Vol. 6— No. 27. 



NEW ENGLAND FASIMRR. 



213 



[To the Editor of the Mw York Farmer.] 



ignorance of the cliaractor of Cniit: ; yet I do not ( Ciiriiis: of hams. — The articio calleil /njr /•»■- 

 pretenil to say that every man who is a private ' neuita acid, (or csscnte of kmioIik) is much nse'i m 

 Dear Sir,- In a late number of the New Eng- 1 cultivator, miy not call his ftiiit by what name lie the ciirin-f of hams, and is preferable to the usual 

 and Fainier, p. 178. 1 observed a letter froui Mr. pleases, not knowing the proper name. But sure- mode, in beini; ,i great saving of trouble ami ex. 

 Prince, o-iaui; some e.xtr.icls from an llorticultur I ly practical and e.\perienceil nurserymen, ousrlit pense. and (as vvp think) favors the quality also, 

 al work "about to be 'jublislud by this gentleman. ' "o' 'o fill up their catalogues with these fanciful Our mode is as follows : after the hums have been 

 Under the head Stinunums in Fruits, he observes : ' names. It ought to be presumed that they would three or four .veehs iu salt ami |iii kle, take three 



be cautious of new names, until they have proved pints of the acid to onp barrel of hams, and min- 



1 have also noticed that a peach which is now 

 selling as a new variety, by the high sounding 

 name of Emptror of Russia, is the same fruit 

 known for thirty years past under the unpretend 

 ing title ut' strratid leaved peach." 



A3 this remark appears to he a sort of oblique 

 hit at me, I shall observe that both the "unpre- 

 tending title," and the" high souuMing name," of 

 this fruit and its variety, were given by me and 

 have been in my catalogue a number of years ; 

 and to clear myself from the imputation of " giv 



the fruit, and examined it very carefully. 

 I remrtiii, dear sir. 



Your obedient servant, 



MICHAEL FLOY. 

 JVew York, January 5, 1828. 



[From the Massachusells Spy.] 



tESOPHAGOTOMY. 



gip it in the barrel with the pickle and salt, and 

 let the hams lie therein for three or four we<iks, 

 Thev must then be washed off and hung up in a 

 garret, 'ir otiior dry place. They improve fist by 

 age, an.<l keep s« eel in the hottest ueatlier. AfiiT 

 four years' experieice we can safely recommend 

 this mode — Long Island Sinr. 



A correspondent of the National Gazette, notices 



On the 4th inst. a valuable cow of the Denton as un evil, the cusloin of charitable, wealthy UmeBi 

 rn"g" nernmnrro'oVd'7,nrvvel7"know7fruit," 'l ^'''^'^' belonging to Judge Paine of this place be- in making needle-work and selling it at a reduo- 

 shall give you the history of this fruit as far as "^""'^ "^"^^^ with a lar,.e tu.nip Repeated at- ed price, to aid societies -thereby injuring the 

 I know it. In the summer of 1HI8, I was over in [''y'^:'^^'\''!V^l'°T_l^! tTJl ''If .'".""!': *"<'"''"-,V"'« f^^?^"J^' "''" "^ <^°"'P^^-^^ '» resort 

 the Jersey, at the Engli-h neighbo hood at Mr. 

 Paul Saiinier's place, and in the rear ot his house, 

 and near the edge of a swamp, I observed a natu 



out success, and objections having been made to to needle work for a support. 



the propelling it into the stomach by means of a — 



probang, in consequence of the si;'.e and condition A writer in the Essex Register BUggest.^ the ex- 



, ,, , , , J , ot the lurnip, it bemi; frozen as a last resort, the peuience ot a Rail Koad between lioston and 



ral seedling peach ; the leaves were very deeply '^,,^ , /-n , . ,.i .. • T, , mL , . r . , , , 



T i; -. . I , , , •.. . oneration called CLsophagotomy (the cutting into, Salem. The larj^e amount ol travel, and the 



serrated, ditfenng from any peach I had hitherto ,' ,t-. , ii . j j . ir. <• i i .11 .1- 



, , , . , . r •. I the (Esophagus or irulleti was proposed and car- ] piacticability <•' a road almost level on this route, 



seen. I was induced to taKc a slioot from it, and ■ , ,1. , ■, „. , . . , . . . 



