of years, iintl always with evident advantage ; and 

 I have such entire confidence in the correctness 

 of his representation, thnt I have resolved to make 

 the experiment, if I am spared to see the ensuing 

 3pring, on at least part of my vines. If the ad- 

 vantawes of this management are any thing like 

 what is alleged — and I am not at all apprehen- 

 sive of any deception in the case — it is surely 

 more than worth the trouble. I hope, therf fore, 

 that not only you, but also all the other members 

 of your Society, who cultivate this kind of fruit, 

 will embrace the earliest opportunity of putting 

 f.he proposed improvement to tlie test. 



I had almost forgotten to mention, .that the 

 gentleman so often alluded to, informed uie that 

 he is in the habit of applying this treatment to 

 young as well as to old vines. He showed me 

 some which he had set out the preceding autumn, 

 and which had never borne fruit. These, he as- 

 Bured me, would be burned as well ps the older 

 ones, the ne.xt year 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 15, I82S. 



again observe, that I merely give a selection, such I 

 as appears to me to be the best calculated for 

 gratifying, at different seasons, the sight, or the' 

 mell, or both. That there is a great deal in rni- [ 

 ilrj is evident enough ; for, while the English think ! 

 nolliing of the Hawthorn, the Americans think j 

 nothing of the Arbutus the Rlioilodendron the Kal- ■ 

 mia and hundreds of other shrubs, which arc; 

 amongst the choicest in England. The little 

 dwarf brush stuff, that infests the plains in Long 

 Island under the name of '' Kill- Calf," is, under 

 a fine Latin nume, a choice grcen-houso plant in 

 England, selling for a dollar when not bigger 

 than a handlul of thyme. Nay, that abominable 

 tiling, with it yellow flower, called the '■ Plain 

 fVeed," which is the torment of the neighbouring 

 farmer, has been, above all the plants in this world 

 chosen as tlie most conspicuous ornament of the 

 King of England's grandest palace, that of Hamp- 

 ton Court, where, growing in a rich soil to the 

 height of five or si.-; feet, it, under the name of 

 '^ Golden Rod," it nods over the whole length of the 



Perhaps, however, all this, though perfectly new , ,. ,, ^, . r i . , 



. ' , , „ J ,„„,ti.„ edge of a walk, three quarters ot a nine long and 



fo me, is by no means so to you and your worthy i » , . „ , T 



„..,., ■ . n , ■, ■ „.,„„ „ perhaps, Ihirtv feet wide, the most uiagnmcent, 



Horticultural associates. Perhaps it is even a r i ' - „ , , . 



long since e.\ploded system of culture. If so, I 

 hope you and the other gentlemen will pardon ray 

 giving you the trouble of this communication, and 

 believe that I am, with an ardent zeal for promot 

 ing the object of your association, your sincere 

 friend and humble servant, 



S.'\MUEL MILLER. 

 Mr Michael Floy, Secretary, &;c. 



From Cobbell's American Gardener. 



FLOWERS AND ORNAMENTAL, GARD- 

 ENING 



My reason for making Flowers a part of my sub- 

 ject, have been stated. However, if the American 

 Farmer have no taste for flowers, his wife and 

 daughters may ; and this part of the book can, 

 at any rate, do him no harm. 



Lender the head of Flowers come flowering trees 

 and shrubs ; and, therefore, I must, in this place, 

 .say a little of these and of ornamental gardening. 

 It is by no means my intention to attempt to give 

 an account of all the flowers that come into the 



perhaps in Europe. But, be not too hasty, Amer 

 icans, in laughing at John Bull's king ; for I see 

 as a choice flower in your gardens, that still more 

 pernicious European weed, w'hich the French call 

 the C'oquclico', and the English the Corn- Poppy, 

 which stifles the barley, the wheat, and especially 

 the peas, and frequently makes the fields the col- 

 our of blood. 



This is quite sufficient to show the power o{ rar- 

 ity in affixing value on shrubs and flowers. The 

 finest flowering trees and shrubs in England have 

 been got from America. The (fild Cherry, which 

 they call the bird-cherry, which here grovk^s some- 

 times to the height of a hundred feet, and one of, 

 which I now see from my window more than sev- 

 enty feet high ; the Locust, most beautiful of 

 trees and best of timber ; the Cntalpa, blossoms 

 far more beautiful than those of the horse-chesnut, 

 broad and beautiful leaves that do^ not scorch in 

 the hottest sun; all the beautifully blowing Lau- 

 rel tribe ; the Rose of Sharon (as it is called here) 

 and the Allhca Frutvx ; the .Izalia of all colours; 

 Roses of several kinds. But, there is one shrub of 

 the larger kind, abundant here, that I never saw 



RAIL ROADS. 



A writer in the Boston Palladium, who makes 

 Rail roads the thenje of liis essays, has, in our 

 opinion, used one of the best (not, indeed, new) 

 arguments that can be urged for public works of 

 that kind, namely, the increase of trade, amount 

 of travelling, value of lands along the lines, &c. 

 These are, we thmk, to be preferred to the more 

 ditect calculation of per centage on investments. 

 In our opinion, the question is scarcely worth put- 

 ting, by a Stati- or the nation, when contemplating 

 a great undertaking, whether 1, 2, 3, or tj per cent 

 is to be received annually, from the cost of the 

 work, by tolls or other direct income. 



