Vol. C— No. ^.'v 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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of palace or temple. These walls, howevdr, arc 

 gradually reduced to supply the consumption of 

 their inmates, and the unornamented burk soon 

 peeps out beneath. — Worcester JEgis. 



Indian corn, or Grain of any hind, which is musly, 

 remedy for. 

 Immerse it in boiling water, and let it remain 

 till the water becomes cold. The quantity of wa- 



roots, dry fibres or inert vegetable matter, nnd 

 all soils which do not effervesce with acids will be 

 benefited by it. It should not, however, be ap- 

 plied With vegetable or animal manures. 



INDIAN CORN. 

 The Indian corn, now a staple production of 

 New England was very early known to the pil- 

 grim planters. We learn from Morton, that on 



The ICth of November. 1620, a company sent out ter should be at least double the quantity of corn 

 from the first ship to look for a place of habitation to be purified. 



landed on the Plymouth coast, and "having: pitrat ^rriVFRV 



marched about six miles by the sea side, espied RURAL SCENER\ 



five Indians, who ran away from them, and they Landscape and Prduresque Gardens.— Amox^s 

 followed them all that day sundry miles, but could the embellishments which attend the increase of 

 not come to speak with them : so night coming wealth, the cultivation of the sciences, and the re- 

 on they betook themselves to their rende^vous, finement of taste, none diversify and heighten 

 and set out their sentinels, and rested in quiet the beauty of rural scenery, more than pictur- 

 that night :" (as is stated in Davis's Morton, near esque and landscape gardens. And perhaps, no 

 Stout's creek,) " and the next morning they fol- section of the Umted States has so many eligible 

 lowed the Indi.in's tracks, but could not find them locations, or is capable of receiving so great em- 

 nor their dwellings, but at length lighted on a bellishment as the country adjacent to the flour- 

 <rood quantity of clear ground near to a pond of 'shing city of New York. For a number of miles 

 fresh water" (in Truro) " where formerly the In- -iround, in every direction, nature has given every 

 dians had planted Indian corn, at which place , variety of surface, and every assemblage of re- 

 they saw sundry of their graves: and proceeding 1 Oj^'sites, which const't^'te a delightful prospect, 

 tarther they found new stubble where Indian 



with agrceablcnoss, and greatly augment the value 

 of the ground. 



Mr. P. has very complaisantly shown us seve- 

 ral other plans of gardens, which appear to us 

 highly interesting. — Ed. JVeiw York Farmer. 



A locksmith in Lexington, Ky. has manufactur- 

 ed a curious lock, which he intends as a present 

 to Mr. Clay. "It is a splendid piece of workman 

 ship." A premium of one hundred dollars and tht 

 lock itself, is offered to any one, who will in twelve 

 hour§ time prove that he is able to open the es 

 cutcheon and unlock it. when fixed upon the door, 

 having possession of the key and the means by 

 which the proprietor can in one second of time 

 unlock it with entire ease. No other instrument 

 is to be used except the key." 



corn had been planted the same year, also they 

 found where lately an house had been, where 

 some planks and a great kettle was remaining, 

 and heaps of sand newly paddled with their hands, 

 which they digged up and found in them divers 

 fair Indian corn in baskets, some whereof was in 

 ears, fair and good, of divers colors, which seem- 

 ed to them a very goodly sight having seen none 

 before ; of which varieties they took some to car 

 ry to their friends on shipboanl. like as the Isra- 

 elites spies brought from Eshcol some of the good 

 fruits of the land ; but finding little that might 

 make lor'"4^cir encourasemont os to situation, 

 they rerorhed, being gladly received by the rest 

 of their company." On a second expedition soon 

 after, corn and beans of different colours were 

 found. — " And here is to be noted a great and 

 special mercy to this people, that here they got 

 them corn the next year, or otherwise they might 

 have starved, for they had none, or any likelihood 

 to get any until the season had been passed, nei- 

 ther is it likely that they had had this, if the first 

 discovery had not been made, for the ground was 

 DOW all covered with snow, and hard frozen : but 

 the Lord is never wanting unto those that are his, 

 in the greatest need. Let nis holy name have all 

 the praise. — Dnvis''s Morton 40. 



We have our declivities gently sloping to the 

 water's edge — our islands girt by the flowing 

 streams — our bold and rocky shores, overshadow- 

 ed by the trees of the forest — our lofty heights, 

 from which are seen the towerinj; steeples, the 

 curling smoke, the ripening fields, and the wide 



On Friday evening, a fine young man, aged 23 

 while occupied in carrying apples from the or- 

 chard of his employer, Mr Vines of Whelford, 

 near Fairford, in this county, hastily ate a ripe 

 plum, containing a wasp, the immediate and dis- 

 tressing consoquence of which admitted of no 

 remedy. Surgical aid not being on tlie spot, pain 

 at the upper part of the trachea, accompanied 

 with rapid symptoms of suffocation followed, ter- 

 minating the life of the sufferer in less than fif 

 teen minutes. — Gloucester Journal. 



