Vol. (1.— No. 10 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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ippeiired from both— the clover of course long 

 ■iiiice went out — the lierds-grass has formed a 

 iOiish mid valua'ulo sward. 



Upon arable firms it is someti.nies troublesome, 

 as it is tenacious of life as blue grass. Its product 

 la not 5[oncral!y heavy upon such lands, and I 

 ..^lio'.ild not therefore cultivate it with a regular 

 .ourse of white crops, althoueh upon a graziujj 

 farm, or upon some large southern domains, where 

 It would be well that the Ian<lhoIders should for- 

 get half their possessions, it miffht bo expedient 

 10 cultivate it largely and ohvidte the necessity 

 uf indulging the fatting buUocUs with a reguhir 

 ramble for the solace of llieir stomachs, through- 

 out some hundred acres of gro-.ving Indian corn. 

 The herds. grass has the great merit of being able 

 to take care ..f itself. 



1 have the honor to be, &c. 



JOHN HARE POVVEL. 



To the President of the Pam. Agric. t::odety. 



ITEMS 



, „ . , .? T „„j„„ jr„H;m,iii,r->i I frequently inserted ffrafts into stocks, upon which 



Selected from the Tiansaclioiis of the London Horlicullural ] i .r h , . ,' , , , 



Society. I those insects anounded, and upon which they had 



To pn'Sei-ve the Golden Pippin and other Jlpples \ continued to abound ; but I never saw more than 



free from Canker. — John Wi'.liain.-'.Esq. of Pitmas- one instance in which they were found upon the 



wV"i</» lire kept till nuts come again, by .\. B. 

 Lambert, Esq. in brown earthenware pans, buried 

 deep in u dry part of the garden. 



Pears, grafted on Medlar .S/ocA,)-, are found by 

 Capt. Peter Rninier, R. N. to become wore juicy, 

 and not inferior in flavour. They grow vigorously, 

 fruit the second year, and boar abundantly. Some 

 are much altered in appearance ; the Jargonelle 

 remains nearly green when ripe, and is a much 

 shorter 'ruit than when produced from a Pear or 

 Quince stock. 



JVoticc of the Siberian Bille'sweet, a neii> and 

 valiuible Cider nipple. By Thomas Andrew 

 Knirrht, Esq. F R. H. P. H. S. &c. 



Raised " from a seed of the Golden Harvey Ap- 

 ple, and pollen of the yellow Siberian Crab," and 

 we have no doubt it is v;hat it is said to be " new 

 and valuable " The following merits, however, 

 are surely too threat for practical credence: "The 

 American bucr whollv avoids the trees. I have 



ton, believes, and to a certain extent has proved 

 that this may be done, by every year pruni.ng 

 away as much of each shoot of young wood as is 

 not perfectly ripened. He has practised this for 

 six years, and has now a fn;e young dwarf golden 

 pippin tree, us perfectly free from canker as any 

 new variety. The best stock for the golden pip- 

 pin he finds to be the Siberian crab, because, as 

 ■• the shoots of this crab cease to elongate after 

 the month of .A.ugusl, the roots become less active 

 in [.ropelling the upward sap ; hence the wood 

 and buds of the graft are more ])rrfectly ripened 

 lu the autumn." We are very happy to learn the 

 result of this eiporimont, believing as we do, that 

 the canker in the golden pippin, or any other fruit 

 tree, has nothing at all to do with the age of the 

 variety, and believing also that the golden pippin 

 or any other variety, however old or diseased, 

 may, by proper, or say the best, treatment, be re- 

 invigorated and perpetuated in as good a state as 

 It ever was, for an unlimited period. We have 

 seen too many cankered trees of recently origin- 

 ated sorts, and a sufficient number of healthy 

 .Tolden pippins, to be able to be of a different opin- 

 ion. 



For leashing the Branches of Fruit Trees for 

 the purpose of destroying the Inseets which harbour 

 on them — John Braddick, Esq. mixes one pound 

 of flour of brimstone in three gallons of gas liquor. 



graft, and then it was ju^t above its junction with 

 the stock, and three days afterwards they had en- 

 tirely disappeared." We ha^c not a doubt that 

 thi^ statement is perfectly correct in regard to 

 the individual plant? in question, but to infer from 

 it that the Siberian bittersweet is much, or at all ; 

 less obnoxious to the attacks of the American hug ! 

 tnan any other variety of apple, we think jncon- \ 

 sistent with experience in regard to this insect, 

 and we are sure that to leave such an inference 

 open to be drawn, is calculated to deceive the \ 

 amateur, and might injure the practical gardener, i 

 We could produce cases of both from papers of 

 Mr Knight's, (e. g. the pine-apple,) but we know ' 

 that a hint to our excellent and much esteemed 

 president will be sufficient. The truth is, that I 

 without that ardour and imagination which leads 

 a man to push any favorite idea as far as it will 

 go, Mr Knight could never have accomplislied for 

 horticulture so much as he has done. It is impos- 

 sible to be often original and right, without being 

 sometimes extravagant and wrong. 



^in Jlccount of Ten Varieties of Persian Melons. 

 By Mr John Lindley, F. L. S. Assistant Secretary 

 for the Garden. Read September 19, 1820. 



