\ol. VI.— No. 31. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



barrel, a fact which has several thues gone the | miiig and good management had become so close- 

 rounds of the newspapers. We made particular ; \y interwoven and matted togetlier, as to form as 

 inijuiries respecting their mode of maimfacturing i effectual a harrier against the intrusion of cattle 

 tliis article, but could not leurn that tlioy had any or the prying curiosity of man, as a brick wall it- 

 peculiar inoccss. Their fruit is of the ordinary i self. The hedge under the hand of a skillful gar- 

 kind, and the apples are gathered as they fall, and dener, can be made to assume the most fantastic 

 housed. Late in November they are ground in a shapes. This was so close, that neither the hand 

 mill, after the defective ones have been carefully nor the eye could penetrate it ; and clothed as it 

 separated, and the pumice is suffered to remain in then was, in the brightest green, it far surpassed 

 the vat over night, and until it assumes a red col- in beauty, any fence or raihng, and wus more in 

 or throughout. It is then pressed in the usual harmony with the scenes around, 

 manner, and the cider is put into casks perfectly As might be expected, we found ourselves very 

 clean and sweet. They prefer rum hogsheads, pleasantly entertained, in strolling over this enclo- 

 when it is possible to obtain them. In December, sure. Flowers of all hues, and every fragrance, 

 after the fermentation has subsided, they rack off spread their charms before us, and together with 

 the cider, and add to each hogshead a gallon of the fine fruits which abounded in it, our senses 

 brandy distilled from the lees. In March they a- were variously regaled. At the termination of 

 gain rack into clean hogsheads, and the Uquor re- the walks was some object to call and divert the 

 quires no farther attention. They never drink it attention — a suimiier-house, an arbour, or a rustic 

 until it is at least two years old, and it continues seat. In the centre a sun-dial marked the wane 

 to improve by age. That which we tasted was of time ; and at the foot of the garden, flowed a 

 live years old." — Haiiford Times. small stream, which formed several cascades, and 



— finally passed off with a rippling sound, and was 



AN ENGLISH COTTAGE. [ggt jg (j^g ^yg under an arbour. There was here 



There is a family at Winson Green, just in the „othhig extravagant, and nothing more than what 



\iciuityoflJ m, which I have occasionly seen; most of om- farmers and tradesmen might corn- 



and as I cousiiier them, in manners and style of mand, with a very little attention and trifling cost. 

 living, a very good specimen of those middle j^^ fruit-trees and plants would afford them a- 

 walks of life, I will give you an account of a late musement in their leisure hours, as well as re- 

 visit there, and will mingle character and descrip- ward them with their products ; and the cultiva- 

 tion with incident. At the close of a fine day, a .jq,, of flowers wouUl give their daughters a refiji- 

 youug Bostonian and myself, conducted by a son ^^ ^nd healthy employment.— CAnsh'a?i Spectator. 



of the family, called at the door (,f their cottage. 



By cottage you wiU not understand me to mean a qj^j LIVERWORT AS A CURE FOR CON- 

 one-story, straw-thatched building, half hid in SUMPTION, 



woodbine, but a neat two-story brick mansion. The plant called Uverwort, has recently acquir- 

 covered with slate. We paused a tew moments ^j^ though the medium of the newspapers, con- 

 in the from garden, to look at its arrangement. I si^^^.^^Xe celebrity as a remedy for consumption, 

 have often had occasion to admire the taste, which jj^ reputation is altogether immerited ; its admin- 

 Englishmeuofthis class exhibit inlaying out and ijtration must be pernicious in ninetv-nine hun- 

 decoratiug their gardens and pleasure grounds— ^.^,^^<,^^ ^f the cases in ^vhich the lung^ are affect- 

 Whenever they fix upon a spot and call it ' home, ^ ^^^ operation is decidedly stimulant ; and the 

 they collect about it every little conffort and el- ^^^^jj^ ^^g,, j^^^^^^ j^^^^ ^.^^^ puhnonic patients 

 egance that their means wiU admit. -^ garden ^,j|, 1,^^,. ^.^.^g^ig^ ^j. j,^^^ j^^^^ij^ji^^^ A patient 

 seems to be the primary object in their rural ecou- ^fj^^j^^ insisted upon using the hverwort in spite- 

 umy ; and even when their means are scanty, and ^^ ^^^^ remonstrances. It gradually accelerated 

 they are necessarily confined to a narrow spot of j^j^ ^^^i^g ^^^j, ^ ^^-^^^-^^^ ^^■ j^j^^^j ^^.^^ j,„g ^^^^^_ 

 ground, they contrive to throw over that spot a iq^g^gg. This satisfied liim, the plant was aban- 

 thousand beauties. This taste, I conceive, can- jj^,,^^^ ^^^^ j,;^ ,^g^,j,^ immediately began to in. 



not be too highly commended. It is not less el- 



Jjrove. Like other excitants, the liverwort when 



Lgant iu Itself, than it is favorable to purify of;^^^ j^,^^„_ improves the feelings of the patient ; 

 manners. The same fondness for a garden and, ^„^, j.^^^^g perhaps, in part, its popularity. Its 

 flowers may be traced in the lowest art.zans and ^j^j^^^jg ^^.^^^ ^^^^ -^ „^^g, i^^,^^,.^^.^ i,g ,^,gi, 

 cottagers ; and when they are denied the luxury ^^ j j^^^^ stated.-jV. Y. Farmer. 

