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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 6, 1825. 



be, did we but improve all the means to produce 

 these so valuable and so important articles, which 

 we might do very easily ; which would assist each 

 other when we annually extended such pastures 

 as would increase both. 



Bees-wax for manufactures, candles and export- 

 ation, will be a great motive to exertion, and per- 

 haps euiulation in this system ; especially was a 

 bounty given upon it by goverment. Wax can- 

 dles would then be sidd as cheap as taillow, ;ind the 

 quantity of wax, in American exports, would be I 

 very great -ndeed. i 



A writer observes, that were bees propagated, i 

 and supported as extensively as a country would 

 bear, innumerable insects would he destroyed, 

 which feed upon the hotiey in tlio bloom of trees, 

 shrubs, and herbs ; and that this would tend to ex- 

 pel those hosts of insects, which we observe float- 

 ing in the air, playinff in the rays of the sun, near 

 the time of its selling, many of which we are in 

 danger of receiving into our bodies by respiration, 

 because of their sinallness. 



If these observations are just, vi'ill not the in- 

 creasing of bees assist in expelling the caterpil- 

 lar and canker-worm, which have so often des- 

 troyed the fruit of the apple tree; whose young 

 often feed upon that part of the bloom, from which 

 the bee* collect the yellow down, which they car- 

 ry into their hives on their legs. 



This point could be easily decided by those per- 

 sons who have trees near their bee-houses, or in 

 those parts of the country where bees are most 

 tVequent. Should the knowledge of any one prove 

 this to be a fact, that such trees are less frequent- 

 ly, or never attacked by those ravagers, the world 

 ought to be favored with the information. 



Insects often feed upon that moisture, which 

 •jiany trees, especially the chesmit, airord in very 

 sultry days, in summer, which the bees collect 

 ■.vith great activity ; this is sometimes called hor.- 

 ey doA, and is the sweet sap of the tree sweating 

 through the leaf, and becomes honey ; which, if 

 more generally collected by bees, would thereby 

 serve to expel those troublesome and noxious in- 

 SL'Cts. — Agriculliiral Register. 



KITCHEN GARDEN— JUNE. 



Sowing and planting are still requisite in many 

 ■iuccessional, and some main crops for autumn and 

 winter; and in the crops now advancing, or in por- 

 lectiun, the business of hoeing, weeding and occa- 

 sional watering, will demand particular attention. 



Planting is now necessary in several principal 

 iilants, for general succession summer crops, and 

 main crops for autumn, winter, &c. The whole 

 in the open ground, except two articles, and those 

 ire cucumbers, and melon plants for the last crop 

 n hot bed ridges. 



In the open ground transplant cabbage, brocoli, 

 savoys, coleworts, celery, enuive, lettuee, cauli- 

 /lo'.\ers, leek.'j, beans, kidney Leans, and various 

 aromatic and pot-herbs, by slips, cuttings, or young 

 plants. Showery w?:i'.hcr is by far the best either 

 for sowing or planting ; and when it occurs lose no 

 ■iioc in putting in the necessasy crops wanting. 



Keep your asparagus beds very clear fron*weeds 

 ■iow commonly rising numerously therein, which 

 '.vill soon overspread, if not timely cleared out. — 

 (jUceuiiO new planted asparagus, and seed-beds, 

 r.hould be carefully weeded. Cut the asparagus 

 now in perfection, according as the shoots advance, 

 IhreOt four, or five inches high; which you may 

 continye to do all this month. 



Plant successional crops of beans in the begin- 

 ning, middle, and latter end of this month, some 

 Windsors, long pods, while blossom, and Mumford 

 kinds, or any others If the weather is very hot 

 and dry, soak the beans a few hours in soft water 

 before you plant them lioe those of former plant- 

 ing, and draw the earth to the sterns. Top those 

 that are in blossom. 



Your early cauliflowers, which will be now ad- 

 vancing in flower heads, must be watered in dry 

 weather to make the heads large; and according 

 as the heads show, tie down some of the large 

 leaves over them, to keep off sun and rain, that 

 they may be white and close. 



The first main crops of celery must be now 

 planted in trenches to blanch ; the trenches to be 

 three feet distance, a foot wide, and dig the earth 

 out a spade deep, laying it equally to each side in 

 a level order, then dig the bottom, and if poor and 

 rotten, dung, and dig it in. Draw up some of the 

 strongest plants, trim the long roots and lops, plant 

 a row along the bottom of earh trench four or five 

 inches' distance, and finish with a good watering. 

 In the beginning of this nienth sow a full crop 

 of cucumbers in the mtnral ground to produce 

 picklers, and for other late purposes in autumn; 

 allotting a compartment of rich ground dug and 

 formed into beds five or six feet wide ; and along 

 the middle, form with the hand shallow basin like 

 holes, ten or twel"e inches wide, one or two deep 

 in the middle, and a yard distant from each other; 

 sow eight or ten seeds in the middle of each half 

 an inch deep ; and when the plants come up, thin 

 them to four of the strongest ia each hole to re- 

 main. Be careful frequently to water them when 

 the weather is dry. 



Sow the main crops of the green-curled endive, 

 also a smaller supply of the white-curled, and large 

 Batavia endive; each thin in open ground to plant 

 out for autumn and winter. 



