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ton we sljould exclude for its iiiiproduetiveness ; 

 and for the opposite reason recoiiiniend the Red 

 Wood and White Wood. Tiie Busli Alpine hears 

 throiiglioiit the summer and autumn if no drought 

 occurs ; hut though \vc cultivate this sort we 

 should he unwilling to depend on it for the main 

 crop ; neither do we thinli tlic flavor is quite equal 

 to some other kinds. We shall now give 

 Lindley's Select List. 



Austrian Scarlet, 

 Black Prince, 

 Black Roseberry, 

 Downton, 

 Elton Seeding, 

 ' Grove End Seeding, 

 Keen's Seeding, 

 Large Flat Hautbois, 

 Bush Alpine, 

 Red Wood. 



Old Pine, 

 Old Scarlet, 

 Prolific liauthois, 

 Red Alpine, 

 Roseherry, 

 Sweet Cone, 

 White Alpine, 

 Wilniot's Superb, 

 White Wood, 



SCALDING HOGS. 



A gentleman of experience and observation de- 

 sires ns to make known, for the benefit of farmers, 

 a mode practised by him of scalding hogs. 



Instead of putting cold water, or ashes, in the 

 hot water, as is generally practised, he washes the 

 hog in cold water previous to scalding it. It mat- 

 ters not how hot the water may be with which 

 the hog is scalded, let cold water be first used in 

 the way prescribed, the hair can be taken ofl!" witli 

 ease and neatness. No danger need be api>re- 

 hended of the hair becoming set, as is often the 

 case when this mode is not resorted to, owing to 

 a particular temperature of the water. 



The gentleman who comninnicated to us this 

 mode, says he lias practised it for moro than 20 

 years, and i.a« not, duriiig that time, expsfjenced 

 any difficulty in scalding hogs. 



In dressing a young pig for roasting, he first 

 dips it in cold water, and then in liot, by which 

 process he is enabled to remove the hair with the 

 least possible trouble. — Wyoming Herald. 



GOL.KNOS OAK. 



This large tree, which was felled in 1810, grew 

 about four miles from the town of Newport, in 

 Monnioulhsliire. The main trunk at 10 feet long, 

 produced 450 feet; one limb 355, another 472, a 

 third 235, a fourth 156, a fifth 106, a sixth 113, 

 and six other limbs of inferior size, averaged 93 

 feet each, making the whole number 2426 cubic 

 feet of sound and convertible timber. THe bark 

 was estimated at six tons 5 but as some of the 

 heavy, body hark was stolen out of the barge at 

 Newport, the exact weight is not known. Five 

 men were twenty days stripping and cutting down 

 this tree ; and a pair of sawyers were five months 

 converting it, without losing a day, Sundays ex- 

 cepted. The money paid for converting only, 

 independently of the expense of carriage, was 

 £82 ; and the whole produce of the tree, when 

 brought to market, was within a trifle of £600. 

 It was bought standing for £405. The main 

 trunk was 9 1-2 feet in diameter, and in sawing it 

 through, a stone was discovered, six feet from the 

 ground, above a yard in the body of the tree 

 through which the saw cut; the stone was about 

 six inches in diameter, and completely shut in, 

 but round which there was not the least symptom 

 of decay. The rings in its butt were carefully reck- 

 oned, and amounted to above 400 in number, a 

 convincing proof that this tree was in an improv- 

 ing state for upwards of 400 years ; and as the 

 ends of some of its branches were decayed and 



had dropped oflT, it is presumed it had stood a 

 great number of years after It had attained matu- 

 rity. — Time's Telescope, vol. 3. 



^ D'ARCET'S APPARATUS FOR ESTRACTIJVG 

 GELATIIVE. 



On Mai-ch 9, at the Royal Institution, M. D'Ar- 

 cet's improved apparatus for extracting gelatine 

 from bones was exhibited, and some of the .soup 

 made in the theatre. It is an improvement of Pa- 

 [)in's digester. It is a jMty that these machines 

 are not more used in England, for we heard that 

 800,000 rations of soup are made in Paris weekly 

 from bones; and we are informed, that if the 

 bones of an ox were put into the digester, and the 

 whole of the flesh into any other vessels, that the 

 bones would yield one third more gelatine for 

 soup than the whole of the meat ; i. e. the propor- 

 tions of the former would be as three, the latter as 

 two. The fibrine, of course would be eatable and 

 useful ; it is of tlie soluble matter only that account 

 is here taken. The refuse of the bones, after the 

 gelatine is removed, forms excellent materials for 

 making animal charcoal. — Medical Gazette. 



IlfTERlVAIj IMPROVEBIEIVTS. 



The people of Bangor contemplate opening a 

 road up the Penobscot to Moosehead Lake, purting 

 a steamboat on the Lake, and having a junction 

 with the Canada road. Many think a small steam- 

 lioat on Bloosehead would be good f)roperty. The 

 time probably is not distant when there will be one 

 there, and a steamboat canal from that lake into the 

 Chesuncook. Then a railway or canal navigation 

 down the valley of the Kennebec to Augusta ; 

 thence a schooner navigation out to sea, or through 

 a canal uniting the Meijy meeting and C.isro I$ayf. 

