roi.. axii.no. 19. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



147 



ItnO GRAPC AND NORTON'S SREDLING. 



In tlie hisl number of llie Western Fnrmor nnil 

 irdciier, itioro is an account nf tlie first fnll exlii- 

 tion of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 

 hich tool; place in that city on the 20tli and 'ilst 



Sepler.iberlast. We infer from the variety of 

 uits and flowers presented, that the exhibition 

 as an interestin;? one, and very good for a bcgin- 

 nj. Anionsr the names of the coininittoes we 

 itice that of J. B Russell, Ksq., former proprietor 



the N. E. Farmer and Seed Store, who took an 



live part in the formation of our own Society, 

 any yearH since. 



From the fruit report, we extract the testimony 



the commiltee in relation to the Ohio Grape and 

 i compari.sou with Norton's Seedling', which, us 

 ere has bein some doubts expressed whether the 

 hio {rrape was distinct Irom the other variety, 

 ay be inter'jsting to some of our readers : 



" The Ohio or Cigar Box (!r.:pe. — Very fine 

 iccimens of the grape cultivated under this name, 

 ere presented by N. Longworth and J. E. Mot- 

 er, some of l!:o bunches measuring nine inches in 



nglh. As there has been some belief e.tpressed 

 y eastern cultivators, that this grape is the same 

 ! Norton's Seedling, of Virginia, the comniittee 

 lok pains to examine them together, in Mr Long- 

 orth's garden, where both were pointed out to us 

 y Mr Sleath, the gardener. The difference be- 

 veen the two was at once apparent and striking, 

 n the grape shown us as the Norton's Seedling, 

 aid by Mr Sleath to have been obtained from Mr 

 forlon himself, the wood is not so bright a red as 

 1 the Ohio, and the leaf is large and entire, where- 

 8 that in the Ohio is three lobed ; the bud is also 

 luch less prominent and not so pointed as in the 

 !)hio. The bunches of fruit in the Norton's Seed- 

 ing, were shorter and more compact, with a thick 

 lulp. In the Ohio, tho bunches were long, very 

 nuch shouldered, conical or sharp-pointed, and the 

 ruit without pnlp — sweeter, more juicy and vinous 

 n flavor, and the seeds smaller, darker colored, 

 ind less numerous than in the Norton's Seedling. 

 "The committee think the grape brought into 

 loticc herp, by N. Longworth, Esq., under the 

 lames of the Ohio or Cigar Box, a valuable and 

 listinct variety, and well worthy of cultivation. 

 Phis grape has a stronger resemblance to the Le 

 Noir ivhich was also growing near ; but its bunch- 

 es were more shouldered, more pointed, and less 

 Kompact." 



men, the best educated at Cambridge, Vale Col- 

 lege, or Brown University, were the most illy cal- 

 cul.-ited to become agriculturists, or to return to 



AIR TIGHT STOVES. 



Dr. Bates of Norridgewock, offers, in the news- 

 paper published there, some seasonable sugges- 



tlio family homestead and become other than a tions cm a particular use of this kind of Stove. 



Irone, or what in the farmers' eyes, was the same 

 thing, a student. 



These stoves are often spoken of as admira- 

 j hly adapted to sick and nursing rooms. This I 



It is gratifying however to notice, that while our [ doubt not would be the case if nurses and others 



would pay attention to the proper degree of hcnt 

 and ventilation. Such I am convinced is rarely 

 the case, and until this thing shall be better un- 

 derstood and better managed I shall not bo a con- 

 vert to their use in sick rooms. As hitherto man- 



ancient sctiools and colleges, are mainly, pursuing 

 their previous routine of ethics, dead languages, 

 moral philosophy, astronomy, chemistry, and math- 

 ematics, the farmers' ' school-master' is abroad, — 

 in the woods and fields and among the geological 



strata of the earth, and that while he holds a book i aged I am suru they have been anything but bene- 



"BOOK FARMERS." 

 The time is fast approaching, when " hook farm- 

 ers" will be the only men who practice agriculture 

 to advantage ; and by advantage we mean not 

 solely the mere benefits which they themselves re- 

 ceive, such as a comfortible home and a good liv. 

 ing, but such as flow out from their noble profes- 

 sion on all sides, and imlirectly further the progress 

 and refinement of social life. Up to a very recent 

 period, the system of agriculture in this country, 

 has been full of errors, and the pursuit itself fol- 

 lowed by ignorant and self-willed men ; and we 

 remember many a section of country even in New 

 England, where it was a common "farmer doc- 

 trine," that education and farming were natural en- 

 emies. To a certain extent, this was true, and 

 mainlv because education was so abstruse and the- 

 oretical, and not enough practical in its applica- 

 tion to the earthly purposes of humanity. And the 

 matter plainly showed itself in the fdct, that young 



in one hand, he grasps a bit of soil or a new com- 

 post in the other, and reasons upon the science of 

 farming, even while he guides the plow in the 

 furrow. The increased and still augmenting num- 

 ber of papers, magazines, and periodicals, entirely 

 devoted to that which is the essenceof agriculture, 

 leads us to suppose, that though the amelioration 

 of the farmers' condition and the added amount of 

 his practical knowledge may be slow of attainment, 

 both are in actual progress towards a result agreea- 

 ble to every American. Constant drOjis of water 

 may wear into a stone, and so the incessant efforts 

 to inculcate correct and useful agricultural pre- 

 cepts, must have an influence upon the farming 

 mass, however ignorant or headstrong its compo- 

 nent parts may be. 



