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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 22, 1628. 



plant, with great abundance of flowers. Sow early in August. The young Cloves will have 



when you sow Melons, at a distance of four feet ; roots in the fall ; ami you may transplant them 



leave only one plant in a place ; lot the ground into the open ground or into pots to blow the next 



be rich aiid kept clean ; it will blow early in July, year. The old Clove plant, will, however, blow 



and will keep growing and blowing till the frost for many years. I showH think, that, with good 



comes, and then, like the cucumber, it is instantly covering, such as directed for spinach, Cloves 



cut down. I have seen BaWams in Pennsylvania would live out the winter in this country. 



3 feet high, with side-branches Q ft^et long, and Columbine A perennial. Very common ; but 



with a stem much bigger than my wrist, loaded very pretty. 



with beautiful blossoms. Plant, branch, leaf, flow- Cowslip. — This is one of the four flowers, 



the State. He is confident that the soil and cli- 

 mate are both well adapted for raising the high 

 priced yellow tobacco, Out not so good for dark 

 losv priced tobacco, [used for chewing.] as the 

 Southern States. 



Haps E. A. Le Breton, inspector of hops in 



Albany, on the 24th ult. made a report to the Le- 

 gislature, from which it appears he has inspected 

 within the year, (emliuir the first of Jan. Ib28) 

 2i»2; bules of hops, «ei;ihirig 719,2!:Hi lbs. raised* 

 er; uU are most elegnntly formed, and the colours vvithout which English pastoral poetry would be Un.l presented from the tollovving counties. Mad- 

 'of the flower extraordinaiily vivid and various — destitute of that which awakens the most delight, ison, 390.937— Oneida. 2-i2,(i25— Otsego, 47,115 

 There; are, however, some more double than oth- f^j „,gag -p^g Cowslip, the Primrose, the Violet,\ Saratoga, 12,8.57— (ieiine-sne, 10.903— Monroe, 

 ers, and some variegated. The seed of these g^j the Daisy, are of endless recurrence in that .5,.s44— Herkimer, 5,152— Alh.my, 4,830— Tomp- 

 should be sowed, and it comes in great abun- gpe^ies of writing". They all come early in the kin-. 2.408— Ononduiia, l,7ti2— Chenango, 1,490 

 dance. The flower of the Balsam has no smell. spring ; and are all beaiitiful. Neither of them Rensselear, 1.2-S9— Schenectady. 1940— town of 

 Bkiar (Sweet). — A well known shrub of the is seen here, and they all might; for they will Newport, N. H. 1,220 — Total, 7 19,296 lbs. 



rose. Rows of it catefully planted and pruned bear any seveiity of weather. Tho rrmialip la nF , ,^^ , i.i, 



make very good hedges, and it will grow in al- the Poiyanlhus tribe. It is of a delicate yello.v 

 raost any ground, though fastest in good ground, colour, and sends forth many blossoms from the 

 C.iMfLLiA. — This shrub, which is of the laurel- same sten;, which rises about si.\ inches from the 

 tribe, has lately been introduced in Kngland from ground It may easily be propagated from seed, | 

 Japan. It hears a flower, which, when open, re- which it bears in great abundance, but, when you | 

 sembles a good deal a large full blown rose ; and once have a plant, the easiest w,iy is to propagate | 

 these flowers, on ilifferent plants, are of difl^rent fiom oflsets. The plants raise<l from seed do not 

 coloirs. It is raise 



JVEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, FEB. 22, 1828. 



To obtain cucumbers a month of six weeks ear- 



ier than wiiat the soil and climate would natural- 



-il doubtre'^r"from seed • but it blow till the secon/^/^a''- The plant is perennial, '.'/produce them, is sometimes a very desirable 



maybe i^rafled on the Hawthorn; and, I dare The flower has a delicate sweet smell, and also '"'J^t. especially with market gardeners. This 



say, on the Crab. Some of the plants have been sweet taste, as a proof ot which, cart-loads of the 



sold at 20 or 30 pounds each. By this time they flowers, plucUed from the ftalks, are sold in Lon- 



are probably sold at a dollar. The plant as well don to make " uine" with ; that is lo say to fur 



as the flower arc handsome; and certainly cut- nish drinkers with an apology for swallowing spir- 



tini;s for grafting may easily he brought from its under the specious name of Cowslip-wine. — 



En^'land. They will stand the winter as well as The leaf of the flower very much reseinlles in 



any o*' the American laurels. shape the under lip of a cow, whence, I suppose, 



CAR.NATiorv— Here is beauty and fragrance, ""r forefathers gave the plant the name of cow'a- 



an.l both in the highest degree. There are vari- "P- 



ous sorts, distinguished, like those of the Auricula, Crocus.— A bulbous rooted plant, very well 



hy names ; and what is said of the seed of the known. It is recommended by its carliness. It is 



Auricula applies here. If sown, the carnation perfectly hardy. The only thing to do, when it is 



does not blow till the second year. It is usually once planted, i= to take care that it does not fill 



propagated by layers. While it is blowing, it all the ground near it. There are yellow, blue 



sends out several side shoots near the ground. — and white Crocuses. And they are pleasant 



