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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



other parts of France, and niiiltiplieii applications 

 being made for tlicni from foreign countries, the 

 Director of the Jnrdin de Froinnnt has decided to 

 bring into sale the numerous Sapliiij;s annually 

 produced from the stock of this valuable tree, and 

 which have obuined for it tlie spec.tic and de- 

 scriptive name it bears. These shoots det^iched 

 from the parent root in the autumn, are prepared in 

 the form of slips of difTeronl'heijrhts, according to 

 their growth, and are sent in their full lengths, 

 with all their buds, closely compressed in cases, 

 filled up with moss, rather dry than moist, and will 

 thus be preserved during a long journey or voyage 

 without decaying or suffering from either heat or 

 cold. The shoots, on their arrival at their desti- 

 nation, being recut and divided individually, im- 

 mediately before being planted, into slips contain- 

 ing two or throe buds each, according to their 

 growth, will, on the requisite precautions in plant- 

 ing being taken, preserve all the freshness and 

 vigor they possessed when detached from the stem, 

 and will take root os readily as if tiny had only 

 been just severed. 



The price of these shoots from the Murier Mul- 

 ticaulo^thus prepared and packed for transport, is 

 315 fr. a thousand (package included,).,anil these 

 will produce at least three tliousand aiips, witliout 

 reckoning the buds. 



The establishment is prepared to furnish any 

 quantity of these shoots, either immediately or in 

 the autumn of 1830, on receiving orders, with bills 

 on a banker or any other house in Paris. 



These shoots of the Murier Multicaule are far 

 preferable for long journeys or voyages to slips 

 which have been cut ; because,"having1rewer issues 

 for the sap, they are not liable to have this great 

 principle of life and vegetation, so indispensable 

 for thrir taking root, exhausted by way. 



'I he rearers of Silkworms in France and the 

 United States of America are informed that they 

 may be supplied with a very groat number of this 

 new species t'f Mulberry Tree at the Jardin de 

 Fremont. 



The director of this establishment is from this 

 time able to enter into a contract for furnishing 

 any quantity of these trees that may be required for 

 planting in 1839. 



All orders and other communications should be 

 addressed /ranco " au Diredeiir du Jardin de Fro- 

 M0^T, a Ris {Seine-et-Oise). France. 

 The meeting then was dissolved. 



E. WESTON, Jr., Rec. Sec. 



JASiUAnvsO, 1839. 



A.ND HORTICCLTURAL BKGISTER. 



AND 



Boston, Wednesday, January 30, 1839. 



NEW ENGLAND PARMER 

 HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



Wc hereby announce to the public that the New Eng- 

 land Farmer and Horticultural Register, hitherto existing 

 as two distinct pubhcations, arc now united iu one;— we 

 trust the union will prove satisfactory to the subscribers 

 of the latter work, and .send this day, the New England 

 Farmer and Horticultural Register in its stead to tiiose 

 who have not taken the N. E. Farmer. Those who arc 

 not disposed to take it will please return the paper by the 

 next mail. Those who retain the paper will be consid- 

 ered as subscribers. 



The New England Farmer and Horticidlural Register 

 will be published weekly in quarto form, making a hand- 

 some volume of 410 pages, with an index, at two dollars 

 and fifty cents, in advance, or three dollars at the close 

 of the year. J BRECK & CO. 



Boston, Jan. Sll^A, l,S:!y. 



Exhibition of Frditi. 



Saturday, Jan. 19, 1«39. 

 Lady apple, very beautiful 8pecin»eB.,by, Mr 

 Manning. 



Baldwin and Nonsuch apples— liand.soinu speci- 

 mens, by Mr Walker. 



For the Committee, 



WILLLVM KENRICK, Chairman. 



Cheerfulne.ss and activity do „ot .,fen accompany 

 vicious Ii,nl,it9. Tl.o ale-house is the resort of the per- 1 

 son ivho knows not what el.se t.^,l.■ wiih hirnsell. The ' 

 Jiromoting innocent, and meaning umvsrvtfnts, is part of 

 a schoolmaster's most serious husinrss. — Central Society 

 of Education. 



The Cour.tPss of Hiiddin^^'ton, iu nori, sold her jew- 

 els that she might be enabled to phmt her estates with 

 valui.ble :md ornamental trees; we think she possessed 

 boib good sense and good taste in her choice of orna- 

 mtntt. 



Kennebunk, Jan. 8, 1839. 

 To THE Editor of the N. E. Farmer,— 



Dear Sir— Tliough personally a stranger, I take the 

 liberty to make some inquiries of you on a subject of 

 some interest to me as a cultivator of the soil. I am un- 

 acquainted with any praciical farmer round about Boston, 

 or VTould not trouble you with my inquiries. 



