1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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principally, of rock maple, but sometimes of beech 

 or yellow biixh. The log is sawed off of the right 

 length, and again longitudinally. It is then put 

 into the lathe, and the outside of the log taken 

 off, leaving the outside of the first bowl that is to 

 be made from the log, completely formed. The 

 chisel used is a little longer than the depth of the 

 bowl, and shaped just like the curve of the bowl 

 which it forms. There were six bowls made from 

 the half log which I saw turned out, and the work 

 was done in thirty minutes. The bowls M'ere beau- 

 tifully formed, and left very smooth. The largest 

 was twenty-six inches across the top, and the 

 smallest about ten. I had often wondered how this 

 work could be done, but on seeing it found the 

 process simple, and very ingenious. I have seen 

 and heard many interesting things in my jaunt, 

 some of which may be alluded to hereafter. 



Very truly yours, Simon Brown. 



Messrs. NouESE, Eaton & Tolmajj, Boston. 



TIME. 



Many are the matches which I have had against 

 time in my time and in his time {i. e., in time's 

 time.) And all such matches, writing or riding. 

 are memorably unfair. Time, the meagre shadow, 

 carries no weight at all, so what parity can there 

 be in any contest with him ? What does he know 

 of anxiety, or liver complaint, or income tax, or 

 of the vexations connected with the correcting of 

 proofs for the press ? xMthough, by the way, he 

 does take upon himself, with his villanous scrawl, 

 to correct all the fair proofs of nature. He sows 

 canker into the heart of rosebuds, and writes 

 wrinkles (which are his odious attempts at pot- 

 hooks) in the loveliest of female faces. No type 

 so fair, but he fancies, in his miserable conceit, 

 that he can improve it ; no stereotype so fixed, 

 but he will alter it ; and having spoiled one after 

 another, he still pei-sists in believing himself the 

 universal amender and the ally of progress. Ah ! 

 that one might, if it were but for one day in a 

 century, be indulged with the sight of Time forced 

 into a personal incarnation, so as to be capable of 

 a personal insult — a cudgelling, for instance, or a 

 ducking in a horse pond. Or, again, that once in 

 a century, were it but for a single summer's day, 

 his corrected proofs might be liable to superses- 

 sion by revises, such as I would furnish, down the 

 margin of which should run one perpetual iteration 

 of stet, stct ; everything that the hoary scoundrel 

 had deleted, rosebuds or female bloom, beauty or 

 power, grandeur or grace, being solemnly reinstat- 

 ed, and having the privilege of one day's secular 

 resurrection, like the Arabian phoenix, or any oth- 

 er memento of power in things earthly, and in 

 sublunary births, to mock and to defy the power 

 of this crowned thief, whose insatiate scythe mows 

 down every thing earthly. — Thomas Be Quincy. 



Stamping Fruit. — A German journal publish- 

 es the following : At Vienna, for some time past, 

 fruit dealers have sold peaches, pears, apples, ap- 

 ricots, &c., ornamented Avith armorial bearings, 

 designs, initials and names. The impressions of 



these things are effected in a very simple manner. 

 A fine fruit is selected at the moment it is begin- 

 ning to ripen — that is, to take a red color — and 

 paper, in which the designs are neatly cut out, is 

 affixed. After a while, the envelope is removed, 

 and the part of the fruit which has been covered, 

 is brilliantly white. By this invention the produ- 

 cers of it may realize large sums. 



Fvr the New England Farmer, 

 NOTES FROM THE MOWOMACK. 

 BY SAGGAIIEW. 

 A WALK THROUGH MT GARDEN. — (Continued.) 



In my last "Notes" a brief description was given 

 of the cold grapery. I may add here, that the 

 fruit continues to look Avell, and that bunches on 

 the "ringed" spurs have already (Aug. 5) com- 

 menced to "color." 



The general plan of the garden is, in brief, the 

 following : There is a row of vines next to the 

 fence, on all sides, then comes a walk, and inside 

 of the walk the ground is filled with fruit trees, at 

 equal distances of eight feet apart. In each cor- 

 ner of the garden is a standard apple tree. In the 

 outside row of trees, standards and dwarfs alter- 

 nate, the central rows being almost wliolly dwarfs. 

 Between the trees, each way, are planted currants 

 — a single bush in each space — and in the centre 

 of each square thus formed is planted a vine. 

 These currants and vines will be removed when- 

 ever the trees need the whole ground. Thus much 

 for the general plan, and now a few notes on the 

 Out-Door Grapes. Of the 520 feet of fence en- 

 closing the garden 350 feet is lined with a wire 

 trellis. This trellis is made by stretching six 

 strandsofNo.il annealed Avire along the inner 

 sides of the fence posts, at one foot apart, making 

 the trellis six feet in height. The wires are fast- 

 tened to each post by a wire staple, (No. 8 wire,) 

 and were drawn sufficiently taut by a simple 

 clamp, or pair of wooden tongs, made of two 

 strips of fence pickets, between which the wire 

 was elapsed. The cost of the wire was seven cents 

 per pound, and the amount used was 90 pounds, 

 making a total cost of $6,30 for 340 running feet 

 of trellis. The labor of putting it up was about 

 one day each for two men. Another trellis is 

 made by setting cedar posts, seven feet long, 

 about thirty inches into the ground, along the top 

 of which (about four feet from the ground,) is 

 nailed, flatwise, a spruce joist, of 2X3 inches, and 

 about fifteen inches from the ground is nailed a 

 strip of board about six inches wide. To these 

 are nailed vertical slats, made by sawing spruce 

 boards into strips of three-fourths inch thick. To 

 make the trellis somewhat ornamental, these slats 

 are placed "diamonding," at eight inches apart. 

 Considering its durability and neat appearance, I 

 think this the best cheap trellis for gardens I have 

 seen. 



The number of vines in the garden is about 160, 

 including fifty-two varieties. Several distinct 

 methods of training are practiced, varying accord- 

 ing to location of vines, habits, and objects in 

 view. One row of Hartford Prolifics are planted 

 six feet apart, and trained upon the "long rod re- 

 newal" method ; a row of Concords are but two 

 feet apart, and trained upon the "single cane dwarf 

 renewal" method recommended by Bright, in his 



