No. 41— Vol. C. 



following liesi-ription of the horses. They are 

 very beautiful, ami their pedigree is ns foUowB : — 

 Bnrtfoul was got by Tramp ; dam Rosamond, by 

 Brozzard, out of Rosehorry, sisttr of Hiiley and 

 Tartar, by Phenomenon, out of Miss West hy 

 Waltham, Regulus, Cral), Childera, Basto. Serah 

 by Phantom ; dam hy Totteridge, out of Crush, 

 by Highflyer, out of Nutcracker, by M.lethem. 

 Theso horses have beaten at several veryoelebra 

 ted races in England. At York, Doncaater, As- 

 cot Heath, and on other courses, and it is believed 

 that they are equal if not superior to any animals 

 of the kind ever brought to the United States. In 

 addition to the above horses. Sir Isaac (^otfin has 

 been at great trouble and expense to procure a 

 perfect Cleveland Bay, and they were expected 

 to embark on the 20th of this month in the packet 

 ship Amethyst ; and it is but justice to state that 

 the Boston and Liverpool Packet Company have 

 very liberally allowed them a passage free. 

 Boston April 29 FRANKLIN. 



SPRING WORK. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



Insects. — Be careful in season to destroy cater- 

 pillars in orchards, &c. While yet in small clus 

 ters they are easily conquered, but if they get the 

 upper hand, and are sutiisred to send forth '.heir 

 foraging parties over the cultivator's premises they 

 are almost as difficult to subdue as the habit of 

 hard drinking. " A stitch in time saves nine," 

 and the de-^truction of a few insects in season pre- 

 vents the e.xistence of countless hordes of their 

 progeny. 



" Watering with common water" says M'Mahon, 

 "proves very beneficial to trees infested with in- 

 sects ; especially, if thrown against them with 

 some ferco, by means of a small water engine. — 

 This will not only displace caterpillars and many 

 other insects, but greatly refresh the trees, es- 

 pecially in dry weather; and if often repeated 

 where insects appear, it will considerably dimin- 

 ish their number and prevent their spreading. 



"The most eligible engines, are such as have 

 the pump and discharging pipe fi.xed in the vessel 

 for containing the water; of which some are of a 

 iHoderate size for carrying about by the hand, hut 

 larger ones are fitted upon a low, light, three 

 wheeled carriage for the more convenient remov- 

 ing from place to place. This engine may be 

 conveniently used for watering different parts of 

 the garden in dry weather. 



" The newly planted trees will be greatly ben- 

 efitted by occasional waterings, which should al- 

 ways be given in the morning and frequently over 

 the branches, as well as about the roots ; this will 

 be of great service in washing off any dust and 

 filth which their leaves may have contracted, and 

 in opening their pores for the reception of the at 

 mospheric moisture." 



It is necessary to be all attention to your young 

 rising crops of peas, beans, cabbages, onions, car- 

 rots, parsnips, Sic. &c. and free them from weeds 

 as soon as they appear above ground. Apply a 

 email hoe where practicable, and in other cases 

 make use of your fingers. 



Sow hardy aromatic herbs, if not done before. 

 Small salads three or four times for successive 

 crops. Radishes, peas and beans three or four 

 times with intervals of si-x or eight days. Carrots 

 for winter's use may yet be sown. 



Indian corn is frequently required in a garden. 

 ■Select some of the earliest sorts of corn, and a 



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piece of dry, sandy, and tolerably rich ground in a 

 warm exposure to plant it in. Prepare the ground 

 as lor peas. Then form drills about two inches 

 (lopp at the distance of five or six feet from each 

 other. Drop ^he seed therein two and a half feet 

 asunder, and two grains in a place ; after strow- 

 in^" a little plaster or wood ashes in the drills, cov- 

 er the seed as you would peas. 



I'lor{(la.---The editor of the Pensacola Gazette, 

 states-, that 50,000 bales of cotton will, this year, 

 be brought lo the bay of Appalnchicola, from the 

 rountry bordering on the Chattahoochie, Flint, 

 nnil Appalarhicola rivers All this cotton, he adds, 

 with the trade it gives rise to, might, at a trifling 

 expense, be brought to Pensacola, a place equally 

 delightful, from climate and situation. A canal, 

 or rail way, is already in agitjition to connect the 

 Chipola river with the eastern arm of St .'Andrew's 

 bay. The Appalarhicola is connected with the 

 Chipola by Hort'a lake, at the lower end of which 

 is a narrow strip of land separating them from St. 

 Andrew's bay. When the canal, or rail way, 

 through this strip of land is completed, only four 

 more miles of -canal are requisite to connect the 

 Chipola river with Choctawhatchie, between which 

 and the bay of Pensacola a communication is al- 

 ready open, through the Sound of St. Rosa. There 

 are ppculiar facilities existing along this coast for 

 the formation of a line of inner coastwise naviga- 

 tion. 



