INo. 9. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



141 



Fi ratlier coarse appearance and thick bran. Did iiol 

 stand tUe winter very well. 



No. V>, Bellettb Tallavfr^. From the innie 

 liource as the last three. Straw large and white, 

 paid; grain large niid line. Thi« ia the most promis- 

 ing of the four English ratictio8. It stands tkc win- 

 er well and is as early as the Flint. I beliero it will 

 )e found vBluahle. 



You will perceive that the grain in most of the 

 ■ampiesis « laile shrunk, which is owinj to the very 

 Iry and hot woither just hofore h«rv»st. SeToral of 

 he imported varieties were so much injured by the 

 rinler, that the straw was very thin, which mtde 

 [hem several days later in lipcning. I skatl continue 

 ly experiments with them till better satislied of their 

 haractcr. Yours, &c., R. HARMON, Jr. 



Wheatland, Augast26lh, 3811. 



Remarks. — Any thinj; which tends to incrcose or 

 improve our wheat crop, is of the first importance to 

 lis country. And as there can be but little doubt 

 lot improvements can be made in th« kinds of 

 7he3t, we hope some of our readers will units with 

 len. Harmon, to test the mstter by eiperiments. 

 *lie proprietors of the Seed Store have been at con- 

 derablo expense this season to import some 15 or 20 

 fthe linest varieties of wheat to be found in England; 



hich will be sold at $1 per peck — this barely pays 

 le cost and expenses. IIow many farmers wiU try 

 t«m all? — Ens. 



Cherries. 



1 Supplement to our Last Article on this Subject. 

 The Early Richmond ripens at ths same time with 

 « White Tartarian and the Elack Corone; and mjy 

 ■- used for ctUinory purposes a'fortnight sooner than 

 e Kentisii, or conmion red cherry. We value it 

 wcver, chiefly as a dessert frnit. When it becomes 

 ry ripe, it loses with its briglitnesi moet of its acid- 

 ; and in this state, it is chosen by many in prefer- 

 ce to the .weet cherries. The delicacy of its juice 

 ■ surpasses that of the comnmn red cherry. 

 How long it would retain its excellence on the tree, 

 ) not been ascertained to our knowledge. We have 

 pt it there more than six weelts after it was ripe, 

 is not inclined to rot; but its sweetness at length 

 facts many insects, including the yellow hornet. 

 le humming bird also c.imes in for a share; and we 

 /e seen it insert it^ little bill both when it was on 

 I wing, and when it was sitting on the branch. 

 The Early Richmond is but a shrub, and may be 

 ined very low; and if its fruit was protected by 

 iw, like the currant, it would probably keep as 

 g. In our estimation it is far more desirable. 

 'VV. R. Prince says this variety was brought by his 

 let from Ricl:mond in Virginia. It is probably a 

 .ive fruit. 



The drought of ths present s:'as)n, has been very 

 orable to cherries that ore liable to rot in wet wea- 

 r; and it has given us an opportunity to observe 

 .t when the I'ruit dries up on the tree, it is general- 

 It consequence of the punctures of insects. We 

 lembcr to have seen many years ago near Philadcl- 

 a, one branch of n cherry tree well loaded, a montb 

 two ofter the usual time of ripening, and when no 

 t remained on any other part of the tree. Its ap- 

 raace was very singular. On opproaching it how- 

 r,^e found it was guarded by wasps and no living 

 ig could go nigh them with impunity. 

 ?Ue Transparent Guigne is a heart cherry; and 

 those of its class, mt generally liable to the charge 

 oumcss, though the i'ruit had a tharpnesa this sea- 

 we had not noticed before. Was it occasioned by 

 iseiva suiis'.iine t We onsider the Tronspnrent 

 Igne as one ofour m-isi delicious cherries. t 



liATJGST NE\T.«, 



From the Liccrpoot Times, 



Slate and Prospects of Trade— the Harvest iia' 

 Unglaud. 



The accounts from the mnnufncluring districts con 

 tinue to be very unfavorable, with tin; excrpiion of 

 those from the wooMon disiiicts of Yorkshire, in 

 which there is some slit^lit iniprovenient. 'I'iie state 

 of trade in Lancashire is truly deplorable, confidence 

 having been excesBively shaken by the looses and cin- 

 barn.-smcnis of the Inst two yeaif, and the dciuaiid for 

 good* being at present misciably low. Nnihing but a 

 good harvest can restore the cotton maiiufaclurcs to 

 prosperity, by increasing the power of tbe middle and 

 laboring clnese.-', who are the great consumers to pur- 

 chase clothing, and by restoring confidence generally. 

