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THE GENESEE FARMER 



September 24, 1833 



With sulphuric acid it forms sulphate of zinc 

 or white vitriol ; perhaps this is more commonly 

 known than any other combinations with acids. 



It has been used as a substitute for tin for lining 

 the inside of culinary and other vessels but is 

 found inferior to that metal. 



One of its oxides has been offered as a substitute 

 for white lead, for painting, and several patents 

 have been taken out for preparing it, but none of 

 them have succeeded in bringing it into general 

 use. 



When zinc is formed into kitchen utensils, we 

 know of nothing to recommend them over the com- 

 mon mixture of tin and lead, known as pewter or 

 block-tin, unless it is when milk pans are made of 

 it, they are rather stiffer, and when exposed to 

 heat they would require a higher degree to melt 

 them. We do not think they will come into gen- 

 eral use, neither do we know of any proper claim 

 at this time for a patent, as zinc has been used for 

 forming various utensils from time immemori- 

 al. 



HORTICULTUAL. 



The annual meeting of the Monroe County 

 Horticultural Society, will be held at the Arcade 

 in Rochester, on Friday the 30th of September, 

 1831, at 10 o'clock A. M. and not on the 7th of 

 October as noticed in the last number of the Par- 

 mer. H. STEVENS, Sec'y. 



Rochester, 23d Sept. 1831. 



Mrs. Paul Clark — A basket vergalo and : English practice in preparing the seed, which 

 and St. Germaine pears. ji is to spread out the seed four or five inches 



D. B. Slingerland — Twenty-three clus-^deep on a flaor, anil sprinkle it with water, 

 ters grapes, comprising the Whine, Ham- [stirring it occasionally for 24 hours, so as to 

 burgh, Burgundy, Sweet-water, Golden cha-i dampen it thoroughly before sowing it. — 

 salas, Malvoix white, Souvenir white, cha-lj This makes the seed heavier, and it conse- 

 salas white, Fontainbleau and Piedroug; the Iquently falls into the crevices of the earth 

 Minorca, Persian, pine apple and citron better, and is not so liable to be blown about 

 melons ; the white Maiacaton peach, the 



ALBANY 



SO- 



HORTICULTURAL 

 CIETY. 



The third anniversary of the Albany Hor- 

 ticultural Society was celebrated on the 10th 

 inst. The following is an extract from the 

 account of the proceedings on the occa- 

 sion. 



The variety of fruits did not seem to be 

 as great as it really was, owing to the dimin- 

 ished quantity, and the alienee, almost en- 

 tirely, of the fruit which our gardens usually 

 present in the greatest variety and excel- 

 lence, — the plum ; but the grapes, of which i 

 there were upwards of twenty varieties, the 

 pear and melon, each of several kinds and 

 of high flavor, particularly the Persian, Cit- 

 ron and Nutmeg melons from the garden of 

 Mr. Slingerland, and the Bergamot, Sickle, 

 and Vergdo pears, from the gardens of 

 Messrs. Delavan, Dennison, Ford, Buel, 

 Slingerland and Mrs. Clark, were abundant, 

 and most of them in the perfect state in 

 which they were produced by superior and 

 successful culture. 



The culinary vegetables were, as usual, a- 

 bundant and tine. Among the plants, we 

 noticed the Okra, with its delicate and rich 

 product, from the garden of ma). Talcott. 



The following is a brief memorandum of 

 such of the productions as came under our 

 observation, with the name of their respect- 

 ive donors. 



Presented by Edward P. Livingston, of 

 Clermont — A basket of three kinds of grapes. 

 Messrs. Bwel if Wilson — Isabella grapes, 

 Bergamot and Vergalo Pears, Valparaiso 

 squash, egg plants, Constantinople gourd (a 

 feet long,} the apple potatoe, blood beet, tur- 

 nips. 



Isaac Dennison — A basket of grapes, do. 

 bergamot, sickle and vergalo pears. 



Thos. W. Ford — A basket of oranges, ber- 

 gamot and vergalo pears. 



J. I. Godfrey — Very fine celery, oyster 

 plants, potatoes, squashes. 



Downton pippin, bergamot pears, toinatos, 

 Lima beans, New-Zealand spinage, vegeta- 

 ble marrow, Valparaiso squash. 



Erastus Corning — A basket very fine and 

 large egg plums, do. large blue gage. 



Major Talcott — The okra plant, with fruit 

 and flowers. 



/. &,- J. Townscnd — Mexican toinatos, bell 

 pears, and squashes, Prussian pickle cucum- 

 bers, Carolina, Long-Island and kidney po- 

 tatoes, winter beet, parsnips and white Tur- 

 key beans. 



R. M. Meigs — A basket fine, large and 

 ripe Isabella grapes. 



Wm. Fowler — Very large egg plants. 

 Abm. R. Ten Eyck — A basket of New- 

 Orleans plums, do. damsons. 



John L. Viele — A basket Isabella grapes. 

 E. C Delavan — Bergamot pears, basket 

 grapes, do. egg plums. 



T. W. dkolt—S. basket Hamburgh 

 grapes. 



S. Van Rensselaer — Two large water 

 melons, one of which weighed 47£ pounds. 

