OL. XXII. NO. la. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



93 



hcs below tlie surface. No. 10 came up in 

 1-2 days, but the tcmler leaf remained only (i 

 fs green, and then withered. There is no c.x- 

 ■imi'nt which shows more clearly the advantage 

 a shallow planting in a soil not too loose, and 

 dden down, than this. The more shallow the 

 rd was covered with earth, the more rapidly the 

 onl made its appearance, and the stronger after- 

 rd-i was the stalk. The deeper the seed lay, 

 lon^i'r it remained before it came to the siir- 

 le. Four inches was too deep for the maize, 

 I must therefore he for yet smaller grain kernels. 

 Pelri gives an experiment made on rye, with the 

 owing re.-nilts. The first column shows the 

 )th ul which the seed was put; the second, the 

 mhcr of days that elapsed before it appeared 

 ive ground ; the third, the number of plants that 

 ino up : — 



Jippeared. JVo jilunls. 



11 days. 7-8 



12 ' all 



13 • 7-8 



20 ' C-8 



21 ' 4-8 



22 ' 3-8 



23 ' 1-8 

 The root-stalk forms itself always next below 

 I surface of the ground, and if we place the 

 lin deep, it must Hrst put out its sprouts to the 

 ■face, atid form its side-branches in a nearer 

 .inexion with the air. We never find that the 

 :ker-roots are ranged from below to above, but 

 ( contrary. 



From the experiments of Ugazy, who tried sev- 

 tysix with different grains, it is clear that shal- 

 V sowing, if the seed is only so far covered as 

 sprout, and the germ is protected from immedi- 

 3 contact with the air, is preferable to laying the 

 ed deep, because it springs up quicker, and ac- 

 ires a stronger growth, and has hardier plants." 

 ■Ibid. 



Depth. 

 1-2 inch. 

 II 

 3 inches, 



3 ' 



4 ' 



5 ' 

 G ' 



and as stealing fruit is the most com.mon of all lar- 

 cenies, that its enormities should he particularly 

 pointed out. We might then hope in a very few 

 years, that the fruit in an orchard or a garden, 

 would be as safe as the clevis on a jilow in the 

 field, or an aXe in the door-yard. 



Let public opinion render this vice as disgrace- 

 ful as the robbing of hen-roosts — as it uiighl be 

 by proper lectures in conmion schools — and one 

 branch of iniquity would be lopped." 



FRUIT STEALING. 

 [The following is from an old number of the 

 enesee Farmer, but is as good now as when " bran 

 ;w." The young should be early impressed with 

 is truth — that stealing fruit is as much a crime 

 I defrjuding the printer.] 



" An esteemed friend presented me with Noah 

 Webster's Elementary Spelling Book, for examina- 

 on ; and among the great number of useful re- 

 arUs which this indefatigable author has selected 

 r prepared for the instruction of children, I was 

 articularly pleased to find the following : 



' H is no more right to steal apples or water mel- 

 13 from another's garden or orchard, than it is to 

 'tal money from his desk. Besides, it is the mean- 

 tt of alt low tricks to creep into a r.an's enclosure 

 > take his property.' 



For this service, if I lived near Noah Webster, 

 would treat him to the earliest and best fruit of 

 by garden. 



Much as I am pleased with the course taken by 

 ur Legislature for suppressing the plundering of 

 ardens and orchards, and much as might be done 

 y editors and periodicals papers, I am satisfied 

 lattn eradicate the evil, the axe ought to be laid 

 J the root — that is, it ought to be imperatively en- 

 jriined on all school teachers who derive any part 

 If their pay from the funds of the State, to lecture 

 heir scholars on the leading principles of morality ; 



THE CRANBRRllY. 



There are four species of cranberry enumerated 

 in the Harlus Britannicus, the most important of 

 which are the long-fruited cranhprry, {Oxymccus 

 tnacrocarpvs,} and the red-fruited cranberry, (Oiy- 

 coccus erytkrocarpiis.) both indigenous to the Uni- 

 ted States. They are the produce of swampy 

 lands only ; but the idea that they will not bear 

 transplanting i.s erroneous, for they have been 

 transplanted from this country to Englanil. 



IMr H. Hall, of Barnstable, Mass., has been en- 

 gaged for twenty years or more in the cultivation 

 of this fruit, and his grounds have averaged for the 

 last ten years, seventy bushels per acre, and some 

 seasons he has had one hundred bushels. Mr F. 

 A. Ilayden, of Lincoln, Mass., gathered from his 

 farm four hundred bushels of cranberries, which he 

 sold in Boston for si.\ hundred dollars. 



It is well known that cranberries are capable of 

 being transplanted to Europe, without suffering 

 by the voyage. American cranberries are frequent- 

 ly sold in London at eight dollars a bushel, as 

 fresh as when first gathered from the marshes. 