, ^ J II I ■. ried into effect by Dr. Blood: who, at the request are strong recommendations to such an enter- 



inoculate a few trees in my nursery, and called it ^ , , „ . , ,■ . , , ■ , ., r7, ■ 



, ., . 1 / 1 , , m, ■ of Judge Paine, has furnished us with the follow- prise, 



ny the name 01 serrated leaved peach. 1 his name . „ , • rr.i 



ing account ot the operation : " 1 he cow was 



cast upon the right side, and an incision, three 



inches in length, was made on the left side of the 



neck through the skin, directly over the place 



where the substance was lodged. The fat was 



was not to my knowledge in any other catalogue 

 at that time. I had not seen the fruit, the origi- 

 nal tree being very younir. I esteemed it as a cu- 

 rious variety only. In the summer of 1810, Mr. 



>Saunier called over Hfld informed me that the fruit „ ,, ,. , , , , • 



,,.,.. .11, i_ £ J carelullv dissecieu away so as to avoid the lugu- 



of this serr:ited leaved peach was very fine and , . , , , t> ,, , , • 



f .. r,n,>, o^rt «f ■>Do^N /liffr.rlnn- '^'^ ^'^^"i which soou appeared. Parallel to this 

 vein, the incision was continued with great cau- 

 tion, to avoid wounding the great artery of the 

 neck, as far as the wind pipe, near to or on the 



was withoi:t doubt, a new sort of peach, differing 



in all its characters from any other peach he ever 



knew of. And I here wish to remark that Mr. 



Saunter was a French gardener and a good judge • , <- , • 1 ,, ■ . , 



c , ... I, , .-1 , \. • . ,. posterior side of which, the projection occasioned 



of fruit, as well .is a good practical botanist. It ; , , j u \. , m ■ 1 , <- 



, . , . ^ "^ , u •» c I by the turnip, could be felt. Ihis was cleared of 



iiouever remained in my catalogue by its former ^ V , _ , ,, . , ^ ., 



name. I raised many trees of this kind from seed 



prise 



A". Y. Canals. — The amount of toll collected 

 on the Erie and Chaniplain canals in I8"27 was 

 •$8.')9,058. In 18'.i(i it was $7fi2,004 — increase in 

 one year $97,0-54. 



A useful society exists at Walpole, N. H. for 

 the detection and punishment of horse tnieves, 

 pilferers and plunderers of gardens and fruit 

 orchards. 



the surrounding fat, leaving three inches of the 

 gullet exposed. Firm pressure was then made on 

 eacli side of the projection, by the fore and mid- 

 dle fingers of the left hand, so as to give the knife 

 no chance of slipping, by the rolling of the turnip, 

 which it was important to avoid, as the great 

 carotid artery laid in contact with it, and might 

 easily be wounded. One stroke of the knife, be- 

 tween the two fingers that conSned the turnip, 

 dislodged it. Three stitches were taken in the 



all of which retained the character of the origin 



al,in the deep serrature of the leaf. Among these 



seedlings, was a very fine variety, the fruit being 



better than the original in many respects ; and as 



all the others were inferior, 1 rcji'Cted them. — 



And this new seedling variety happening to come 



in about the time of the fatal disaster of the 



French army at Moscow, it appeared soon after in 



my catalogue by the name of the i3?»pf?-or o/"flMS- , ,, , , , , j , , 



.,.■-,,, (..i 1 1 1 .1 ■ gullet, the external wound closed, and ten or 



sia. 1 inoculalen manv ot them, and sold them in f , . , , . .^ , \ ., 



,01 r 1 .1 . .1 r »i I J . twelve stitches taken in it to prevent the oozing 



1815, by that name, as mv catalogue of that date „ , ,, . , • ^ . ,. , .^ 



.„ , T , , ., r 1 • .1 1 ■ from the gullet. A crossing ot tow, dipped in 



will shosv. 1 have been thus particular in the his- , o r^ „ , t. , . . 