 At present, unfjitiinatoly, the prospect of tbe country, 

 eo far as the harvest is concerned, is far fnuu encour- 

 aging, for tbe weather continues very cold lor the 

 season of the ycor, ond liie great weight of rain which 

 has fallen must iiave done some mischief. It is still 

 [lossibic that the harvest may be an average one, but 

 there is no lenson to hope that it will be more than 

 that, and without a change of weather it will be much 

 less. Should there be any greal deficiency, the con- 

 sequences will be very serious indeed, for the 6up;dy 

 of bonded grain in the country nt j)resent docs not 

 amount to mere than four bundled thousand qunrleis, 

 and any fLirlli*^r supply which may have to be got 

 irom the continent ol Europe will have to be purchas- 

 ed at very high rates, as the crojia are by no means 

 promising abroad, and the foreign granaries are unus- 

 ually bsie. For the last three weeks the prit^pg both 

 «f free and bonded grain have been rising in all the 

 princ'pal markets, and wheat has already reached a 

 price much too high for the comlort of the people or 

 the prosperity of trade. Unless there should be a de- 

 cided improventent in the weather, a still further and 

 much greater lise will take place, and one which v.'ill 

 doom the merchants and inaoiifacturers to another 

 year o( gloom and embarrassment, and the poorer 

 classes (iho^c whose wages, as we arc told by Lo'-d 

 Sandon and other great political economists, rise with 

 the price of bread) to short woik and still sliyrtcr com- 

 mons for twehe months lunger. Mowc^'erwdlillg par- 

 ty poliiiciiins may be to deceive themselves and others 

 86 to tile woritingof the corn laws, another deficient har- 

 vest, if, unfoitunattly iteiiould take idfice, will open the 

 eyes even of the most obstinate. Tliere has been 

 very little change in money matters during tbe last 

 week. Money continues to be abinviant, but there is 

 a great want of confidence in investing it. We are 

 glad to see that the bullion of the Bank of England ia 

 still increasing, though slowly. It now ani.iiints to 

 £5,170,000, which is an increase of £72,000 on tlie 

 quarter. Tbe weather ot the next three weeks 

 will decide whether it shall continue to increase 

 eteodily, or again decline much more lapidly than 

 it has advanced. Both ths Eink of EiiglatuI and 

 the joint slock b.inks have increttscd their i-sues dur- 

 ing the last quarter, though they are still low in com- 

 parison with what they usually are. The rise in the 

 price of grain has alieady begun to aflt;ct the averages, 

 rnd it is b..dieve:l that some deci'ease of tlie duty will 

 lake place either this week or next. Tne average 

 prices of wheat have advanced as follows during the 

 last six weeks: — The weekending the ISih of June, 

 the average wss G'.;?. 5d. ; on the '.iSth June G3s 5J. ; 

 the 9d July, G.'^s. lid.: the 9:h, 01s. 3d.; the IGih, 

 ti4s. lid ; the a3d, 643. lid. These returns do not 

 include the sides of last week, which were at conaid 

 arably higher rales. The duty at present is 9'is. 8d. 

 and the average price of ilie si-t weeks, tj.'>s. Cd. An 

 increase ol a shilling per quarter in price diniinifhes 

 the duty one shilling per quarter, until the price 

 reaches sixty-seven shillings, when the duty declines 

 tvS'O shillings for every tliilling in the increase of 

 ptice. At the came jioint the duty on Canadian 

 wheat falls from 53. to 61. per quarter, and the duty 

 on the barrel of dour to ojd. As the arrivals of Can- 

 adian wheat oird II. mr are becoming very great, an 

 tinufually large quantity woidd bo let into the mar- 

 ket it" the average of G7-^'. should be reached. 



From the Til trL-Lam Krnrrss of Aujf. 2. 



" In the early part of the week we had two or throe 

 days ol fine weather, and hopes were beginning to be 

 entertained that the rain hrid at length left lib; on 

 Thursday, however, it again bocanie overca-'t, and 

 since then heavy shov/ers have Inllca in various parts 

 of the country. The temperature has, throughout 

 the week, been exceedingly low liir the time of yrar, 

 and tho aiisence of hotev.nshino is groatly retaidmg 

 the m.'Un- n^; o. the crops, so that it has n iw bacome 

 certsia that iha harvesfi muat inevitably be late, and 



consequently more thou usually precarious. With 

 regard to the probable yield ol Wheat, tlie reports ore 

 increasingly nnln^oiable; and unless a d.cidcd nnd 

 total change of weather takes place, it is much to bo 

 feared that that the produce will prove materially de- 

 ficient both in quantity and quoiity, nnd even under 

 the most auspicious circumstances we much doubi 

 wdiciher an average can be secured. 



'• The high voliio which Wheat has now attained 

 has induced the Farmers to tlnash out rather freely, 

 and the deliveries have been somewhaimoie libcial at 

 a lev/ of the leading markets in the agriculiurnl dis- 

 tricts; and the very high pricea asked by sellers hav- 

 ing tended to check the dcninnd, there has, on the 

 whole been rather less life in tbe irade, notwithstand- 

 ing which prices have continued to creep up. 



