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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 18, 182S. 



2VEVV ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JULY 18, 1828. 



CLOSE OF THE SIXTH VOLUME. 



The present number completes the sixtli volume 

 of our paper, and brings us to the termination of 

 six years since the commencement of our labors 



fifty pounds, suspended at one foot distance from quainted with the subjects on which they have 

 the trunk will distress the branch, which supports written. 



it, no more than ten pounds at fifteen feet distance j Tiie following is the General Index of the book, 

 would do. Every tree will, therefore, support a i which is superadded to a Calendarial Index, giv- 

 larger weight of fruit without danger of being i„g directions for performing the work of all tin- 

 broken, in proportion as the parts of such weight months in the year as they follow in succession, 

 are made to approach nearer to its centre. | j^ ^^ 



" Each variety of the apple tree has its own pe- j Apple 



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aTEdiit'or ofthe New Englanil Farmer. We hope I culiar form of g'rowth ; and this it will ultimately I ^P''.'™^^^ 

 that our exertions have been of some senice to assume, in a considerable degree, in defiance ol Asparngus 

 the community, and are induced to helieve that the art of the pruner. Something may nevenhe- ; Balm 



" less be done to correct whatever is defective. — ; ^^^^^ 

 When the growth of any variety is weak and re- ; Beet 

 dining, the principal stem should be trained to a p^[.gj.P}^"' 

 considerable height, before it be allowed to pro- : Bnrer 

 duce branches ; and if any of these take a hori- \ Broccoli 

 zontal or pendent direction, they should be regu- Buckihora"^""' 

 larly taken off. One prmcipal leading stein should Cabbage 

 be encouraged almost to the summit of the tree, Canker xvorm 



'^ , , , , , Caraway 



to prevent a sudden division into two large boughs Cardoon 



of nearly equal strength ; for the fork which these Carroi 

 form is apt to divide and break, when the branch- Q^u^|go,ver 



they have been estimated as possessing some val 

 ue from the constant, though not rapid accession 

 10 our subscription list, which continues to attend 

 the ])rogres3 of our jiublication. We would take 

 this opportunity to make our general, but grateful 

 acknowledgements to those contributors to our col- 

 umns, to whom we are indebted for the most val- 

 uable parts of our paper, (being generally details 

 and results of the experience of intelligent culti- 

 vators) and would solicit the continuance of their 



a volume presents a favorable time for tlie settle 

 ment of accounts, at the Farmer office — paying 

 what is due, and saving somewhat by an antici- 

 pated payment of tlie next volume. It is true, 

 however, that monej', though neither the main- 

 spring, nor the main object of our pursuits, is what 

 rhetoricians call a sine qua non, cr thing indis- 

 pensable to the existence of our establishment. 



favors. 



It is not necessary to observe that the close of es are loaded with fruit. All efforts to give young Celery 



trees a round and regularly spreading form, whilst ^}j^j;|l'™^|.^ 

 in the nursery, will be found injurious in the fu- chervil 

 ture stages of their growth. Large branches Chive 



11.1 1 * .. 1 )) I Colewort 



should rarely or never be amputated.' , Coriander 



If, however, pruning is commenced at a proper Cress, waier 

 tage of the growth of the tree, and properly and ^„pu;:„^g'^''*" 

 seasonably attended to, it will rarely be necessary Curciilio 

 to take off a large limb, and small ones, if cut Currant 

 lose and smooth, may be taken off at any season. Da"j"gffDu 



Elecampane 

 Endive 

 Espaliers 

 Fennel 

 Flowers, orkj 



MLNTAL 



Fruits 

 Fruit Trees 



Garlick 



Gooseberry 



Gourd 



Grafting 



Green house 



Hawthorn 



Heat-ling down 



Horse Radish Pruuin 



Hot bed Pumpl 



Hot house Quinc( 



Hyssop Radist 



Inarching Rhuba 



Indian corn Roller 



Inoculation, orbud- J Rose 



ding \ Rosen 



Insects Rue 



Jerusalem Artichoke Sage 



PRUNING TREES. 

 Ill Loudon's EucycloiKidia of Agriculture, Kal- 

 e idarial Index for July, it is remarked that " this 

 season £viz. July] answers perfectly well for prun- 

 ing all sorts of trees, and if their leaves and spray 

 were an object for fodder, as in Sweden and Italy, 

 no doubt it would be preferred. Wounds in trees 

 do not now bleed as they sometimes do in spring 

 and autumn, and they heal and are in part cover- 

 ed with bark before the apju-oach of winter." A 

 scientific friend of the Editor, who is likewise a 

 ■ practical horticulturist, assures us that he has 

 found by experience that the month of July is 

 riu"h the most favorable time for pruning grape 

 vines fir at this season large branches may be cut 

 off, aijd the vines will not bleed in the least. It 

 may, therefore, not he ill timed to offer a few re- 

 marks on this important branch of arboriculture- 

 Mr Knight in his excellent " Treatise o?i the Cul- 

 ture ofthe .^pple and Pear" has given the follow- 

 ing directions. " In pruning the apple tree and 

 all other standard trees, the points ofthe external 

 branches should be every where rendered thin 

 and pervious to the light ; so that the internal 

 parts ofthe tree may not be wholly shaded by the 

 external parts. The light should penetrate deep- 

 ly into the tree on every side, but not any where 

 through it. When the primer has judiciously ex- 

 ecuted his \ ork, every part of the tree, internal as 

 well as external, will be productive ol' fruit ; and 

 the internal part, in unfavorable seasons, will rath- 

 er receive protection tlian injury from tlie exter- 

 nal. A tree, thus pruned, will not only produce 

 much more fi-uit, but will also be able to support 

 a heavier load of it, withijiit danger of being brok- 

 en ; for any given weight will dejiress the branch, 

 not simply in proportion to its (juantity, but in the 

 compound proportion of its (pmntity, and its hori 



See N. E. Farmer, vol. iii. page 273. 



