Vol. 1.— No. 26. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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these lilies with fine green leaves rapidly 

 advancing to a flowering state. 



Two years ago, I planted Spiraea toimrn- 

 tosa. Like the lily, it grew feeble, assuming 

 a pale yellow cast, and produced no flowers. 

 1 have since procured another, which stands 

 in the same border with heathly green leaves, 

 and with every prospect of coming soon into 

 bloom. 



I have also observed plants of Liatris 

 vpheroidea, Ultx mropaus and Isupirrus noo- 

 'Iiatensis with the same sickly aspect. 



I have seen nothing to induce a hope that 

 those plants will ever recover from this mal- 

 ady. D. S. 



SELECTIONS. 



From the Keesvilte Herald. 



To the Editors, — In conformity to your 

 request, the following is the result of my 

 experiment on 15 acres plane land, situate 

 on the high road, half a mile west of Port 

 Kent. E. WATSON. 



Port Kent, June 17, 1851. 



This experimental lot lies within the race 

 course, on the north side, in the mids of pine 

 woods. The land is of a good quality for 

 that species of soil, and so pronounced by 

 Capt. Lindsey, of Saratoga county, who 

 constructed the road from Port Kent to 

 Keeseville, in 1824. He stated to me it was 

 much superior to the same species of land 

 in that county ; and that he, with others, 

 had for several years cultivated it with great 

 success and profit. From his information, I 

 was induced to commence the experiment 

 mi 1826. In May of that year, I paid for 

 clearing the 15 acres for the plough, #29 

 September following, for plough- 

 ins, at #3 per acre, with two 

 yoke of oxen, 45 



#74 



In 1827, it lay in that hopeless state, and 

 vet I pronounced it an " experimental lot ;" 

 which excited the general sneer of ridicule. 



In 1828, it was again ploughed, cro«s 

 ploughed and har owed, and the greatest 

 !> oportion of bushes and roots taken off, at 

 an expense of #35 



< )n 3 acres, I put on 3 bbls, 



damaged salt, at #1,50, 4,50 



Vlso, 30 bush, damaged lime, 2,00 



In September, sowed the 15 acres, plas- 

 tered, with rye, after soaking it 12 hours in 

 iieef pickle, containing salt petre. 



1329. In March, sowed 3 acres with red 

 clover, on the last end, and plastered the 

 whole at the rate of one° bushel to the acre in 

 May; received a good crop of rye; plough- 

 ed, cross ploughed and harrowed for a fresh 

 top and cleared off most of the toots. 



1831. In March, seeded down the 12 

 acres with red clover, at the rate of G bush- 

 els of seed to the acre ; early in July, plough- 

 ed in the 3 acres of clover on the east end 

 of the lot ; and in September, sowed 2 acres 

 of it with rye and one acre of it with wheat, 

 prepared as before; seeded it down to clover 

 in March, and plastered the whole 15 acres 

 111 May. 



1831, June 15th. The rye 5 1-2 feet 

 high, and wheat in vigorous growth, al- 

 though considerably injured by the past win- 

 ter ; the clover of uncommon growth for the 

 season. Sent samples of both to Keeseville 

 and Plattsburgh for the inspection of the 

 public, who appeared to be much astonished 



at my successful experiment. But they say 

 I have incurred an expense which common 

 farmers cannot sustain to arrive at a result 

 so unexpected, so favorable and new in this 

 country ; although it is well known that 

 farmers in Dutchess, Columbia and Sarato- 

 ga counties have greatly enriched them- 

 selves for thirty years past by the culture of 

 these pine planes; more productive by a ju- 

 dicious management of clover and plaster 

 than the Genesee Flats, taking into view 

 the comparative facility of cultivation. 



In answer as to the expense I have incur- 

 red, I can safely appeal to the above state- 

 ment, with an assurance that no manure has 

 been put on the land, nor no other course 

 adopted but as above stated. The experi- 

 ment of lime and salt, it will be observed, 

 was on 3 acres only ; its effects will be as- 

 certained by the clover of this year. 



All the expenses I have incurred since 

 1826 are fully met by the profits of the crops. 

 It therefore results, that with exception of 

 the fences and #6,50 for salt and lime ; the 

 extra, chargeable on the soil for the first 

 year is #74. It is useless to add, the public 

 will judge for themselves. I have brought 

 the subject fairly before them, and earnestly 

 invite experiments, and less attention to 

 lumber, the bane of agriculture. 



Massachusetts horticultural societt. 



At a meeting of this Society, held June 

 18th, the following report was made by the 

 Committee on a garden of Experiment and 

 Rural Cemetery. 



Rrport. 

