VOL. XV. NO.. 7. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL 



55 



per doz. Wdlernielon, 25 to 50 cts. each. Apricots, 

 (very fine) 75 cts. to $1 00 per box. Pears, 75 els to 

 $1 00. Plums, 50 to 75 cts. per box. 



A Communication from * 

 till our neit. 



S." is necessarily postponed 



BRIGHTON MARKliT.-MoNDAY. August 22, 1836. 

 Reported tiir tije Daily .'Vilvertiser i t'atnnt. 



Atmarket 740 Btef Cattle, 15 Cows and Calves, 37.50 

 S heep.and 210 Swine. About 5U Beef Cattle un.sold. 



Pbices —Beef Cattle — Prices have further declined, 

 as will be perceived by onr quotations. We quote extra 

 and very fine at 6 50 ; first quality 5 75 a 6 25 ; second 

 quality $5 a 5 50 ; third quality f 4 a 4 75. 



Cows and Calves— We noticed sales at $23,24,27, 

 SO, 35 and 42, 



Skeep and Lambs — Prices have declined. Ordinary 

 lots were taken at 1 75 and 2 25 ; better qualities at 250 

 2 62, 2 88, and $3 ; Wethers at 2 50, 3 .50, $4 and 4 2i 



Swine— 0\d at 7 3 4 a 8 for SoWs ; and 8 3-4 a !) for 

 Barrows ; Shoats, by the lot, at 7 1-2 for Sows, and 8 

 1-2 for Barrows. At retail, 9 for Sows and 10 for Bar- 

 rows. 



PRESH ARID GEXUIIVE: GARDEIV SEEDS, 



Ol the very first quality, put up expressly for the clijiiati! of 

 the W'es Indies and JSouih .America. Long Ked J-teot — 

 Turnip Kadish — Black tfpanish Kadi»ii — Large Head Let- 

 luce — While Flat Turnip — Yellow Aberdeen 'i'urnip — 

 Wiiile Celery — Curled Cress — Sweet Marjoram — Ued 

 Cabbage — Large Drumhead Cabbage — Ballersea do. — 

 Karly Sugar Loaf do. — Garly Curled Silesia Letuco — 

 Uoulile Curled Carsley — Curled Kndive — Long Orange 

 Carrot. Ker sale at the New England Seed Store 51 anil 52 

 North Market street. 3t July 27. 



I'KICES OF COUNTRY PRODUCK. 



CORRECTED WITH GREAT CAR)[, WEEKLV. 



NATIVE FOREST TREES. 



The sub-seriher will furnish the following kinds o( .Native 

 Koresl Trees from the vicinity of Bangor, Maine, and ship 

 ilieiii carefully, accortliiig to orders, viz.: .Silver Firs, (from 

 i to 3 feel high); Elms, (from 5 to 25 feet); Kock Maples, 

 (from 5 to 25 l-etl; Mouiilam Ash, (from 5 to 25 leet) • 

 Spruce, SuDiachs, Pines, and Cedars, Red Cherry, Sugar 

 i'lnms, and .liinipcrs. Also Seed oflhe above trees furnished 

 in their season. Any orders addressed to the subscriber. 

 .Seedsman at Hangor, or left at Geo. C. Barrett's New England 

 .Seerl Store Boston, will meet witii pron pt attention 



Bangor, May 2, 183G. W iM. B. HARLOW. 



■Apples, 



WANTED. 



For a term of years, a place suitable for gardening, con- 

 taining 4 or 5 acres, with buildings to accomodate a small 

 family. A description, with terms of rent, directed to A. B. 

 C. and lell soon at this office, will be duly attended to. 



Aug U. ' 



TERRIBLE TRACTORATION. 



Just publislied and for sale by Tullle. Weeks & Dennett, 

 School street, and at the Fanner OIKce, Terrible I'ractoralii'n 

 and other Poems, by Christopher Caustic, M. D , and niem- 

 lier of no less than .\ineteen very learned Societies. Third 

 American Edition. 



A(,ril27. 



COCOONS WANTED. 



Adam Brooks, South Scituate, will p;.v $i per bushel for 



cocoons (oflhe first quality) riiised tne 'present year the 



cocoons must be stripped of the floss, and the chrysalis kille<l, 

 either by steaming or liy camphoraled spirits ; Ihey must hi 

 dried immediately alter, in the sun, until ihey arc perfectly 

 dry and will rattle by shaking, and carefully packed in dry 

 bo.tes; not pressed but shaken down — to be "delivered 

 Adam Brooks's, South .Sciluale, Mass , or to J. R 

 No. 52 Norih .Market street, Boston. 



Thomas ({. Fcssenden, Eilitorol the New England Farmer, 

 has for sale ti valuahle apparatus for killing the chrysalis and' 

 also well fitted for heating the water to reel the cocnons, and 

 useful fbrnianv olber purposes— it is so cheap it is within 

 the power of almost any o»e to obtain. 



Instructions for spinning silk from the cocoons into warp 

 and filling, sewing silk, and knitting silk— and dressing '-J' 

 the same — and receipts for coloring. 