 A water communication could be made at no great 

 co.st through the Belgrade Ponds, by which boats 

 could ascend toNorridgewock, thus avoiding the 

 falls at ^Vaterville, Kendall's Mills and Skowegan ; 

 or locks could be made around these falls, though 

 the navigation thus created would not be so safe, 

 because of the numerous rips and shoals when the 

 water is low, and the rapidity of the current when 

 it is high. 



ARCHITECTURE. 



For the New England Fanner. 

 THE WASHINGTON CAPITOt. 



— Is so far before any other building in this comi- 

 try in architectural embellishment as tote thought 

 by many incapable of any material improvement. 

 As you drive towards the city from the Baltimore 

 road the East front presents itself on a level sur- 

 face, capitol hill having on this side no appearance 

 of being a hill. This cast front looks a little like 

 three buildings joined the centre one set up above 

 the level of the other two — such is the effect pro- 

 duced by the great flight of steps up to the second 

 story, while the wings have no basement of a dif- 

 ferent hue to. elevate them. Building half circular 

 towers on to the wings and much higher than the 

 roof, would perhaps improve tlie general eflect 

 of the east front, admit of enlarging and lighting 

 better the supreme court room, and of having ob- 

 servatories. — Driving in under the great flight of 

 steps you alight and enter ; before you is a vast 

 waste rooin, large enough for a regiment to stack 

 arms in over the tomb of Washington, and contain- 

 ing a forest of pillars without pedestals supporting 

 the stone floor of the Rotunda above, ascending to 

 which it is found to extend upward to the dome 

 from whence only it is lighted, a great height, aud 



containing historical casts, and paintings which 

 may detain you for some time and be often re- 

 examined. Proceeding to the representative hall 

 you Bocn find yourself in a most magnificent apart- 

 jiient — a correct painting of it would make a beau- 

 tiful drop scene for a theatre. Recrossing the 

 Rotunda, to the senate chamber, you enter an ele- 

 gant room, lined with folds of straw colored cloth. 

 The West front of the capitol, though of less 

 elaborate architecture than the East has a more 

 striking appearance as you look upward to it from 

 the city and find it set on the brow of a" hill, stand- 

 ing out in all its magnitude. It appears to be 

 placed on the centre one of three squares each 

 about eight hundred feet wide, which intersecting 

 the lines of the principal streets, breaking the con- 

 tinuity of the buildings on the main Avejiue, give 

 to the city a straggling appearance. Ascending 

 capitol hill on this west side you come to the fine 

 marble monument, once located in the navy yard, 

 where the shaft seemed of amjile dimensions, but 

 here in the glare of the large white building is not 

 so impressive an object. The west centre of the 

 capitol |)rojects, and contains the Library in one 

 room, which may eventually be found too sinall for • 

 a national library, for which a separate building 

 opposite on the main street seems desirable, both 

 for that purpose and for the U. S. cadets, if the 

 youth of the country shall ever be fairly repre- 

 sented in that corps of artillerists, which it does 

 not appear necessary to keep up to garrison the 

 highlands of the North river. Tvp. 



GOOD TASTE 



— Is nothing more than sound sense applied to 

 inatt^vs appertaining to ornament and luxury. Qne 

 of the first principles of sound sense or good taste 

 is order, or that disposition of things which, by 

 their being seen one after another in succession, 

 contributes to the grand end or ))urpose in view. 

 Now, one of the first principles of order is to pro- 

 ceed in regidar gradation from less to greater, or 

 from greater to less. Without this, it is evident 

 there can be no order ; .for unless there be a rea- 

 son for what was to go before, or come after, any 

 particular point in the series, the result must ne- 

 cessarily he confusion. To apply the principle of 

 gradation to the external and internal ornaments 

 of a house, we should say that an ascending series 

 is required from the ornaments on the exterior 

 walls and fences to those on the furniture and fin- 

 ishing of the hall, staircase and rooms within. 

 Taking the highly enriched bronze railing of the 

 Duke of Wellington's boundary fence as the lowest 

 point in the scale of ornament, the rails for his 

 staircase ought to be of gold and filigree work ; 

 and for his grates, fenders, and fire-irons, no metal 

 that we know of would be sufliciently precious. 

 Apply the same reasoning to the marble triumphal 

 arch at Pimlico, and what shall we find costly 

 enough for the chimney pieces of rooms of the 

 palace to which it belongs ? — London's Magazine. 



ANCIENT SIMPLICITY. 



When Lieut. Gov. Dudley of Massachusetts 

 had his house clapboarded, he was censured for 

 luxury unsuitable in a new colony, but excused 

 himself by saying that he did it for greater warmth. 



Mr. Cheat in recent lecture at the Franklin Ly- 

 ceum mentioned that at the time when there might 

 be about eighty thousand people only in all Nenr 

 England, the Lady Moody, a person of some im- 

 portance in Salem, had a house ijine feet high, 

 with a wooden chimney in the centre. 



