Vol. 6.— No. 26. 



NEW ENGLAND I AUMER. 



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KRUiT TRKEs ON THE WAY-SIDE. | of 111.' process. Tlie reasoD tor tills, is, that i Mr. Floy has a very fine collection of the several 



From Tiilinas to Saint Just, a distance of more i tlic .vhite wine were to be allowed to ferment: varieties. Sonic of his seedlings Juivp tlowi'red, 



than twenty le;i!>i'ps, apple and pear trees have liko ilie red, when its juice is mixed along with but wo believe ihcy have principally produced r.-d 



been employed in this capacity, [to line the road- I tiie p. dp of the grapes and their stalks, the pulp ones, which in our view have no bca"ty lornpur- 



sidel for the whole tiistaiice, to the exclusion of ' and Uie stalks would spoil the co/or of the wine ; ed with the white Tiiey have not lliat delirate 



all others. The fruit of these trees is very insip- 1 ami the wine would not, in fact, be white wine softness, nor that symmetrical formation and uni- 



id. The trees do nut seem to have been selected ] at uii 



at all for their fruit; indeed most of them appear) house-rent in rnA.Ncr.. 



to have roMie from Sff(/, without any attention be- j Hons.i-rcnt in France. At Alancon you may 

 inf paid to them on any account but that of their I fp„t ., .imfortable house, consisting of six or so- 

 wood. They !rro>v about the fields, as well as von g- 



along si.le of tlie roads ; and ot the apples, such ; gny, for Vil. sterling, or thereabouts 

 as they are, a good deal of cider is made. 



OAKS HOW RAISED IN FRANCE. 



Oak coppices are made in France by sowing the 

 acorns in the fall of the year, along u ith wheat 

 or rye, or some other winter crop. The acorns 

 are sowed broad cast, as the grain that 



form regularity of petals. — A". Y. Farmer. 



SELF GOVERNING PLOUGH. 



This plough, for which the inventor, Mr. How- 

 rooms, for 300 francs a year ; that is to ^^^' has received a premium from the Massachu- 

 ■il. sterling, or thereabouts; and lot it setts Agricultural Sociel;, we have hid thu-satis- 

 be' remarked, that this is a very fine and fashion- f'"=t'"n «*" seeing in operation, and were moch 

 able place. i pleased with its pprfonnanccs. Its powers crreat- 



LUCERNE. 'y exceeded our anticipation. It .oppcared to reg- 



I c„ I ., „ T .. I „„ /■„,. ,„„„„ ;„ „ ! ulate itself even better than the common ploifch 



I hnd ; mie Lucerne hay lor my horse in most . ,, , , ■ , c ■ • 



„ , ,• ,7, rT.i.„ r'..„„„i, .k;„i, ,1 „ u c IS generally conducted, gauging tiie furrow with 



parts o. !• ranco. 1 he r rencn think the hay ot = . ■', " , ' " . . , 



T ,. ii,„ u„„f „(■ „.. „.,j .V,,, I, ,. „ mathematical accuracy, and turning it with un- 



Lncerne the best ot \ny ; and my horse seems, , ■' , ,r . , 



common neatness, f or stoncy land it is not calcu- 



, the governing 

 part; but no farmer, we think, once acqu.-iinted 

 CULiURE OF THE POTAI O ONION ^^'"' ''^ "''''V ^" ploughing land free from large 

 Thisv.nety, erroneously suppo.cJ to have been ^t""''^' ^vill long hesitate to adopt it. The gov- 

 brought from Egypt by the British army about '"'"'"S principle, or passive ploughman, m ,y be 

 The bunches of grapes are cut trom the vmes j^y^^ ^^,.,^ ^,.^^^.„ -^^ Driver's nur.sery in 1796, and Pro^^-'red for the common plough, as the soil «ill 

 by means of a pair of snssors. They are then put ,,^^ ^een known in Devonshire for upwards of '^0 P''™'"- ^'"'^ ''"''' "° '''=-'*"° '" '^^ P'^^P'^ ''">'"« 

 into hrge baskets, which the gatherers carry to ^.^^^^ ^ j^ j,^^^ cultivated at Arundel Castie, by <=very thing that claims the name of an invention, 

 one side of the vineyard, and there the gr;.pes Mj,,„_ having thoroughly prepared the ground, but liope they will liberally patronize thi.s improve- 

 are tipped into tubs, placed ready for their recep- j^^j farmed into beds four feet wide, " I draw lines ""s"' °» "'^ '"""' important >mplement in agricul- 

 tion. The tubs, when filled, are carried bon.e in i j,,^ „,j^„l . ,^^^^1, ^1^^^^ ^^ ^.,^1, ,^gj^ ^„j ^^,,j,, j,,^ ture, as bv so doing they will not or,!y advance 