Those are considerations for companies & indi- 

 viduals; — the question for a State is, will the pro- 

 gress of trade be proportionately aided .' will that 

 which is liable or likely to bo drawn to other mar- 

 kets, be continued to our own ? will property ex- 

 perience some considerable accession to its price? 

 on the whole, will the people generally derive an 

 advantage to balance the inconvenience of con- 

 struction, calculating, if necassary, into the credits 

 of the work, the saving of the trade at risk for 

 want of facilities, as well as direct increased pro- 

 fits .' But as to net amount of tolls upon a public 

 Rail road or canal, being more or less than any 

 specified sum, it is unworthy of enquiry. As well 

 might the common council of this city, think of 

 raising a revenue, by collecting tolls for passen- 

 gers in Market street U. S. Gazette. 



florist's catalogue. That catalogue, with only ;: 



very short description of each flower, would fill j there, "and that is the thing which some call the 

 ten volumes, each surpassing this in bulk. I io i jyjornins Star. It has six leaves in its flower, 

 not blame the taste of those who study ftoton^/, | which is in the form of the flower of the single 

 and who find pleasure in the possession of curious \ ,.ose. The whole flower when open, is about three 



trees and plants ; but, all that I sliall attempt, is, 

 to speak of those flowers that stand most promi- 

 nent as to their capacity of making a beautiful 

 show and of sending forth //•f/grajicc. 



As to the spot for flowers, the smaller kinds, 

 .ind even small slirubs, such as roses, dwarf hon- 

 ey-suckles, and the li'>e, may be planted by the 



limes the circumference of a dollar. Some of the 

 trees bear blossoms quite white, and others blos- 

 soms of a whitish peach blossom colour. These 

 blossoms come the earliest in tlie spring. They 

 arc out full, in Lonj- Island, in the first week in 

 May, which is rather earlier than the peach-blos- 

 soms. In England, they would be out full, on an 



sides of the broad walks in the kitchen garden, or ; average of years, in the last week of February, 

 a little pioco of ground may be set apart for the ; which is an anticipation of all their shrubs. The 



purpose. In cases where there are what are usu- 

 ally called pleasure-grounds, large shrubs, and, if 

 ♦he grounds he extensive, lofty trees come in. — 

 And, in the placing of the whole of the trees and 

 t»lants, the most lofty should be farthest from the 

 walk. 



As to the m.Tnner of sowing, planting, trans- 

 planting, and cultivating, what h;is hern said of 

 fruit trees and of garden vegetables and herbs ap- 

 plies here. The ground must be good, well tilled, 

 and kept clean, or the plants and flowers will not 

 be fine. 



trees, which is a great quality, thrive well under 

 3'her trees, which, indeed, seems to be their na- 

 ture. You see, from a great distance, their bright 

 and large blossoms, unaccompanied by leaves, 

 shining throu^-h the boughs of the other trees ; — 

 and some of ihcm reach the height of forty feet. 

 This, therefore, is a very fine flowering tree ; and 

 yet I never saw one of the kind in England. — 

 How beautiful a grove might be made of this tree, 

 the wild-ciicrry, the Locust, the Catalpa, and 

 the .'\lthea-frutex! And hero they are all, only 



HYDROPHOBIA. 



Thomas L. M'Kennie, Esq. Superintendent of 

 Indian Affairs, addressed a circular to the Agents 

 of the United States in the Indian country by di- 

 rection of the Secretary of War, directing them 

 to ascertain the remedies used by the Indians for 

 the bites of mad dogs and snakes. The Superin- 

 tendent himself endeavored to obtain a knowledge 

 of these remedies, which he believes the Indians 

 possess, while travelling in their country, but did 

 not succeed. A letter from Horatio Jones, the in- 

 terpreter at Gennessee, in answer to the circular, 

 and enclosing a quantity of the seed of a plant re- 

 ferred to in it, has been received. It states that 

 the Indian cure for Hydrophobia is a plant culti- 

 vated in the same manner and used by tliem as a 

 substitute for the tobacco plant. "When a dog 

 is afflicted, it ia moistened and tied round his 

 neck, and the dry tobacco put in a pipe and smok- 

 ed by a person into his nostrils ; and in case a 

 person is bitten, he is to be treated in the same 

 manner, excepting binding moistened tobacco on 

 the wound. They never knew persons to be mad, 

 though they have been frequently bitten by mad 

 dogs, because they apply the remedy immediately, 

 which, [they say] stops the effect of poison. — 

 There are old and experienced doctors among the 

 Indian, Tall Chief being fifty-eight years old, and 

 Dr. Monture about fifty-five." 



for the trouble of sowing ; for from the seed the 

 Before I proceed to the Alphabetical List, let me tree will surely come. (To be continued.) 



FLEMISH AGRICULTURE. 



In 1815 Sir John Sinclair, formerly President of 

 the Board of Agriculture, attracted by the high 

 encomiums which he had heard on the Flemish 

 system, visited the country, and after residing 

 there for some time, so deeply was he impressed 

 with the novel and extraordinary scenes he had 

 witnessed, that be addressed a letter to the editor 

 of the Brussels Observer in which among other 

 expressions of high satisfaction, he remarked : 

 " I shall never forget what I haTC seen in this 

 country : a picture of the most ravishing deacrip- 



