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VOLUME I. 



ROCHESTER, JANUARY 15, 1831. 



NUMBER 2. 



THE GENESEE FARMER 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Econo- 

 my, &c, &c. 



Published on Saturdays, at $2 50 per annum, 

 payable in six months, or at $2 00, it' paid at the 

 time of subscribing, by Tucker & Stevens, 

 ut the office of the Rochester Daily Advertiser. 



33" The proprietors have undertaken the 

 publication with the determination of making 

 it permanent : they would therefore suggest 

 to all those wbo would wish to see the Farmer 

 become a durable and useful paper, the propri 

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 circulation, but also of contributing to its col- 

 umns. 



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 they shall think favorably of the undertaking, 

 and of the merits of the work, will oblige us 

 by forwarding us their names, and those of a- 

 ny friends to whom ^uch a paper as this would 

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 patronage. 



HORTICULTURAL, SOCIETY OF MOW 



ROE COUNTY. 



This Society, which was formed after the 

 delivery of the Address contained in our first 

 number, held its first annual meeting at the Ar- 

 cade in this village on the 8th October, 1830 

 in the Atheiueum rooms, which were politely 

 tendered to the Socie.y by the Managers of that 

 Institution, when the following officers were 

 elected for the ensuing year ; 



James K. Guernsey, President, 



Elisha B. Strong, ) 



Silas Cornel, > Vice Presidents. 



Henry Fellows, ) 



L. B. Langworthv, ) , , ■ „ , 



N.GoodseU JcorspondtngSecys. 



O. E. Gibbs, Treasurer, 

 H. Stevens, Recording Sec'y. 

 At a subsequent meeting of the executive 

 Committee, the following persons were appoin 

 ted a committee for receiving and examining 

 such specimens of fruits, flowers, or vegeta 

 hies, as might be presented in their season, and 

 report the same at the next annaal meeting of 

 the Society: J. L. D. Mathies, Ebenezer 

 Watts, and H. N. Langworthy. 



The committee appointed to examine fruits, 

 &c. will meet on Wednesday of each week at 

 their room in the Arcade. Persons presenting 

 specimens will please to leave them with J. L. 

 I). Mathies, chairman of the committee, togeth- 

 er with their names, plac.es of residence, and 

 name of the fruit, whether it is a seedling or 

 graft, and whether they can supply cions if cal- 

 led for. 



At their meeting last week, they examined 

 many kinds of apples, some very fine, among 

 •which was the Nova Scotia or Roxbury Rus- 

 set, Rhode Island Greening, aud a new variety 

 of Russet without name, of fine size and fla- 

 vor ; the New York Gloria Mundi of large size, 

 and many other kinds richly worth cultivating; 

 but as those who presented them did not leave 

 Uleir descriptions as required, they will not 

 be particularized. 



Gentlemen having choice kinds of fruit 

 which they wish to distribute among their 

 friends, are invited to present specimens as a- 

 bove, when particular notice will ba given of 

 the same, 



AGRICULTURAL, READING. 



As winter is the season when farmers have 

 most leisure for reading, so it is a very important 

 season to such as wish to make the most of their 

 time; and as Mr. Fessenden has very justly ob- 

 served, " the seeds of knowledge may be sown 

 in winter, and the horticulturist may cultivate 

 his mind when his soil is bound in frozen fet- 

 ters." Therefore let the young farmer consid- 

 er that the science of Agriculture is the most 

 complicated, and, when taken in that extensive 

 signification which we give it, including the 

 management of farm, stock of different kinds, 

 the making of butter, chaese, cider, &c. re- 

 quires more study to become perfect in it, than 

 any other profession whatsoever. He should 

 consider that the present age is an age of im- 

 provement, that the arts and sciences are pro- 

 gressing, and he that would win the prize must 

 run for it, otherwise he will have the mortifi- 

 cation of seeing many, with smaller means but 

 with more application, passing by, and soon 

 leaving him at an irrecoverable distance behind 

 them. The time has been when it was diffi- 

 cult to obtain elementary works on Agriculture 

 in all its different branches, at such pjrices as 

 were within the power of every man; and ev- 

 en when procured, most of them were mere 

 pieces of plagiarism, taken from European au- 

 thors, and no better calculated for our climate 

 than our course of cropping would be for the 

 West Indies. But those times are past. Ag 

 riculture is assuming that place which was giv- 

 en to it by our Creator on that day " when he 

 created the Heavens and the Earth." We 

 find men of talents and education not only be 

 coming its patrons, but actual operators and 

 experimentors, and sending forth the results of 

 those experiments, like so many streams of 

 pure and wholesome water, to mak e glad the 

 face of ouf most highly favored count r y. 



