■VOV. XVlI. ISO. 51. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER 



403 



one of the inofredients for " the barrenest land, or 

 ■water fruit trees for prodigious effects," and, con- 

 cludes Evelyn, " where there is good water there 

 is commonly good earth. Never give much water 

 at one time ; if the water is from hungry fountains, 

 expose it first to the warm sun for better concoc- 

 tion, infusing sheep's, pigeons' or ncats' dung to 

 give it hotly ; but though the spring water be so 

 tad, slow running river water is often very good, 

 and pond water excellent." This system of arti- 

 ficial liquid manuring is well known in China 



The first care of the Chinese farmers, says Sir 

 George Staunton, is to construct large cisterns, 

 free from absorption, to contain, beside this manure, 

 (night soil) and soil of every kind, all sorts of veg- 

 etables, as leaves or roots, or steins of plants ; with 

 all these they mix as much animal water as can be 

 collected, or common woter to dilute the whole; 

 and in this state generally in the act of putrid fer- 

 mentaliou, they apply it to the ploughed or broken 

 earth, — and by a similar process the Flemish farm- 

 ers also prepare liquid manure, and in several parts 

 of Gern;any the same plan is generally adopted. 

 Even soot and water have been advantageously 

 mixed together, and forms, according to Mr Rob- 

 ertson, an excellent liquid manure. Asparagus, 

 peas, and a variety of other vegetables, says this 

 intelligent horticulturist, I have manured with this 

 mixture with as much effect, as if I had used solid 

 dung, but to plants in pots, particularly pines, I 

 have found it admirably adapted ; when watered 

 with it they assume a deep healthy green, and 

 grow strong and luxuriant 



A Durham Cow The Philadelphia U. S. Ga- 

 zette gives the following account of the milking of 

 a short-horned Durham cow during the week com- 

 mencing the 27th of May : 



Morning. Evening. 



Quarts. Pints. Quarts. Pints. 



Monday 13 13 



Tuesday 12 1 13 1 



Wednesdav 13 14 



Thursday " 13 15 



Friday 15 14 



Saturday 14 15 



Sunday 15 1 1-2 15 1-2 



93 



2 1-2 99 

 93 



1 1-2 



2 1-2 



which must minister to such comforts. We give 

 the following as the good doings of" Dairy Maid," 

 the property of our neighbor James Gowan, of Mt. 

 Airey, Germantown. 



Dairy .Maid's yield of milk for one week, from Wed- 

 nesday, UhJune, to Tuesday, the lltti, inclusive. 

 Morning. Nnou. Evening. 



au. Qts. Qls. Quarts. 



Wednesday 12 6 7 1-2 25 1-2 



Thursday 12 7 7 1-2 2(5 1-2 



Fridav 12 1-4 7 1-2 7 1-2 27 1-4 



Saturday 13 7 3-4 8 1-2 29 1-4 



Sunday 13 7 1-2 8 1-3 29 



Monday 13 8 1-48 20 1-4 



Tuesday 14 8 1-2 9 31 1-2 



Total 



198 1-2 



Being an average of more tlian 28 quarts per day. 

 Butter not yet ascertained. The coming week's 

 milk, wliich is expected to be greater, from improv- 

 ed feed will be reported. The feed of the past 

 week was pasture, with a basket of grass morning 

 and evening, cut from head land of a grain field, 

 except on the evenings of the last three days, when 

 a handful of chopt oats and corn, with shorts from 

 hay-mow, was added. 



The above yield is perhaps unprecedented by 

 any young cow in this country under the cir- 

 cumstances, being in the fourth month fi-om calving, 

 and the calf having been with her till within a few 

 days of trial. The milking at noon was adopted on 

 account of the cow having been brought from the 

 field to her calf, daily, at that time. 



Dairy Maid is a beautiful roan, of the improved 

 short horn Durliam stock, bred by Mr Whitaker, of 

 Yorkshire — imported last fall, and in point and pro- 

 portions is said to have no superior. Her pedigree, 

 which may be found in the third volume of the 

 "Herd Book," is inferior to no cow on record. — 

 U. S. Gazette. 



Total yield for the week commenc- 

 ing 27th of May and ending 2d 

 of June, inclusive — 7 days 104 quarts, 

 Being within a fraction of 28 quarts per day, and 

 from "which were made 14 3-4 lbs. of butter of the 

 finest quality. 



The weather was cold, chilly, and wet, and it 

 was supposed that the quality was less than is usu- 

 ally made under favorable circumstances by the 

 same animal. Our friends in the farming interest 

 will see the necessity of improving the breed of 

 cattle as much as possible. This cow will cost but 

 little more to keep in the best manner, than an or- 

 dinary, poor, thriftless creature, that will neither 

 give much milk nor that which is good.— Boston 

 Daily Times. 



