Vol. v.— No. 50. 



NEW ENGLAND FAlii\IER. 



re, they were sent to the eastern part of Maine, 

 iertf they reviveJ ami nourished, and were sent 

 ;un to Boston. We bought a bushel or two, 

 id planted them ; they produced miserably, and 

 are utterly worthless. We consider them as 



ID out. 



The Chenango potato, a Pennsylvania variety, 

 e earnestly recommend as valuable for the table. 

 is remarkably early ; very fair sized potatoes 

 n be hod from them in sixty days. 

 We had till this year supposed that their great 

 cellencc consisted in their being fine in summer 

 d fall. We can now add that they continued 

 6 till the .30th of May, and are now, on the 6th 

 June, better than any we have. 

 We have spoken highly of the Foxite potatoc, 

 hich is the great favourite in Pennsylvania, 

 here it is preferred to the Chenango. It is a late 

 jtato, and not so showy as the Chenango. Wa 



tm 



There has been considerable discussion, you [ Iccted by many farmers; but advantnoeThould 

 know, concerning the origin aiul derivation of this : always be taken of it by a good husbandman, when 

 eiiculent vegetable. It has been inquired with ' ■ ■ • ■ 

 some solicitude, wliat is really the country of tlio 

 Solanum tuberosum .' and where docs it c.\ist with- 

 ont cultivation at the present day ? 



I consider the articles I have received, as af- 

 fording answers of a satisfactory kind to both 



ho is lucky enough to succeed a great sloven ; 



for then lie will probably find all the ponds, &c.' 



full of rich mud. 

 It is improbable that pond mud, especially if 



there is a stream into the water, should ever fai! ' 



of proving a nood manure, when judiciiiusly used 

 questions. The potatoe, whence our domestic | The method of managing it, which has been found 

 stock is derived, is an inhabitant of South Ameri- ' 

 ca, and is at this time thriving without human 

 care or nrotection in Chili. 



the most beneficial, is the following : 



As soon as the mud is dry, and hard enough to 

 spit, turn it over, and three months after, mix it 

 The species are small ; some of them being not. with a quantity of chalk ; if lime is cheap and 

 so large as nutmegs. Through inadvertence, they plentiful, it will bean e.xcellent management to 



have been kept on ship-board until nov 

 of them have pushed forth shoots. 



and some add about one-tonth the quantity of mud in lime. 

 Let the whole be mixed well together, and in 



Their appearance confirms the statement made September turned over again, and spread upon 

 by Joseph Sabine, Esq. in his memoir on the na- pasture or meadow land in October. 

 live country of the wild potatoe, as printed in the , [Young's Farmer's Calendar.] 



,d supposed that the Foxite was a variety pro- i fourth volume of the London Horticultural Trans 



iced in Pennsylvania, but we find them claimed actions, page .349, &c. with figures of the ivihers.^'^ ^™P^^' ^ff'^'^^'^^^^t "'^d expeditious Mode of destroy 



ie the expression of a gentleman with whom I 

 conversing on the subject, and who has raised 

 lem for some years, 'they are s.s much superior 

 ether potatoes as the best superfine wheat flour 

 to common rye flour ;' the only objection to t^em 

 ., that they are poor bearers, and yield so bidly 

 I to discourage their cultivation. Wo grow" a- 

 »ther potato here called the Mercer potato, w-hich 

 next in repute for the table and vields bounti- 



ISo far Mr Buck's authority, which we can con- 

 m from experience in all points, except that we 

 Bve found it a very fair bearer. But until we can 

 ome to the European rule, whicli is to select the 

 3Bt eating potatoe for the table, and resting con- 

 Bted with small crops, we shall never have good 

 les for our tables. Every good variety of potato 

 11 Prance, Great Britain, and America, are small 

 ;areis compared with the coarser, or what we 

 ay call the cattle sorts. The mangel wurtzel 

 eet is a much greater bearer than the blood red, 

 <et who would put the mangel wurtzel on the ta- 

 le ? We can furnish ihose who may be disposed 

 «xt year or the present to try the Foxite or Che- 

 ango with seed potatoes. There is a celebrated 

 otato in Rhode Island called the Elam, which we 

 ave now under trial here. — Moss. Agric. Repos. 



Froni'tke JVew York Statesman. 



'HE PARENT PLANT OF THE POTATOE. 

 iamuel L. Mitchell 'o .Yathaniel H. Carter, Cor- 

 responding Secretary of the .Vew York Historical 

 Society. 



Dear Sir — I this afternoon received, through 

 )r Tinslar of the U. S navy, two dozen tubers or 

 blong and roundish roots of the wild potato. He 



rought them from their native region in Chili 



They are perfectly distinct from the species which 

 'rows without culture on certain high lands in 

 'eru ; more especially those of St Lorenzo island, 

 The latter are shagged, with little roots like hairs. 

 ind have their eyes or sprouting points atone ex- 

 remity only ; while the former are smooth, and 

 lave germinatinir sjiots distributed over much of 

 .he surface, like oor common potato. 



iiig the Green Fly and other Insects. By Mr 

 Thomas M'Laurin, Gardener, Bunny Park, 

 JVottingh amsh ire . 