Method of extracting Starch from Horse Chesnuls. 

 First take off the outward green ptickly husks, 

 spread canvass — from which are heard the busy {and then, either by hand, with a knife, or other 

 city, and the sweet music over the water. j tool, or else with a mill adapted for that purpose. 



For the introduction into this country of the de- very carefully pare off tiie brown rind, being par- 

 sign and execution of landscape and picturesque 1 ti'^i'lif "ot to have the smallest speck and to en- 

 fiardening, the public is much indebted to Mr. A. j ''f^'y eradicate the sprout or {jerm. Next take 

 Parmentier, proprietor of the Horticultural Bota- (the nuts, and rasp, grate or grind them fine into 

 nic Garden, near Brooklyn, two miles from this | water, either by hand or by a mill adapted to that 

 city. His own garden, for which he made so ad- purpose. The pulp which is thereby formed in 

 vantageous a choice, may give us some idea of this water, must be washed as clean as possibk 

 his taste. The borders are composed of every j through a coarse hair seive, then again through a 

 variety of trees and shrubs that are found in his ' finer seive, and again through a still finer, con 

 nurseries. The walks are sinuous, adapted to the stantly adding clean water to prevent any starcb 

 irregularity of the ground, and affording to visit- adhering to the pulp. The last process is to put 

 ers a continual change of scenery, which is not ■' with a large quantity of water (about four gal- 

 enjoyed in g'lrdens laid out in even surfaces, and 'ons to a pound of starch) through a fine gauze 

 in right lines. His dwelling and French saloon muslin or lawn, so as to entirely free it from ali 

 are in accordance with the surrounding rural as- J bran or other impurities ; as soon as it settles 

 pect. In his gardens are 25,000 vines planted pour off 'he water ; then mix it up with clea^ wa- 

 and arranged in the manner of the vineyards of j ter, repeating this operation till it no longer'-im- 

 France. } parts any green, yellow or other colour to the 



But that in the execution of which he has been water ; then drain it off till nearly dry, and set it 



most happy, is the landscape garden of Elisha W. to bake, either in the usual mode of baking 



This beautiful native of New England, peculiar- I King, Esq. of Pelham Manor, the plan of which he starch, or else spread out before a brisk fire, being 



ly adapted to the climate of the North, has be- ! has shown us. The picturesque situation of the ^ery attentive to stir it frequently to prevent it£ 



come one of t'. e staples of our country. Its bright 

 green leaves are the best riches of the garner. — 

 The ripples that chase each other over the grain 

 fields of Englnnd, have been celebrated in song; 

 but few natural objects can surpass the deep ver- 

 dure — the rich luxuriance, and the graceful pro- 

 portions of the corn in those wide plantations, 

 which stretch over plain and hill side. The In- 

 dians, at the present time, have a mode of con- 

 verting thr produ- ts of their fields into rich orna- 

 ments, bt br»i''ing the corn ears together by their 

 husks in long strings, and hanging them from the 

 roof to the ground floor of their wigwams. The 

 cainpact senes of columns thus formed, is inter- 

 spersed, at regular intervals, with strings of red 

 ears and a wainscot is formed more beautiful than 

 the chissel of the sculptor ever traced on the walls 



ground imparts a peculiar charm to the arrange- horning, that is to say, turning to a paste or jelly 



mentofthe garden. From his mansion, which is 

 built in the Grecian style, on the plan of that ex- 

 cellent artist, Mr. Martin E. Thompson, is a fine 

 view of the bay of Cow Neck, and the light-house 

 in front. On the left, we enjoy the view of an 

 island belonsjing- to Mr. Kine. of the Sound with 

 its light-house, of the beautiful islands of Mr Hun- 

 ter, whose plantations add much to the prospect, 

 and frequently of twenty or thirty vesnels seen 

 spreading their canvass to the winds, for the dis 



which, on being dried, turns hard like horn. The 

 whole process should be conducted as quickly as 

 possible. — English pa. 



Blacking Balls for Shoes. 

 Mutton suet, four ounces ; bees' wax, one ounce; 

 sugar candy and gum-arabic, one drachm each, in 

 fine powder ; melt these well together over a 

 gentle fire, and add thereto about a spoonful of 

 turpentine, and ivory and lamp black sufKcient to 



tanc7of eight m'iies."'~Th"is'fine' country 'dwelling i ^'"^ '* ^ S""*^ . ''!^'='' ' ,"'','''® *'°' ^"""-^ '° '""' 



is likely to become one of the most ornamental on 

 the East River, and will give an idea of the man- 

 ner in which the Europeans embellish their conn- 

 try places. Plantations advantageously interspers- 

 ed with ornamental and fruit trees, unite utility 



you may make it into a ball, by pouring the liquor 

 into a tin mould ; or let it stand till almost cold, 

 and yon may mould it into what form you please 

 by the hand — Ibid. 



