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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 8, 1835. 



CLOSE OP THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME OF 

 THE MEW EHTGIiAND KARMEH. 



The present number, tPrniinating tlie tliirtuentli vol- 

 ume of this joifrnal, has brought us to another of those 

 stages in tlie circuit of our labors, from which it has 

 been our custom to address a few words to those who 

 with head, heart, or Land are engaged in the pursuits of 

 the Cullivalor. We are highly gratified in perceiving 

 that the interest which attaches to the primitive anu 

 most important of the arts is every year perceptibly in- 

 creasing in zeal, knowledge and perseverance. If we 

 still continue thus to press forwards we cannot fail in 

 the common course of events to become not only pros- 

 perous as individuals, but powerful, respectable and re- 

 spected as a nation. Improvements in Agriculture are 

 pioneers, heralds and companions of all other improve- 

 ments. The accurate science and correct practice of 

 tillaore alone can precede and introduce the charms, the 

 decorum, the dignity as well as t/ie substantial and in- 

 dispensable requisites of civilization. If Ceres did not 

 sustain the Graces as well as support Minerva and her 

 retinue they would disappear as the tints of the setting 

 sun fade in the sky when evening advances. 



Although publications devoted to Agriculture and 

 Horticulture, and some of them ably conducted, are 

 springing up in various parts of the United States, 

 such is the increased demand lor the kind of inform- 

 ation of which they are vehicles that these journals ap- 

 parently interfere but very little with the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, and do not perceptibly, lessen the num- 

 ber of our subscribers. We shall, therefore, continue 

 our course with cheerful diligence ; and consider the 

 proprietors and conductors of all journals, devoted 

 wholly or in part to rural economy, not as rivals, but as 

 follow laborers. In fact, we are all working men, em- 

 ployed by the people, to give our advice and assistance 

 in cultivating their great home-stead-farm, called the 

 States and Territories, of United America. We doubt 

 not but our employers by generous pecuniary and intel- 

 lectual contributions will so strengthen our hands, en- 

 courage our hearts and enlighten our understanding* 

 that we tliall be induced cheerfully and efficiently to 

 dedica'e ourselves to the important duties devolving on 

 the conductors of journals devoted to that art which 

 alone can phice the foundations, and rear, and 

 sustain the superstructure of civilized society. 



dj" The Index to the present volume of the New 

 Eni'Iand Farmer will be printed and forwarded to sub- 

 scribers as soon as possible. 



bushes down close, and in November cart and spread it 

 on your mowing grounds, taking care to put light soil 

 on to heavy, and heavy soil on to light lands. You may 

 make good manure in this \\'ay for less than a shilling a 

 load. 



Hotc to keep cattle out of the Highway. — Cattle are 

 much inclined to run in the highway either when that 

 affords the best feed, or when they have no other pasture 

 By the process above recommended you will compel 

 these vagrants to walk in different paths, and if your 

 fences be good the inclosures of their owners will be 

 the moie likely to afford them an asylum. 



This simple process then accomplishes three objects. 

 It kills your bushes and briers, makes you a good ma- 

 nure, and drives stray beasts from the road. One more 

 advantage shall be named, besides what you gain in the 

 addition of beauty to your highways and fields. Your 

 rows of winter apple trees will grow and bear better by 

 the roadside by ploughing in this manner than they 

 will when you leave the soil and bushes undisturbed. 

 Young trees, particularly, cannot contend with suc- 

 cess, against the roots of grass and bunches. Breaking 

 up the soil, even if a part of it be carried away, is bene- 

 ficial to them. 



None but winter fruit should grow by the road side, 

 and the Baldwin is here to be preferred to the Greening, 

 as it grows more erect and will not rudely salute the 

 civil traveller. 



By picking these winter apples in season you will 

 save nearly the whole fruit to yourself, but suppose you 

 lose one half, and it gets into the pocket of the traveller, 

 you can well afford it ; for only half the shade of the 

 tree falls on i/oar land. And trees growing by a wall 

 are usually much more productive than those standing 

 in midfield. 



Apple trees are not so ornamental by the roadside as 

 some other trees, but they are more useful, and they do 

 less injury to the grass beneath and around them than 

 any trees excepting the locust. 

 Few people are willing to devote time or land for mere- 

 ly ornamental trees, and we cannot expect that our 

 roads will ever be shaded by them. I ask you therefore 

 to consult your own interest, — set out winter fruit trees 

 that will grow erect, on the south side of the road in 

 your field, near the wall, and I promise you as much 

 profit from these as from any of your fruit trees. 



Yours, W. B. 



Nouvelle Provence, Cramoisi Royal, Centifolia auctea- 

 ta, Brilli.mt Cnnego, Swiss, La Dominante, Casimir 

 Perier, Ranunculus, Cjrtier, Noisette Lee, Pencil 

 Mignonne, Grand Mogul, Gen. Kutusoff, lllustre 

 beaute, Grand Triumphant, Reine des pimpernelle, 

 Blandford's Provence, Blanda plena, Pimpernelle Estelle, 

 Welsh Provence, Nonpareil Agate, Kingston Portugal 

 Henry 4th, Aimablo Beaute, Boquet parfait, Alba 

 Elisa, Beaute Supremanle, Duchess de Dino, Joyeuse, 

 Noisette Parmi, Horace, Grand eels, Duroc, Ombre 

 agreeable. Prince de Galle, Carmine, Grande Porapa" 