"Our Scotch letters inform us, that though tho 

 weather bad rather inijiroved in that coiintrv it still 

 continued cold and gloi my, and the want of that gen- 

 ial heat 60 much requ red at this season to ripen the 

 crops, had caused all species of grain to remain in an 

 unhappy state: of positive damage, however, we are 

 happy to say there ore fewer complaints than might 

 have been expected. ^ 



"Fiom Ireland we learn that a good t'cnl of uneas- 

 iness was felt there lespecting .he eScct of the lecent 

 heavy laiiis on the outstamiiig cr«|>s. Iloldcra of 

 grain hail taken the alaim, and enhanced latcs were 

 asked for both « heat and oats ot most of the leading 

 markets. 



•' Tbe last London average is 9s. 3d. per qr. high- 

 er than for the week pievioiis, being n,'d.'jO qrs. rt 7:;s. 

 3d. per qr. Th & is of course not included in Thurs- 

 day's general weekly return; and as a considerabia 

 advance has, since that was matle up. taken place at 

 many of the leading provincial towns, the next aver- 

 age lor tbe Kingdom will probably be shout 2s. per 

 qr. higher than the last, and the duty will shortly recede 

 nraterially." 



A I.etterof Inquiry on Femaie Self Education. 



Mr. Editor — The kinti regard which you have manifested 

 for tile iiilerests of lIic female rcailera of jour paper, inritices 

 nie to hopetliat you will partinii the liherty I take in asking 

 for the use of a small space in its eoUiinus. Cniiscious of my 

 youth anil ignornnite, I do not seek to give, hut to obt.iin in- 

 struiilion : Hinl if sonic one who possesse; the iiifonnatinn I 

 desire, will give it through the nie.llum of the Farmer, I 

 think it iii.iy prove of great Iieiietit to others I.esides myself. 

 i\Iy fatiier is a farmer in inoderaLe cireumstanecs. and liko 

 ni.iny oihers in our l.ind is uiiitlile to atl'jrd his children any 

 belter means of education than cau he found .it acomiiion dis- 

 trict scliool. That 1 have atteii led as long as appears licno- 

 (ici.-vt, ni:d now, wishing to make Ilisjhcr attainments, I am 

 de'-crmined to com.'nencc a course of private study or self in- 

 structioil. I do not in this way e.vpcct to olitalil a perfecr, 

 much less A fashionable eJucatioa ; hu". i hope to become fa- 

 miliar with il'c most li;i]i(irtaat and useful branches of know 

 ledje. so as to be able to iiislrnctthe younger members of 

 th.". I'limil.v, and render luy life a greater blessing to myself 

 and to those around me. My situ:.tioa at present allows me 

 from four to live hours leisure each day, and I hr.vo tho 

 means of obtaining a liinitcvl supply of books; hull find 

 myself nt a loss todecide how to proceed. 1 write therefore 

 to entreat some person who is qualified for the task, to ad- 

 vise me on tills siiliiect. I wish (i.trticularly to be informed 

 as to the rotative v.llue or importance of tbe liilTcrcnt 

 branches of study ; tile best order to observe in relation to 

 the time of coaimeiicing.and the manner of prosecuting them ( 

 the mosi suitable books, &c , &.^ : reference being had I o 

 my s tuaiion and circumstaacea. 



A full and explicit .answer to this, will very much oblig 

 Voiir sincere fiieu.f, ilKljEN. 



Our fallty, Juhj l?il. 



1Ee.m.\rK3— It gives us sincere pleasure topuldish the fore- 

 going letter of our fair friend; and we hope some lady of 

 CTperisnce and educalon will assist li.^r in her praiseworthy 

 eir.i/ts. Wcsee no reason why fyrtiiers' .laughters, even in 

 moderate circunistaiii-cs. ni.iy not elevate themselves to an 

 intellcctuiil standard far above many of those who boast so 

 perior advantages We trust Helen will pardon us for 

 making some alterations in her cmninunication. — Eds. 



Isiqniries about Ashes. 



I\Ir.ssai». RoiToas — I wish to ask titc following quCBtioirt 

 resiiecting the use of wool hsh-'^s as manure: 



Ist. What quantity of ashas is it proper to upply to an 

 acre of grass land ? 

 *3.1. Wii.tt kind of soil is ashes .jf tlie most benefit upon 

 ^^ I What llmo io 'Ho year is tho best time to apply r.ahc a 

 4 h. M'ill ashes he ai bo.1(^dol t^pon land tlml has W.Sn 

 pl.-.£tere>(, .-.s oliia-wlse ' AtBlt'Ol-.^. 



