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THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Ornamental Gardening. 
COUTEHTS OF THIS 11U‘MBER. 
In Colman’s late writings on European agri- 
culture, we find the following: — 
“ The cultivation of flowers and shrubs and 
vines is a remarkable and prominent feature in 
the landscape of England^ and a circumstance 
which has given no little gratification to my na- 
tional pride, has been the profusion of Ame- 
rican plants, which are seen in the shrubberies 
and plantations and pleasure grounds, both pub- 
lic and private. Green-houses and conserva- 
tories are almost universal in the country where 
any thing like a garden exists ; and the better 
class of houses surrounded and adorned with a 
great variety of fiowering shrubs and plants, 
presenting through the season a charming suc- 
cession of gay and brilliant ornaments. Even 
the laborer’s humble cottage, too seldom, I am 
compelled to admit, any ihing but a picturesque 
object, will occasionally have its ornamental 
shrubs adorning its doorway, and the ivy hang- 
ing its beautiful tresses over its window, form-r 
ing as it were a mirror sed, in a frame of the 
richest green. The village of Marr, in York- 
shire, not far from Doncaster, and the village of 
Edensor, in Derbyshire, near Chatsworth, and 
the village of Lord Brownlow,in Lineolnshiie, 
the best built, and by far th ; handsomest vil- 
lages I have yet seen in England, to cottages of 
an excellent and picturesque construeiiun, add 
those beautiful rural embellishments of vines 
and shrubs and flowers, and at the first sight 
compel a reflecting mind to admit the moral in- 
fluence of .such arrangements upon the charac- 
ter and manners of their inhabitants. 
“ 1 have said and written a great deal to my 
countrymen about the cultivation of fl'owers, 
ornamental gardening and rural embellishments; 
and I would read them a homily on the subject 
every day of every remaining year of my life, 
if I thought it would induce them to make this 
a matter of particular attention and care. When 
a man asks me what is the'use of shrubs and 
flowers'? my first impulse is always io look un- 
aerhis hal and see the^length of his ears. I am 
heartily sick of measuring every thing by a stan- 
dard of mere utility and j'rofit; and as heartily 
do I pity the. man who can see no good iu life 
but in the pecuniary gain, or in the mere ani- 
mal indulgencies of eating and drinking.’^’ 
ORIGINAL PAPERS. 
Alpaca, the — Shepherd’s Dog pages 73, 74 
Agricultural Press, the pege 72 
Agricultural Education “ 74 
Bread Stuffs — A Contrast “ 75 
Bermuda Grass. “ 76 
Correspondents “ 72 
Cana Fanner buy ‘his meat cheaper than he 
can make it at home! “ 75 
Fair of the Bowling Green Agricultural Society, 
List of premiums “ 77 
More Rasping. .. “ 72 
Manure, Bommer method of making “ 76 
Plowing, subsoil..... “ 73 
“ deep “ 74 
Silk 72,76 
SELECTIONS, EXTRACTS, &C. 
Agricultural Life, Washington’s opinicm of. . . . .page 69 
“ Convention, Farmers’ “ 77 
“ Society, Cobb county “ 77 
“ Society, Barbour county “ 78 
“ Meeting “ 78 
Butter, difficulty in churning “ 67 
“ Buckeye mode of making “ 67 
Corn-stalk Sugar — directions for cultivating 
ing the corn-stalks and making sugar “ 66 
Catlle, breaking young 78 
Fruilinlhe Family “ 68 
Fruit, encouragement to raise “ 69 
Gardening, ornamental “ 80 
Grinding Gram for Animals “ 79 
Horticultural Outline..' “ 79 
Indigo “ 68 
Kindness (o Animals 67 
Lighthing and Manure “ SO 
Manures, remarks on — The popular opinion 
of their sinking controverted “ 70 
Manures, saving “ 71 
Manure, making compost “ 70 
Manure, translation by H. Meigs relative to. .. . “ 70 
Pork, deficiency in supply for 1S44 “ 76 
Rust in Wheat, to prevent “ 71 
Soils — necessily of supplying with tue con- 
,, stituenTsof the crops grown on 68 
Soap, how to make “ 79 
Tobacco, mode of cultivating in the Island 
of Cuba.... ;.. 65 
Tanning on the Plantation “ 65 
Tea, nutritive qualilfes of “ 69 
Valuable and Simple Medicine “ 77 
Wounds and Ulcers, dressing “ 79 
Wool “ 69 
Wheat, Seed .' “ 79 
Yellow Locust, for fences “ 66 
A PKEMfUM. 