EXCELLENT ARTICLES. 

 We have received a quantity of oat flour, 

 very white, fine, and sweet, and very paliitable as 

 well as wholesome for puddings, gruel, &c. Like- 

 wise groats and oatmeal of superior quality, all j ume ol 312 pages, — price 

 raised and manufactured bv Mr Stevens, of Bar- 



. La.ndsc 



Picturesque S- Savory 



Gardens )) Sea kale 



Lavender Silk 



Layers Skirret 



Leaves Spinach 



Leek Squa'^h 



Lettuce Strawberry 



Locust tree Tansy 



Love apple Tarragon 



bladder Teasel 



JIangel Wurlzel Thyme 



Alarjoram Tomato 



Melon Turnip 



JUinl Vise. 



The work is handsomely printed, making a vol- 

 .25. 



; Dibble 

 I Dill 

 i Drains 

 ^Duok 



F.gg plant 



Elder 



net, Vermont. These articles have been highly 

 approved of by several druggists in this city, by 



f'egetables. — Ilarthh, (the friend of Milton) pen- 

 sioned by Cromwell for his agricultural writings, 



Dr Kidder of Charlestown, and other qu.tlified i f y^*' "t''^' "''^ ,"'«"'" ^'^ days remembered the 

 -J , .u . u i- 1 1 . I first gardeners that came over to fcursey, Eugland, 



ludges, who pronounce them to be preierable to ,°,, . , 1 



■' " ' /. • 1 » • . i rri „ and sold tiuniins, carrots, parsnips, earlv peas, and 



anv thing of a sinnlar nature imported. Ihev ap- ; , . , ' ' , ^ ' '^ . . - '^ . ' . 



" . ., . ■ J I i ■.. rape, which were then great rarities, being ini- 



pear to contain more muciiasmous, and !ess bitter , "^ ' , „ ,t „ . .ni • i , 



' . , ., ' .• ported h-om Holland. Cherries and hops were 



extractive matter than the common preparations;*; , ,. , . ^,t oi ■ u i 



... 1 ■ ., 1 <• I • . „„,i first planted in the rcign of Henrv 8th ; artichokes 



horn oats, iouna in the shops of druggists and ; , *^ , , • " • i »• 



and currants made their a))pearance in the time 



° "' of Ehzabeth; but even at the end of this latter 



THE NEW AMERICAN GARDENER. | period cherries were brought from Flanders— on- 



A work with this title, compiled by tlie Editor ions, saffron, and liquorice, from Spain, and hops 



of the New England Farmer, with the assistance from the low countries. Potatos, which were first 



of a number of scientific and practical Horticultu- known in England about the year 1586, con- 



ralists in the vicinity of Boston and New York, will tinned for nearly a century to be cultivated in 



be pubhshed by J. B. Russell, Proprietor of the gardens as a curious exotic, and fiiruislied a luxii- 



New England Farmer, in the course of the ensu- ry only for tables of the richest persons in the 



ing week. The articles are arranged alphabeti- kingdom." It appears in a manuscript account 



cally, and comprise the most useful V^egetables of the household expenses of Queen .Vnne, wife 



and Fruits which can be conveniently and econ- of James 1st, that the price of potatos was then 



omically cultivated in the climate of New England, Is. the pound. 



and the Middle States ; as well as a Treatise on — 



Flowers, and on Landscape or Picturesque Good income.— The receipts of the New Hamp- 



Gardens, on the general management ofthe Silk shire State Prison during the year exceeded the 



Worm, and the manufacture of Silk, and a trea- expenditures $145,60 cents. The amount of earn 



tise on the culture of Grape Vines and the Straw- 

 !>ERRy. — The article on Fruit Trees contains an 

 enumeration and description of all the Apples, 

 Pears, Peaches, Cherries, Plums, Nectarines, Apri- 

 ■ots, &c. that can be raided to the most advantage, 

 ■tiid their relative forwardness in bearhig, which 

 zontal distance from the point of suspension, by a „i\] t,e found to be of incalculable benefit to gen- 



irs over the ordinary expences is estimated at 

 .*2,179. 



Sale of Saxony Slittf — Tl.e sale of Saxony sheep 

 on the 9tli, at Brighton, was not_so profitable as 

 some of the preretUng sale- , on account of the 

 same owners. Tiie wholfe f ock, consisting of 240 



mode of action similar to that of the weight of the ,|e,„en in laying out orchards. Each of the above , "-'S sold. The lowest pric. at which any animal 

 beam ofthe steel yard ; and hence a hundred and articles is furnished by gentlemen practically ac 1 "'^'W ''^^ ^•"^ eiS-the hithest, 13q. Mr. S. P. 



