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NEW-YORK FARMER AND 



ed and blended. Surely nothing short of consummate 

 wisdom and goodness could have formed so great, so 

 "rand, and beautiful a design, or one which is so exti n- 

 sively and superlatively useful to the whole human fa- 

 mily. 



Thus, while the vegetable tribes inhale 

 The limped water from the parent vale, 

 Their vegetating organs decompose 

 The salutary compound as it flows, 

 . And, by affinities unknown, dispart 

 The subtile hydrogen, with chemie art, 

 And form bitumen, rosin, wax, or oil ; 

 The caloric freed, now bursts the expanding mass, 

 And swells the nacent oxygen into gas ; 

 Which, from its inmost cells, each leaflet pours 

 In vital currents through its myriad pores. 

 Great God ! how infinitely wise art thou, 

 Let the whole race of mental creatures bow ; 

 Thy throne has through eternal ages stood, 

 These works of thine, declare, the living God. 



[For the N. Y. Farmer and Horticultural Repository.] 



ART. 24. — Apricot ofMvseh. By A. Parmen- 



riER, proprietor of the Horticultural Botanic Garden, 

 Brooklyn, L. I. JVew-Forfc. 



Three years ago I introduced this excellent apricot 

 into the U. States. This season it produced some 

 fruit that ripened the fourth of July. It was originally 

 from the city of Musch in Persia, near the boundaries 

 of Turkey, and sent to Paris by Mr. Lacour Gouffe, 

 director and professor in the Botanic garden at Mar- 

 seilles, who obtained it from the royal gardens at Ma- 

 drid. The fruit is very near round, of a deep yellow 

 color, the pulp sufficiently transparent to discern the 

 stone, the flesh melting, perfumed and very good ; it 

 is very willing to bear. Dr. Hunt, of Brooklyn, las' 

 soring plant - 1 a tree in flower ; it produced him six 

 very tine and perfectly ripe apricots. 



The cultivation of the apricot in general, requires 

 some care, from late frosts in the spring. If the cold 

 has congealed the flowers, cold water should he throw: 

 on them with a syringe or portable pump : or the evil 

 may be prevented by burning some handsfull of moist 



raw, and directing the smoke on the flowers, whicl 

 melt and dispel the frost. These two operation 

 • be done before the sun rises, the rays of which 

 wouldd flowers, without this precaution. 



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ids- the New-York Farmer iiDd Horticultural Repository.] 

 ART. 25. — T'h method of preserving Qrapesby 



dipping the ittms in tar. injurious to the fit 



Hyde Park, N. Y. Dec. 21, 1S27. 

 Mr. Editor. — I have in my garden about thirty 



crape \inr< whir 1 have borne very abundantly this 



season. Those who are acquainted with the grape', 

 call it the white sweet tenter grape. After suppl 

 my family and friends, I enquired if grapes ( luld n ,. 

 be preserved '.' yes, was the reply. A friend per 

 .ent me the American Vine Dresser's Guide, b) 

 Alphonzo Loubat, which, in pages 94 and 36, con 

 directions for preserving grapes. I set at n ■ ght a'.! 

 other method.-, rind adopted that of Mr. I.e. 

 ceeding carefully according to his di 



On the first of the present month, I opened one of 

 the barrels containing the grapes, and on tasting them, 

 they were found so impregnated with tar, as to be 

 wholly unpalatable, ow ing ludoubtedly, to dipping the 

 ends of the bunches into hot tar. The whole that I pul 

 up, about two hundred pounds, are rendered useless. 

 Should his directions for the management of the vim: 

 prove as fata! as those of the grape, I hope but fen 

 will follow them. 



If you should think the above worthy an insertion in 

 your publication, it will be the means, I trust, of pre- 

 venting others from adopting Mr. Loubat's method. 



A LOVER OF GRAPES WITHOUT TAR. 



[For the New-York Farmer and Horticultural. Repository.] 



ART, 26. — The red monthly Strawberry with 

 runners. By A.Parmentiek. proprietor of the Horli- 

 cultural Botanic Garden, Brooklyn, L. I. New-York. 



This rare strawberry I introduced into this eountn . 

 This kind was raised by Mr. Gaillon, after whose name 

 it is often called in Fiance. It is a variety of the Fru- 

 garia Vesca Semperflorens. This strawberry of a con- 

 stant product differs from the common red monthly 

 strawberry with runners, because this last is deprived 

 of its fructifying saps by the excessive multiplication 

 of runners. This, on the contrary, concentrates all its 

 strength, and thus continues to bear fruit until frost. 

 In more southern climes it fructifies during the wl 

 year. 



Besides those I have in open ground, which ha\c 

 continued to bear fruit until within about four week.-. 

 1 hive others in pots in my green-houses, that now have 

 ripe strawberries on them. This variety is verv suita- 

 ble for setting out in the borders of small gardens, '..- - 

 cause it never produces runners, and could very ad- 

 vantageously replace the box strawberry, which are a 

 refuge for insects, and are without produce. The pro- 

 pagation is made in the spring or in August by making 

 i division of the plant, which at the end of the year 

 nay be divided into ten or twelve plants. 



The strawberry loves a rich and shady soil ; it gives 

 i larger quantity of fruit, and they are of a larger size. 



£j» In the future numbers of the Repository, we 

 shall give summary articles of intelligence relating to 

 subjects embraced in the plan of our work. 