The Publishers of the “SOUTHERN 
GUIjTIVATOR,” propose to give to every 
man who shall procui'e TEN subscribers, 
and enclose a ten dollar bill, the two back 
\ olumes of the work, handsomely bound. 
Lightning and Manure. — The U. S. Gazette 
say.s, it has been discovered in England that 
electricity, real lightning, conducted by wire to 
the earth, greatly promotes vegetation, and hence 
many persons are enriching their grounds by 
this new stimulant. We hope good will come 
of it. This generation is certainly fulfilling its 
destiny. It is becoming the “ utilitarian age” 
■with a vengeance, which brings down from the 
clouds the lightning of heaven (eripuit fulmen) 
to manure the corn fields, subSlituling Jove’s 
dread lightnings forstable manure. The guano 
trade will be broken up entirely, and a te.mpes- 
tuous season, with vivid lightning, will be worth 
forty muck heaps and stable yards. 
And yet it is probably true, that lightning 
can be made to promote vegetation ; that it can 
be conducted to the required spot, and made sub- 
servient to the desired object — and if so, man 
has another cause of gratitude to the giver; for 
he may now lay his head upon the main light- 
ning, and render it not only innocuous, but di- 
rectly and visibly useful. Let him, in the use 
of the element, not forget Him, 
“ Whose hand the lighi iiing forms, 
Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storms.” 
GAISeE.N ANS> FIEtiO SEEUS. 
A GENERAL assortment of fresh and genu- 
ine Garden and Field Seed, among which are the 
foil owing : 
Red and white clover. Blue and green grass. 
Rye and orchard do Timothy and herds do 
Millet and Lucerne do Seed corn of every valna- 
Buckwheat & potato oats. Seed wheat, [ble variety 
Kept constantly on hand by the subscriber, all of 
which are offered for sale at very moderate prices. 
All orders, by mail or otherwise, executed with neat 
ness and despatch. Wm UarNES, Jr., 
1 No. 2-32, Broad-street, Augusta, Ga. 
'S UJ2-NEP SEED. 
A SUPPLY of the following varieties of 
fresh Turnep Seed, just received, viz: Yellow 
•Sweedisb or ruta baga, very fine for stock, 
Large globe turnep, 
“ White fiat do 
“ Hanover or while rutabaga do 
Norfolk do J 
For sale in quantities to suit purchasers, by 
1 Wm. Haines, Jr. 
1 Fine for 
^ table 
use. 
AGKBCUE'FDSS A3. I tIFEEMEN.TS. 
H azard, delnslow & webster. 
Savannah, Geo., near the City Hotel, Dealers in 
PAINTS, OILS, WINDOW GLASS, GUNPOWDER, SHOT, 
PAPEP., AND AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 
In audition to their usual stock of the abrrve named 
aiticles, the subscribers have, within the last year, 
made large additi_pns to their assortment of Agricul- 
tural Iinplenientsj and now offer to planters a greater 
variety than any other establishment in the Southern 
country; amongst which may be found the following 
articles, viz : 
PLOWS. 
Yankee cast iron, No. 10, 11 T2and20 Plows. 
Dagon, or Conneclicut'wrought No. 1, 2 and 3 do 
Allen pattern, do 
Boggles, Nourse A Mason’s improved do 
Viz;— Eagle plow, heavy., two horse or ox, do 
do with wheel and cutler, do 
No. 2 B Plow, for two horses, do 
‘t 2 B do with wheel and cutter, do 
“ A 3 do medium, two horse, do 
“ A3 do wiih wheel aud culler, do 
“ A 2 do light two horse do 
“ A I do do one mule, or garden do 
“ bin. do do one horse turning do 
“ 7 in. do do do do do 
“ 15 d'-) new pattern, 1 horse, for light soil, do 
Subsoil do heavy, two horse, or ox do 
do do No, 1 do do . . do 
do do do 0 one horse 'Uflo 
Double mould-board or furrowing do 
Cotton trenching do 
Rice do with guage -.A-heel, do 
A 1 side-hill, or swivel mould-board, do 
No. 0 do do for one horse, do 
Flow irons set up. of tlie above kinds ; also, extra 
stocks, which can be packed in small compa.«s, thereby 
making a great saving in transportation. Mould-boards, 
points and heels or landsides, for all the above plows. 
