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opinion, but was open to conviction, and 1 iliink that Dr. 
Lee’s free-trade argument is unanswerable. 
^ Yours respectfully, Thos. P, Miller. 
New Prospecty Miss., March, 1859, 
Measuring Corn.— In your March number, page 81, 
is some information wanted in respect to measuring corn. 
Mr. “W. C. K.” has but to think what a barrel of corn is 
— it is not one bushel, but it is five, as he will see in rule 
third in January number, page 10. In a room 20 feet 
long, 15 feet wide and 9 feet deep three is 730 bushels, or 
146 barrels, 
N. B. — This is unshucked corn. 
Respectiully yours, O. D. Night. 
Pihe County, Miss., 1859, 
Gin Gearing. — Our correspondent, “T.,” says, truly: 
“A good workman is all the rule I know for building any- 
thing. No modification in the size of parts in the gear is 
necessary, but the “king-shaft” must have no room to 
rock; and every part of the machinery must be as level, 
plumb and round as carpentry can make it.” 
Scratches in Horses — A Remedy.— Some time last 
winter three of my horses were taken with the scratches. 
Two of them were cured very soon with blue stone and 
lard. The third one got worse. I then tried white paint 
or white lead, but to no effect. I tried one or two other 
remedies, but with no better success. I then tried coper- 
as and urine, boiled together. 1 use this as a wash; and 
after washing and while the affected parts are wet I would 
sprinkle on the parts charcoal dust, made from burnt 
leather. Three or four applications of this will cure the 
worst kind of scratches, ' P. R. L. 
“Pip” or Distemper in Fowls.— Can you inform me 
through the columns of the Cultivator, of a remedy for 
the “Pip” in Chickens, so called by some of my neighbors. 
Their eyes first become sore, and close entirely up, and 
in the course of a day or two their throats become sore 
and seem to be closed up ; they linger for a day or two 
and die. Out of about fifty grown chickens I have lost fully 
one-third. If you or any of your numerous readers can 
give any hints or remedy for this disease it will greatly 
oblige, Respectfully yours, M. R. S. 
Darlington, S. C., March, 1859. 
OUIt BOOK TABLE. 
Landscape Gardening, “A Treatise on the Theory and 
Practice of Landscape Gardening, adapted to North 
America; with a view io the Improvement of Country 
Residences. Comprising historical notices and general 
principles of the Art; directions for laying out Grounds 
and arranging Plantations ; the description and culti- 
vation of hardy Trees ; decorative accompaniments of 
the House and Grounds ; the formation of pieces of Arti- 
ficial Water, Flower Gardens, etc. With Remarks on 
Rural Architecture, By the late A J. Downing, Esq 
Sixth edition. Enlarged, revised and newly Illustrated. 
With a Supplement, containing some remarks about 
Country Places, and the best methods of making them ; 
also, an account of the newer Deciduous and Ever- 
green Plants, lately introduced into cultivation, both 
hardy and half-hardy. By Henry Winthrop Sargent, 
New Fork: A. O. Moore dt Co, Agricultural Book 
Publishers, 140 Fulton St. 1859,” 
The progress of Landscape Gardening, since the la- 
mented death of Mr. Downing, made a new edition of 
this most valuable treatise altogether a necessity, and we 
rejoice that the work has fallen into such competent hands. 
In allusion to the new editor, the Home Journal says : — 
“Intimate with Mr. Downing, while living, and possess- 
ing this habitual sympathy of pursuit, Mr. Sargent was 
better qualified than any other friend to undertake the 
careful editing of a new edition ; and this he most 
promptly and generously undertook and has most admir- 
ably accomplished” 
Most people of cultivated taste in rural matters, are, of 
course, familiar with the earlier editions of this work ; 
but, for the benefit of such as are not, we append a list of 
the subjects treated upon, both in the original edition and 
the one before us : 
Section I. — Historical Sketches. Sec, II. — Beauties of 
Landscape Gardening. Sec. III. — Wood and Plantations, 
Sec. IV. — Deciduous Ornamental Trees. S^c. V. — Ever- 
green Ornamental Trees. Sec. VI. — Vines and Climbing 
Plants, S^c- VII. — Treatment of Ground — Formation of 
Walks. Sec. VIII. — Treatment of Water. Sec. IX. — 
Landscape or Rural Architecture. Sec, X. — Embellish- 
ments ; Architectural, Rustic, and Floral. Apendix, 
Supplement of Mr Sargent. — Section I — Progress of 
Landscape Gardening since Mr. Downing’s death ; For- 
mation of new places; Common Errors; the Lawn. Sec. 
II. — How to make a Country Place; Commencing with- 
out trees; commencing in a wood ; history of Wodenethe; 
history of Wellesley ; Italian scenery. Sec. III. — The 
newer Deciduous Ornamental Trees and Shrubs. Sec. 
IV. — The newer half-hardy Evergreen Trees and Shrubs; 
acclimatizing and employing them ; tabular view of Har- 
dihood in different parts of the United States. Sec. V. — 
Historical notices ; examples of Landsape Gardening and 
Rural Architecture in the United States. Sec. IV. — His- 
torical notices continued; Rural Cemeteries; Central 
Park, New York; Llewellyn Park, New Jersey; Clinton 
Park, etc. 
The new matter added is very valuable, and the illus- 
trations exceedingly beautiful. Many of the latter are 
from the pencil of the publisher, (Mr. Moore) and reflect 
much credit upon his taste and skill. We fully agree 
with Mr. Willis, that “nothing could be more timely than 
the issue of this volume at the present moment. With 
the rallying of our country’s prosperity, the buyers and 
beginners of rural residences are greatly multiplied, and 
the wealthy town winterers are returning to their summer 
villas; and, to all these, the latest new book on the sub- 
ject of “Landscape Gardening” is very necessary. Be- 
yond its value as an accumulation of the required wisdom, 
however, it is a most ornamental addition to a drawing- 
room table, from its beautiful typography and splendid il- 
lustrations; and, in fact, we can recommend no purchase, 
to the proposed dweller in the country — none which so 
combines the valuable and tasteful — as this Sargent 
Edition of Downing,” Price, $3.50. Address A. 0. 
Moore & Co., 140 Fulton, St, New York, 
American Weeds and Useful Plants ; Being a Second 
and Illustrated Edition of Agricultural Botany : an 
enumeration and description of Useful Plants and 
Weeds, which merit the notice, or require the attention 
of the American agriculturist. By William Darling- 
ton, M. D. Revised, with additions, by Geo. Thur- 
ber, Prof of Mat Med, and Botany, etc., in the New 
York College of Pharmacy. New York: A. O. Moore 
& Co.. 140 Fulton St. 18.39. 
We have rarely had occasion to notice the appearance of 
