•J«t.: 



NEW- YORK FARMER AND 



ish in proportion as the .soil becomes rich, either na- 

 turally or by the application of dung. 



4. That plaster can never become a substitute for 

 Jung, but may be rendered a valuable auxiliary — be- 

 nifitting some crops directly, and all remotely, by in- 

 creasing the volume of vegetable matter, which ulti- 

 mately becomes the food of plants. 



5. That from one to two bushels per acre is a suf- 

 (icient annual dressing for lands. 



6. That upon gras9 it is most profitably sown cur- 

 ly, that the vernal raits may render it soluble; and 

 upon tilled crops before the last ploughing, that the 

 moisture in the soil may perform this office in season, 

 in both cases, to benefit the summer's growth. 



And, finally, That its use can be best regulated by 

 the farmer himself carefully noting its effects upon 

 different crops, •oils, &c. always leaving a strip un- 

 plastered upon crops which it is supposed to benefit, 

 and plastering a strip upon those on which its bene- 

 fits are doubtful. 



Very respectfully, 



Albany Nursery, JS'vv. 24. 



J. Bt EL. 



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ART. 181. — A Sketch, of the different hinds of 

 Gardens in the United Stales, pa rticalariij those 

 oj the Middle and Eastern Slates. By William 

 Wilson, Nurseryman. Continued from page232. 



several years, been enabled to continue u regulai 

 succession of its flowers during that period. It has 

 only to bo laid in the natural ground like cabbage, but 

 must be sheltered by a garden frame and glazed sash- 

 es, and the whole managed in the same May as the 

 frames for protecting cauliflower plants. The mar- 

 ket gardeners generally employ considerable quan- 

 tities of these kinds of garden frames lor growing 

 winter lettuces, parsley and young cabbage plants. 

 &c. And green houses are now almost as common 

 amongst them as their horse stables, and without un- 

 dergoing any initiary instructions in the mysterious 

 science of propagating or cultivating the far fetched 

 vegetable dandies, they have for several years past 

 glutted the markets with multitudes of various kinds 

 of green house plants, natives of every quarter of tin 

 globe. Very few ef these market men who lease 

 their ground cultivate much fruit, at least of the tree 

 kind. This is to be attributed to the very general 

 distribution of orchards that are to be found decora- 

 ting the ground of perhaps every farmer in the coun- 

 try. To do justice to the true character of these 

 invaluable sources of American enjoyments, would 

 require a volume, and they are well deserving th< 

 pen of a Cox to illustrate their value. We need on- 

 ly here remark, that the very reasonable price for 

 which their produce can be purchased in our markets, 

 is a good proof of the great facility with which the} 



The list of vegetables (published in our last) with yield their abundant crops ; and the high price which 



which our markets are abundantly supplied during 

 the winter and spring months, contains those that 

 falsely informed Europeans have been led to believe 

 were swept from our possession by the severity of 

 our winters. To that list might have been added the 

 spinage, which, with a very little trouble in covering, 

 is frequently cut for market during the greater part of 

 the season, and our crops of Savoy cabbage, which, 

 it is presumed, are not surpassed in point of quality 

 and size by those of any other country, remain in the 

 finest order for table, the whole winter season, until 

 the teeming shoots of the asparagus burst through 

 the mellow clods. Savoys, like other cabbage, have 

 only to be taken up at the approach of a severe frost 

 and laid in the ground close together up to their necks 

 and covered over with straw, salt hay or cedar brush, 

 to prevent the cutting winds from blowing directly 

 upon them. And it is no more trouble to cut them 

 for use at any period, from this position, with the 

 earth around them frozen like the adamantine rock, 

 than it is in some European countries to have to wade 



our Newtown Pippins bring in England, proves that 

 their qualities are not altogether of that degenerated 

 stamp with which many would wish to stigmatize ev- 

 ery thing of American origin. Newtown Pippins 

 can generally be bought in our markets during the 

 fall and winter months, for one dollar and a half to 

 two dollars per barrel of two bushels and a half each. 

 In Covent Garden market, I have never seen their 

 price quoted at a less rate than six dollars and a half 

 per barrel. 



The price of baking apples of best quality in thf* 

 same market, at this season, is generally sixteen 

 shillings sterling per bushel, equal to three dollars 

 and fifty-five cents. Jh our markets, the best cook- 

 ing apples at this season, generally sell at less than 

 fifty cents per bushel. They are cultivated very ex- 

 tensively all over the country, and our markets are 

 often so overstocked with their supplies, that Spitzen- 

 burgh's and other good table apples are sold for fori v 

 cents per bushel. 



The cultivation of the Peach Tree for the suppjv 



up to the knees in dirt and mud, to procure the half! of our markets, is rapidly incieasing towards the ex- 

 rotten prize. But this is not a!!, modern experience j tensive scale of former years; considerable nmn 



has proved that, with very little care, a continual sup- 

 ply of that first rate vegetable, the C;:pe Rrocoli, can 

 be obtained from the month of September until April. 



bers of our farm market men being in possession of 

 many hundreds of these trees in a tine bearing state, 

 and some of them have several thousands, whogfe 



This I state from the facility with which I have for delicious and abundant pi oduce have for years past 