 ' "' '' " '' --'-'- ' ■ their own interest, but will justly encoifvaiic and 



reward the ingenious and entTprizing i.iventor. 

 Hingham Paper. 



..iv, c... .,„ ... , -- — „ in „ ■ u- 1 I J- 1 n n . common iicaincss. r or sioiiey iau< 



ed along with th.m By the tim. that the crop Irom he u.anner in which he deals witl, this sort ^^^^^ .^ J 



of grain comes off the ijround, the oaks get to be of fodde-, tobeexactly of the same opinion. ^^^^ . ^^^ _^^ ^^_^_;_^^. ^^^ ^,^.^j^ y; 



two or three iu.hes high, and are then allowed to 

 grow into a coppice. 



FKENOR .MODE OF MAKING WINE 



a cart or wagon, and the grapes are then, while g„„ „,• j,,^ ^^^^ ,^^,,^1^^ ^^^^ ^ ,_^^^l^ .^^^ ^ ^^;„j 

 •n-the tub, pounded or bruised, by a stout and ,„ ^,^g snruce ; on this mark I place the onions, 



pretty heavy piece of wood, which is made use of 

 by the hand. From the tubs, the grapes are 

 tnrown into a very large vat, as soon as they are 

 sufficiently bruised. In this vat the pulp of the 

 bruised grapes and their juice, altogether, remrii 



ten inch.^s 

 mould, rott 

 that the cr; 



ipart ; 1 then cover them with leaf- 

 1 dung, or any light corhpost, just so 

 ins appear exposed. Nothing more 



topi 



on a dry day, they are earlhed up 



for as much as a week or ten days, covered over,i ^^^ potatoes, and kept free from weeds until they 

 as beer is when set to work, in order to undergo i ^^^ ^^^^^ „p ]„ j,,^ ^^^^^ of England, whore this 

 the /erm,„(.,<ion that is necessary. While this ' ,.;„,, „,- .„^^^^;^ ,„^„^l, cultivated, I understand 

 fermentation is going on, the pulp and juice in the j,,,^ jj -^ ,j,g practice to plant on the shortest day, 

 vat rise up, just as bread does that ^^^'^^ "^ ^„^ ^,^^o v.^ ou ^\x<, \onB^sl. The smallest onions 

 yeast. After rising up and Irotiiiug lor some 

 lime, the head sinks, as tli.tt of beer docs ; and 

 then the fermentation is supposed to be nearly at 

 an end. As soon as this sinking lakes place, the 

 juice that Jlows in the va:t is drawn off, leaving 



Sill:. — One farmer in Connecticut, estimates 

 ... , , . that when ills mulberry trces,500 in number, shall 



necessar- to be done until they shoot up their , , .■.■!.» .i e.^ \^„ ,.r \.\c 



_. . J . J .!..._. ..i_j _ nave come to mstnnly, that the females ot hi£ 

 family will annually make 8f!0 lbs. of silk. Tiiey 

 made 50 lbs. last year, by about 1(10,000 worms, 

 without feeling any loss of labor. Silk will be ex- 

 tensively produced in ll-.o United Et::tes, especially 

 in the south. 



used for planting swell, and become very fine and Decrease of mortaliti/.—ll is proved by the rc- 



large, as well as yiel I offsets ; the middle-sized turns made under the population nets, thut the 



and larger bulbs produce greater clusters." [Hoit. average mortality in Kngland and Wales, in 1780, 



Trans, lii. 30-5. J ^ygg one in every forty of the population. But, 



,, , , ,, i ,„ ,„hi.h ih-t still rPiain, h» I Dymon. I .states f/for<. Trans, iii. 306.; that jn notwithstanding, the extraordinary increase in the 



