TABLE FOR PLANTING TREES, ETC. 
77 
some time to come, of all, or nearly all, of the 
farmers of this country. What, then, is to be 
done to give them the advantages of such an 
education as is due to their importance and 
power, as citizens ? Can anything more be done 
than gradually enlarge the course of instruc- 
tion already within their reach? and, as the 
wealth of the country increases, to induce, by 
sufficient salaries, a better-educated class of in- 
structors to take charge of the schools of the 
country? These seem the two most obvious 
ends at which to aim ; and there is very little 
doubt that they will, ere many years, be attained. 
A. L. Elwyn. 
Philadelphia, January, 1850. 
TABLE FOR PLANTING CORN, TREES, ETC. 
The following table may be useful for 
readily pointing out the number of hills of 
potatoes and corn, or of plants and trees &c., 
required for a statute acre of land, when planted 
at any of the under-mentioned distances apart: — 
Distances apart. 
No. of plants. 
1 ft. by 1 
2 
2 
21 
3 
3 
3 
H 
4 
4 
4 
4 
5 
5 
5 
5 
5 
51 
6 
6i 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
25 
30 
40 
50 
60 
m 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
16 
17 
18 
19 
20 
25 
30 
40 
50 
60 
66 
ft 43,560 
" 19,360 
" 21,780 
" 10,890 
" 6,969 
" 14,520 
" 7,260 
" 4,840 
" 3,555 
" 10,890 
" 5,445 
" 3,630 
« 2,722 
« 2,151 
" 8,712 
" 4,356 
" 2,904 
" 2,178 
1,742 
1,417 
1,210 
1,031 
.680 
.537 
.435 
.360 
.302 
.257 
.222 
.193 
.170 
.150 
.134 
.120 
.108 
..69 
..48 
..27 
..17 
..12 
..10 
GRAND VEGETABLE BANQUET TO THE POTATO 
ON HIS LATE RECOVERY. 
That highly respected vegetable, the Potato, 
being now, it is hoped, thoroughly re-established 
in health, it was determined by a few leading 
members of the Vegetable Kingdom to offer a 
banquet to the worthy and convalescent root on 
his happy recovery. The arrangements for the 
dinner were on a scale of great liberality, and 
the guests included all the principal vegetables. 
The invitations had been carried out by an effi- 
cient corps of scarlet runners, and the Onion 
occupied the chair. He was supported on his 
right by the head of the Asparagus family, while 
Salad occupied a bowl at the other end of the 
table, and was dressed in his usual manner. 
The Potato, though just out of his bed, was look- 
ing remarkably well, and wore his jacket, there 
being nothing to mark his recent illness, except, 
perhaps, a little apparent blackness round one of 
his eyes. After the cloth had been removed, 
The Onion got up to propose as a toast, " The 
Potato," their much respected guest. (Immense 
cheering.) He, the Onion, had known the Potato 
from infancy ; and though they had not always 
been associated in life, they had frequently met 
at the same table. They had sometimes braved 
together the same broils, and had found them- 
selves often together in such a stew, (he alluded 
to the Irish stew,) as had brought them, for the 
time being, into an alliance of the very closest 
kind. He, the Onion, was delighted to see the 
Potato once more restored to his place in society ; 
for he, the Onion, could say, without flattery, that 
society had endeavored to supply the place of 
the Potato in vain, (hear, hear.) They had 
heard of Rice having been suggested to take 
the place of his honorable friend, but the sug- 
gestion was really ridiculous. Risum teneatis, 
amici? [Friends, can you forbear laughing?] was 
all that he, the Onion, had to say to that. (Loud 
laughter, in which all but the Melon joined.) 
He, the Onion, would not detain them any longer, 
but would conclude by proposing health, long 
life, and prosperity to the Potato. 
The toast was received with enthusiasm by all 
but the Cucumber, whose coolness seemed to 
excite much disgust amongst his brother vege- 
tables. The Onion had, in fact, affected many 
of those present to tears, and the Celery, who 
sat next to the Horseradish, hung down his head 
in an agony of sensibility. When the cheering 
had partially subsided, the Potato rose, but that 
was only a signal for renewed enthusiasm, and 
it was some minutes before silence was restored. 
At length the Potato proceeded nearly as 
follows : — 
"Friends and fellow vegetables. It is with 
difficulty I express the feeling with which I have 
come here to-dajr. Having suffered for the last 
three or four years with a grievous disease, which 
seemed to threaten me with total dissolution, it 
is with intense satisfaction I find myself once 
more among you in the vigor of health. (Cheers.) 
I should be indeed insensible to kindness, were 
I to forget the anxioir* inquiries that hare been 
made as to the state of my health, by those who 
have held me in esteem, and sometimes in a 