 This iiifn-mation may be worth the attention of 

 those who have marshy or brook land, as a matter 

 of profit. 



Cranberries may be raised from seeds or oiTsct 

 root suckers, creeping roots and trailing rooting 

 stalks. Those also growing with several rooted 

 stalks and branches, may be divided in the root 

 and top into separate plants, in which way they 

 succeed very well. The seeds should be sown, 

 where that method is pursued, in autumn, as soon 

 as ihey are ripe, in a shady place, or where the 

 plants are to grow and remain; and when the 

 young plants are up, they should be kept clean, 

 and be removed with earth about their roots, as 

 there may be occasion. The oflscts and root- 

 plants may be set out in the same season, in a soil 

 resembling that in which they naturally grow. — 

 The J\J'aturalist. 



Pho.iphale of Lime. — It has been computed that 

 every person who consumes ] lb. of wheat bread 

 daily, will, in tlie course of one year, take inlo his 

 system 3 1-2 lbs. nearly of phos|)hate of lime. 

 " This circumstance (says the Albany Cultivator,) 

 Is supposed to explain the reastm why wheat bread 

 is so superior to that made of other k.nds of grain, 

 as phosphalo of lime forms a principal element of 

 hunian bodies. It is found in milk, where nature 

 seems to indicate that it is contained for the nour- 

 ishment of the young animal, from the remarkable 

 fact that, when they arc able to take other food, 

 the milk loses its proportion of this substance. Al- 

 though phosphate of lime is contained in conside- 

 rable quantities in the adult secretions, it is not 

 known in those of the young, being all taken up 

 for the purposes of nutriment. The shells of eggs 

 arc formed of this substance, and Dr. Paris has as. 

 ccrtained the singular fact, that if the leijs of alien 

 be broken, she will lay her eggs without shells 

 until these are repaired, for which the lime is re- 

 quired. Hens will also lay their eggs without 

 shells if there is a deficiency of lime in the yard in 

 which they roam. It is a remarkeble circumstance, 

 that although the grain contains the phosphate, the 

 straw contains the carbonate of lime. Carbon is, 

 next to water, the principal support of vegetation." 

 — Farmers' Encydop. 



Yankee Ice and Clocks in England. — A recent 

 letter from London says : 



" I see in the shops here, placards and signs for 

 the sale of • Aeierican Crystalized Ice.' I under- 

 stand our ice brings a very high price, from its 

 solidity and bright appearance — the English ice 

 being light, porous, and of dingy appearance. 



Another article of American product I found 

 here, was Yankee clocks, which I mention for the 

 benefit of the Nova Siotia judge (author of 'Sam 

 Slick.') A friend in the country wished me to see 

 an English cottage, and took me to one of modern 

 structure. Here was a ' musical clock,' which was 

 highly prized. To gratify me, it was set to play 

 its music, on hearing which, I thought the sound 

 was not unfamiliar, and then the clock itself looked 

 as if I had seen it or its fellow, and on examining 

 the inside of the case, I found the agents' card — 

 'Sperry&Co., Bowery, New York' — a genuine 

 Ccmnecticut wooden clock, and the 'musical' part 

 was merely the ordinary striking part, which is 

 liirnished, you know, with a spiral steel wire, in 

 place of a bell. I have not seen any wooden nut- 

 megs." 



Cttriovs Fact Respecting Bees. — When two or 

 three distinct hives are united in autumn, they are 

 found to consume together scarcely more honey 

 during the winter, than each of them would have 

 consumed if left separate. In proof of this remark- 

 able fact, the author states a variety of experi- 

 ments made by him, all which led ujiiformly to the 

 same conclusion. And indeed he shows positive- 

 ly, by re'erence to upwards of thirty hives, six of 

 which had their population thus doubled, that the 

 double ones do not consume more provisions dur- 

 ing winter than a single hive does ; and that so far 

 from the bees suffering from this, the doubled hives 

 generally send forth the earliest and best swarms. 

 — ^rc. of Sci. 



All wish to bo more happy than they can he, yet 

 moHt might easily be far more happy than they 

 really are. 



Content with May. — We notice the recent mar- 

 riage in Winthrop, Maine, of Mr May to Miss Con- 

 tent W. Ila.nes. This is the lady who, a year 

 since, obtained the first premium of the Agricultu- 

 ral Society, for the best crop of wheat. We hope 

 she will be content in the arms of May, and rear a 

 fine crop of beautiful May flowers. — Bost. BulUlin. 



It is often said that wealth is power, and that' 

 knowledge is power; but there is an apothem that 

 I would place high above them all, and that is, 

 (/•ii(/j is power. Weallli cannot purchase, talent 

 refute, knowledge overreach, or authority silence 

 her; they all, like Felix, tremble at her presence. 

 — Bronnson. 



Herbs, to preserve their virtues, should be dried 

 in the shade. 