Hud' The" 01 e ! 1. s Ira w n off i n!i^ ed o ^-""^'■"•^ '' ^' P'""'^'' '" -«- '2 i-^es apart, intermediate pei'iod of what we have been in the 



; , ! h-" lilrin itr v?loe When hi^ '"'' ^ ''''''''' '''=^^"'^'= '" ""^ '°'' ' '^'' ''"^ P'^'"^ I'^'^'i' °f considering- nnheallhy employments, thv 



rt^s'd.awto^Tll' h Uti^rLa^Is^Vt ! 7^ ::^'1j ^ they grow, and that the small- ..erage mortality in 18.0. am^ounleVlo only one 

 ^t IS taken out and passed in the wme-pre_,-r;^>-;:!-:-—^ 



The juice runs away, from the press into a large i ,j„..,„,.^ /n.,1.,1 H„w if.^, ; -M-i r,A u. oi« i , ." ""^ ^'S'" or tne cniiri. popuiduon. i nis 



tub sunk in the .roiml, from which it is emptied, "w^'i'/f;"'; Hort. .Mem . M3. and ,v. 216.J d,.„,n,.t,on of mortality has been going on gradu- 



directly into the ;u«.o barrel. There is nothing ' h ,^''S'":°°'' ''"" "f ""'^\ '\'""^ f"''^f': MIy since 1750, and has been owing to a variety 



at all LeU with U.e j .ice of the grape ; and from | J ' f/'T ,' f^'' ^'ff;;,^'^<^ »\-." - >;'" !^f of causes ;-partly to the greater prevalence of 



the time that i. is tii^t put into the barrel, it re- I f . ' '"T, ' J''^"^-^"- 40.i.J The cleanliness and sobriety among the goor, and the 



. . , /I- I . 1 rr.L I tact IS, ;;s we have before observed in fjeneralis- imnrovcmentfl ilnt have been made in their <Kpt 



mains there, unli it is drawn of! to bettle. The!;„„ , ,u„ u- . e .i ■ <•" u n. ""P"'^'-""^"'^ uiat na\e i,ten mauc ui ineir (net, 



' ing "" '"e subject of earthing up, surface-bulb.=, dj-ess, and houses— partly to the draining of bogs 



as the onion, turnip, &c. arc always prevented ; ,,ncl marshes— and partiv, and since 1600 chiefly, 



from attaining their full size _h^ that operation, I ppriiaps, to the discoveries in medical science, 



whatever they may gain in olher respects. 



bung-hole of the barrel, iifter receiving the juice, 

 must be left open, covered only by a vine leaf, for 

 about len days, in order that all fermentation may 

 subside before the barrel be made close for good. 



This is the whole p.ocess of the vintage, as far as j„,„i„ Roses.— Amoag all the beautiful things 

 relates to the /■«</ aii,.e. That of the tt/iife inne is whh h we have seen in these holidays, wc have 

 somewhat different. The wlii-e grapes must be ^^^ ^^jth none, (a few fine ladies e.scepted) that 

 pressed directly after they have been bruised, and h^^.p surpassed the Japan Roses, {Camelia Japon- 

 instead of fermenting in the vat, pul,. & juice mix- I ,-j„^ ^^^ blooming in the green house of Mr. Floy 

 ed altogether, like the red wine ; the white wine j ;„ Broadway. So delicate and so white are the 

 must not be allowed to ferment till it has under- | pgt:,ls, that no lady's hands or snowy white neck, 

 gone all the pressing; and separation ot the pulp |for ,t is only the beauty of the virtue and the in- 

 from the juice. It mu,t be bruised, pressed and Uejiigence of the ladies, that induced us to yield 

 put to ferment in the barrel, without there being n^e palm to them) can be compared with them, 

 any lapse of time between these different stages | 



and the extirpation of the small po:;. 

 Review. 



-EdinhurgU 



To make a boiled Plum P.udding. — Take a 

 pound of suet cut in pieces, not too fine, a pound 

 of currants, and a pound of ruisins "stoned, eight 

 eggs, half a nutmeg grated, and a iPa-spoonfu[ of 

 beaten ginger, a pound of flour, n pint of milk ; — 

 beat the eggs first, and add half the milk ; beat 

 them together, and by degrees stir in the flour, 

 then the suet, spice, and fruit, and as much milk 

 as will mix it together very thick. Boil it 5 hours. 



