258 farmers' and mechanics' journal. 



" When we reflect, that nwuldhiess is the chief annoyance to 

 cuttings of ahnost every description, when planted under !:and- 

 glajises ; every pror.agator should gtreiiuouslv guard ayain^^ it: 

 and we know of nothing so likely to discharge wet, and prevetit un- 

 due retention of moisture, as sand alone ; and this, in preference to 

 every other soil and compost. 



" There are few soils with which sand cannot be intermingled 

 to the greatest advantage in various other branches of horticulture, 

 as well as in the propagation of plants and flowers ; it being admi- 

 rably adapted, from its loose and open nature, to expand the i-ores 

 of heavier, more close, and adhesive soils, thereby opening the en- 

 tire mass of compost, and rendering it porous, and open to the free 

 admission, and full expansion of the delicately hue, and threud-like 

 roots of plants and flowers : and in which we have most sati^futo- 

 ril) witnessed its singular and superior eflirary ! We have known 

 in various cases. j^Iants to have been placed in soils most op!.>osile 

 and ungenial to their natures and constitutions, and therebv early 

 inchning to derny ; but which were speedily leslored to their ori- 

 ginal vigor and complexion, by a proj)er and tinicl} ap[>!icatioM of 

 white sand. 



" The sand which has invariably been found to surpass all others 

 for general and special purposes in horticulture, is a peculia-i-i ;oft 

 and fine zohilc sand, of an unusual smoothness, nearly as fine as 

 flour-emery, 



" Where none other than the common white sand, which is usu- 

 ally coarse, can be obtained, small quantities of the most line can 

 be sif ed out with a tine sieve. [Or still better procured from it 

 by washing over. — Ed. Tech. Rep,J 



" Little argument can be necessary to convince the unprejudiced 

 florist, gardener, or amateur, of the general utility of suitable sands 

 being mixed with the more cold and heavier soils ; thereby ren- 

 dering them open and porous to discharge all copious falls of rain, 

 dissolving snow, &c., and which tend to oveicharge adhesive soils 

 with an undue proportion of moisture, and thereby to chill and 

 starve the stock of plants and flowers." [TecA. Repository. 



SALIVATION OF D03IESTIC ANOIALS. 



Fayette, Kij., Oct. 5, 1828. 



Mr. Ski.vner, — In No. 28, Vol. 10, of the ..American Farmer, (to 

 which 1 am a subscriber,) there is a communication from Mi. J. 

 W. Jeffreys, of N. Carolina, enclosing some reflections " On the 

 Salivation of Horses," by C. S. Ratinesque, late of Lexington, 

 Kentucky. 



It is the obiect of this notice to correct several mistakes into 

 which the latter gentleman has fallen, in treating of a subject about 

 which he had no |)a< tiral knowledge. 



He says, no othc- domestic animal is liable to the excessive flovr 

 of saliva of which he speaks, and which is so extensively and in- 



