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From tht J^'ew York En'iuinr. 



THE GRAPE. I 



We lately tasted some delicious Grapes nt Mr 

 Parmentier's liorticultural garden, which is, at this j 

 season, a pleasant afternoon's promenade from | 

 Brooklyn, the distance heing only abont two miles, j 

 They grew on vines which were planted in May 

 last, and although Mr P. removed, as he thought, : 

 .ill the flowers, feai-ing the plants being so young ; 

 might be injured by bearing, yet a few were over- | 

 looked, and produced some excellent fruit. What ! 

 a difference between the grapes found at the j 

 French tables and those called Isabella grapes, 

 and which cannot be properly estimated, since few 

 or none are brought in comparison with tliem. j 



The cultivation of the vine, which to many ap- 

 pears difficult, is in rsality very easy. Mr P. who 

 is perfectly well acquainted with it, gives all the 

 necessary instructions, which are so Bimide and 

 easy of execution, that we shall be indebted to 

 him for placing within the reach of every person 

 the means of cultivating a fruit possessing so ma- 

 ny excellent qualities. 



The establishment of Mr Parmentier, is really 

 valuable from its great extent ; having 24 acres 

 inclose 1 in one nursery ; tlic order which exists, 

 each kind of vine as well as other plants, having 

 its etiquette or mark so placed, that in making a 

 selection no mistake can occur,and from the intro- 

 duction of the new and excellent fruits of Europe, 

 where he was born. His brother,lhe Chevali?r Par- 

 mentier, member of different learned societies, dur- 

 ing my excursions on the continent, kindly show- 

 ed me his most interesting establishment, whjch 



sing Bricks, of putting the bricks into the mould 

 by hand, and the slow progress made in pressing 

 on that account are entirelv obviated in the Self- 



SELF-FEEl>i-<. .JllICK PRESS. 

 The great inconvenience that has attended 



cons'ilts of exoTic pia"ats"'to t"iie".nnwiinTof niore' than ; "?.^':''i"^','-''^^'"!f, 'i''''f,'"!°^_';!f." "f;.'^./"'' '^^''l 

 40,000. Among these it may be readily imagined, 

 are some of the most rare and valuable that are 

 known ; and in looking at his collection, even an , 

 unpracticed eye must be struck with the talent and ^^^'''"S B"ck Press now offered to the public— 

 knowledoe necessary to j.reserve in snch perfec- ! ^■'^"^^ machine is turnished with three boards of a 

 tion, so many difl^rent plants, frourso many differ- P™P" '<^"StIi to hold ten bricks, eacii setting up 

 cnt climes, for among the collections I have seen,-| P'igev.ise. To put the machine in operation one of 

 J think I never met with one where they appeared I '''°''e '"'=""''^ '^ ^''^^ '^'^h unpressed bricks and 

 in such perfect health and beauty; and this talent i'^''l'^"""« side of • the machine, and an empty 

 seems to be in the familv. for Mr P. who resides I ^^ard on the other side : then by turning the crank 

 on Lon.v Island, acquired'his intimate knowledge >°''"ately, the machine removes the bricks one 

 of horticulture merely from the gratification ho re- j 9*^ =^ ^""e from the full board, presses them and 

 reived in the study of it as an amusement. Qo- : P'^^es them on tiie other board all a quaTler ol an 

 =idr-sthe "reat number of e.xotic plants, the Che- """''apart at the rate of tiftcen in a minute— 

 valier possesses around his residence, gardens to While one man is turning the crank the third 

 the extent of nearly ten acres, where he cultivates '^"""''^ »'"""' ^ ^^ ^'"ed v.-ith unpressed bricks and 

 every kind of fruit tree of any merit. He has P'^-^f^J "" t!i° machine. As soon as Ihe machine 

 made a table of the different kinds of pear trees in I'M idled one board with pressed bricks, the board 

 his possession, which is piiblished in the Horticul- '^ '-omoved (Us place bejng supplied by the board 

 tural Transactions of London ; it contains 197 U'at the machine has emptied) and the bricks dis- 

 species, wir:h the names, time of ripening, (epoch '"J8°<1 f"""") it on to the yard or boards for t^iat 

 de leur maturitejqualities (quulilies) si. e;grosseu ) pi"-p"3c by turning the board up edgewise, ste.idy- 

 and tastes (saveur)— This table, so necessary h) '"? tl'e bricks at the same time by a narrow boar.! 

