Published hi) John B. Russki.i., at A'o. 52 .Yortk Market Street, (over the JignevMvral Jf'arehottse). — Tkomas G. Fessekoen, Editor. 



VOL. VI. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, NOVKMflKR 80, 1827. 



No. 19. 



AGRICULTURE. 



iO THE EDITOn 01 THE NKW ENGLAND I'AKilEB. 



ROSES. 



l,inii».iii r.olanic Gnrilon, I'lusliing, ) 

 near New York, Nov. 19, 1817. J 



T. G. FEcSENni:.'"". KsQ. — In perusiug the Eu- 

 ropean publications of recent data you have with- 



FOOT ROT IN SiiEi:P. 

 I Tlie followinfr leUer was dirccled ti> a jrenllo- 

 j man who has frequently laid us under obliu^alions 

 j for useful ariicles, to be inserted in the New Eng- 

 jl:ind Farmer, and by iiiin sent to us for publica- 

 tion : — 



Dear Sir, — As the new and rapidly exten linir 

 ilisease, called the Foot Rot, which was infrod 



the revolution) had previously prepared a bed for 

 lie reception of the seeds, uiid ou the morning of 

 the ]9tii of June, iio drilled then) in, four or five 

 inches j.part — covering them lig;htly — the rows 

 nboiit a foot apart ; every seed, I tliiuk, ve,^inaled. 

 In a few days they appeared above ground, and 

 so rapid :i growth of tr.-es I never before saw. — 

 On the 23d of August following, 1 counted 500 

 virrorous young trees, some of which incasnri'd in 

 ight twenly-six inches, and not any of them 



. ed aincng our sheep by those recently importpH 

 out doubt perceived that among the number of j from 8a.\nny, has hid defiance to the effort.s ot tiip 



beautiful nev/ Roses whiih have been introduced | fan-.er to eradicate it— I enclose an account of j short of t'venly inches. There was great uoifor- 

 Prom China and India, and the hybrids wliicii j the mode of treating this fatal disorder, in Great mity in thrsi;-9 of the treos. I have ur.ly to add, 

 have been produced trom them, the Rosa Grevillii I Britain, which I recently noticed in the New that a small qnnntity of refuse mortar which had 



or Greville Rose has he^n particularly noticed for 

 its remarkable proptitjes. Some cursory remarks 

 were made a few months since in our public pa 



Monthly Magazine of 1830. 

 Having shown it to a gentleman, v.liose Merino 

 lieep had caught the complaint from a few of the 



porsrclativato this Hose; but probably no better ; ;.:^xon breed, which were purchased in 1825. he 



description could be given than to quote the state 

 ments published in London's Gardeners' Magazine, 

 and in the Transactions of the London Horticul- 

 turiil Society In tlie Ith No. of L'ludon's Maga- 

 zine, pa{;e 4^i7, the I'l Hotting description is given 

 in a letter from a gentleman to the Editor : " You 

 will no doubt reccllrit the shoot I showed you of 

 my Greville Rose, \> liirh grew eighteen feet in a 

 few weeks. It is now in bloom and is the most 

 singular curio il\ of all the Rose tribe that has 

 come under ni_, observation. It grows on an E. 

 by N. aspect, on the g:;ble end of my house, cov- 

 ering above 100 feet square, with more than a 

 hundred trusses of bloom. Some of them have 

 ruore than fifty bnds In a cluster and the v.'holc 

 will average about thirty in a truss, so that the 

 amount of flower buds is little short of .3000. Biit 

 the most astonishing curiosity is the variety of 

 coljurs produced on the biiHs at first opening, 

 white, light blush, deeper blush, light red, darker 

 red and purple, nil I'U the same clusters." In the 

 report of the Hortimltural Society of London, for 

 the month of Jure li*'i6, the following remarks 

 are made. "Rosa Grevillii in a single fasciculus 

 sf flowers are roses rf every shade of purple and 

 from white to the darkest tint ; it is one of the 

 handsomest of climbing roses." 



After these statements any further description 

 from me is deemed unnecessary, and I will merely 

 jcmark that it is the strongest rose in its growth, 

 and the most rapid in the formation of long vigor- 

 eus shoots that I have ever seen, and will very 

 speedily cover a large space. I have succeeded 

 during the past season in rearing about 1,50 young, 

 vigorous plants, one htilf of which have already 

 "been disseminated throushont the Union. The 

 present collection of Roses of all the different 

 kinds cultivated at this establishment, exceeds six 

 hundred varieties, about 500 of which are enume- 

 rated in the catalogues, the others having been re- 

 ceived Fince their publication. In this number are 

 included about 100 varieties of Chinese and India 

 roses and their hybrids. 



The whole are regularly labelled agreeably to 

 the catalogue, v.hich affords to the amateur at the 

 time of their flowering, an opportunity of contiast- 

 ing their comparative beauties, and at that perio 

 rr.Oit forcibly brings to mind the poetical descrip 

 tions of what is termed in oriental climes, " The 

 Feast of Roses." Voure, most respectfully, 



WM. PRLNCR. 



observed, that some experiments had been miiHe 

 npon thorn, by paring the hoof and applying hl-ie 

 v:tr;ol. during last summer, with favorable results. 