.». c .u- c •. . c .1 1 c . equa parts of Galbanum and Burgundy pitch, 



tory of this fruit, not for the sake of argument ^ f » j j 1 



and 



regard 



that 



until ^... ^., .,„ ^u..^>. „„ , .„ , ^ V , ■ 



„ ;, ,„„ , . „ w. 1 .. • '. ■ reason that the straw was formed into a wad by 



ago. It was unknown to me, although it is not ira- . . , , , , , , , ' 



„»„,.:ki„ 1 » •» u <. •? .J chewing, and would pafs the wound better th.'m a 



possible ; but it may be so : yet if it tvas so, un- „ . , ^, , ^ , . ■ , . 



,i„„Kt„.ii„ „„ t 1 u J 1 » fluid. The result ol this operation, proves that it 



doubtedly some catalogue can be produced to . . , , , , , , , . . 



prove this fact ; and I expect this proof, or shall 'f ^ '^^^. """' """^ should be recommended ,n s.m- 

 conclude it was not the case. "'="■ ^'"'•'ents, next to the attempt to extract the 



I wish also to observe that in the spring of 1810, i'^°'"'^'g" ^"bs.ance by the hand; unless the cir- 

 I sent some of the trees of the former variety, lo I <="f"stances of the case are such as to warrant the 

 Messrs. Lee & Kennedy, of Hammersmith ; 'and ^fl'^ "^ |;ropelling it into the stomach by means 

 in 1822. I sent some of the latter variety to the T ''^^P^^'^f'S- ^'l^" '•'"^ operation is done, the 

 London Horticultural Society, which appears in h""""' ''"^^^ "°' '° '' '" ^^ ^^'^'' °' 



their transactions, and in their .atalo-rue, by the K""* '''^y^' «"'' ^^^".; T'" ■^.''■^^•'"ed with wafer 



A South Carolinian who lately travelled north, 

 with strong prejudices against our manufacturing 

 establishments, visited those at Dover, N. H. and 

 returned home almost a convert to the "American 

 System." lie says : 



" Though I would not advocate exclusive bene- 

 fits or privileges to any, I would firmly advocate 

 an extension of the fostering care of Government, 

 and all the aid it can consistently render, in pro- 

 tecting this great interest. 



" When I see one single concern in the North, 

 will require each year from the Southern States 

 three thousand bales of Cotton ; from Virginia or 

 Maryland, 800 barrels of Flour ; from Pennsylva- 

 nia, lOfJO tons of Coal, and .'JO hhds. Quercitron 

 Bark, thousands and thousands of gallons of Oil 



name I gave it. I perfectly agree with Mr Prince, 



1 should be the first food; if this is swallowed with- 



that the " rechristening" of old and well known °"' "'"^"^ difficulty, the danger may be consider- 

 fruits, is a bad practice, and geneially arises from I'' "^ °^''^^' 



with ; and at the same time uniting us more close- 

 ly in bonds of mutual dependence .ind mutual re- 

 gard — I will pray for her prosperity, and contri- 

 bute my feeble efforts for that object. — Charleston 

 Courier. 



The steamboat Columbia, employed in carrying 

 the mail betwe.3n Mobile and New Orleans, was 

 entirely destroyed by fire on the night of the 20th 

 u)t. The master, crew, and passengers, had 

 barely lime to get ashore, leaving the letter-bag, 

 containing the great Northern mail, clothing, and 

 every thing else to the flrimcs. The boat is be- 

 lieved to have been designedly set en fire. 