 John Keyes Paige — very fine melons. 

 / Whaten from the garden of Stephen Van 

 Rensselaer, jr. — Beets, white etig plants, 

 English Spinage, Lima and string beans, 

 naustuations, globe artichoke. 



Horatio Gates Spafford, of Lansingburgh 

 — The following varieties of grapes, viz: 

 Madeira, white Tokay from Hungary, Con- 

 stantia from Cape of Good Hope, a native 

 grape from Pennsylvania, and the fox 

 grape. 



Alexander Walsh, of Lansingburgh — A 

 bearing branch of Fort Magee Crab, with 

 three apples, tree five feet four inches high, 

 two inches in circumference ; apples from 

 Hill's favorite, the Golden Harvey of Bra- 

 bant trees ; standard dwarf, from six to sev- 

 en feet high and four inches in circumfer- 

 ence. Three kinds of Native grapes. Three 

 |do. foreign, the royal Muscadine, Fontinac, 

 &c. A sample of monthly cherries. A 

 bunch of the roan tree berries. Two pea 

 nut plants in full bearing. Several branch- 

 es of the fig, with fruit; tree two year's 

 growth. 



by wind before it is covered by the harrow. 

 It also vegetates sooner and better. We al- 

 so think that the common harrow is too 

 coarse an implement for any grass seed ; it 

 is apt to bury much of it entirely too deep, 

 and at the same time to leave some on the 

 surface not covered at all. We have seen 

 at the north a sapling thickly set with small 

 branches and "Mis used instead of a harrow ; 

 but think that a harrow with double the usual 

 number of teeth, but these of only half the 

 common size, would be much the best im- 

 plement. This would require the ground to 

 be well prepared of course, but that ought to 

 be done under all circumstances. The tall 

 (meadow oat grass is gaining rapidly in pub- 

 lic favor, and will doubtless be generally a- 

 dopted. It is peculiar for its very early and 

 very late and abundant supply of pasture, 

 and is considered the best glass to sow with 

 lucerne, 12 to 15 pounds of the latter to a 

 bushel of the former being the usual quan- 

 tity to an acre. — American Farmer. 



DESTRUCTION OF INSECTS.' 



Mr. Fessenden — Now is the time to de- 

 stroy caterpillars. The eggs, from which 

 they are produced are now to be found in 

 bunches on the twigs of fruit trees. By ta- 

 king off those bunches the vermin are destoy- 

 ed in the egg. The color of the bunches is 

 now so much darker than the hark of the twig 

 that they are easily to be found ; it will, by 

 [degrees, become lighter, until it will be v'erv 

 near the color of the bark. The eggs are 

 laid in July. They remain, where lard, un- 

 affected by change of weather, by frost or 

 heat, until spring, when they are hatched by 

 the flowing of the sap, and vegetative power 

 of the twig. Each bunch of eggs will pro- 

 duce a swarm of caterpillars that will have a 

 nest by themselves. The nest is usually 

 built on the branch that bore me twig on 

 which the eggs were laid. As caterpillars 

 have no desire to leave the tree, on which they 

 were hatched, until the time win n the) leave 

 their nest and separate to come together no 

 more, it is very easy to keep small trees free 

 from their nests, by destroying the eggs. — N 

 E. Farmer. 



ORCHARD GRASS, fcc. 

 The season for seeding orchard grass, tall 

 meadow oat grass, &c. is fast approaching, 

 arrd we have thought that the following hints 

 might he acceptable to those intending to 

 cultivate these grasses. Many persons have 

 failed in producing orchard grass after much 

 trouble in obtaining seed and preparing their 

 ground, and generally, the fault is attributed 

 to the seed. This may sometimes he the 

 case ; but we apprehend the cause of failure 

 may as often be attributed to the manner of 

 putting the seed in the ground as to the seed. 

 It is a very light chaffy seed, or rather an ex 

 tremely minute seed, closely surrounded by 

 a large chaffy husk ; and therefore, if buried 

 too deep, liable to rot in the ground; or, if 

 too shallow, to remain dry on the surface. — 

 In a conversation with Mr. Robert Sinclair 

 on this subject, he suggested that it would be 

 well, in sowing orchard grass, to adopt the 



Management of Pigs. — The following 

 experiment was made by a gentleman of 

 Norfolk. Six pigs of the Norfolk breed, 

 and of nearly equal weight, were put to kee- 

 ping at the same time, and treated the same 

 as to food and litter for about seven weeks. 

 Three of them were left to shift for them- 

 selves as to cleanliness; the other three were 

 kept as clean as possible by a man employed 

 for the purpose, with a curry-comb and brush. 

 The- last consumed in seven weeks fewer peas 

 by Jive bushels, than the other three ; yet they 

 weighed more when killed by two stone and 

 four pounds (thirty-six poundsj upon an ave- 

 rage, or six stone twelve pounds upon the 

 whole. — London Paper. 



J'egetable Curiosity. — Air advertisement 

 in the Gardener's Magazine states that ther*- 

 is to be seen at Mr. Void's nursery, an orange. 

 .in alive, and a jessamine growing on thesanw 

 stock. 