 Sir, — In the present dry season, so favourable^ 



as the object is rather to determine the botanical t^" '''e production of green fly that their numbers 

 iharacter than to procure a crop. For attaining ''''_° ^'t^^st unprecedented, the following method. 



I a New Jersey production by Mr Buck of Bridge- j Our fel'ow-citizens have now an opportunity of 



n, New Jersey. In a letter to the Editor of the | seeing with their own eyes ; and, by just distri- 



imerican Farmer, he says, " with respect to the bution, some of our cultivators may make a fi ir ex- 



pxite potato, I can truly say that they deserve poriment. I think the season is not yet too late, 



1 the commendations you have heard of them ; " " ' ' 



ey are certainly the finest potato cultivated in 



is country, remarkably white and mealy ; and to this end, our samples must not be kept for exhibi*^ which I practise for their destruction, may per- 



tion too long, but be soon committed to the soil. 



I congratulate you on this occurrence, as shed- 

 ding a benign light upon this department of phy- 

 to'ogical and agronomical science ; and on the 

 manner by which it has been brought about. 



SAMUEL L. MITCHELL. 



AMERICAN CHEESE. 

 From our correspondent at Philadelphia, we 

 have some account of the cheese market ; and as 

 a large portion of our readers are farmers, who 'his manner I have, this spring, with five gallons 



hap? not be unimportant to some readers of youi 

 valuable Magazine. 



I procure, from the tobacconists, liquor ex- 

 pressed from tobacco, to every gallon of which 

 I add five gallons of water ; this mi.xture T, with, 

 Read's garden syringe, sprinkle over the trees, 

 putting it on the finest rose, and being careful to 

 wet all the leaves ; this operation is performed 

 only in the hottest sunshine, as the efTect is then 

 uch greater than when the weather is dull. In 



depend principally on the productions of their of liquor, reduced as above stated, cleaned seven 

 dairies for a supply of their wants, we hasten to teen peach and nectarine trees, twelve of whicl. 

 lay before them such information as we possess, average seventeen feet in length and twelve i:; 

 It appears that there was on hand, in Philadel- height. The black glutinous insect, provincial!) 

 phia market, on the 2d inst. from 400 to ."JOO casks called blight, so destructive to the cherry trees. 



of old cheese, averaging about 200 lbs. — in all say i^ destroyed in the same way with equal facility. 



75,000 lbs. The following are extracts : I ''f ve also found, upon trial, that the grubs which 



" There was rising of 50 casks sold at auction attack the apricot, may be destroyed almost in 

 yesterday, at from l:j- to 6i cents per lb. — most of stantly by immersing the leaves infested in this 

 it from 2 to 2^. liquor. 



" We made an estimate the other day, and 1'his is the cheapest and most expeditious man- 

 found that the enormous quantity of 200,000 lbs. ner of destroying the above insects which has 

 of cheese had perished in this market, the last come within my knowledge, and to those who 

 year, by fire and the heat of the season ; 150,000 have not seen the operation performed the cfTect 

 lbs. we can reckon at twice — which ought to be produced is almost incredible. Roses, and, in fact, 

 stated, for the purpose of showing that too much any plant liable to be infested with green fly, and 

 cheese is made. 150,000 lbs. has actually been j situated where tobacco smoke cannot be used 

 destroyed by fire and hot weather, and there is ^^ith effect, may be easily cleaned by dipping in 



still an overplus of at least 65,000 lbs. 



or sprinkling with tobacco liquor,as circumstances 



' This is only the state of our market; the ^^y ■'^"'^er most convenient, 

 other markets New York and Baltimore, have When trees have got so bad that their leaves 

 been glutted all the year, andean tell of large ^r" '""^h curled, some of the flies, b'ing protec- 



quantities that have perished besides 



200,000 lbs. of cheese comes to .f 20.000, at ten 

 cents a pound. The protecting duty, or duty on 

 foreign cheese, it 9 cents a pound. [Am. Farmer.] 



EMPTY PONDS. 



Tiiis is a proper season for emptying ponds, and 

 cleansing rivers ; for, being early in the summer, 

 you will afterwards have an opportunity of turn- 

 ing the mud over, and tlierehy sweetening it, and 

 laying it into the proper state for bringing on the 

 land. This is a partof husbandry too much neg- 



ted within the curl, will escape : in this case more 

 force must be applied to the syringe, and in a day 

 or two the trees should be looked over again, and 

 whatever part of the leaves has not been wetted 

 should be washed with a painter's brush ; but a 

 careful person will render this process unnecessa- 

 ry, by taking them in time. 



The liquor costs in Nottingham Is. 2d. per gal 

 Ion. I am. Sir, &c. 



T. M'LAURIN 



Banny Park, Mitlingham, May 22. 1826 - 

 [Gardener's Magazine.] 



