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damp, as when it was put on only 15 or 18 iriches when he tbun'j them open and fit for planting.— , 

 hick. It win, however, sometimes become damp, He tried this experiment even so l.tte as the h.stl 



Convecticut River jYavigation. — A steara-bfl 

 called the Baruet, has lately ascended the ConiJ 



especially in a course of hot, moist weather— and j of March, with success, i lie liaws will not ve e- ^^^^^ _^^ ^^.^^^ _^^ Bellows Falls, and returned aj 

 whenever it does, we draw out this damp straw, tate, if sent to any distance in the P"'P'''S ^" ! ,^^^,^ ^^-^^rding demonstration of the practicahiUi 

 and let the first layer of dry, cool straw come Kirk know8,lo his cost and disappointment. "'^ . ^^g„j„ „^,,i„j^tio„ „„ y^^t beautiful river. Thi 



ahilit] 

 Thi^ 

 lahitants of the large and 



down upon the ice ; and if I find the straw getting | probable that the alternate freezing and thawin ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^ ._^,^_^l^.^^ 



less than three feet thick, I bring straw from the | of the Newcastle tuorn (Cratctgus crus gaUiJ w ill ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^.^^ .^ waiered by the 



barn yard, as dry and cool as I can get it, and also expedite their vegetation: ^''^y '■^''"''7° „ecticul and its tributary streams, as it will 

 put on the top of the straw in the house. Since I ^lay in the ground two winters hetore they vege- j^^^^^^ ^.^^ ^ ^^^^ stimulus to industry, but enha 

 have adopted the above] practices in a house only I tate. „f' th,- value of property throughout the whole t^ 



12 by 18 feet in the clear, and not more than 9 | " Mr Kirk stated to me further what may ^<^J>J\.^ j,,^^ ^-.^^J^ 

 feet deep, I have preserved ice till its return.— great consequence to the success of a hedge, viz. | 'i 

 In giving these minutes of my experience, I beg ] the injurious effects of the common black walnut ; 



youtobe assured I mean no disrespect to your | tree upon it. One of those trees that stood at the _ ^ 



correspondent P., but merely to follow and fill the distance of 15 feet from a hedge three teet high, ^^ yellow Locust Tree, ft.r gratuitous distributi 

 chinks he left open. You will dispose of them, as { killed three pannel of it. Another wairitit tree ^-^^^^ ^^^ ,^^^^ article on the cultivation and use| 



We have received from Dr Briggs, of Bri^ 

 R. f. a quantity of seed of the Robinia Pseudaca 



you please. 



Respectfully, 



Q. 



NEW ENGLAND FAR MER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, DEC. 22, 1826. 



I only three inches iu diameter a' the root, rIso kil- , ^^j^^ ^^.^^^ which will be published ne.\t week] 

 lied six thorn plants, and ::• the above f'istance : | j^^j.^^^j^^ ^^^^ ^^^jj^jg jj.gjj, gprj^g^^jUg^ ^pg^n) 



1 both trees stood directly opposite to the hedge i _ — . . 



'thev blighted : on removing the walnut tree.', the | CONGRESSIONAL. 



Live Fences. — In our paper of Nov. 24, No. 18, 

 page 142 ofcthe current volume, we observed that 



hedge wrew well: whereas an apple tree that' SENATE. — Resolved that in the appoint! 



shaded a part of the hedge was not found injun- | of the Standing Committees, the Senate will 

 ous to it. Cedar trees likewise are injurious to |ceed by severally appointing the Chairman of 

 hedges, from the farina which is abundantly dis- i Committee, and then by one ballot for the oi 

 weliarrere^Tcr'of'Lc'nTue'l'w.'^B^riggs, Esq. of [charged from them, settling on the leaves of the members necessary to complete the same, &o,' 

 Bristol, Rhode Island, a quantity of Hawthorn ber-t plants." ^ ^ . r» • i The standing Committees were appointe. 



ries for distribution. Having distributed most of! In the Memoirs of the N. Y. Board of Agricnl- the 11th. On the 12th Mr .Tohnson of Ken i 

 these we have subsequently been called on for in- ture, vol. ii. page 101 is published a long and able duced a bill for the Mokiton of Imprisonmen: _ 

 formation relative to the culture of the hawthorn, I paper, written by George Tibbits of Renselaer, Ucbt, which was read twice by unammous conse 

 and particularly the most approved method of cans- j from which the following is extracted : j and referred to a select committee, 



ing the seeds to vegetate, which it appears they 



. , , -J »i,„f it ;= 1 HOUSE. — Abill was read twice, which proviil 



" Mv experiments have convinced me, that u is ''Y^ , ' . , . • , 



, X ^, .^ „„i.oo n,nrn fn,inp.,nr,m drv ^or Revolutionary and other pensioners. — Aim 

 useless to attempt to make a tliornlenoe upon a ary, I ■ , <- .u n -j . . 