 of a garden, they wul make a garden of then- 

 houses, and fill every window with flowers, and Cure for stammering.—Those who suffer under 

 plants. The garden which we were uow survey- : the distressing affliction of an impediment in their 

 ing, \vas enclosed with a hawthorn hedge, and i speech may be effectually cured— where there 



two gravelled walks led up each side of a closely 

 shavsii oval grass plat, to the front door. Trees 

 of various kinds mingled with shrubbery skirted 



the edges, and gave to the centre a charming as- "dosed, for at least 2 or 3 hours m the course of 



pect of pensive retirement, and rural quietness 



The lawn, by the use of a cast iron roller, and 

 frequent shaving, had become extremely smooth, 

 and was not only cheering to the eye, from its 

 %iviJ green, but pleasant and soft as down to the 

 foot. 



through a gate at one corner of the house, into 

 the fruit and flower garden. This was somewhat 



no malformation of the organs of articulation, by 

 a perseverance for tliree or four months, in the 

 simple remedy of reading aloud with the teeth 



each day. — London paper. 



Temperance The people of Hardwick, Ver- 

 mont, have universally agreed to discontinue the 

 use of ardent spirits except as a medicine, and the 

 merchants have ceased to keep it except in the 

 From tlie front garden we were conducted way they keep other medicines. It occupies (we 



suppose) its proper place among other medicines 

 and poisons, such as arsenic, oil of vitriol, aqua- 



larger than the other. Like that it was enclosed fortis, laudanun*, spirits of turpentine, nu>; vom- 

 in a hawthorn hedge, which, by constant trim- lica, &c. 



-105 



MELONS. 



These arc cultivated in all the wai"!!! countries 

 of Europe, and also in Asia, Africa, and America, 

 where its salubrious and coohng fruit is greatly 

 esteemed. 



The cultivation of the water-melon is so well 

 understood in the United States, tiiat no directions 

 on the subject are requisite. They afford a very 

 refreshing article of diet in our warm suiiimer»> 

 and yield considerable profit. The juice of tho 

 sweeter kind yield, on inspissation, a bright lighf 

 colored syrup, which would answer every purposo 

 required of any syrup. Mr. il. Drinker, of I'hila^ 

 delphia, procured half a pint of this syrup, tionl 

 fourteen pounds of melon juice, a part of vviiich I 

 tasted, and foimd very jjleasant. Mr. Doraley, 

 who is practically acquainted with the cultivation 

 of the fruit, make;i the following carculation ujioa 

 Mr. Drinker's experiment: "Melons growing at 

 5.i by 5^ feet apart, are 1,43.3 plants on an acre ; 

 these bearing two melons of 14 ()outids each, yield 

 4000 pounds of melons, 1,433 ])ints of syrup — 

 which, at ten cents, would conic to one hundred 

 and forty-three dollars, for an acre's produce." 



Taking the amount at one half the above suin-f 

 it would be more than is produced from many 

 acres of land, in other cultivation, in sandy im- 

 poverished soils. Having millions of acres cover- 

 ed with the sugar maple, and thousands of acres 

 fit only for the cultivation of the water-melon, the 

 United States need be under no apprehension of 

 the want of sugar. Dr. Pallas, in the account of 

 his journey to the southern province of Russia, ia 

 1793 and 1794, speaking of a colony of Mora- 

 vians at Sarepts, or Sarpa, on the river Volga, 

 says, "the ingenious inhabitants of this town bret* 

 a kind of beer from their very abundant and cheafT 

 water-melons, with the addition of liops ; they also 

 prepare a conserve or marmalade from this fruit, 

 which is a good substitute for sjrup or treacle." — . 

 Domes. Encyclopedia. 



The Lomhardy Poplar — It is observed that the 

 Lombardy poplar is decaying iu every part of our 

 State. I have seen hundreds, nay thousands, thi»^ 

 sprmg, in our north and northwest sections, many 

 of which had put (6nh then- vernal foliage with 

 vigor and luxuriance, and have since wfthered 

 and died. — Albany Argus. 



Coal in Pennsylvania. — It has been estiroatej, 

 ami we think with great propriety, that one thir* 

 of the whole State of Pennsylvania, is pervaded 

 with coal, and we may safely put this down a* 

 averaging at least 3 feet in thickness. The whole 

 area of the commonwealth is 43,950 square miles; 

 one third of this i& 14,650 — the area of the coal 

 fields. A square mile at three feet thick will yield 

 nearly four millions of tons of coal. It is thus de- 

 monstrated that the coal fields cf Pennsylvania 

 will supply one million cf tons, or twenty-eight 

 millions of bushels of coal annually, ibr nearly 

 sixty thousand years. Enormous as this compu- 

 tation may seem, we venture to say it is mi:ch be- 

 low the reahty. Any one acquainted with the 

 coal localities, we thhik, will not object tj the 

 assumption, that one third of the whole conunon- 

 wealth is pervaded with coal beds, and that these 

 are over three feet thick. It would indeed b& 

 nearer the fact to say they average above six feet 

 thick. — Phila. Aurora. 



Early corn was advertised in the Virginia papers 

 as fit for the tabic, on the 25th ef June- 



