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THE GENESEE PARMER 



ported varieties, from which process, when ap- 

 plied to the vine, as well as various other exo- 

 tics, we have the most sanguine expectations 

 of being able to naturalize and acclimate them 

 to our light and shade, heat and cold, and cau^e 

 ihem, not only to become naturalized, but na- 

 tural born republican denizens of our gardens) 

 and fields, who originally, with aristocratic 

 pride, wero withdrawn from vulgar gaze, in 

 the sumptuous palaces and hot-houses of Eu- 

 rope, or were indigenous in the enervating re- 

 gions of a tropical temperature. 



The process is simple; the seeds sown in 

 the fall vegetate the next spring, and usually 

 produce the third year. They all bud and 

 graft freely on the common and wild stocks, 

 which may have a favorable effect on the large 

 varieties ; it is worth trying. Observe in bud- 

 ding, the bandages must be kept on much lon- 

 ger than in other cases. 



We shall continue this subject next week, 

 and give some hints on improving the com- 

 mon kinds, and on the best manner of mana- 

 ging them. » 



HOT-BEDS. 



Those persons who are fond of good gar- 

 dens will find it very much to their advantatro 

 to rear their young plants in a hot bed ; and al- 

 though professional gardeners may make theirs 

 in March, we would not recommend those who 

 are unacquainted with the business, to com- 

 mence theirs until April. 



To manage an early hot bed with perfect 

 success, is one of the skilfull operations in 

 gardening ; but when the bed is not commen- 

 ced until April, they may be managed with 

 success by any one who will pay a little atten. 

 tiort to the subject. By commencing a bed 

 about the first of April, plants mav be kept in 

 a thrifty growing state, under the glass, until 

 the weather becomes warm enongh to plant 

 them out, without the trouble of chani'irji' 

 them trom one bed to another, or giving the 

 bed a second beat ; whereas, if planted one 

 month earlier, they require the skill of .in ex- 

 perienced gardener to keop them from run- 

 ning up with Ions stalks, which would injure 

 them, or their being stunted by the bed beco- 

 ming cold, after the fermentatiun of the ma- 

 nure is over. 



As we are wishing to give simple directions 

 to those who are unacquainted with the busi- 

 ness, the more experienced gardeners will 

 make all allowance where we do not describe 

 their more practical rules. 



To commence a hot bed, take a sufficient 

 quantity of manure, (that from the horse sta- 

 bles, and which has bn.cn thrown in a heap and 

 began to heat, being preferable) ; arrange it in 

 a square form, about b'vo lout wide, and of such 

 ieuglli a* may suit your convenience, and a- 

 bout from eighteen inches to 2 feet in height ; 

 on the top of this place a box about four feet 

 wide, and of a length corresponding witll.your 

 bed, making the north side six inches higher 

 than the south, to give tho glass sufficient slope 

 tp carry oil' the water. 



This box should be made with good joints, 

 otherwise the mice will get in and destroy the 

 plants. The box thus prepared, is to bo pla- 

 ced upon the top of the pile of manure, winch 

 should be made level, that the box may sit 

 "lose upo!» it. Tim south side of the box 

 itou.d be about one foot high, anA fh e north 



side about one foot and a half; and when pla- 

 ced upon the manure, there should he put into 

 it about four inches of good fine rich loam— 

 that from turf land is preferred. 



After the bed has been thus formed, and has 

 become warm, (which may be known by run- 

 ning a stick into it), the seed may be planted 

 upon it. The whole bed should be covered 

 with glass, where that can be had ; but as ma 

 ny of the farmers may not have that, oiled pa- 

 per may be used as a substitute, which may be 

 taken off in warm days. 



By a little attention to this mode of raising 

 plants, gardens may be advanced from twi 

 weoks lo a month, and many plants raised 

 with more certainty than when planted in open 

 ground. 



Among the seeds that are to be sown first 

 upon a hot bed, may be enumerated— Early 

 York and Dwarf Cabbages, Early Caulyflnw 

 era and Brocoli, Cucumbers and Mellons of 

 different kinds, Peppers of sorts, Tomatoes 

 and Egg plants, Lettuce and Pepper grass, a 

 few Radishes, Squashes, Turnip Beets, and it 

 some eyes are cut from Early Potatoes, and 

 planted in the bed, and after the frosts are 

 past, planted out, thoy will be fit for use two 

 weeks earlier than those planted directly in 

 the open ground. Other potatoes may be put 

 in holes made with a stick in the side of the 

 bed, where they will soon sprout and be readv 

 for early sotting. If Sweet Potatoes can be 

 procured in season by sprouting them in a 

 hot bed, they produce very well in this sec 

 tion of country. 



April 2, 1851. 



NOTICE. 



A Meeting of the Executive Committee of 

 the Monroe Horticultural Scciktt will be 

 held at the Arcade House, in this Village, on 

 Thursday the 7th of April inst. A genera! 

 attendance is reqnested. 



HESTOR STEVENS, 



Rochester, .1pril2, 1831. Rec Skc'v. 



March. FI.OB.AIj CALENDAR' 



%i-~ Wild Pigeons made their appeal ance— Crocus, I C 

 vermis) and lied Maple in Bower— The Catkin. 

 of the Willow and Poplar out- Winter wheal looke 

 fair. 



