Vol. 1.— No. 49. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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to assume, would soon render their neighbor's 

 orchards and gardens comparatively secure. X. 

 The Extract. 

 "Every person who shall wilfully commit any 

 trespass by maliciously cutting down, lopping, 

 girdling, or otherwise injuring any fruit or orna- 

 mental or shade tree, or by maliciously severing 

 from the freehold any produce thereof, or any thing 

 attached thereto, shall upon conviction be adjudg- 

 ed guilty of a misdemeanor, md shall be punish- 

 ed by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 

 six months; or by aline not exceeding one hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars; or by both such fine and 

 imprisonment." Revised Statutes, Part 4. Chap. 

 1. Title 6. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



Mr.. Editor — There has been an article going 

 the rounds of the papers, stating that sulphur in- 

 troduced into the alnurnum, or sap of a fruit tree 

 by means of a hole bored into it and plugged, 

 would so be absorbed and taken up, and distribu- 

 ted through every part of the limbs and leaves, as 

 to completely destroy, or deter, caterpillars, can- 

 ker worms, and the whole tribe of the aphis, and 

 other vermin that infest that class of the bless- 

 ings of the garden. It was also published in the 

 Genesee Farmer last spring. Have you tried it, 

 •r any of your readers 1 Have you any experi- 

 ence on the subject, or is it a mere vulgar error, 

 an old woman's saw, a grannyisni on universal 

 gullability ? 1 presume it is an experiment of 

 such simplicity, that no one has tried it. It would 

 be just like us: we are a queer set of customers, 

 us human bipeds. 



If the sulphur experiment is true, I cannot see 

 why the peach, pear and apple, may not be im- 

 pregnated with the otto of roses, the oil of lemon, 

 and all the spices of the east, by a very simple op- 

 eration ; or even be medicated with all the discov- 

 eries of the Pharmacopoeia, or dosed with Ipecac 

 jmd Tartar Emetic, for the special use of rou 

 juish boys, and plunderers ; to have it known that 

 a certain unknown tree was thus changed, would 

 have a stronger effect upon their fears, than all 

 the spring and man traps that could be devised. 



The idea is too good to be true : but after all, my 

 gullability is nibbing at the bait: from the facts 

 contained in the following story, the particulars of 

 which 1 had from three or four individuals, of as 

 respectable a family as this county affords. 



The relator had a fine early peach tree stand- 

 ing in his back yard, on a gentle descent, to which 

 the wash of the house frequently descended ; it 

 so happened that one of .the inmates of the fami- 

 ly about mid-summer, at the period of the swelling 

 of the fruit, emptied a barrel of fish brine, a part 

 of which reached the roots of the tree ; at the pe- 

 riod of ripening, they were found to be so com 

 pletely impregnated with salt, as to be totally un- 

 palatable, and uneatable : they were described as 

 being nearly as saline as pickled olives, and other- 1 

 ways, the fruit was as perfect as at other seasons. 

 Now, Mr. Editor, this is a new case to me, of 

 the truth of which, 1 have no more doubt, than I 

 have that wheat turns to chess ; which, though I 

 never caught it in the very act, yet I bel ieve it 

 most sincerely ; and whenever I catch it turning 

 itscoat,or even on the fence, as we say in poli- 

 tics, I will not fail to advise you, as I hope you 

 will me of the result of the sulphur experiment. 



H. Y*. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



I present the following list to such as are curi- 

 ous in regard to climate ; and to such florists as 

 have not seen all the plants here enumerated. . 



Plants in bloom in the open ground, Grealjicld, 



Cayuga comity, 11 mo. 20, 1831. 



Several varieties of China roses. 



Champney rose. 



Chinese chrysanthemums, several varieties. 



Chrysanthemum coronarium, white & yellow var. 



Helleborusniger,blaciv hellebore or Christinas rose. 



Seine peruviana, corymbose squill ~] Spring is the 



Belle Legioise J „ } usual tune of 



Soleil d' or > .... . f rloweringfor 



, , ■ 1 JNarcissus 



La Sultame J J these plants, 



[but the autunm has been mild and wet. 



Clematis florida v. pleno, double white Japan 

 Virgin's bower, (almost in flower.) 



Delphinium consolida, branching larkspur. 



elatum, bee larkspur. 



grandirlorum. JJ=Some of our florists 



improperly call this D. chinense. "The Chi- 

 nese larkspur differs from the D. grandirlorum 

 m having a more rigid stem, and a later time 

 for flowering ;" that is, the first 'flowers of the 

 Chinese larkspur open later than the first flow- 

 ers of D. grandirlorum. 



Valeriana rubra, red Valerian. 



Viola tricolor, Pansies or Hearts' ease. 



odorata, sweet English violet. 



Antirrhinum purpureum, purple flowering toad 



flax. 



majus, snap dragon. 



