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From the American Sentinel. 



FRUIT TREES. 



The Domestic Encyclopedia says, tli.-it " tlic best 

 lime to prune Apple trees in the United States is 

 in March." Mr Forsyth say?, " the best time to 

 prune Apple trees, is in tlic months of April or 

 May, after the peaches, nectarines, and clierries 

 are pruned." But I think that the latter part of 

 March, or forepart of April, in our climate, is gen- 

 erally about the right time ; but it is better to 

 trim them in May, than to neglect them ; yet it 

 injures them less to do it before the baric starts. 



Trees sliould be looked over every year, and 

 the shoots taken off as v^ell as those which cross 

 each other; old decayed limbs sliould also be re- 

 moved. 



Even young trees ought not to bo neglected ; 

 the middle limbs should be taken out wlien young, 

 for after they have grown largo, it will injure the 

 tree more or less to remove them, and it is v;ell to 

 have room to climb into a tree to get the fruit, 

 beside the benefit of letting the sun shine into it. 



A spud, formed something like a carpenter's 

 broad chisel, with the addition of a hook on one 

 side to pull down limbs, after they are cut ofl'is 

 very useful. The handle should be 6 or 8 feet 

 long-, nailed into the socket of the spud, and a 

 ferule on the other end, that you may drive a- 

 jainst it, to cut off a limb of some size ; but a saw 

 is best for a large limb, and may do very well for 

 small ones ; but a man may stand on the ground 

 and trim small trees, and cut off sprouts from the 

 large trees with a spud. 



^ In Brighton, Mass. I have seen the ross scraped 

 from the bodies of Apple trees, which were then 

 whitewashed ; but I do not valuo the plan very 

 highly. Removing the loose bark, and washing 

 with soap suds, 1 think is better ; or if there should 

 he insects round the bottom, boil some refuse to- 

 bacco, throwing in some ashes — a little of this 

 liquor will destroy them, or cause them to quit the 

 trees. 



If you have young trees where sheep are fod- 

 dered in the winter, take a mixture of urine, wood 

 ashes, and fresh manure from the cow, wash the 

 trees as for up as the animals can reach, and even 

 to the limbs ; for it is better for the trees than 

 white-wash, and a deep snow may enable the 

 sheep to reach high. 



I once bought some sheep which had learned 

 to gnaw trees, and they began upon mine ; I took 

 the above composition in a kettle, and with an old 

 stump of a broom washed over 50 trees in two 

 hours, in December, and it kept on the trees so 

 well all winter, that the sheep did not gnaw them 

 any more. 



Frost is apt to destroy our fruit when it conies 

 forward early. A northwestern exposure is the 

 best, and the north side of a stone wall is better 

 than the south side, because the circulation of the 

 sap is not so early. 



In the papers, we are told, that stone-fruit is de- 

 stroyed by the frosts in September ; but I think it 

 is very foreign from the truth. The Encyclopedia 

 tells of setting water under trees, or tieing a ro- e 

 of straw among tho branches, and putting the 

 other end in a pail of water. I placed a tub of 

 water under an apricot tree, three nights last week; 



tho blow and buds of which appear uninjured 



tliis method, however, as the one recommended 

 in the Encyclopedia, requires much labor, and is 

 iiisQ uncertain. 



IN Ij W_ ENGLAND FAR j\l_ER. 



The trees being much earlier than usual in bud 

 ding, we have great reason to fear damage from 

 frosts. 



In tho Gazette of tho 11th inst. we are told 

 that, in transplanting trees, it is best to cut oifmost 

 of tlie fibrous roots, which is the first time that I 

 ever heard of it — although I have heard of a man 

 that was about as cunning, in letting a pretended 

 friend gut his oysters, and he carry the shells 

 home for his wife. 



In transplanting, dig the holes deep as well as 

 large, and put the turf bottom upwards in the bot- 

 tom of tho hole, then set on the tree, and put fine 

 good soil among the roots, and the red earth on 

 the top, put in a little water when the hole is part- 

 ly filled, and shake the tree, to make the fine 

 earth fill nicely among the fibrous roots. 



A FARMER. 



ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE DIET. 

 The inhabitants of the northern extremities of 

 Europe and Asia, the Esquimaux, and the peojile 

 of Terra del Fuego, livo entirely on flesh, and 

 that often raw, and yet in strength, size and cour- 

 age, arc far inferior to the rest of mankind. This 

 proves that animal diet does not necessarily con- 

 fer moral and physical energy. Again, vegetable 

 diet is not connected with weakness and coward- 

 ice. The Greeks and Romans subsisted chiefly 

 on vegetable preparations, at a period when their 

 valour and energy rendered them the terror and 

 admiration of surrounding nations. The Irish and 

 Scotch, who arc not weaker than ourselves, live 

 chiefly on vegetable aliment. Tho Swedes under 

 Gustavus and Charles were horbiverous and in- 

 vincible. The negroes distinguished for all kinds 

 of physical energy, live chiefly in tlie same way, 

 and so do the South Sea islanders, v/hosc agility 

 and strength were found infinitely to surpass tliose 

 of our stoutest sailors. On the other hand, the 

 debilitating effects of animal food are altogether 

 without foundation ; there is not a vestige of evi- 

 dence that any period ever existed when the 

 whole liuman race abstained from flesh, and lived 

 in a state of perfect innocence and profound re- 

 pose. This golden age of immaculate virtue is 

 but the creation of poetical fancy, or the offspring 

 of tfie heated brains of some visionary enthusiasts. 