.Vorlh Carolina. — The gold mines excite in- 

 creased attention — but for all that we have yet 

 heard, more value would be made in digging for 

 potatos than for gold, and the same quantity of la- 

 bor applied to manufactures would produce much 

 more of that precious metal. Diggings for gold 

 ai^e hardly ever profitable--in common phrase, " it 

 costs more than it comes to."— -JViles' Reg. 



Indigo. — A New-York paper states, that the 

 cultivation of indigo is to be resumed in South 

 I Carolina. It is further stated, that it can be rais- 

 led any where in the United States, South of N- 

 ; Carolina. — Sahm Observer. 



is this learned and venerable gentleman, under 

 whose care the garden of Liverpool has obtained 

 superiority over all the others in England, alone 

 in the love of floriculture. The most eminent phi- 

 losophers and poets have not disdained the hum- 

 ble lessons and simple delights of the flower gar- 

 den ; and we do believe that the progress of pure 

 taste and true refinenient is in no way more dis- 

 tinctly marked than by the cherishing of nature's 

 beauties. For ourself, and we know we are not 

 singular in that respect, whenever we pass a 

 dwelling the windows and verandas of which are 

 glowing with flower vases, we "desire it more ac- 

 quaintance" and set it down as the abode of " good 

 people." We do not believe that disorder or evil 

 passions can prevail in a household where a love 

 for the quiet pleasures of floriculture is evinced — 

 and have no doubt that the presence of these " fair 

 and innocent things of nature's loveliness" has 

 deep and salutary effect on the human character. 



After this [rhapsodical some may think] flourish 

 of our goose-quill, rather perhaps for our own 

 gratification, we can only refer our readers, who 

 like flowers as well as we do, to the remarks and 

 directions of Dr. Green, with the assurance that 

 they will be found entertaining and useful. 



C arcoal. — On the I3th ult. a female in Augus- 

 ta, came near losing her life by being in a small 

 room in which was placed a small cooking furnace, 

 with burning charcoal, there being no fireplace 

 in the room to carry off the suffocating exhalations 

 of the coal. She was found upon the floor nearly 

 lifeless. 



Measles in Sicine. — About once a week, mi.v 

 two spoonful of madder in their food, which pre- 

 vents obstructions, acting as a diuretic, and at the 

 same time an astringent. And, on some other day 

 in the week, give a spoonful or two of an equal 

 quantity of flour of sulphur, and salt petre, wel! 

 pounded and mixed. 



From the Boston Literary Gazelle. 

 A treatise on the cultivation of ornamental Jloioers, 

 Sfc. By Rtland Green. Boston, John B. Rus- 

 sell. 1828. 



We are pleased with any thing which may at- 

 tract the attention of our citizens, especially the 

 female part of them, to the delightful science of 

 floriculture. For the humble in life it affords a 

 cheap and pleasant recreation, and for the rich, 

 what bestowal of their abundant leisure can en- 

 sure a greater portion of real epicurean enjoyment 

 than the cultivation of beautiful plants ? It is 

 alike a pleasure to youth anu to age. The hap- 

 piest old man we ever met with was the superin- 

 tendant of the Liverpool Conservatories. He had 

 lived for a long life among flowers and verdant 

 plants, and in his age vvas as flourishing as the 

 greenest of his charge. With a beautiful enthu- 

 siasm, the old man bent fondly over the opening 

 bud, or walked proudly among the shapely and 

 blooming people of his little paradise, as a prince 

 amid his children and vassals, and certainly no 

 conqueror ever bore his trophies with more tri- 

 umph, than he did the jewel presented to him 

 by Alexander of Russia in token of his blood- 

 less conquests over the vegetable kingdom ; nor 



Illuminated Clock The committee for rebuild- 

 ing the steeple of the State House in Philadelphia, 

 intend that the new clock to be placed there shall 

 have an illuminated dial, similar to that recently 

 placed in St. Mary's Church, Islington, and in 

 several other churches, near London. The time 

 can be distinctly told three quarters of a mile dis- 

 tant from St. Mary's church on the darkest night, 

 if free from fog. 



A letter from General La Fayette, dated Jan. 

 13, to his friend Morgan Neville, Esq. of Ohio, 

 mentions the intention of M. Perier, and his wife 

 (a grand daughter of the General) a grandson, and 

 the two boys of G. W. La Fayette, to visit the 

 United States. 



Meat may be preserved fresh many months, by 

 keeping it immersed in molasses. A joint of meat, 

 or any provision, suspended in a flannel bag will 

 beep sweet much longer than by most of the 

 modes commonly practised. The cooler and dry- 

 er the meat is, when the flannel is put round it 

 the better, <ind the flannel should be perfectly 

 clean. 



Fatal Carelessness. — In Union county, Ohio, e 

 few days since, a young lady was shot dead by a 

 lad who presented a musket to frighten her, no' 

 knowing itwns loaded. 