Still Better. A good Cow. — It gives us 

 pleasures to record the successful efforts of gentle- 

 men to increase the means of comfort to us, who 

 are cramped in cities ; and certainly, the augment- 

 ing of milk and butter is one of those exertions 



Vegetation. — Nothing can be more singular than 

 the unaccountable manner in which plants spring 

 up on certain occasions. Thus after the great fire 

 in London in 166G, the whole surface of the devas- 

 tated city was in a short time covered with a luxu- 

 riant crop of the Sisijmhrium irio, in such profusion 

 that it was calculated that the whole of the rest of 

 Europe did not contain so many specimens of this 

 plant Again, wherever a salt spring breaks out at 

 a distance from the sea, its vicinity immediately 

 abounds with salt plants, although none grew there 

 before. \\ hen lakes are drained a new kind of 

 vegetation springs up. Thus when the Danish Is- 

 land of Zealand was drained, Vilny observed Carex 

 cyperoides springing up, although that species is 

 naturally not a native of Denmark, but a native of 

 the north of Germany. — Britsh Farm. Mag. 



Effects of thorough Draining. — A correspondent 

 informs us, that when walking lately over the es- 

 tate of Glen Caradale, belonging to Mr Campbell, 

 of Auchinbreck, he was shown a piece of land on 

 the home farm carrying its first crop after being re- 

 claimed. It was formerly not worth a shilling an 

 acre, wet and weedy, but having been drained last 

 year, it this season carried a most excellent crop of 

 oats, a few stalks of which, pulled at random from 

 the field, measured each six feet nine inches in 

 length, and an inch and a quarter in circumference 

 above the first joint ; the produce of one seed being 

 upwards of 200 grains of well-filled, heavy corn. — 

 Scottish Guardian. 



Massuchiisetls Horticultural Society. 



Saturdmj, June 22d, 1839. 



F. XHIUITION or FLOWERS. 



The display of Roses and Pinks was very splendid. 

 The report <if the Committee to award ihe prizes ia 

 lierewilh Bubmillcd. The specimen of hardy Roses by 

 Augustus Aspinwall, Esq. were of the first order; had 

 Mr Aspinwall selected specimens from his collection, 

 and conteniled for all tlie prizes, there would not have 

 been any successful conipeliior. 'i'lie China Roses by 

 Mr Samuel R. Johnson e.\ceeded in beauty and size 

 any former specimens exhibiied at our rooms. Other 

 specimens of Roses were presentod by Messrs Rufiis 

 Howe, John Hovey and S. Walker. 



Pinks, by Messrs Wm Meller, Johnson and Walker. 



Bouquets, by Messrs John Hovey, C. M. Hovey, 

 Winship, Kenrick, Howe, Meller and Walker. 



The specimens from the garden of the Hon. John 

 Lowell, came to hand in fine order and were much ad- 

 mired, viz. Clematis Sebbeldii, Hibiscus, Jalropha 

 pandurcEfulia, Arum d:scolor. Cactus speciosissimus, C. 

 Jenkinsonii,C. splendidum epiphyllum. 



.Vative Plants, by E. Weston Jr. Esq. and F. Parker ; 

 Liriodendron tiilipifera, Ligustrum vulgare, Viburnum 

 dentatum, Cucubalus Beben, Rosa rubignosa, K. mi- 

 ciantha, Cislus Canadensis, Apargia autumnalis. Azalea 

 viscosa, Solanum dulcamara, Kalmia latifolia, Antirrhi- 

 num Canadensc, Cynoglossum officinale, Achillea mil- 

 leiolium. Erysimum officinale, Potentilla Norvegica, 

 Prunella. 



J\'atiw Plants, by William Oakes, Esq. : Hudsonia 

 tomentosa, Arenaria Peploides, Glaux mariliiua, Lathy- 

 rus maritimus, Oxalis violacca, ditto cultivated. Iris 

 versicolor and Virginica, Ranu,ueu!u3 sceleratus, 

 Splachnum arnpullaceum, Orobanclie uniflora. 



There were also some fine specimens of Native 

 Plants by Thomas Lee, Esq and C. Hovey of Lowell. 

 For the Committee. 



S. WALKER, Chairman. 



We, tlie undersigned, award the premiums offered by 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, as follows : 



Roses The premium of $10 for the best display of 



flowers to .Augustus Aspinwall, Esq. 



The premium of $5 for the best iwentyfour hardy 

 varieties, to S. R. Johnson. 



The premium of .$3 for the best twelve hardy varie- 

 ties, to Rufus Howe. 



, The premium of $5 for the best twelve Chinese and 

 ilher tender varieties, to S. R. Johnson. 



Pinks. — The premium of $5 for the best display to 

 (Samuel Walker. 



The premium for the best ten varieties of $3 to 

 Samuel Walker. 



The premium of $3 for the best seedling to]William 

 Meller. JOSEPH BRECK. 



J. E. TESCHEM.ACHER. 



Boston, .June 22d, 1839. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUIT. 



Strawberries.— Very fine specimens were present- 

 ed by Messrs Hovey ol CambriHgeport and James L. L. 

 F. Warren, Esq. of Brighton. The seedlings of Messrs 

 Hovey, marked No 1 and 2 were very large, high 

 colored and beautiful to the eye. We sbidf speak of 

 their flavor when we have a chance to taste them. Mr 

 Warren t.lso presented some very superior specimens of 

 Warren's Seedling, Melhven Castle, and the ' Monthly." 

 For the Committee 



S. WALKER. . 