 Brooks on rease.,able terms. Ci 



at 



Newell, 



FARM FOR SALE. 



For sale a Farm in Bed ord, County of Middlesex, 17 miles 

 from Boston and 10 from Lowell, coiilaini.:g 104 acres inclu- 

 ding aboit 15 acres covered w illi a valuable growth of wnod 

 which has been preserved with great care for the last 20 years 

 Ihc garden contains about 3 acres under the highest cultiva-' 

 lion and is furnished with a great variety of flowers and 



shrubs which have been collected at much labor and 



are given by Adam 

 omiuunica ions (post paid) 



may be addressed to ADAM B.HOOKS, South Sc 



Mass. 



Aug. 10. 



RASPBERRIES. 



For sale at the New Eng'laiid .Seerl Store, deliverable any 

 tine before the 1st of Noveml>er, 3000 best English Rasn"- 

 berry Roots, in fine order. 3t Au<r 10 



altaciied to the garden is a Green House filled with thrifty 

 l>ear;ng Grape Vines, and choice and valuable plants wh ch 

 will be sold or not as the purchaser may choose. The Farm 

 is under good cultivation and together with the Garden is 

 slocked wilh the choicest Friiils, such as Apples, Pears 

 Beaches, Quinces, Plums, Strawberries o( various kinds,' 

 Raspberries, Gooseberries, &c &.C., which the present owner 

 has spared no cxpence in obtaining. The Farm is bounded 

 nil the west by (:;oncord River, which is well supplied wilh 

 fish, and the country around abounds wilh game, makino- it a 

 desirable retreat to the gentleman who is loud of fishiirg or 

 shooting. ° 



Possession will be given on Ihc Isl April next— for terms 

 which will be liberal, apply to the subscriher in Boston oral 

 •l>e Fa""- JAMES VILA. 



FRANKLIN HOUSE, BOSTON. 



The subscriber woi.ld infi.rm his patrons and the public 

 generally, that he ronlinues to keep ihe long esiahbshed and 

 wed known Franklin House, in Alerchaiils Kow, nearly onno- 

 •ite Faneuil Hall, which has recently been enlarged wiik the 

 addition of new chambeis, silting rooms, parlours &.C. 



The central situation of the house reuders it very conve- 

 nient lor men of business. The subscriber pleJges himsell 

 that the ho se shall be kept orderly and quiet lorllie conilorl 

 01 all who may favor him with a call. 



He would also slate, that at the request of many of his 

 friends, he has changed ihe iiour of dining to one o'clock 



••"I^^T. 3i DANIEL MIXER 



AGRICULTURAL BOOKS. 



Farmer's Library in 3 volumes, consisting of the American 

 Gardener, by Thos G Fessenden, Ihe Americas Orchardis' 

 by Wil lam Kenrick, and the Complete Fanner, by Thos. 3 

 F'essenden These are bound to match, at ,g3 lor the set "or 

 wil be sold separately for Jjtl each volume. 



liuffin's Essay on Calcareous Manure, 1,01). 



Chaptal's Agricullnral Chemistry, new edition, a work of 

 great value, price 1 .25. 



The American Farrier, price 75 cts. 



Mrs Child's Frugal Hirusewife, 50 els. 



Kenrick's .American Silk Grower's Guid 



Cobb's Silk Manual. .50 cts. 



Comstoek's fUt. .'iO cts. 



Forsylh on Fruil 'I'rees. 



M'.Mahon's Amorican Gardener- 



loudon's Complete Works, 



And will be supplied to or.ler any work upon subjects con 

 nceled with Agricu lure. Horticulture and Rural Eccnomy 



June 22. ■'* 



, 42 cts. 



COUiNTRY SEAT AND FAR.W. 



^ The subscriber offers for sale, his Estate, situated on Jama- 

 ica Hill, J.imaica flams Parish, Roxburv, five miles from 

 Boston eummon—lormerly Ihe esl.ite ow'iied and .erui,ied 

 by Gov .Samuel Adams. The Farm coulaius filly acres of 

 land, well supplied with a number of never failing spring's of 

 water, and tor farming purposes is one of the best farms in 

 Ihe conniry. The house is new, large and convenieni calcu- 

 lated :or summer a.,d winter residence, built of the be. 

 soned innteriaLs, and all the labor paid by the d.iy 

 queiitly is a first rate house. Barns and out buildinj 

 good iirder and convenient. 



F. r purity of air for extensive and beautiful prospects th's 

 situaliun has no equal in New England, and is an invili,,'^ 

 mtnation to a gem eman of taste, ihal lias a/fie sp,ne dollars 



■'"'J' '^7- H. COWING. 



est sea- 

 conse- 

 s all in 



FAR.1IER WANTED. 



an experienced fhnner to take charge of a culti- 

 11 the viciiiiiy (if Boston 

 If 



Wanted 

 \'aled larm of only moileiate 

 Apply lo the New England Farmer office 



, Russctts and Baldwins. 



Beans, while, 



Beef, rness. 



^lo. 1. . . ' . 



prime, .... 



Beeswax, (Americr'n) . 

 HuTTEU store, .No. 1 , . 



