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AND GAUDEN]':il'S JOURxNAL. 



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well suited lor ibc growth of the [lench tree, yel by 

 tho next autumn, ninny of ilieni wvie tleii<l, nnd tlie 

 ta'ani;e so sickly tUotl hoJ litem nil ilug up, nnd there 

 waa no sign of the worm nl their roots. From thin, 

 and other siinilnr exjieriincuti!, I think the diseuso inoy 

 bo generoled by planting in or ucnr whero n nursery 

 or orchard of peach ttees l^ae been, or where the lat- 

 ter is ; consoiiuently, where n neighborhood nbounila 

 with peach trees, there is danger of its becoming o\'er- 

 epread with disease, without ^reatei care than is usu- 

 ally tn';en to prevent it. 



I think I have seen evidences of it^ being in some 

 decree contagious. Richard Cromwell, the respccta- 

 ble'nnd worthy peach raiser, near UuUiniore, has (or 

 upwards of thirty years supplied that city with pe'iohes 

 of the best quality, on a largo scale. Some tin-.e since, 

 when I 'vas walking with Mr. Cromwell Vurougb bis 

 peach orchard, when the trees were 'annging full of 

 ripe fruit, he pointed out a tree he said had the yel- 

 lows, having a full crop upon it, at that time worth 

 one dollar per peck, nnd to ir,e it appeared healthy ; 

 but he observed to me, " na soon as 1 take the fruit 

 from the tree, 1 shall dig it up, in order to prevent the 

 disease spreading any iarther, for I expect the side of 

 the adjoining trees next to it will be aflTeetcd nc.\t 

 season." I had occasion to pass through Mr. Crom- 

 well' ■> orchavd the ne.xt fruiting time, nnd the sickly 

 tree had been dug up, but, as had been predicted, 

 parts oi' llio four neighboring trees were evidently 

 much aifected, but only the sides ne.tt to the diseased 

 tree, which made it the more striking, and convinc- 

 ing of the contagion, if this is a proper term. 



On another occasion, I had a favorite early pnrple 

 poach, before I luid a nursery, that I suspected was 

 partially allectcd by the yellows, and being desirous of 

 preserving the variety, I cut the healthiest branch 1 

 conid get, nnd I had twelve buds inserted in healthy 

 peach stocks, but when they had grown about three 

 feet, t'jey showed the disease so plainly that in order to 

 prevent it from eprending, 1 pulled up all the trees, 

 and hid them burnt. 



From these cases, it sjenis to me the disease may 

 be scneraied by planting old peach orchards or nurse- 

 rieatoo Boou after the removal of the old trees, and 

 also by planting too near thosts already nftected with 

 the disease ; and if cuttings or scions are taken from 

 diseased trees, their product wdl be aiso diseased. I 

 also think the yellows may beeommuniented to young 

 trees by planting seeds taken from diseased peach 

 trees. Respectfully your friend. 



ROBERT SINCLAIR. 



Clairmonl Nursery, March 18, 1811. 



iJctany. 



In the whole famiiily of sciences there ia not one 

 more instructive aud pleasing than Botany. It cult" 

 vates and purifies the better feelings of our nature, by 

 directing our minds to the goodness of God, as dis 

 played in a very e.xtensive portion of His works. And 

 while it felines the taste and captivates the fancy, it 

 enlightens the understanding and strengthens the judg- 

 ment. 



Cold and unthankful indeed must that man be, who 

 feels in warm emotion while he beholds the bounties 

 and smiles of an Omnipotent Creator. How then 

 can that science fail to be interesting which treat of so 

 impin":ant an operation in nature, as the process of 

 vegetation, and which classifies pbiuts and explains 

 their properties. Whether we survey nature in the 

 wild luxuriance of tho forest, or m the most delicate 

 beauties of the garden, without some knov/iedge of 

 this science, all is equally irregularity and cnulusion. 

 We may admire the wilderness of the one, or be pleas- 

 ed with the variety of the other, but we cannot feel 

 that interest which even a partial acijuaintanec with 

 this science will impart. All then is order, beauty 

 and harmony. We see the sturdy oak of ages, and 

 appropriate to it its legitimate place in the vegetable 

 kingdom; we scrutinize the polished petals of the 

 flowers and glow with admiration aiul delight. We 

 no longer walk in the woods, or the fields, or amuse 

 ourselves in the gnid:m without discovering new beau- 

 ties in every shrub, nnd plant, and flower, which 

 comes under our notice. Tiic vegetable world at 

 once bocomcB nnimato. Wo rc^d new lessons of wis- 

 dom and goodness in every l)iMj3 of grass, and find 

 that there is not a leaf nor a fibre, which does not per- 

 forin its proper office in the production of the [plant. 



The science of Batnny has idrendy secured itself a 

 place in r.Imost all schools of the higher order, and on- 

 ly needs an introduction to be generally rceived and 

 studied, in our schools of even the humblest chiracter. 