 When the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society was organised, it was confidently 

 anticipated, that, at no very distant period 

 a Garden of Experiment would be establish- 

 ed in the vicinity of Boston; but to arrive at 

 such a pleasing result, it was deemed expe- 

 dient that our efforts should first be direct- 

 ed, co the accomplishment f objects, which 

 would not require very extensive pecuniary 

 resources ; that we should proceed with great 

 caution, and by a prudential management 

 of our means, gradually develope a more 

 complete and efficient system for rendering 

 the institution, as extensively useful as it 

 was necessary and important. Public favor 

 was to be propitiated, by the adaption of 

 such incipient measures, as were best cal- 

 culated to encourage patronage and insure 

 ultimate success. 



With these views, the labors of the Soci- 

 ety have been confined to the collection and 

 dissemination of intelligence, plants, scions, 

 and seeds, in the various departments of 

 Horticulture. An extensive correspondence 

 was therefore opened with similar associa- 

 tions in this country, and Europe, as well as 

 with many gentlemen who were distinguish- 

 ed for their theoretical attainments, practi- 

 cal information and experimental research- 

 es, in all the branches of rural economy, on 

 this continent, and other portions of the 

 globe. 



The kind disposition, which has been gen- 

 erally evinced, to advance the interests of 

 the Society, has had a salutary and cheering' 

 influence. Many interesting and instruct-; 

 ive communications have been received, and 

 valuable donations of books, seeds, and 

 plants have been made by generous foreign- 

 ers, and citizens of the United States. Al 

 liberal offer of co-operation has been prompt- 

 ly tendered, in both hemispheres, and great 1 



advantages are anticipated, from a mutual 

 interchange of good offices. 



A library of considerable extent has been 

 formed, containing many of the most cele- 

 brated English and French works on horti- 

 culture, several of which are magnificent. 



he apartments for the accommodation of 

 the Society, have been partially embellished 

 with beautiful paintings, of some of our 

 choice native varieties of fruits ; and by- 

 weekly exhibitions, dining eight months of 

 the year, of fruits, flowers, and esculent ve- 

 getables ; — by awarding premiums for pro- 

 ficiency in the art of gardening, and the 

 the rearing of new, valuable, or superior 

 products ; by disseminating intelligence, 

 and accounts of the proceedings of the So- 

 ciety at its regular and special meetings, 

 through the medium of the New England 

 Farmer ; and by an annual festival, and pub- 

 lic exhibition of the various products of 

 horticulture, an interest has been excited, 

 and a spirit of inquiry awakened, auspicious 

 to the Institution, while a powerful impulse 

 has been given to all the branches of rural 

 industry, far beyond our most sanguine 

 hopes. 



To foster and extend a taste for the pleas- 

 ant, useful and refined art of Gardening, 

 the time appears to have arrived, for enlar- 

 ging the sphere of action, and giving the 

 most ample development to the original de- 

 sign of the Society. 



The London, Paris, Edinburgh and Liv- 

 erpool Horticultural associations, have each 

 established Experimental Gardens, and the 

 beneficial effects have been conspicuously 

 experienced, not only throughout England, 

 Scotland and France, but the whole civili- 

 zed world is deriving advantages from those 

 magnificent depositories, of the rarest pro- 

 ducts, which have been collected, from the 

 vast domains of Pomona and Flora. These 

 noble precedents have been followed, in Rus- 

 sia, Germany, Holland and Italy. We must 

 also emulate the meritorious examples of 

 those renowned institutions, and be thus en- 

 abled to reciprocate their favors, from like 

 collections of useful and ornamental plants. 

 An equally enlightened taste will be hus 

 superinduced for those comforts and embel- 

 lishments, and that intellectual enjoyment 

 which the science and practice of horticul- 

 ture afford. 



With the Experimental Garden, it is re- 

 commended to unite a Rural Cemetery ; 

 for the period is not distant, when all the 

 burial grounds within the city will be closed, 

 and others must be foraed in the country, 

 — the primitive and only proper location.— 

 There the dead may repose undisturbed, 

 through countless ages. There can be form 

 ed a public place of sepulchre, where mon- 

 uments can be erected to our illustrious men, 

 whose remains, thus far, have, unfortunate- 

 ly, been consigned to obscure and isolated 

 tombs, instead of being collected within one 

 common depository, where their great deeds 

 might be perpetuated and their memories 

 cherished by succeeding generations, Tho' 

 dead, they would be eternal admonitors to 

 the living, — teaching them the way, which 

 leads to national glory and individual re- 

 nown. 



When it is perceived what laudable effort? 

 have been made in Europe, and how honor- 

 able the results, it is impossible that the cit 

 izens of the United States should long lin- 

 ger in the rear of the general march of 



