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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



13d 



Among the calves exhibited the committee can- 

 not refrain from expressing the admiration of the 

 following: —One 12 months old, ownoil by Charles 

 S. Thatcher of Lee — a brindled calf, 5 months old, 

 owned by Ehenezer Axtel, of South Adains — one 

 5 months old exhibited by Levi Bntler of Lenox — 

 one two months old, owned by Asa Cone of Rich- 

 mond — another exhibited by Giistavus Dunham of 

 Richmond, and last though not least, a beautiful 

 bull calf (called The fVestminster) owned and ex- 

 hibited by Henry Colt of Pittsfield. This calf is 

 from a cow imported by E. A. Newton, Esq. and 

 was much admired for his size, color and beautiful 

 symmetry. 



Mr Eldad Post of Lenox exhibited his stock of 

 cattle consisting of 21 head. They are mostly 

 selected from our native stock, but would do great 

 credit to any farmer in Berkshiie. 



The number of animals exlubited, but not owned 

 in the county, was unusually large and added much 

 to the interest of the exhibition. Your committee 

 would express their warmest acknowledgments to 

 those gentlemen whose zeal in the good cause has 

 led them to make such sacrifice for our gratification, 

 and they deeply regret that the funds of the soci- 

 ety w'ill not allow them to award premiums out of 

 the county except in rare cases and of small amount. 

 Yoiir committee first examined a stock of cattle 

 owned by L. Chandler Ball, Esq. of Hoosic, N. Y. 

 The stock consisted of 3 two year old heifers and 

 2 calves, pure thorough bred Durham. These an- 

 imals need only be seen to be admired. They are 

 the most perfect specimens of their kind your com- 

 mittee have ever seen. One of the calves is 7 and 

 the other 5 months old, and their aggregate weight 

 is 1180 pounds. 



Mr Ball is determined not to be outdone in the 

 breeding and rearing of fine cattle, and if this 

 society will import a few head of well- selected 

 stock, he offers to subscribe )i>1000 for the same 

 laudahle object. Your committee have awarded to 

 L. Chandler liall, Esq. for his stock of short horned 

 Durham cattle, a special premium of G dollars. 



A Holderness .ind Devonshire bull was exhibited 

 by John Wilcox of Cannan, N. Y. This animal 

 was much aduiired. 



Mr Dunn of Albany, whose animals have so fre- 

 quently added interest to our annual fairs, exhibited 

 to us 4 Bakewell or Leicester bucks, of superior 

 size and beauty. The aggregate weight of tivo of 

 them is 040 lbs. 



Your committee are also gratified at the exhibi- 

 tion of a lot of Durham heifers and Berkshire 

 Neapolitan and China pigs, owned by C. N. Be- 

 ment, Esq. of Albany. Austin Harman, Jr. of 

 Bennington, Vt. exhibited a Durham bull, 18 months 

 old, of great beauty — his weight is 1390 pounds. 

 The conmiittee would also notice the fine Ayrshire 

 bull, the property of Mass. Agr'l. Society, which 

 has been in the care and keeping, during the past 

 season, of this society. Great hopes are entertain- 

 ed from crosses from this stock. It is also expected 

 that arrangements can be made by which this ani- 

 mal may remain in this county for another year. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



M. A. LEE, Chairman. 

 (To be coTilinued.) 



No Mistake. — Bend the first and third fingers 

 of the left hand — and commencing with March at 

 the thumb, count on — the bent fingers will indi- 

 cate months which contain on'y 30 days. 



(Kor Ihe New En;;laiicl Farmer.) 



CAPL^UMONT AND FREDERICK DE VVUR- 

 TEMBERCx. 



Mr Editor, — If Mr Kenrick had left his facts 

 to speak for Ihemselves, I should never again have 

 troubled the public press ; but anxious to show how 

 poor Mr Knight was led to commit this blunder of 

 sending the Frederick of Wurtemberg for the Cap- 

 iaumont, Mr Kenrick lias made assumptions whic!i 

 are erroneous, and furnished evidence to show that 

 Mr Knights name was the correct one, as I shall 

 endeavor to prove by Mr Kenrick's own evidence. 

 The assumption is this, that one Richard Williauis 

 procured the Frederick of lVuriember<r, and sold it 

 to the Horticultural Society of London, for the 

 Capiaumont. That they raised it, and ignoranUy 

 sent it to the Pomological Magazine, for the Capi- 

 aumont, though their officers had long brfore seen, 

 examined, and tasted the true Capiaumont from Bel- 

 gium — tliat Mr Knight's tree was from this corrupt- 

 ed source, though Mr Kenrick acquit him of blame. 



Now this statement has but one defect, and that 

 is, that it is not true. This I shall prove from Mr 

 Kenrick's evidence beyond a7iy controversy. The 

 London Horticultural Society j?»-s( received the true 

 Capiaumont from two distinguished Belgians, M. 

 Parmatier of Eughien, and M. Dunalier of Louvain, 

 in the fall of 1820. I say the true Capiaumont, 

 because M. Parmatier, one of them, did not know 

 the Frederick of Wurtemberg at that time, nor four 

 years afterwards, when he printed his catalogue, 

 though he knew the Capiaumont, and M. Duthortia's 

 pear must have been the same, or the Society would 

 have noticed it. 