 .It has nothing abstruse in it, but is entirely within the 

 capacity ot every grade of intellect, and may be acqui- 

 red even by children. True tboy may not become 



thoroughly versed in it, nor arc they capable of ful- 

 ly understanding many other branches of knowdedge 

 which ihey study. It is a matter worthy of investiga- 

 tion and trial whether tho introduction of as plemmg 

 r, ftudy as that of flowers, for which all eliildien have 

 a great fondness, would not have n happy influuncc on 

 r schools. It would be connecting pleasure with 

 provemeut, and would have a tendency to create a 

 taste tor study which should not be the least object ol 

 chools, 



!t would be an instructive nmuaemcut too for youth 

 of botli se.xcs to study this science even after leaving 

 bool. Youth is a period in which amusement will 

 have a place in the distriouiiou of time. This is as it 

 should l)e, but that course cannot be an unwise one, 

 which makes that amutonicut a source of instruction. 

 The study of which we speak, is one where the path 

 of science is literally strewed with flowers. How 

 nnuy an hour which we spendin idle lounging, might 

 ic oci.upicd in some pursuit, which while it recreated, 

 'vould improve us. And nt this season of the year 

 nothing could be better suited to such a purpose than 

 the study of Botany. — Western Star. I'HILO. 



the mind and lend it on from discovery to discovcrj — ■ 

 tiiim invention to imeniion, as tho cultivation of tha 

 soil and the pursuit of tlio ditlcrent branches ol uio- 

 i-hnaical science. Tho mind has always a fund of 

 Ireuh mati.ials to r.\.ik upon, crpablc, by a thousand 

 ebiiugos and conibinntiims, ol bi i • r improved without 

 limit, yet without ever reaching abs(duto perfection. 

 Tho chemit-nl properties of soils — their adaptation io 

 particular crops — ihc cultivation of tho fruila of tho 

 earth, and the rearing of the useful animals, nflord o 

 never eliding series of instructive lesson;'. And tho 

 mechanic arts, Uow noble — how uscriil — how well cal- 

 eidatcd to cihiof the inquiring mind in the pursuit of 

 those i.nprovciiiente which, while they develop its 

 own powers, enlarge the sphere of human hniipinees, 

 nnd strengihcn the dominion of tho intellectual over 

 the material world." 



Farmers and Mechanics. 



We heartily concur with the Louisville Journal in 

 the following remarks. The Nno York Mechanic is 

 one of the cheapest and most interesting of our ex- 

 change papers. It is published weekly at the low 

 price of .f 1,50 per year. All mechanics and most 

 ftirmers, will find it wou|i many times tho price of 

 subscription. 



"Among the many valuable p,ipora which we re- 

 ceive, there are few possessing moro substantial merit 

 than the ' New York Mechanic' It is a weekly pa- 

 per published in the city Cu' New York, by RutV.e 

 Porter & Co., and, ss its title indicates, is devijted to 

 tl'.e difl'usion of information on subjects connected 

 with the arts and sciences — notices of Vue progress of 

 mechanical and other improvemejVis, discoveries nnd 

 inventions, scientific essays, phikjaopiiical experiments 

 nnd general miscellany. EaeJu number contains plates 

 illustrative of some new ',nventionor improvement in 

 machinery, with accu'.nte and copious explanations, 

 calculated to keep t'je mind of tho reader wcU inform- 

 ed of the progrePjfl of the useful arts. 



"The success of a paper of this kind is a cheering 

 evidence oi the increasing interest of the reading com- 

 munity in whatever tends to develop the genius and 

 unfold the resources of our people, as well as of the 

 growing intelligence nnd enterprise of the mecbnMics 

 of the country. In times past, no class of society has 

 been so poorly represented in the world of letters, as 

 the mechanics and farmers. Literary periodicals are 

 every where to be found — political papers have multi- 

 plied until their name is legion — even uiilil every po 

 litical party and fragment of a party has its horde of 

 stipemiiaries, performing its behests with a blind and 

 heedless devotion — theology has its champions — law 

 its advocates — medicine and surgery their defenders, 

 and even phrenology, animal in. gnetism and Gra- 

 ham's system ot sublimating the niiud on bran bread 

 and Taunton water, have secured the aid of the press, 

 which, with its thousand limes multiplied voices, has 

 heralded the merits of each all over the land, and com- 

 pelled the public eye and ear to entertain its claims to 

 attc-ntion. 



"But the interests of agricuUuro and the mechanic 

 arts, and the beautiful and glorious sciences in the 

 midst of which they spring into life and usefulness, 

 have scarcely been deemed worthy n place in the ar- 

 chives of the age. It has been deemed' enough for the 

 farmer to plough sow and reap, ns his father did before 

 him; nnd for the mechanic to learn his trade and pur- 

 sue it in the beaten and unimproved track that his 

 master trod — as though labor were the only means on 

 which to rely for success and experience — interchange 

 of opinions—diffusion oi knowledge— intellectual cul- 

 tivation and generous emulation, out of place or, noi 

 worth the pursuit. 