 resist amateurs in their choice, Mr P. intends to "Inch bavos the bricks all a quarter pf an inch 

 translate and send to Mr Fessonden, the Editor of "P^"''- standing on one end,giving them a very good 

 Ihe jYeiv England Farmer, in Boston, with an in- opportunity to dry, without being handled while in 

 dication in a. separate column of the species he has "^ green state. 



received from l.is brotljer, and whi^h are now rea- ' We, the s.ubscribers, have long been acquainted 

 dy to be disposed of, with those wliich he will have '■^'"h the Brick Making Business, and have seen m 

 in the autumn of 1837, and which can only be pro- °Pe"-ation many machines of different kinds for 

 cured from the gardens of the Chevalier Parmen- ; Pressing Bricks, and have recently ha ! the satis 

 ,Jqj I faction of seein? in operation, the .Self Feeding 



05=See the first p.ige of this week's Farmer. -Brick Press, ot wmcn you are tne inventor, and 



. r,, • ~; zr, — r- „ ,, . ., Ty . . „, , have no hesitation in saying, that we ueiieve it to 



A Triangular Meel Bo.ll at the Baptist Church, I j,^ ^^^. ^ ^^/^ » „^„^^ ^i„, ;„ „,^_ 



N London, ,s said to be heard farther than tl.o ,^ ^^ ^,,, j,^.^, .^^,^^^^^^^^_ ^„,, ^.^.^ believe, must 

 old bells at the other Churches, it was heard l> , •^, , Z , ^ ,. ,, ,„ „„j ,„, „<■„.!.>, 



„ , rr. ,1 ,• n be very uurable and not liable to get out or oruer. 



mdes, over the water. [Palladium] i 



Its power is very great, and the^bricks pressed ijil 

 it are smooth and solid — and the great dispatch! 

 in pressing and saving of labor made by the bricks 

 being put into the mould by machinery instead of 

 being put in by hand, and the manner in which 

 the inachine places the pressed brick so as to en- 

 tirely obviate the necessity of handling tlii:n 

 whUe in a green state, are advantages which will 

 undoubtedly introduce your machine into general 

 use as soon as its merits become generally known. 

 You are at liberty to make our opinion public if 

 you think proper. WILLIAM WEBB, 



Yours Respect'v, .TOSIAH C.iRTER, 



RUFUS FLUENT, 

 WILLIAM POLLERS, 

 JONA. FESSEiNDEN. 

 Portland, Sept. 27, lt2(j. 



Extract from Ihe sixth Report of ihe .Massachusetts 

 .figricultural Society. 

 "Mr John Winslow of Portland, entered for exhi- 

 bition only, a machine of his invention styled a 

 self feeding Brick Press, the operation of which 

 he explained to your Couimittee and many others, 

 by a model, so clear and communicated the w'lole 

 process in such a manner, as seemed to leave no 

 doubt on the minds of those that !:ttendod of Ihe 

 utility of the machine, and if it performs as it ap- 

 pears to promise, can iiardly need any re O'lnnen- 

 dation to give it celebrity — your Committee was 

 glad to learn that this Machine was to be plac- 

 ed in the Hall of the New England Society on the 

 •3,5th." 



Munificent. — .\ cominunio-tion has been receiv- 

 ed by the Board of Aldermen, from Ward Nilii- 

 olas Bovlsio.v. Esfi. offering for the accepti'nce 

 o! the City, ^r tlie use of the inmates of the 

 House of Industry, a twin pair of oxen, Its years, 

 weighing 439:i pounds, raised at hie farm at 



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