The London Society were so pleased with the 

 pear, that they ordered it from Belgium. This 

 could not be before the following spring, which 

 was 1831. I assume that they could not have had 

 the pear in their garden from Williams at that time, 

 or they would not have sent for it. This requires 

 no argument. They received three scions (at least) 

 for the Capiaumont, because they produced three 

 different pears, all false. These trees could not all 

 have borne fruit under two years, and while it was 

 doubtful, they would not purchase of Williams, be- 

 cause they had better and higher authority. This 

 brings us to the fall of 1823, before they coidd pos- 

 sibly know that all their Belgian scions had proved 

 false. I admit then that in the spring of 1624 they 

 bought of Richard Williams their Capiaumont. 

 Now in the spring of 1824 Mr Knight's Capiau- 

 mont was growing on Nonantum Hill, the seat of 

 Wni. Kenrick, Esq., and in 1823, it was growing 

 on my place, nay more, it was three years old from 

 the graft, tvhen it came. Of course it was grafted 

 at Downton Castle in the spring of 1820, six months 

 before tlie Horticultural Society of London received 

 the frst specimen of the Capiaumont direct from 

 two eminent Belgian cultivators. This I call math- 

 ematical proof that Mr Knight's tree did not descend 

 from the Horticultural spurious one, as is impru- 

 dently and unwisely insinuated. 



The spurious one (as Mr Kenrick deems it) was 

 the true one. The pair painted in the Pomological 

 Magazine, was the true Capiaumont, as I shall now 

 show. Two high authorities in Belgium sent the 

 fruit of the true Capiaumont to the London Soci- 

 ety ; their Officers, who were, then, eminent bota- 

 nists, pomologiits, and draughtsmen, examined these 

 pears, and tasted them. They then bought the 

 Capiaumont of Williams. It bore fruit in their 



garden. They must have known, whether it was 

 the same pear they received from Parmentier and 

 Dumortia. They decided that it was, and sent it 

 to the editors of the I'omological Mtigazine to be 

 published for the light and instruction of the Brit- 

 ish public — was there ever so complete a chain of 

 proof? Suppose Col. Carr, of Philadelphia, had 

 sent the Petre Pear to our Society — they commit- 

 ted it to Messrs. Downer, Kenrick and iVIanning — 

 they examined it and tasted it, and sent to Col. 

 Carr for scions — they come, bear fruit, and these 

 gentlemen examine the new fruit and decide it to 

 be the same— would not they smile in derision and 

 scorn, if a man should tell them that they had mis- 

 taken the Scckle for the Petre i Yet this is pre- 

 cisely what Mr Kenrick asks us to believe. No, 

 it is too absurd to reject such irresistable evidence 

 as this, because two, or even ten gentlemen have 

 been deceived, (a very common case,) in their im- 

 portations from Belgium. 



Against such a mass of conclusive proof, that the 

 Capiaumont of Mr Knight and of the Pomological 

 Magazine are correct. Nothing but receiving 

 scions from M. Capiaumont himself, from the orig- 

 inal tree will suffice. It is next to impossible that 

 Tuma and Sabine, the secretaries of the Society, 

 should not have known whether Williams' pear was 

 the same tliey had received from Parmatier. One 

 word more, and I quit this topic never to resume 

 it, let what will he said. I prove that Mr Knight 

 had this pear in 1820, probably in 1818. Can Mr 

 Kenrick show that the Frederick of Wurtemberg 

 then existed'? I need not spend words to show that 

 Mr Knight could not have sent me a pear which 

 had no being! ! This is not a frivolous or cap- 

 tious objection, for M. Parmatier was requested in 

 1624' to make a list of all the pears be the.ti knew. 

 He did, and the London Society voted him their 

 gold medel of the value of ten guineas for it. 



In that list the Roi de Wurtemberg and the 

 Frederick of Wurtemberg are not found. If that 

 pear had existed six years before, it is strange tliat 

 Parmatier who lives only one half a day's ride from 

 Brussels, Mons, and Louvain, had not seen it in 

 1624. I have done — and the readers will rejoice 

 at it. I participate their delight 



JOHN LOWELL. 



Broomley Vale, Oct. 29, 1838. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Exhibition of Fruits. 



Saturday, Oct. 27, 1838. 

 Pears.— ¥vom Robert Manning, Salem, Brug- 

 mansbimie ; middle size, skin russet brown, good 

 quality. 



From Joel Burnett, Southboro, Burnett; large 

 size, excellent quality. 



nipples.— Fiom Peter Fay, Southboro,. a hand- 

 some large red apple, name not known. 



From R. Manning, black apple, beautiful spec- 

 imen. 



quinces.— A fine sample of Portugal Quince, 

 weighing IG oz., from Jos. Balch, Roxbury. 

 For the Committee, 



L. P. GROSVENOR. 



ThaNksgivi.ng.— The Governors of Maine and 

 New Hampshire have appointed Thursday the 29th 

 instant to be observed as a day of Public Thanks- 

 giving and Prayer in their respective States. 



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