Persian melons are distinguished by a thin and 

 delicate skin, and tender, rich, and sweet juicy 

 flesh ; but their cultivation is more difficult than 

 that of the melons of Europe. They are grown in 



the varieties now about to be mentioned ore of 

 that description." It would not bo of much use, 

 therefore, to repeat the names of fruits of whicli 

 wo do not even know the season of their ripening. 

 'I'he HorticuUur:il Society and the public arc 

 much indebted to Mr Willock, the British envoy 

 at the court of Persia, for his unceasing exertion 

 in attempting to transfer several of the rare pro- 

 ductions of that country to England. 



A correspondent in the neighborhood of Don 

 caster informs us, that he sows the common green 

 boot three times a year, exactly in the same way 

 as ho does spinach, and has a perpetual supply of 

 an c."icellpnt substitute for th-t vegetable. By 

 cutting the leaves when quite young, they are as 

 tender, even during the hottest period of summer, 

 as those of the common spinach are in spring and 

 autumn. A. percainial spinach, however, whether 

 from the Beta niaritima, or Chenopodium Bonus 

 Henricus, is very desirable in every garden, as a 

 resource in case of neglect or accident, and be- 

 cause the plants, being in perpetual maturity, and 

 abundantly furnished with proper sap, are, as it 

 were, even on the alert to take advantage of any 

 circum.itanccs favourable to vegetation. — Loudon. 



adding soft soap to make the liquid adhesive.— p^j.^;^ j^, pp^^ j^^j^g^ ^^ beds richly manured with 

 The mixture is made over a fire in March, and 

 the trees completely washed about the same time. 

 Dovetail grafting, by which is meant a mode of 

 preparing tlie scion as carpenters prepare a^ ten- 

 on, and cutting the bark and soft wood of the 

 stock in the manner of a dovetail groove for the 

 reception of this tenon, is recommended for graft- 

 ing the large branches of old trees, by Mr E. Ma- 

 loue, gardener to George Foljambe, Esq. of Os- 

 berton House, in Nottinghamshire. 



Orange and Lemon Trees in Ilahf, according to 



pigeon's dung, and irrigated by intervening chan- 

 nels supplied artificially. The most successful at- 

 tempt at imitating this state of things " seems to 

 be, to supply the plants abundantly with water at 

 the roots, but to give them as little as possible 

 over head, to combine copious ventilation and high 

 temperature, by means of frequently renewed lin- 

 ing's of hot dung ; and to elevate each fruit a few 

 inches above the 'soil, by means of a slate laid 

 upon two bricks pl-.cpd side by side." 



Of the sorts described, a few are of doubtful 

 merit; and "it has been lately understood from 



Mr Shea, gardener to Lord Burghersh, at I lor- | ^^^ ^yi,,^^!^^ j^^t ,o„e of the kinds now describ 

 euce, are manured with kilndricd lupvnes, sroat s ^^ ^.g ,^i„ter melons, which require keopin? for 

 dung, aud stable manure; thev are nnich watered ^^^^ ^^^^j^^ ^^j.^^^^ ^j^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^ j^^,^ . - ^.^ 

 m summer, shifted every fourth or fifth year, and ^^^^^.^^^^ ^^.^^ ^^j^^ ^^,^ ^^^^ not made ac- 

 preserved during winter in sheds, the apertures of j^j^j insufficient time to ascertain which of 

 which are only closed during frosty weather. 



UPPER CANADA. 



The liying- of th'e corner stones of the Semina- 

 ry and some of the public edifices at Guelph, in 

 Upper Canada, was celebrated with much festivi- 

 ty. Upwards of 300 persons dined together on 

 the occasion. In the evening there was another 

 and a smaller dinner, at which Mr Gait (the nov- 

 elist and poet) presided. This new settlement is 

 making a very rapid progress. They have al- 

 ready formed an "Agricultural Society." Of the 

 town itself a Canada paper says : 



"The town itself is very pleasantly and advan- 

 tageously situated. The streets radiate from the 

 centre of the public square, which is laid out near 

 a bend of the river. The large House, or Cara- 

 vansara, is situate on this square, and is a very 

 handsome and commodious building, containing a 

 large hall, a kitchen in one wing, and a bar room 

 in the other — an office for the company's use, and 

 eight or ten bed rooms, all on the ground floor, 

 besides the upper apartment. The two public 

 buildings now erecting, are in front of the house 

 above described, on the right and left of the prin- 

 cipal street. The Market House stands on the 

 main street at the entrance into the town, from 

 the Waterloo road, and is a neat building, and suf- 

 ficiently commodious for a town of 3 or 4000 in- 

 habitants. Besides these buildings, there are near 

 thirty dwelling houses, stores, &c. either of squar- 

 ed logs or frame; all completed, or nearly so; and 

 a great many more, including a church or two wili 

 shortly be erected." 



Extraordinary Despatch — A gentleman in this 

 city received a letter from his friend travelling in 

 Eurcpe, by the ship Henry Fourth, dated at BeWin, 

 in Prussia, the 6th of August last ; that is in 37 

 days. We have never before heard, of such a 

 rapid transmission of intelligence from such a 

 distance in the interior of Europe. [N. Y. Dai. Adv. J 



The dog mentioued in our last paper as suspec- 

 ted of madness, has since died. That he was mad, 

 is beyond doubt. He bit a number of dogs, hogs, 

 and four or five persons. We believe the latter 

 are all using the scull cap us a preventive of the 

 eflfects. [Poughkeepsie Telegraph.] 



