THE HORTICULTURIST, 



And Joam al of Rural Art and R nral Taste. 

 THIS is a Monthly Journal of 4S pages, beautihiUy printed 

 on the finest paper, and elegantly illustrated, making one 

 of the most beautiful! Monthly Magazines published m the 

 ■worid. It is devoted to IlorticuJtiu-e, in its various depart- 

 ments, Kural Architecture, and to all that concerns Kural 

 Life, and to the cultivation of Rural Taste. 



It is edited by P. BARUY, so long kno^vn and esteemed 

 as the Horticultural Editor of the GenesM Farvi^r, and 

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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Dairy ITusbandry in New Tork, 105 



Mapes' Improved Superphosphate of Lime, 108 



Spring Work, i^^ 



Cows and Calves, IJ J 



British and American Agriculture,. ... ........ ... ... . ii^ 



GoKRESPONDENCK— Agriculture in California; Stable, lid 



Sandy Soils, ']^\ 



Wire Fence, \\ 



Culture of Carrots, Y\% 



Plowing in Green Crops; Vir^nia Lands, IIT 



Value of a Garden ; Shanghae Fowls ; Illinois i ar- 



ming ' V ■ v." ■ 



Fatting Calves— Potato Culture ; Needle in the dia- 

 phragm of a Cow ; Hoosier Farmmg, 119 



Hereford Cuttle, Y^ 



Editors' Table.— Notices, &c., 1^° 



Inquuries and Answers, I*' 



HOKnCHLTTIKAL DEPARTMENT. 



Heading in Trees at the time of transplanting, 121 



North Western Fruit Growers' Association, 123 



Fruits in Michigan, ,-V\<.^ Wi. 



How to destroy the Aphis in the Orchard and Nursery, Vib 



The Curculio 125 



Answers to Correspondents, i^» 



2,000 Virgalieu Pear Trees. 



TWO years old, grafted on seedling stocks, 4 to 6 feet high, 

 $35 per' loo, $300 per 1000. 



Osage Orange, I year old, ?1 per 100 $S per 1000 



Red Cedar, 1 foot high, $5 per 100, $40 per 1000. 



American Arbor Vita, 1 fiot high, $3 per 100, $25 per 1000. 



Horse Chestnuts, Elms, Whitewoods, Basswoods, iLiplee, 

 &c., suitable for street planting. 



Evergreens. — Balsam Fir, Norway Spruce, White 

 Spruce, Red Cedar, American Arbor Vita?, &c., of large size 

 and fine form. , ^ ^ , „ 



And a general assortment of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, 

 Shrubs, Roses, &c., <fce., for sale by the subscribers at their 

 Nursery in Waterloo, Sen. Co., N. Y. 



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April, 1S53— It. Nos. 189 and 191 Water-st., N. T. 



L<anil for Sale. 



BY ^i^tue of a deed of trust executed to me by James 

 Boyd and Elizabeth his wife, to secure the payment of a 

 sum of money therein expressed, I shall proceed to sell on 

 THURSDAY, the 22d of April next, at public auction on 

 the premises, for cash, a tract of Land lying .about 4 miles 

 from James River, on Chepoake Creek, in the county of 

 Prince George, called and known as the White House, 

 containing aijout six hundred acres, and bounded on the 

 East and South bv Chepoake Creek, on the West by the 

 laii.I bclon^-inc to Mrs. Davidson, and on the North by the 

 I-iimI^^ belonging to Wm. L. Shackleford, and Lately owned 

 bv V I'etlirs ; being the same tract of land conveyed to 

 said James Boyd by John D. Mathews an<l wife. 



Tliere are about throe hundred acres of cleared land, a 

 portion of which has been maried, and lies well for farni- 

 ini' t>iu-po^es, and contiguous to the finest marl banks.— 

 The buildin<'3 consist of a Dwelling House, two stones 

 high, with iTiur rooms and a passage; Kitchen, Smoke 

 hmi«c. Barn, and Stable which can be put in good order at 

 sm-ilf expense. There are two MiUff contiguous, ono^of 

 ll.em aFlouring Mill. Chepoake Creek abounds in fish 

 and wild fowls. Anv person desirous of viewing the land 

 wlU be shown it by Mr. Wm. Boyd who resides on it. llio 

 tiU(-is believed U) tje indisputable, but I shall convey only 

 such as is vested in mo as Trustee. T,T>cTaTir \n 



AprU, isi-i;}.— It. JNO. ARMI8TE.\r>. 



Stotidatcl Pears. 



PARSONS & 00., Flushing, near New Tork, offer for 

 sale a large assortment of I'cw trei^ upon Pear stock, of 

 viirious sizes, including the finest varieties. 



'Hieir general Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 1 rec8, 

 Rose*, &c. forwarded on application by mail- [•'-'■'M 



THE GENESEE FARMER, 



A MONTin.-S' JOURNAL OF 



AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 



ILLUSTRATED WrTH NUJrRROUS ENQRAVraOS OP 



Farm Buildings, Domestic Animals, Implements, &c. 

 VOLUME XIV, FOR 1853. 



DAI^IEL LEE, JAMES VICK, Jr., & JOSEril 



HARRIS, Editors. 



P. BARRY, Conductor of Horticultural Department 



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November, 1852. Rochester, y. Y. 



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