A 1 1 i.„ „„,. r.;,.o r,1»;n= „r on loose If age was received from the President, transmitti 



loose, sandv soi , like our pine plains, or on loost,, fc .£..,/-• •• r.Lni. 



d™d gr^avelsoil. These -.oils are not congenial I the Report of the Commissioners of the Pub 

 to the growth of thorns ; we never see any of our I Suildings ; likewise a Kepor from the SorreU 

 natural thorns growing wild upon them. Thorns at War, on certain proposed donations of land 

 are very liable to be tlirown out of ground when | Indian tribes to agents and commissioners of I 

 young, "by frost if set in a damp, cold,spongy, clay 1 United States. 



soil- swamps are too wet for them, and on these A third Message was received from the Pre 

 kind's of ground ditches are necessary. Thorns j dent, transrfntt.ng a report from the Secretary 

 do well upon any of the varieties of loams : on a i War, relating to the Lead Mines belonging to . 

 strong rich loam! inclining to clay, they do best.- | Un>ted States in Illinois and Missouri. 

 " S = •< On the nth among other petitions was o]ie fp 



PROCESS OF RAISING THE PLANTS. 



" Gather the haws at any time in the fall, wlien 

 ihem peep the first year, for the Haw, and many ! ripe, lay them in an oblong heap, or ridge, in the 

 other seeds, being invested with a very hard in- 1 nursery or garden, mixed with a little earth : turn 



teo-ument, will now and then suffer imprisonment this heap in the spring following,and several times ^^^ devolved on them. 



tw°o vhole years under the earth ; and our impa- | more in the course of the summer and succeeding Qn motion of Mr Mallary it was resolved 0% 

 tience at this does often frustrate the resurrection ' fall, that they may havt an equal exposure to the 

 of divers seeds of this nalure,so that we frequently ; weather and frost; and as soon as the rost is out 

 din- up and disturb the beds where they are sown, of the ground the succeeding spring, (having laid 

 in°despair before they have gone their full time." , in the heap over two winters and one summer) 

 The Memoirs of the Philadelphia Society for strew them evenly with a spade upon a bed or 

 promotincr Agriculture, vol. iii. page 439, give the , beds, which shall have been previously spaded and 

 follow in-T^article by Dr Mease of Philadelphia : raked smooth for that purpose. It is better to sow 



them thick ; half a bushel of haws, when 



are in no haste to do under ordinary circumstan- 

 ces. 



The judicious remarks of Jesse Buel. Esq. Editor 

 of the Memoirs of the N. Y. Board of Agriculture, 

 (which were published in our last, page 106, 2d 

 column, commencing "In the propagation of forest 

 trees by seeds ") go far to supersede the necessi- 

 ty of our observations relative to means for ef- 

 fecting the germination of the seeds of the haw- 

 thorn. Still it may not be amiss to state further 

 particulars on a subject of so much importance. 



Evelyn's Silva, vol. ii. page 99, says "The Haw- 

 thorn is raised of seeds ; but tlien it must not be 

 with despair because, sometimes you do not see 



Raphael and Benjamin West, of London, song, 

 the celebrated painter, and President of the Ri 

 Academy, England, requesting Congress to 

 chase that portion of their father's works, w^ 



"The haws of the Washington thorn ^Cra(rtg:«i ,»,<■„,.„ l,o,i fnnr hv four 



... • . 1- u • J ■ . ■ i,„^„.„ ■ mav be a suitab e quantity tor a bed tour oy lour- 



cordaio,) require to be buried one winter before '"'^J' ^ ' -f ,„ „^..„„,i „ n,,.,rtpr of 



" , , ,11, 1 ■ . .1 tpen feet : cover them not to excceu a qu.irter oi 



iSndT\r; liinijai: in t Ih: I an inch, and this is done best by a corn riddle, as ^^ j^st two years, &c. ; likewise . hethor aj 



the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to i 

 port to the House whether sheep's wool on t 

 skin is allowed to be imported free of duty, a 

 how much of said wool has been imported duri 

 each of the two last years. 



On motion of Mr Martindale of N. Y. it was i 

 solved that the Secretary of the Treasury be i 

 rccted to report to the House an abstr.nct of t 

 quantity and qualities of foreign wov ..nd wooll 

 manufactures imported into thi.3 country u'lrii 



the earth can be sifted over them more evenly 



tree ; the pulp surrounding the stones having been -W'^ earm can ue ..u.u .v.. ....... "'"■-;;•;"■■' 



" , '^ 11. < a- 1 .1 . 1, 1 Ti ithanby a spade or in any other way. 1 hey will 

 previously rubbed off, and the stone washed. The ] '■"''" "> ",. '' .__ , .J' -_^ '^ „,„^^, ^,, , 



evasions of the duties on imported foreign wd 