Iberis umbcllata, purple candytuft. 

 amara, white do. 



Aster (suaveolens?) from W. R. Prince. 

 Campanula rotundifolia, Flax leaved bell flower. 



carpatica, Carpathian bell flower. 



medium, Canterbury bells. 



Veronica spicata, Paul's betony or fluellin. 

 Malva (mauritiana 1) From seed imported from 



Bremen. 

 Trifolium incarnatum, Crimson trefoil. 

 Calendula officinalis, Pot marigold. 

 Bellis perennis, Daisy. 

 Viburnum tmus, Laurustinus. 

 Cheiranthus (annuus 1) Double Prussian Stock 



giUirlower. 

 Lonicera periclymenum, Monthly honeysuckle 

 sempervirens, Coral honeysuckle. 



" Red bush alpine" strawberry, with ripe fruit. 



This list only contains such flowers as were 

 fresh and beautiful. It might have been extend- 

 ed by taking in many which were rather faded in 

 consequence of light frosts. 



On the morning of the 21st, we had a severe 

 frost; and on the 22d, it snowed most of the day 

 from the N. N. W., much of the snow melting 

 as it fell. In the evening it was two or three in- 

 ches deep. D. T. 



FOR THE GENESEE FARMER. 



MILITARY TRAININGS, NO. 6. 

 To ridicule militia trainings has not been our 

 object. We do not think ridicule a legitimate ar 

 gument to show the injustice or inexpediency of 

 a law. We would not accustom eur citizens to 

 look lightly upon the laws of the land. To be 

 governed by laws and by our own laws, is our 

 great and peculiar privilege. And no individual 

 could do a greater injury to our country, than to 

 cause our laws to be disesteemed . These remarks 



are suggesteil by the fantastic displays made in 

 some parts of the state, for the avowed purpose 

 of ridiculing our militia laws. We thii k the con- 

 sequence of such displays,too obviously pernicious 

 to permit them to pass without the general con- 

 demnation of every sensible man in the communi- 

 ty. If we hav-: bad laws, we have likewisr a le- 

 gitimate method to procure their repeal, — and no 

 good citizen should resort to any other. 



We believe, and we think no one will deny, 

 that our militia system is, at best, very inefficient 

 if not entirely unnecesary. We should rejoice to 

 see the whole system abolished ; but in accom- 

 plishing that desirable object, we should deprecate 

 the use of any other weapons than those of reason 

 and argument. We appeal to the common sense 

 of every citizen. We ask — why should every 

 man in this country be compelled to do military 

 duty 1 What need is there for the imposition of 

 so unequal and so burdensome a tax % We wish 

 every rational and candid man to answer these 

 questions. And we wish him not only to answer 

 them as a man, but as a citizen — as a member of 

 a great republican family — the opinion of every 

 one of whom, upon all subjects of public utility, 

 as far at least as it influences his conduct, is puL 

 lie property. Will it be said that it is necessary 

 to provide for the common defence — and be pre- 

 pared for war in advance 1 Have we any immedi- 

 ate war to prepare for or dread 1 If not, why this 

 extreme precaution 1 No other nation exacts mili- 

 tary duty of «£/ its citizens. In Fiance, many of 

 the citizens indeed are members of the National 

 Guard and Standing Army ; but all are not com- 

 pelled to do military duty. And how unlike is the 

 condition of our country to that of France 1 There, 

 an armed force is constantly need-edto restrain the 

 Mobs of Paris and support the Government. All 

 Europe is in a state of agitation and revolution ; 

 and France is coinpell.d to be prepared forwar at 

 a moment's warning. In Great Britain, we hear 

 of a Navy and of a Standing Army, but nothing 

 about their Militia Trainings. Nor in any other 

 of the nations of Europe are the people in time of 

 peace, all compelled to do military duty, — and yet 

 they are much more engaged and much more lia- 

 ble to be engaged in war, than we are. When 

 war comes, by voluntary enlistment and other- 

 wise, they always find means to prepare for it 

 And so it would be with us. Were our nation 

 engaged in a just war, the young men of New- 

 York would be foremost to rally to her standard 

 In the spirit of patriotic devotion, they would 

 shrink from no toil, or burden, or sacrifice. They 

 would show too, that the peaceful arts of life had 

 not enervated their bodies or their minds, or dis 

 qualified them for soldiers. But in time of peace, 

 they will not willingly, they ought not to be re- 

 quired to, yield the same services, or submit to the 

 same buidens. They believe it useless and un 

 just to exact them ; and in the same spirit with 

 which their fathers resisted taxation by an unau- 

 thorised power, they will resist it when imposed 

 without a defensible and legitimate object. S. 



The Courier and Enq. says that the official ac- 

 count of the commerce of France, during the year 



1880, at - ft. 902,667,765 



of which were exports, 628,492,928 

 Imports, 264,329,332 



Imports exported, 9.839,505 



