FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
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Kitchen Garden. —The main point in this month, is to 
keep the garden entirely clear of weeds, as their growth 
will now be very luxuriant, and if thoroughly subdued, 
will be much more easily kept out the succeeding months. 
This is especially requisite with cucumbers and melons, 
around which the ground should be kept entirely clean 
and loose. Sweet potatoes should now be well cultivated, 
and the earth drawn up about the roots. Cabbages for 
autumn and winter use, can be planted out, and celery 
plants be transferred into trenches. Peas may be sown 
for late crops, although they do not bear so abundantly as 
those sown earlier in the season. Lettuce may be sown 
and transplanted every week, in order to ensure a regular 
succession through the season. This should be done in 
moist weather, or if in dry weather, late in the afternoon, 
accompanied with a plentiful watering. During the month 
sow kidney and other beans, for successive crops, and in 
the early part of the month, a few Lima beans may be 
planted for a late supply. Turneps for late crops may 
also be sown in this month. 
Fruit Garden and Orchard. —During this month 
apple and other fruit trees can be trimmed. For this work, 
the present season is preferable to the winter, for the rea¬ 
son, that the sap, being in full circulation, will exude, and 
covering the wound, heal it in a short time. On the con¬ 
trary, in the winter, no sap can exude, and the branch will 
frequently be quite dead for some inches from the wound. 
All useless limbs and upright shoots should be cut away, 
and the tree be trimmed to an open head. In plum-trees, 
all black knots, formed by the insect, should be cut away 
and burnt, or the disease will spread rapidly. Cherries will 
not bear much pruning, and it is generally best to allow 
them to grow naturally. 
All stone fruits frequently bear in such profusion, that 
the tree is unable to mature them all, and they are thus of 
comparatively a small size. To remedy this, the cultiva¬ 
tor should thin out the fruit by hand, leaving only a mod¬ 
erate crop ; the nourishment of the tree being thus devoted 
to a limited quantity, will produce a larger and more de¬ 
licious fruit. When trees are allowed to bear too abun¬ 
dantly, the great efforts made to mature all their fruit, will 
sometimes exhaust them to such a degree as to induce dis¬ 
eases, from which it will often take them several years 
to recover. 
During this month, insects will frequently attack fruit 
trees in great numbers. For some of these, as the slogs 
and others of the same nature, a sprinkling of ashes or 
lime is the most immediately destructive. For the apis 
and smaller insects of the same habits, a solution of whale- 
oil soap, applied with a syringe, is the most efficacious. 
Caterpillars can be destroyed while they are yet in small 
clusters, by means of burning sulphur. 
Flower Garden. —Plant out in the borders perennial and 
autumnal herbaceous plants, which have been sown in seed 
beds. This should be done near evening, and always ac- 
companied with watering, unless the weather should be 
moist or wet. Box edging can still be trimmed during 
moist weather, as also hedges of privet, hawthorn, &c., 
although for these latter, earlier in the season would have 
been preferable. The turf in the pleasure-grounds and 
lawns should be kept well mowed ; the oftener this is done, 
the more rich and velvety appearance it will assume. The 
gravel walks and carriage drives should be kept well 
cleaned, and free of weeds and grass throughout the sum¬ 
mer. 
It is in this month that the numerous wild flowers of our 
fields and woods abound in the greatest beauty and luxu¬ 
riance ; many of these are exceedingly beautiful, and well 
worthy of cultivation in the private garden. The Lobelia 
Cardinalis, which abounds in the swamps, is one of the 
most splendid of these, and with many others has been 
transferred to our own garden with entire success. To 
ensure their living, a portion of the natural soil should be 
transplanted with the roots, and a moist day, or late in 
the afternoon, selected for the purpose. Frequent water¬ 
ing should be applied for some days after. There are few 
who have not admired these gems, which so thickly cover 
Nature’s carpet; and when they can be so easily trans¬ 
ferred to the parterre, neither the botanist nor amateur 
should be willing to deprive himself of so cheaply-pur- 
chased a pleasure. 
S. B. Parsons. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the arrival of the steam-packet Caledonia, we arc 
favored by files of European Journals to the 4th of May. 
Markets. —Cotton, in the lower grades there had 
been a decline of l to § per lb., prices for the better 
qualities remained firm. The total sales during April 
at Liverpool were 115,000 bales, the receipts 300,000, 
leaving a stock on hand of about 800,000 bales, against 
500,000 at this time last year. Business in the manu¬ 
facturing districts is improving, and continues to be 
quite satisfactory. Flour and grain declining, and in 
limited demand. Tobacco, large sales. Naval stores 
and rice in fair request. Beef, brisk sales. Pork, 
dull. Cheese, the same. Lard and Tallow steady. 
Oil-cake, dull and not much demand expected till Au¬ 
gust or September. 
Money. —There is no change since our last, and it 
continues abundant, large sums in specie are continu¬ 
ally shipped to America for investment. 
Stocks. —These at last begin to move again in Europe, 
and sales of New York have advanced 2 to 3 per cent. 
Crops. —These are represented as generally promis¬ 
ing, especially wheat and grass, which were very for¬ 
ward. 
Irrigation. —We find an excellent paper in the Lon¬ 
don Farmers’ Magazine on this subject, showing the 
beneficial and fertilizing properties of water in irriga¬ 
tion ; more particularly when applied to meadows. 
But as this subject was pretty fully treated by us, un¬ 
der head of Tour in England, page 231, November 
No., we shall make no synopsis of the article. We 
wish, however, that we could impress upon our farm¬ 
ers the necessity and profit of irrigation in our arid 
summer climate.' 
sm A Wild Boar .—One of these ferocious animals was 
lately shot in the Forest of Raulaing, in the Yosges, 
which weighed 615 lbs. Nearly 1,300 shot were fired 
at him, and he killed more than 50 dogs. 
Productiveness of the Vine. —Mr. Loudon states, that 
one plant of the red Hamburg sort, in the vinery of 
the gardens at Hampton Court, has produced 2,200 
bunches, averaging one pound each, or in all nearly a 
ton; and its parent, in Essex, has produced 2,000 
bunches, of nearly the same average weight. 
Lime and Salt. —In one of Professor Johnston’s ex¬ 
periments, he finds that lime is a good strengthener of 
the straw, and forwarder of the kerning and ripening 
of wheat and other grain ; while salt appears to help 
fill the grain, and increase the weight per bushel. 
Extram dinary Fecundity of a Coiv. —The Blackburn 
Standard says, that five weeks since a cow, belonging 
to a farmer at Sudden Bridge, near Rochdale, in this 
county, gave birth to four calves, three males and one 
female. Two of them in color are roan, and the other 
lighter colored. The cow is of the Short-horned Hol- 
derness breed. The exhibition of this curious phe¬ 
nomenon has brought to the coffers of the lucky owner 
a considerable sum of money, and he has latterly been 
offered 150Z. for the stock. The cow and her remark¬ 
able progeny are all doing well, even better than could 
have been expected. We understand this is the first 
instance on record of such a number of calves being 
brought forth at one birth. 
Attar , or Otto of Roses. —We copy from the Garden¬ 
er and Practical Florist, a simple method of making 
this delicious perfume, and trust that some of our fail- 
readers will essay some experiments from American 
roses this season, and give us an account of their good 
or ill success. Otto of Roses is made from the hun¬ 
dred-leaved rose (Rosa centifolia), which species is also 
used exclusively in the distillation of rose water. The 