Clear your onions from weeds, and give them a 

 final thinning, either by hand, or small hoeinj; — 

 the main crops to four or five inches distant ; the 

 others, designed for gradual thinning in summer 

 leave closer, or to be thinned by degrees as want- 

 ed. 



Sow more marrowfat peas, and some hotspurs, 

 or imperials, and other large kinds. This is also 

 a proper time to sow the leadman's dwarf pea, 

 which is a great bearer, small podded, but very 

 sweet eating. If the weather is very hot, either 

 soak the seed, or water the drills before sowing. 



Hoe between your potatoes to kill the weeds and 

 loosen the ground ; and draw the earth to the bot- 

 tom of the plants. 



Thin all close crops now remaining t» transplant 

 proper distances. Many sorts will now require it, 

 as carrots, parsnips, onions leeks, beets, spinach, 

 radish, lettuce, turnip, turnip-radish, parsley, dill, 

 fennel. &c. all which may be done by hand or 

 small hoeing ; the former may do for small crops, 

 but for large supplies the small hoe is not only the 

 most expeditious, but by loosening the surface of 

 the earth, contributes exceedingly to the prosper- 

 ity of the plants. 



IMPORTED HORSES. 



We understand tho two fine thorough-bred in- 

 tire Horses, Barefoot and Serah, with their grooms, 

 sent under the care of Mr Hector Coffin, in the 

 packet-ship Napoleon, Capt Smith, to New-Yort, 

 by Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Baronet, have arriv- 

 ed at the stables prepared for tbem in Brighton, 



near Boston ; where they are to remain this seas- 

 on, but will be placed in Virginia or Nsw-York 

 the next. The income from these horses is to go 

 to the benefit of the Almiral's School at Nan- 

 tucket. 



The horses are perfect in body and limbs ; with- 

 out a defect or blemish of any kind They have 

 both been famous on the turf of England ; and 

 Barefoot, since he took the Doucnster Saint Ledg- 

 er stakes, against i^l hordes, al 2.5 guineas each, 

 has never been beaien till he lefl the turf. He 

 was then 4 years •Id ; previous to which he had 

 run four colt races, at 2 and 3 years old, always 

 beating. Serab won the Newinurkel stakes at 3 

 years old, 25 horses, at .50 guriieas each ; and 

 many others. For this horse the Marquis of Cleve- 

 land (then Earl of Darlington; g ve £3,000 ster- 

 ling. 



Frner horses never were bred in England, or 

 ever left that country : their per'i^ree goes back 

 in a direct line, to the first blooil recorded in the 

 sporting calendar of England. A better oppor- 

 tunity for improving the breed of horses in this 

 country, has never been affordc) ; and it is to be 

 hoped the gentlemen and farmers of old Massachu- 

 setts will avail themselves of thi;; onportunity, the 

 present sea»on, as, by the reinov.il of the horses 

 south, they will be deprived of it the next. 



JWwburyport Herald. 



VITIATED ATMOSPHERE FROM VEGE- 

 TATION. 



As (he spring advances, and vegetation puts on 

 ita attractive garb, it may be proper to caution 

 our readers against ttie too general custom of al- 

 lowing geraniums and other ornamental green 

 house plants, to vegetate in confined rooms in 

 dwelling-houses. The pruce^s of vegetation de- 

 stroys the purity of the air in a remarkable degree, 

 by absorbing the oxygen of tiie atmosphere, and 

 giving out the refuse carbon, or ftcnlw of the 

 plant to the surrounding air. The odoriferous 

 plants, though agreeable to the olfactory nerves, 

 are even more deleterious than any nthets, from 

 the gaseous carbon evolved in the form of aroma. 

 Apartments in which any kind of plants are allow- 

 ed, ought, therefore, to be constantly ventilated, 

 both for the purpose of respiration, and for the 

 health of tho plants. — ferulam. 



HORTICULTURAL INSTITUTION. 



An-reeably to public notice, the Horticultural So- 

 ciety of Philadelphia, met on Wednesday evening, 

 and elected the following gentlemen Officers. — 

 President, Horace Binney, Tice Presidents, James 

 Mease, M. D. Matthew Carev, David Landretb. 

 N. Chapman, M. D. Trensurrr, VVm. Davidson, 

 Corresponding Secrctari), Samuel Unv.nrd, Record- 

 ing Secretary, D. S. Brown, .'Jcd'ng Commhtet, 

 George Pepper, Nicholas Biddle, Tiiomas Biddle, 

 R. P'atterson, D. B, Smith, Mo.see Brown, M. C. 

 Cope, Thomas Astley, David Landretb, Jr. Thom- 

 as Hibbalt, Thomas Landretb, Joshua Longslreth. 



THE THAMES TUNNEL. 

 A third irruption has taken place. Within the 

 last week, the leakage had been considered so ef- 

 fectually reme„ied, as to permit the pumps being 

 set to work to draw off the water. This was done, 

 and the shaft and parallel passages were so far 

 emptied as to admit one of the engineers reach- 

 ing tho shield and examining the greater part ol 

 the boxes. The result of that examination wcr. 