 dour. Grand Mervielleuse, Boquet Otto, Ltopold da 

 Saxe, Comte Camaldoli, Boule de Niege, Nmon de 

 I'enclos, Mia!ilis, Negroland, Temple de Appolon, 

 Ponialowsky, Carmine Brilliant, Countess de Genlis, 

 Josephine, Unique Panache, Diadem des Flores, Celes- 

 tial, Imperial, Barbanegre, Grand Duke Tuscany,, Pa- 

 risienne. Rose Catet, Hybrid de Luxemberg, Infernal, 

 Bizar Triumphant, Noisette Puteaux, Virginie, Burn- 

 ing Coal, Boxelane, Hybride de Bengal, Clemence 

 Isaure, General Thiars, Grand Duchess Stephania, 

 Garnet Stripe, Centifolia minor, Anthiopie, Belle Ro- 

 sine. Belle Mignonne, Grandesse Royal, Admirable 

 horde rouge double. Admirable horde rouge single, 

 Royal purple, Zerbine, White Monthly. 



Moss Roses — Muscosa flore albo pleno, do. blanche 

 nouvelle, do. flora roseo pleno, do. flore roseo sim- 

 plici, do. prolifere, do. variegata pleno panache, do. 

 de la Fleche, do. coccinea, do. feuilles de sa^e. 



3 fine and perfect specimens of Dahlias — Dennisi 

 Minor, Fielder's mutabilis, Roke's drop scarlet. 



For the Committee, Jona. Winbhip. 



Framingham, June 24, 1835. 

 To the Editor of the New Enpljiml Farmer. 



Dear Sib — If you think the following hints season- 

 able you are at liberty to publish them. 



TO T'OtllVG PARMERS. 



Holo to kill bushes and briers by the roadside. — After 

 weeding your corn you will often find a good supply of 

 grass, bushes and briers full of sap growing beside your 

 fences. To kill these let three oi four furrows be 

 ploughed near the fence — let your boy with a shovel 

 bend down flat to the ground the bushes and the briers, 

 while you, with one of Partridge's four-tined forks, 

 throw on sods enough to bury them completely. This 

 is as easy as to cut them, and is a much surer mode of 

 curing the evil. 



How to make manure. — Harrow this ridge of dirt 

 once or twice during summer, keeping the sods and 



MASSACHUSETTS IIORTICULTURAI- SOCIETY. 



FLOWERS EXHIBITED. 



Saturday, July 8, le35. 



This day afforded the Amateur an opportunity of in- 

 specting an elegant display of Roses fVom Col. M. P. 

 'Wnider's place in Dorchester. 



The collection was beautiful, the specimens fine, and 

 evidently taken from plants under the most successful, 

 and judicious cultivation. Col. Wilder has evinced his 

 good taste and judgment by his liberality in importing 

 from foreign countries, whatever might be useful to the 

 Horticultural or Floiicullural admirers. 



Grande IMonarcJie, General Berlrand, La Importante, 

 Provins eclatantc, Waratah, Royal Blanc, Grand 

 Papa, Prince de Salm, Roi de France, Rose Courtin 

 Baumann, Grand Renoncule, Triomph de Breslau, Gen 

 Druot, Bobelini, Calypso, Emma, Caulincourt, Ma- 

 blay, Capo de Istria, Mddle. de Tressan, Enfant, La juine 

 Henry, Rose de Brown, Noisette Camellia, Celestin', Roi 

 do Roses, Noisette Dufrenoy, Mordant, Princess Amelia, 

 York and Lancaster, Double Provence, Missouri, Lu_ 

 cida plena, Flavia double, Hortulanus, Agathe Buert, 

 Cramoisi feu de grand, Aimable Violet, Royal Virgin, 



Grass — Farmers have feared that, in consequence 

 of the small quantity of rain which has fallen in the 

 month of June, grass would be very light indeed. We 

 learn that in the upper part of the county, rain has 

 fallen plentifully for trhe last two days, and grass has 

 wonderfully thickened up at the bottom. There will 

 be nearly an average crop of English hay, and as for 

 meadows they never looked better. The brown worm 

 that cuts off plants just below the surface of the ground 

 has made sad havoc in the gardens this season ; in many 

 instances lopping whole beds of onions, beets, &c. cu- 

 cumbers, squashes, and cabbages, in a single day. Who 

 can tell of anyt'.ing that will prevent the ravagesof this 

 worm? Corn looks finely. — Yeoman's (Concord) Gaz. 



The Weather. — What a climate we live in ! Snow 

 the first day of July ! ! and this third day, hot enough 

 to roa^teggs by sun. We aie assured, though we did 

 not ourselves notice it, that snow was observed to fall 

 by several persons in this town on the 1st inst. We can 

 attest that it was cold enough during the whole day, and 

 a fire that would do credit to a day in January was 

 quite comfortable. The mercury stood at 50 at noon. 

 Thanks to the clouds and winds we have escaped frosts 

 and to-day summer seems to be upon us ; perhaps win- 

 ter will come again to-morrow, but as it will be the 

 glorious/ou,r/A, we hope, not onlv the weather but the 

 people also, will be temperate. -J^ctcport {If. H.) Spec. 



New Jersey has been ppcaliarly unfortunate in her 

 agrieultural prospects. Besides losing, by the severe 

 winter her celsbrated orchards of the most delicious 

 varieties of peach and cling, her corn and potato fields 

 in several parts of the state, are now attacked with 

 the grub worm in a countless number, proving extreme- 

 ly destructive. 