Our bookstores already abound with practi- 

 cal works on Agriculture, and Gazettes, Maga- 

 zines, and Journals, aie increased to that ex- 

 tent that he that will " may read." But the 

 body politic, as well as the animal system, ts 

 subject to disease — the dog has his mange and 

 the horse his distemper ; and most nations have 

 had the novel mania ; but as this, like the two 

 former, rarely makes its appearance more than 

 once with the same subject, we hope theyoung 

 er class of agriculturists will hereafter bo ben 

 efitted by a more healthy and profitable course 

 of reading. We have already many men in the 

 United States who are becoming justly cele 

 brated for their writings on subjects connected 

 with farming — men who already enjoy the con 

 fidence of the public, and who are entitled to 

 the gratitude of their countrymen for the con- 

 cise and correct manner of detailing whatever 

 they find by experiment worth communicating. 

 As temperance, like a redeeming spirit, is now 

 hovering about our land, we hope that many 

 young agriculturists will devote a part of the 

 amount formerly applied to the purchase of ar- 

 dent spirit to the purchase of such works ap- 

 pertaining to their vocations as will prove 

 profitable to themselves and a blessing to our 

 country. What more profitable and amusing 

 intellectual repast than to spend a winter even- 

 ing in loohing over Prinze's Treatise on the j 



Vine and Horticulture, Fessenden on Garden- 

 ing, or Adlum on Wine making. So far as an- 

 ticipation is concerned we seem transported to 

 ihe feast of fruits and flowers and exhilarated 

 in fancy as though we had been partaking of 

 ■' Wine which maketh glad the heart of man." 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



As this operation is often performed in open 

 winters as well as during fall and spring months 

 a few remarks may be acceptable. We shall not 

 enter into any arguments in this article as to 

 the particular time neeessary for this opera- 

 tion, as at any season, if well done, is better 

 than not done at all. There is a great conven. 

 ience in being able to procure trees near by bo 

 that they may be put in the ground the same 

 day on which they are taken up ; this, when 

 done in warm days, prevents the danger of the 

 roots being frozen, which often happens when 

 trues are kept out of ground many days during 

 late fall and winter setting. If tke roots of 

 tiees are frozen and thawed when they are out 

 of ground in open air they are killed. As the 

 fine roots are important to the growth of trees 

 when transplanted, care should be taken not to 

 expose tbem to the air when it is cold enough 

 to freeze, as in that case they are instantly de- 

 stroyed. If the ground into which you trans- 

 plant your trees is hard or barren, the holes 

 should be made large and filled up with good 

 rich earth in preference to using any kind of 

 manure. The roots should be laid in without 

 being crowded, and covered with fine earth — 

 when there is sufficient earth laid upon the 

 roots to cover them, a pail of water should be 

 poured in and the young tree stirred up and 

 down by which the earth will be made into a 

 wash, which will settle in among the small 

 roots and prevent their molding, which is often 

 the case when they are pressed together, by 

 having the dirt thrown upon them, or when 

 manure is put in the holes with the earth. — 

 Many are so particular as to mark the trees so 

 as to set the same side to a given point of com- 

 pass as before they were taken up ; this is well 

 enough, but i3 not important Pruning at the 

 time of transplanting is bad, but may be done 

 after the trees begin to vegetate In spring. It 

 is well to set young trees a few inches deeper 

 in the earth than they were before taken up, 

 but to set too deep is injurious. Trees in open 

 orchards in this section should bo set with the 

 heaviest part of their tops to the southwest and 

 be allowed to lean a little in that direction tfs 

 we have the most of our winds from that quar- 

 ter which are apt to bend them in an opposite 

 direction. 



Answer to " Ji question," in JS'o. \,p. C. 

 The Gardener must set them an trM four ex r 

 tromities of a solid equiangular tetragon, to he 

 formed by placing three of them on a level at. 

 the extremities of an equiangular triangle, and 

 the fourth, either on a bill or in a valley, so 

 that its angles of inclination to the three oth- 

 er trees shall be equ»l — the trees will then Be 

 eqai-dstant. P. 