These are pinned down in August, to the earth, when nothing else is in bloom, except, at least, 



with, a little stick with a hook at the end of it. — the Snowdrop, which departs soon after thp Cro- 



A little cut, or tongue, is made on the under side cus begins to appear. 



of the shoot; and thus the head of the shoot is Daisv. — I cannot say, with Dryden's damsel.'!, 



brought upright. The part that touches the in one of his fine poems, that " the Daisy smeils 



ground is well covered with earth; and roots so sweet ; for it has ver^ little smell : but it is a 



come out here before the fall. Then the stalk most beautiful little flower, and blows without 



which connects the young plant with the old one ceasing at all times when the grass grows, howev- 



is cut ofi"; the young plant is trimsplanted, and er little that may be. The opening of the Daisy 



the ne.xt year it blows. The old root does not jg the sure sign that there is growth going on in 



stand another year well ; and, therefore, its the grass ; and these little flowers bespangle the 



branches are thus made use of to keep up the lawns and the meadows, the green banks and the 



race and the sort. Carnations are rather tender glades all over England. Their colours present 



as to frost, and must be well covered in this coun- an endless variety ; and those grown in garden.s 



try to live through the winter. It is best to put are double. The field daisy is single and about ^umbersT wliich.'^f well' managedVwiir keep 



them in large pots to give room for laying ; and the size of a York Sixpence. Those in the gar- : bearing till September. Those who have hot-hed 

 to keep them in a srreen house in winter, or in dens are sometimes as broad as a quarter of vl' frames, or handli;;hts, .\\\\ manage this matter 



dollar. And there is one sort, called the f/en-cjid- jygry easily. The cucumber plant is very tender 



ehicken Daisy, that has a ring of little flowers sur- 1 and juicy ; and therefore, when the seedlings are 



This plant may be i p„t into the pots, they should be watered and 



may be done by means of artifii lal heal, either in 

 hot-beds, or hot houses, according to rules given 

 in treatises on gardening; but, will require much 

 labor, skill, care, and expense. Mr. Cobbett, in 

 his American Gnrdmer, paragraph 217, describes 

 a cheap mode of raising cucumbers ; by which he 

 says, you may "have them a month earlier than 

 the natural ground will bring them." His direc- 

 tions are as follows :. "Make a hole and put into 

 it a little hot dung : let the hole be under a warm 

 fence. Put si\ inches deep of fine rich earth on 

 the dung, sow a parcel of seeds in this earth ; and 

 cover at night with a bit of carpet or sail-cloth, 

 having first fi.\ed some hoops over this little bed. 

 Before the plants show the rough leaf plant two 

 into a little flower pot, and fill as many pots this 

 way as you please Have a larger bed ready to 

 put the pots into, and covered with earth so that 

 the pots may he plunged in the earth up to their 

 tops. Cover this bed like the last. When the 

 plants have got the rough leaves out, they will be- 

 gin to make a shoot in the middle. Pinch that 

 short off. Let them stand in this bed till your 

 cucumbers sown in the natural ground come up ; 

 then make some little holes in good rich land, and 

 taking a pot at a time, turn out the ball and fix it 

 in the hole. These plants will bear a month soon- 

 er than those sown in the natural ground ; and a 

 square yard will contain thirty-six pots, and will 

 of course furnish plants for thirty-six hills of ou- 



some house, where they can have sun and air. — 

 llswever, they merit all the pains that can be be- 

 stowed upon them. 



Clove. — Is only a more hardy and less esteem- 

 ed -ort of Carnation, which see. It may be pro- 

 pag ited like the Carnation ; or, by cuttings, which 

 is the easier way. Instead of laying down the 



rounding the main flower. 



raised from offsets or seeds, in which last case it 



blows the second year. It is perennial. 



f To be conlimiej.) 



Tobacco. 



haded a day or two ; when the balls are turn- 

 ed into the ground they should be watered and 

 shaded with a bough for one day, that will be 

 enough." 

 In a Treatise on Garde7iing, by J. Armstrong, 



Gov. Clinton, in his last message to 



side shoots, you cut them off. Then you cut away I the Legislature, recommended the cultivation of. .-,. , „, 



the hard part of the shoot, strip ofi" three or four I toi,acco in New York, as a profitable crop. A of Dutchess, New York, published in Ahmoirs of 

 of the bottom leaves. Tip the rest of the leaves ; L,riter in the Rochester Daily Telegraph, mcn-ithe .Yew York Board of .Agriculture, we have the 

 make a little split in the butt of the shoot, and Ujong ^s the result of an experiment, made by him following passage, which suggests an important 

 then, with a little smooth pointed slick, plant h^gt summer, that it is a more productive crop improvement on Mr. Cobbett's mode of proceeding 

 the cutting in the ground. This is to be done ! {^,3^ any now raised in the western counties of ' above detailed : "To obtain early cucumbers, we 