" Of late hov<ever, those classes on whom the pros- 

 perity, wcalih, and glory of our country so much de- 

 pend, have assumed a more commanding position. A 

 newspaper devoted to the interests of the mechanic 

 and the cultivator of the soil, and conducted with taste, 

 tibil'ty and effect, is now no strange thing. We see 

 no surer mark of the progress of society than the e'e- 

 va'.ion of the laborer to bis proper dignity, wherein his 

 moral power is brought into action ns well as his phy- 

 sical strength. 



" Of all the varied employments of men, there arc 

 none so well calculated to] unfold the_J powers of 



How to Eradicate the ISramble. 



I observe that a cm respondent in your last number 

 inquires how the bl.-.ckberry bush may be destroyed. 

 As I have encountered nnd eradicated some forinida- 

 blo patches, which exis'.ed on the lands which X have 

 at dilierent times added to my farm, 1 think I may 

 ventur.T to recommend to yout correspondent an in- 

 fallible prescription. Some time in the winter or 

 spring cut them close to the ground, and repeat the 

 operation the Inst of July. A few will appear ihe se- 

 cond year, be sure to cut them also the Inst ol May, 

 and the last of July. This specific is based upon the 

 scientific principle, thai no tree, shrub or jdant, can 

 long maintain the life of the root without the aid of tha 

 top. The leaves, &c. are as indispensable to tha 

 long life of n. vegetable, as lungs are to an animnl.;i 



Tiie same plan will destroy the iron vvecd or devil- 

 bit, whioa so much infests the blue gross pastures of 

 Kentucky, nnd whi.-h some farmers have vainly en- 

 deavored to eiadicale by cutting once a year tor thirty 

 yea's in succession. Such nests are not to be exter- 

 minated by cutting in the bluosom or m the 7uoon, but 

 bv the dint of scratched linnda and sw-eatcd laces.— 

 You may have remarked the treedom of my Inrm Ircm 

 them though a. soattered one here and thei e shows the 

 propensity of the soil to jiroduce them, and that my 

 predceessore were hulusCnoris enough 'ora^se their 

 non blackberrks^-Wes^^ 



flOEisiiiuptiOM of Meat. 



There we iew things in the habits of Amencws, 

 vvbif h sli"c the foreigtt observer with more force, 

 Thmithe e^rava^."nt consumption of food-nnd mor_e' 

 especinlly'ijf meat. Truly we are a carnivorous p--./- 

 ple. Wii'ilall our outcry about hard times, the qui>"-_ 

 tily of provisions euus-.iined in America woiiU'sn,,. 

 port, in healthj treble our population I'.T Europe. Ihe' 

 vast consumptjcivof me«« is not only wasteful, but in- 

 jurious to heoltll> and to activity, c4' be^'y and raind. 

 The body if mcdeof iron, would 03 unnble'io pcrforhi 

 all the functions impoer d upon ii at one timo^itpeci- 

 ally is it, we should suppose, without pretending to 

 any science on the subject, deleterious to eat iiea- 

 suppers — or to ent a heavy meal immediately prP!ce-. 

 ding any action of body and mind. How well tais fa 

 proved by the experi.:v,,_e of the turf. Suppose a race 

 to be made for a heavy sum, half forfeit, and on going 

 into the stable, the trainer finds that nlthough he ia 

 sure that his nag is the betler horse, the gfeom has 

 been bribed to give him a gallon of oats and water at 

 plcnsure, would he not ci o.'ice willidraw, and pay for- 

 feit sooner than encounter the un eiiair.tv of paying 

 the full amount ? May it not beitverred that one half 

 of tho provisions consumed in this country might be 

 saved wilh certainty of avoiding the numerous disea- 

 ses that arise from plethora, impaired digesiion, and 

 disordered blood l Let the heads of any family ex 

 amine, and they will find that a substitution of bread 

 and vegetables nnd milk for three-fourths of the meat 

 consumed, would be attended with economy and bet- 

 ter health. — American Farmer. 



Recipe for niakii2^ French Honey. 



Take si.x eggs, leaving out two whites, one pound of 

 loaf sugar, n quarter of pound of butter, the juice of 

 four lemonSj and the rind of two grnted ; the sugar to 

 be broken into smnll pieces, and the whole stewed over 

 n slov/ fire until it becomes of the consistency of honey. 

 It is very nice. A Subscriber. 



Moutgomcry CO., Pa., May, 1841. 



Inc^uiry. 



A person renders me bcryices, and I write a letter 

 of thnnka, acknowledging ^he obligation. Who 

 ought to pay the postage ? Q. 





