



191 Sucre vert, 



192 Superfondant, 



193 Urbaniste, 



194 Summer Vermillion, 



195 Ice pear or virgouleuse, 



196 Volmeronge, 



197 Yutte. 



August melting 

 October brittle 

 November melting 

 September do 

 November do 

 November do 

 November do 

 August do 



November brittle 

 Nov. Dec. melting 

 autumn melting' 



small good ,] 

 middling good i 

 middling good 1, 

 middling good 3| 

 middling good 182$ 

 large good 182^' 

 large good 182(3 

 middling good 



good 182< 

 feebl 

 good 182; 



large 

 large 



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A HINT IN SEASON. 

 Mr Fessendes — It is so important for the farmer to command a gj iii 

 stock of manure, that every method to increase his resources to that eff 

 deserves attention ; none more so, I believe, than the collecting of leave 

 this season of the year, when the wood lots offer a great abundance ol tli« 

 But although in practice with some, yet the greater number of farmer.^, it 

 presumed, neglect to avail themselves of this valuable privilege. 



I have been for years in the habit of collecting leaves fur littering 

 cattle, hogs, &c. and experience has so far confirmed and established tlir nit 

 fulness of the practice, from the comfort it affords to the creatures, :i;.<l tb 

 increase of the dung-hills, that I have made arrangements lately for sim urin 

 the privilege to a greater extent than heretofore. I have Ii.\cd ray stves i 

 sucli a manner as to have a small loft over them for leaves, with openii;^-s"i 

 the sides to draw out the leaves with a rake, and supply the hogs occasioi 

 ally with fresh litter. I have also enclosed part of a shed in the bani^yardl 

 store up a sufficient quantity of leaves to litter my cattle througli the v.inte 

 The advantage is not confined to the ni-re addition of the leaves to tlif dun 

 hill ; it furnishes the means of preventing the waste of the urine of tlie ca' 

 tie. When the floor is cleared in the morning, the leaves with which the cai 

 tie have been littered, the dung and the urine, should be well worked togetl 

 er with the shovel before tiiey are thrown out ; and being so compoundci 

 the decomposition of the leaves will take place much sooner, and their add 

 tion to the dung become more valuable. 



It is customary to prefer trreen dung to any other for planting Potat 

 and it answers verj well for that crop ; yet it is often loo cloggy, and 

 remain sometimes in a lump in the hills, whereby the Potato is less benefi' 

 The addition of the leaves, if well worked together as above described, ma! 

 that kind of manure ranch better adapted and truly excellent for raising t^ |i' 

 crop, more particularly so, if on meadow ground where cattle dung- alone; 

 spt to increase the wetness of the soil, whilst the leaves, rendering it bei 

 divided and lighter, give to the Potato hill a greater aptitude to be penet'ral 

 and fertilised by the warmth of the sun. 



If you think this hint may be of any service to our brother tarmers 

 are quite at liberty to give it a corner in your very useful paper. 



Jf'iston, jYov. 2, 1826. Yours respectfully, J. M. G, 



Jlemarlcs by the Editor. — The above article appears to us highly won 

 the attention of the industrious cultivator, and we are under great obligatii 

 to its worthy and ingenious author. Some further observations on the sai 

 subject, we hope u ill prove acceptable and useful to our readers. 



In the Mass Agric. Repos. vol. iv. page 60 will be found " E.Ktracts frot 

 the Bath Society Papers, with remarks by John Lowelf,, Esq." who is no» 

 President of said Society. Prom these we select the following as applicr.bli 

 to the subject under consideration. " A correspondent of the Bath Societ; 

 in England warmly recommends a species of manure for potatoes whi^h'. 

 think peculiarly applicable to our country, because easily .attainable. It J 

 the employment of mould and fallen leaves taken from the woods. This, tfe( 

 writer observes, he has found an excellent substitute tor other manure. He 

 found the potatoes, raised in this way, much more mealy, and of a flavoui 

 much finer than when produced by the application of ashes and dung; ani 

 he considered it of great importance to poor people, who have not the meallf 

 of procuring much dung. This he observes can always be procured in woodjf 

 countries, and in those which are not so, it may be obtained under hedgi 

 and ditches, and in old ponds. | 



" If this be a fact, and we have little doubt of it, since it is known thatfe* 

 substances are more favourable to vegetation than rotten leaves, and the soil 

 formed by their decomposition, there is scarcely a farmer in Massachusetts, 

 who may not by two or three days labor, collect enough to plant all his pot» 

 tos, and thus save his manure for his corn and grass lands." ,y 



Leaves used as manure, are very valuable for the purposes of gardening^, 

 nnd for fruit trees. Forsyth says, " collect annually as many loads of leaves 

 as you conveniently can, which make up into hot-beds, for late melons aild 