 !l was found that acrid ulcers, often containing 

 niaggots, were concealed r.nder the hoof, and he 

 therefore had confidence in the English remedy, 

 and should apply it to his flock. He recommend 

 that the hoof should be thoron.hly cut away. S' 

 as to entirely expose the ulcers, and when wash- 

 ed clean with strong soap suds, the "drying wash'' 

 to be applied. 



The feet of the sheep, which are lame, should 

 be ou'en examined, and the knife and liquid freely 

 appUi'd, and there is little doubt the disorder ci;n 

 th','.3 bo cured. The diseased sheep should be 

 separated from those that are healthy. H. A. 

 Foot Rot in Sheep. 



"In the report of the Merino flo. k of the earl of 

 Lismore, by the Rev. Thomas Ri Icliff -it is re- 

 marked, that 'the flock is almost «hollv free from 

 lameness ; and that this is princip-llv owin<j to 

 frequcnlbj paring the hoofs.' The drying wash 

 used by the shepherd, when needful, is thus com- 

 posed : — 'take blue vitriol, white vitriol, rock or 

 roche alum, and verdigris, of each three ounces : 

 rub them together in a mortar, and ad<I one quart 

 of scalding vinegar; stir it well, and cover it 

 down to cool — then add half a pint of spirits of 

 turpentine, and half a pint of spirits of wine, and 

 cork it up in a clean stone bottle. It is a good 

 wash for pinches and recent bruises, and all in 

 cipient inflanimations.' "-^Eng.JST.M. M.for 1820. 



been prepared early in the spring for plaistering 

 a house, had been strewed upon the bed in which 

 the Locust seeds were drilled." 



THE LOCUST. 



A writer in the American Farmer gives the fol- 

 lowing account of his manner of rai:;ing this use- 

 ful tree : — "I had procured a quantity of the Lo- 

 cust seeds, (Black Locust, so called,) with the 

 intention of planting them early last spring. The 

 backwardness of the season prevented my doin"- 

 so at the time intended, and my numerous avoca- 

 tions thereafter caused me to forget that those 

 seeds were in my possession, until the IHth of 

 June, when late as it was, I determined to experi- 

 ment with them. According to the directions 

 given in thf letter referred to, I poured boiliug 

 water on the seeds, and sufliered thom to remain 

 in the same water for twelve or fourteen hours, 

 throwing away the few light seeds that rose to 

 the surface thereof. My gardener, (a soldier of 



HORSBS OF SOUTH AMERICA. 

 Among the moans of increasing the national 

 wealth of tie South American States, it \va.s al- 

 ways consiiii-red that the sale of cattle and horses 

 would produce a valuable income. The horses, 

 howeve ■, seem to ho worth nothing. An officer oi 

 the Navy writes to the Editor of the American 

 Farmer — "I am confident that there is not a 

 horse or inaro in Chili or Peru that would sell for 

 one hundred dollars. I have not seen one which 

 could, if in tl;e United States, bring siit}' dollars. 

 T have bou rht a saddle horse from Mendoza, one 

 of the hand-!Oi.iest that I have seen here, and gave 

 ten doubloons for him, which is the high.?st price 

 ffoinsr ; but really in Maryland he would not sell 

 for si.xfy -<o!}?t3 ; a.-i 1 this horse has been brought 

 over the Cordilleras to Valparaiso 409 miles, and 

 from thence here by water, from 13 to 15 davs' 

 sail." 



SILK. 



The Editor of tho Pennsylvania Village Recorfl 

 has seen specimens of Sewing Silk made b}' the 

 daughters of Jas. Woolaston, Esq. They made, 

 from about 800 worui..^, 100 skeins. For evennes.9 

 of thread, and delicacy of colourin?, it would bear 

 a favorable comparison with Italian or French 

 silk. Some h.ave supposed that, fep'Mng the silk 

 worm could not be profitable, until intricate ma- 

 chinery and rare skill in the manufacture of silk 



good.s. should be introrluced here. It is not so 



near :■ million of (Tollnrs a ye.ir of the article, ia 

 the simple form of sewing silk, as easily made as 

 shoe thread, is annually imported. As to the rest, 

 if the raw m.iterial be prnluced abundantly, man- 

 ufactories will rise up of course. The editor has 

 still a thousand or two of the Italian mulberry to 

 give away. They are not large, being of this 

 year's growth, and can be taken in a handkerchief. 

 A hundj-ed will be given to each person sending. 

 The roots are fine and vigorous. ApplicTtio.T 

 should be made within two weeks, if possible, at 

 his garden, at Springville, a mile below West 

 Chester, Pa. — Baltimore Patriot. 



FISH FOOD FOR COWS. 

 The Medical Tnteliijencer states, that about fif- 

 ty cows live principally on fresh fish, at Province- 

 town, Cape Cud, Mass. The town is a body of 

 sand, containing no vegetable but a little beach 

 grass, which partially serves in some places to 

 form a eurface sufficiently firm to prevent its beia 