Improved cultivators, with guage wheel 
Cultivator plctvs, or horse hoes. 
Common Harrows 
Folding do improved kind, 
Boxed lever straw cullers 
Improved self-feeding strew and corn stalk do, with 
spiral knives, simple in construction. 
Corn aud cob crushers (hand mill) 
do do for horse power 
HOES. 
VV. A. Lyndon’s extra black,Carolinahoes,Nos. 0. 1,2 & 3 
do bright do do 0. 1,2&3 
do ijewground do doPP&PPP 
do oval eye grubbing do do 2&3 
do round do do do 2&3 
Anchor hoes do 00, 0, 1 & 2 
Brades, patent do . doO, 1,2, 3&4 
LighlYankee do 
CHAINS. 
Straight-link trace chains, I Ox chains 
Twisted do do | l.og chains from iO to-18'f’t 
MISCEILANEOUS ARTICLES. 
Collins’s- Axes. Ox-bows, 
Root’s do Horse rackets, 
King’s do Dirt scrapers. 
Bond’s do Fan mills, 
Ames’s Shovels, ' Patent churns, 
do Handled Spades, Cotton foot gins, 
do Socket do Flails, 
Iron Shovels.ass’ted kinds. Axe-helves, 
Long Handled Shovels, Swingletrees, 
Manure Forks, Plow lines, 
Hay do Wheelbarrows, 
English patent Scythes, , Horticultural chests, 
American grass do , Pruning shears, 
Grass platt do Ditching knives, 
Brush and briar do Garden hoes, vaiiouskinds, 
Briar hooks, Garden raKes, 
Corn cutters, ’ Flour-scrapers, 
Reaphooks, ! Toy hoes, 
Scythe Siiaiths, ; Garden reels, 
Grain cradles, new pattern, Transplanting trowels, 
Rice cradles do I do Forks, 
Post spoons, I (3arden-lines, 
Ox-yokes, i 
The subscribers have made such arrangements as will 
enable them to procure any improvements which may 
be made in the plow, or other kinds of implements suit- 
ed to this section, and trust from their great variety, mo- 
derate prices and exertions to please, ihey may receive 
a liberal share of public patronage. Planters, mer- 
chants, and manufacturers are respectfully invited to 
examine their stock. Orders thankfully received and 
prornptly attended to. 1-ly 
ISOITIRIEK K5ANERE. 
T he bommer method of making 
Manure has been before the public in the Northern, 
Eastern and Middle Slates, v here it has met with the 
approval of the ablest, scientific and practical agricuK 
turalists, and received, after very thorough practical 
experiment, the sanction of the Legislature of Mary- 
land. Two years residence in the Southern States, en- 
ables the agent to declare that the abundance of cheap 
material at the South, renders the manufacture of this 
manure peculiarly adapted to the Southern planter. 
The right can he had on the following terms : — 
To Manure 100 acres land $10 
“ “ 200 “ “ 15 
“ 300 “ “ 20 
Any extent 25 
Address, Charles Baer, care of Wm. Byne, Waynes- 
boro, Ga., or care of J W. Jones, Augusta — post-paid. 
To correct all misapprehension with regard to the 
patent, the fallowing statement is submitted ; 
Charles Baer and .lohn Goui lart obtained letters pa- 
tent for the method, 24lh January, 1843, (Rec. Lib. 280 
Patent office) and sold the fight to the Northern and 
Eastern States, to George Bommer. Afterwards, Baer 
and Gouliart took into the firm Thomas M. Abbott, and 
continued to sell the right to the (Southern and West- 
ern States, under the style of Abbott & Co, Abbbolt 
& Co assigned the right to the rest of the United 
States and Territories on the 6th November, 1844, 
(Rec. Lib. 5, page 373) to George Bommer, of whom 
the subscriber is the sole general agent in Georgia. 
5 Charles Baer. 
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