Cheese, new milk 



Eeaihers, northern, geese, 

 southern, geese, 

 Fi.AX, American, .... 

 Fish, Cod, . , . ' 



Flour, Genesee, . . cash 

 Baltimore, Howard street, 

 Baltimore, wharf, 

 Alexandria, 

 Grain, Com, northern yellow 



southern flat yellow 

 white, 

 Rye, northern. 

 Barley, .... 



Oats, northern, . (prime) 

 Hay, best English, per ton of 2000 lbs 

 eastern screwed, . 

 hard pressed, .... 

 Honey, 

 Hops, 1st qualily . . . 



2d ipjality .... 

 Larii, Boston. 1st sort, . 

 soutliern, 1st sort. 

 Leather, Philadelphia city tannage, 

 do country oo 

 Ba'tiniorecily do. 



do. dry hide 

 New York red, light, 

 do. do. Middling. 

 do. do. over weight 

 Boston do. slaughter"! 

 do. light, 

 l.iwE, besi son, .... 

 Plaster Paris, per ton of 2200 lbs, 

 I'oKK, Mass. inspect, extra clear, . 

 Navy, mess. .... 

 bone, middlings, scarce. 

 Seeds, Herii's Grass, 



Red Top, . . . ■ 



Red Clover, iiorlherr. 

 Silk Cocoons, (American) . .. 



Tallow, tried , " | 



Wool, prime, or Saxony Fleeces. 



American, full blood.- cashed 

 do. 3-4lhs do. 



do. 1-2 do. 



do. l-4andfeminon 



c f Pulled siiperilrie, . . 



Z~i 1st Lambs, . 

 •5:2 J 2d do. 

 ^ g. 3d do, . " . 



Southern pulled wool is genejally 5 els. 

 less per lb 



barrel 

 bushel 

 barrel 



pound 



quintal 

 barrel 



bushel 





gallon 

 pound 



cask 

 barrel 



bushel 



pou^d 



ijlJshel 



lb. 

 jiound 



1 37 



II 25 



III 511 

 G 75 



2G 

 20 



54 



3 00 

 744 



7 62 

 7 75 

 1 cy 

 78 

 93 

 1 06 



56 

 24 00 

 20 00 

 20 00 

 45 

 13 

 II 

 16 

 13 

 28 

 24 

 25 

 19 

 20 

 20 

 17 



re 



1 12 

 27(0 



2 75 

 50 

 11 



9 

 70 

 60 

 60 

 60 

 45 



60 



65 

 45 

 30 



I 75 

 11 73 



725 

 29 

 21 

 12 



60 



325 

 750 

 8 00 

 7 75 



1 10 



1 00 



95 



1 09 



57 

 28 00 



22 00 



23 00 

 50 

 14 



14 

 30 



26 

 28 

 22 

 21 



21 

 21 



2 62 



27 50 



3 00 

 62 

 12 



10 



75 

 70 

 65 



58 



55 



65 

 60 

 49 

 35 



TROVISfON MARKET. 



RETAIL PRItES. 



Hams, noriheri.. 



southern, and weslera. 

 Pork, whole hogs. 

 Poultry. . 

 Butter, (tub) . 



lump 

 Eggs, 

 Potatoes, new, 



ClIlER. 



NOTICE. 



Subscribers ran have their volumes neatly half bound and 



'"f" J'"" ^^ ""'^ ^^ ^^^"'"S "'em a' 'his office 

 July 20 4| 



FRENCH SUGAR BEET. 



A valuable root for the table 



when hilly 

 an acre, 

 ket street. 



when young, and for Caiib^ 



grown ; v ry productive. 2 lo 2 1-2 lbs. will seed 

 hor sate at the Seed Store, 51 and 52, iVorth Mar- 

 may 5 



JAMES MANN,, 



^Preserver of Bird.s and Quadrupeds, at the 



stopping place 



^^igll^^'"" =""* ^"""^^ d'^'s:'m;:^'^j^i 



lef?^ . 1, 1 i 1 n P'^'"^".™""" ditfcled as above, and 

 left at the Had Road Depot, will be forwarded with dt snatch 

 and promptly altended to .Skins of Foreign Bird 

 Aluinals purchased. 

 Canary Birds for sale- 

 June 1.5. 



■jpatch 

 and rare 



-superior songsters. 



HEMP SEED. 



PHINNEV CORN. 



„„^.7?'''-o '""" '""•''*■'' ?'' "■'" '"P"'"' "^"'r Corn, recom- 

 memle I in Ihe current volume of the New England Farmer, 



^j"'',.,'^"""'' •-'"""""• ''"-ifegS per bushel. May 18 



./"f 'Tr.'"''''! i',"" ^"''"■'^ P"""" '•"' '"f"'' Hemp Seed, 

 M i".' ^ '?''i,'T' ^' """ ^"'^ f^-'Slantl Seed Store. Nos 

 51 and 52 Norlh Market street, Boston. June ]. 



MILLET SEED. 



For sale, a few bushels of verv s.ioorio- v,.. s.>e<l at iha 

 New Lngiana Seed S.ure, Nos. 51 and 62, North Marke'l si. 