 That the use of animal food is consistent with the 

 utmost energy both of mind and body, is proved 

 by the experience of every individual. But all 



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May 4. I82;[* 



MADDER 

 Dr. Muse, President of Dorchester Agriculi 

 Society of Maryland, recommends the °cuItuS^^ 

 Madder. The great value of this root, as ap j 

 to giving to cottons almost all the varieties ol 

 brown and purple dyes, renders its cultivat 

 great desideratum, in a country where the m j •<''' 

 facture of that article is so rapidly increasii 

 Every day developes ncv^ resources withinM 

 selves. A friend informs us that he has be \ W 

 the habit of cultivating modder for several y i ft 

 in sufficient quantities to answer all the purr i * 

 of colouring articles of clothing for the use o i 

 P'^^P''-'- [Bait. Chroi 



LOCUSTS. 

 A letter in the Bombay Courier states, tj 

 cloud of locusts had been hovering for nearlj | 

 months over different parts of tho provlno | 

 Guzerat, which must have covered ten sq i 

 miles. So thickly clustered were they, as to > 

 an almost perfect and unbroken shadow oij 

 ground. Before their approach, and after theii 

 parturc, their appearance was that of immi_. 

 and heavy clouds of dense smoke all arounffl 

 horizon. 



"new englanXTTaiime 



_BaSTON^ FRJDAY^MAYj7^827\| 



IVASn FOR FRUIT TREES. J 



We have, heretofore, recommended a solu^n 

 of pot ash in water as a valuable applicatioi 

 Iruit trees. But our notice may not have met 

 observation^or may have escaped the memo ry 

 some who may, perhaps, derive benefit from it- 

 repetition. We have been told that this applici. 

 tion was first introduced into Medford, Mass. b' 

 the late Gov. Brooks, the summer before hisde 

 cease ; who believed that it was not only a gr^i 

 accelerator of the growth of the trees, but an ef- 

 fectual preservative against the borer. This 

 however, seems not to have tjeen ascertained bi 

 actual experiment. But, it is not improbable thai 

 if the bark of a fruit tree is strongly impregnatei. 

 with an alkali, it may preserve it from being pen- 

 etrated by the winged insect, which is the paret! 

 of the borer. Experiments are wanting on thi: 

 subject. 



Benjamin Wheeler, Esq. of Pramingham, Mass 

 history testifies on this subject with a voice from' °^^®''^°^ ^^■'"' ^"ospect to this composition, " Ne 

 which there is no appeal. The myriads of Hin- 1 Persons need be afraid of its injuring their frui^ 

 doos who subsist on vegetable diet are held in i ^'^^'^^ ' '^"' '' """y ^^ applied with the utmost con- 



subjection by a few hundreds of Europeans. 

 When the ancient Romans abandoned this vego 

 table diet, they did not decline in moral and phys 

 ical energy, or in political power. Look at the 



diet of that nation, which has produced 



fidence. I have used it for neirly twenty yeat: 

 with great eflbct. 



" I have recommended it to a great many "A 

 tlemen, but only a fevv have used it. Those wlo 



the most illustrious names in the records of the 

 human race, whether in literat'ire, science, polit- 

 ical, civil, or military eminence ; the country of 

 Shakspeare, Newton, Locke, and Milton. With 

 such examples before us, it is monstrously absurd 

 to assert that animal food is productive of any 

 detrimental efl^ect on the developement and pow- 

 ers of the human mind aad body. — Grijj'ith's 

 Translatiun of Cuvier's Animal Kingdom. 



Qfjhave tried it are much pleased with its operatic^. 



Thus much can be said in favour of Operative 

 Manufactures, when business is good — they have 

 that indispensible security for virtue and happi- 

 ness' — CONSTANT r.r.lrr.OY.UKNT. 



The reason that it has not been more generally 

 used is that it has been fashionable to daub the 

 trees with lime, clay, manure, and other composi- 

 tions, which take two or three years to wash off 

 before the trees will look natural. When this so- 

 lution of potash is applied it has the desired ef- 

 fect immediately. It kills the moss & lice at once ; 

 and the first rain that comes washes the bark 

 smooth, and gives it a fair, natural, and healthj 

 colour. 



" My way of using this preparation is to dis- 

 solve 2 lbs. of potash of the first quality, in seven 

 quarts of water for the bodies of the trees. It is 

 put on with a white wash biush. If the limbs are 