We noticed not long since, a project for the es- 

 tablishment of agricultural or farming schools; and 

 the idea is one that cannot be too highly recom- 

 mended or too often dwelt upon. Situated as we 

 are — the possessors of a country which affords an 

 interminable variety of climate, soil and produc- 

 tion, and which if properly treated, must allow us 

 complete independence of other nations, it be- 

 hooves every man to take an interest either direct- 

 ly or indirectly in the furtherance of correct agri- 

 cultural doctrines. When such shall have been 

 fully expanded, we shall see our congressional halls 

 somewhat resembling the Parliament of England, 

 where the ablest debater is often the greatest breed- 

 er of fine cattle, the most capable statesman, and 

 indefatigable farmer, and the best representative of 

 the people, he who takes his seat redolent, (allego- 

 rically speaking) of the aroma of newly ploughed 

 land, or the fragrance of the barn yard. 



Such men as these we meant at the commence- 

 ment of this article when we spoke of " book far- 

 mers" — men who deem the cultivation of the earth 

 a high and noble cnrf, to attain which, one cannot 

 bring too many, or too powerful means. Agricul- 

 ture in the true sense of the term, consists no less 

 in the study of the prohhm, than in the use of the 

 pfoio, and the solution of the one, is just as useful 

 as the sowing of seed for the other. It is useless 

 to prepare your ground by farming utensils, if 

 farming knowledge dors not tell when to plant ; 

 and unless you know your kind of ground, and 

 what are its capabilities, it is useless to put seed 

 to spring from its bosom. Farmers watch the 

 weather, the moon, the clouds and the season with 

 a show of much wisdom, but if they put heana into 



ficial. I feel it a duty to call the attention of med- 

 ical friends to a subject becoming every day more 

 important. 



With a thermometer, in tight rooms, it is not 

 common to find a sick chamber in which is an 'Air 

 Tight' at less than 70^ — fre(iuently 10° higher. 



Persons in health would be sensibly debilitated 

 to be constantly in such temperature, and it is next 

 to impossible for the sick to regain their lost 

 strength in such an atmosphere night and day. 



Even to those in vigorous health, whose duties 

 call them often into the open air of our severe, but 

 changeable climate, the transition from summer 

 heat to keen blasts of winter are anything but safe. 

 The bracing effects of cold air are not realized 

 when its contrast with the temperature of our usual 

 abode is such as to benumb us, instead of promo- 

 ting a vigorous reaction. 



If comfortable warmth is not secured by a tem- 

 perature of about 60 to 0.5 — it would be belter to 

 secure it by preventing its escape from our per- 

 sons by clothing, than by raising the temperature 

 of the general atmosphere by stove heat. 



Every person who uses an Air Tight stoveshould 

 have a thermometer, and not trust the fallacy of hia 

 own feeling for regulating his rooms. Circumstan- 

 ces may occasion one person to suffer by heat in 

 the same Mom in which another is uncomfortable 

 for want of it. 



With few exceptions the best houses in our 

 State, public and private, are either badly ventila- 

 ted or not at all. Where this is to be done by 

 lowering the sash, I wish to tell your readers of 

 an unpatented window spring, cheaper and better 

 than all which I have seen bearing Undo Sam's 

 seal. It consists simply of a button in the shape 

 of a new moon, two inches long made of hard wood 

 one fourth of an inch thick, fastened to each sash 

 by a wood screw. By cutting a notch in the up- 

 per part of the frame to receive the lower end of 

 the button, tlie window is kept up ; by loosing it, 

 it foils to any other like notch. So of the lower 

 sash, by ciittin? grains or notches in the front bIi- 

 ding rod, the window may be fastened down or el- 

 evated to any desired point." 



J]pples as winter food for Sheep. — App]es, if se- 

 cured against frost, oii the approach of severe 

 weather,°and kept during the winter in some place 

 where not too much exposed to cold and moisture, 



pasture land, or potatoes where tobacco is best, may be fed, occasionally, to sheep, and especially 



they may as well look at a weasel as at the weath 

 er ; the ' fitness' is a matter essential to success- 

 ful farming, and without the study of foils, com- 

 post, chemical action, vegetable decomposition, and 

 a thousand other influences, agriculture will still 

 be, as it has been, in this country, a ' botched piece 

 of work,' not a mosaic, correct and beautiful in all 

 its proportions. — JV. O. Crescent City. 



to those with young, to excellent advantage. The 

 best mutton we ever ate, was fattened on sweet 

 apples, and the handsomest flock of sheep we ever 

 had the pleasure of beholding, were kept wholly, 

 as we were informed on apples. The regular sup- 

 ply of some sort of such succulent food, obviates 

 the possibility of iheir experiencing the slightcsl 

 inconvenience from tlie attacks of thirst. — Me. Cult. 