ONEIDA INSTITUTE. 



We have been favored with the third repon 

 of this flourishing seminary, from which it ap- 

 pears that forty two young men have earned 

 during the last year.a sum equal lo the amount 

 of their board, wbicb, at a little more thai 

 one dollar a week, amounts to gi,OUO. While 

 earniQg Ibis sum, they have also been giving 

 strength and vigor to their constitutions ; a 

 healthy tone to their mental faculties; am! 

 preparing themselves to endure hardships, to 

 encounter difficulties, and to accomplish tin 

 great purposes of life. All the other expetr. 

 ses of the institution, for tuition, room rem 

 fuel, light and contingencies, amount to ggfj a 

 year for each student. This plan of nnilinp 

 manual labor with study, we regard as amonv 

 the best improvements of (he day; theexperi 

 meot at Wbilcsborough. has been a fair and 

 nuc/.'essful one ; and we rejoice to learn (ha 

 the Trustees propose erecting buildings to ac 

 commodate one /lum/Vet/slydeuts. Fivk hdk 

 drbd applicants, it is stated, have been re 

 fused admission, the last year, for want o 

 room : a noble comtneut on (he adaptation o 

 Hie system to the tvaWs of Hie community. 



Utka Sgnf, 



LETTERS FROM EUROPE. 



From the .lochester Daily Advertiser 

 LETTER VI 



Paris, January 8, 1831. 

 My dear Friend— Ton will have heard of the 

 resignation of Lafayette asCommander-in-ehief 

 >f the National Guards. This event of itself, 

 and unconnected with circumstances, ought to 

 ™' 1 " no surprise, when it is considered, that 

 'he office was conferred under the provisional 

 oovernment, for the exigencies of the time, 

 and was in truth held, so long as it continued, 

 without warrant of law After fhe new Gov- 

 ernment was once organized, this office, by thc- 

 Constitution.bolonged lothe King, and to place 

 and keep it in the hands of an individual, was 

 .o place that individual, at once, above both 

 the King and the Constitution But after what 

 had transpired on the subject in the Chambers, 

 (jen. Lafayette not only resigned the command 

 of the National Guards of the kingdom, but 

 lie refused, though repeatedly and earnestly 

 entreated by the King, to retain the command 

 of those of Paris. It had become evident that 

 the good Genera! had fallen under suspicion 

 • he jealousies of a considerable portion of cit- 

 izens were awakened against him The exist- 

 ence of a plot against the Government bogan to 

 be bruited about, and the conspiracy was said 

 to embrace two very dis'inct and even opposite 

 classes of persons. It was said that the repub- 

 licans of France desired and wero resolved 

 toat every trace of monarchy, or hereditary 

 authority, either in the legislative or execu- 

 tive department, should be abolished. Th-> 

 existenco and objects ofsucb a party becominn- 

 known, the Carhsts, it was said, had joined 

 themselves to it, in the hope of preparing a 

 way for bringing back the Bourbons in the 

 confusion and anarchy that would follow from 

 a civil war. I have not learned that any ver\ 

 satisfactory evidence of such a conspiracy, or 

 any other, has been adduced, though its exist- 

 ence was expressly charged, by Ministers, in 

 the Chamber of Deputies. In limes, however, 

 of high political excitement and alarm, the 

 simple averment of a fact is often quite as val- 

 uable for the effect intended, as the most in- 

 controvertible proof. So it happenod in the 

 instance before us. The political principles 

 of Lafayette, the most consistent politician 

 perhaps that the world ever saw, were well 

 understood. From the time he studied in the 

 school of Washington to the present hour, in 

 all the astonishing and changing scenes of hi? 

 eventful life, ho has been an undisguised re- 

 publican ; and if ho did not bend from this lofty 

 Bentimenl, either while suffering years of im- 

 prisonment, or during the splendid reign at 

 Napoleon, so dazzling, and so illustrious for 

 his country, it was not to bo expected that now 

 'n his old age he would adopt opinions, or use 

 a language which would give the lie to a long 

 life of active and virtuous energy in the great 

 cause of liberty. While, therefore, the Gen- 

 eral was true to his country amidst the new 

 and trying scenes in which he was called to 

 lako a part, he was also true to himself. While 

 tie held fast to his original faith, and believed 

 ihut tbs people of France were capable of sell 

 government on republican principles, if there 

 were only time and opportunity to organize 

 mch a government, yet be saw, as clearly as 

 «ny man, the necessity, lor the prevention of 

 liuuian butchery, of bringing the floating, con- 

 tused and warring elements about him. "into a 

 condition of order with Ihe least possible delay. 

 He saw loo, from the suddenness of the events; 

 of July, that things wore by no means prepared 

 aud ready for tho composition of a government 

 un his principles, and that the attempt, making 

 confusion worse confounded, Would certainly 

 be followed, for a season at least, with horrors 

 at which humanity must shudder On the 

 j other baud, there was the most fortunate com- 

 '"binatiou of circumstances that could have hap 

 pened, for the restoration of perfect quiet and 



order under tho Duke of Orleins as King 



Republican as he was, the Gei.eral did not 

 II hesitate. Be not only yielded, Iffs healrtv atr." 