I wish to inclose my farm with the Hawthorn Hedge, 

 and am anxious to obtain some information as to the 

 mode of planting and cultivating the plant. I have fre- 

 quently seen some very fine looking hedges of this plant 

 round about Boston, though I am not aware that it has 

 ever been introduced into this State. I wish to know if 

 seed can be obtained in Boston, and if it should not be 

 convenient for you to give me the informatioa I need on 

 this subject, I should be greatly obliged if you will put 

 this into the hands of some gentleman that will write me 

 on the subject. A knowledge where the seed could be 

 obtained, if nothing more, would be esteemed a great 

 favor ; the price usuidly paid for it, &c. I wish to 

 plant about two hundred rods of this hedge .eailv in the 

 spring— if spring is the time it should be planted. .-Vav 

 information on the subject would be very gratefully re- 

 j ceived. I am ignorant how the ground should be pre- 

 [ pared ; iu fact ignorant ofalmost everything respecting its 

 I cultivation. 



! I am, dear sir, with great respect, 



j Your ob't scrv't, 



I JAMES OSBORN. 



N B. Perhaps it may be the Hsual practice of those 

 who make tliese hedges to transplant from nurseries of 

 ' Hawthorn planted for the purpose. If this should be the 

 [case, could plants of a suitable size be obtained round 

 about Boston, and what the usual price per thousand ? 

 How many years from planting before the thorn is large 

 enough to answer the purpose ef fence.' Yours, 



J. O.. 



Wo have neither space nor time to give as full an tin. 

 swer to this letter as we desire. Nothing can be more 

 beautiful than a live fence or hedge ; but like everything 

 else valuable, the cultivation and management require 

 knowledge, skill, and experience. A straggling, untrim- 

 med hedge, full of gaps, and overrun with weeds, is ex- 1 



ccedingly offensive; but the eye rests with delight upoi 

 one that is in perfect order. 



There are three kinds of hawthorn which are used fo 

 the purpose of fences. 



1st. The common European Hawth_prn or White thorr 

 (Cratcegus OiyacantUa.) 2d. The Cockspur Hawthorn 

 (Cralagus crvsgalli.) 3. The Maple-leaved Hawthorn 

 (Crutiegus cordata.) The first is of foreign origin; th( 

 iwo latter are indigenous. The leaf of tlie first is fai 

 more beautiful than of the two last ; but it puts out lalei 

 in the season; and it sheds its leaves much earlier. The 

 two latter form beautiful and substantial fences. The 

 I Cockspur thorn is much used in Delaware, and the stage 

 road used to jiass through miles of this fence. The Ma- 

 plc-leaved Hawthorn has been cultivated to a considera- 

 I ble extent by Josiah Quincy, Esq. at his farm in Quincy. 

 j These fences have all suffered much from the mice in 

 winter, whose ravages are favored by our deep, drifting 

 j and long continued snows, to which they are not subject 

 I in England ; and the European Hawthorn from a worse 

 pest than this, and that is the apple tr«e borer, a worm 

 which has proved signally destructive to the live fences 

 among us. We are not apprised whether this worm has 

 attacked the two other kinds of thorns, but wc know no 

 reason why he should not have done, it. These plants 

 should be set in double rows in what is called the quin- 

 cunx order, thai is, about eight inches apart in the row 

 and the plants in one row opposite the spaces in the 

 other ; a single row is hardly deemed sufficient for pro- 

 tection against our cattle, who arc accustomed to roam at 

 large in utter disregard of fences and enclosures. 



As to the inquiry about raising the plants from seed, 

 the seed or haws can be ob'ained at a proper season with- 

 out difficulty; but they will not germinate until the sec- 

 ond year, and they require skilful management the first 

 year. We therefore advise our correspondent to obtain 

 the plants of about two years old ; and this may be done 

 at many of the nurseries in the country. The maple- 

 leaved hawthorn may be obtained at Georgetown, D. C. 

 and probably at Philadelphia, New York, and Albany ; it 

 may bo «lso, at the excellent establishment of the Messrs 

 Winships at Brighton; but we have not ascertained the 

 fact. The while or English hawthorn, as there is no 

 duty upon the article, though it can be had here, may 

 probably be imported from England, or Scotland at half 

 the e-xpense for which it can be obtained here, freight in- 

 cluded. We imported some ourselves some vears since 

 and presume tilings have not altered in this matter. 



Of the proper mode of cultivating a hedge or live 

 fence, we have not now space to go into it; butif denircd 

 will give hereafter ail necessary directions. A good 

 deal of preparation and care are requisite that the hedge 

 may do well. 



There are other plants, which are used with advantage. 

 The commoo red cedar makes a substantial and perma- 

 nent fence, and requires about seven years before it be- 

 comes impregnable. The buckthorn (rhamnus calhar- 

 ticus) is of quick growth, easy cultivation, and makes a 

 most beautiful fence. When well set and well grown it 

 would be proof against cattle ; but it is not so formidable 

 to them as a white thorn hedge. Nothing can be more 

 ornamental. 'Iho plants may be obtained of Piek'g 

 Dodge, Esq. or E. H Derby, Esq. of Salem, who has 

 one of the handsomest spei:imens of this fence to be 

 found in the State ;— probably at other places. The 

 seed is easily procured at the proper season in different 

 parts of the country as the plant is not uncommon. The 

 triple thorned locust (Gleditzia triacanthos) makes n 

 substantial and impregnable fence, when well plashed 

 and interlocked. It is strong, but the fohage is not 

 thick or large enough to make it handsome. 



H.'C. 



