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For the American Agriculturist. 
NORTHERN CALENDAR FOR JULY. 
Kitchen Garden. —Cabbages of the several vari¬ 
eties can now be planted for late crops. Moist weather 
should be selected for this purpose, and the plants 
should be immediately and frequently watered, until 
they are well rooted. Melons, squashes, pumpkins, 
&c., should be carefully hoed, and kept entirely free 
from weeds; otherwise, they will not produce good 
fruit. Melons and cucumbers for pickles can be 
sown in the early part of this month. Kidney-beans, 
small salad, carrots, turneps, and spinach, should be 
sown for fall and winter use. Celery should be planted 
out in trenches; and some variety of radishes and 
peas may be sown with reasonable prospect of success 
if the season should prove moist. Egg-plants, peppers, 
and tomatoes, should be planted out, if not done before. 
Collect all the vegetable seeds that have come to ma¬ 
turity, and dry them well before putting away; also, 
gather herbs as they come into flower, and dry them in 
the shade, that the sun may not render them entirely 
free from flavor. Pull up the stalks of beans, peas, 
&c., which have done bearing. Water may be fre¬ 
quently and beneficially applied, but it should always 
be done at the close of the day, otherwise the plants 
will be injured by the heat of the sun. 
Fruit Garden. —Budding may be performed upon 
pears and apples the latter part of this month. Gather 
from the trees, and give to the cattle or swine, all fruit 
that is decayed or punctured by the insect, otherwise 
the insect, which now exists as a worm in the prema¬ 
ture fruit, will soon be able to fly and attack the re¬ 
mainder. Also, continue to cut off all the wood as fast 
as it may appear to be infested by the insect which 
produces a black knot. Keep the ground well culti¬ 
vated among the trees. There is very little else to be 
done in the fruit garden this month, excepting it may 
be to consume its productions, for which directions may 
possibly not be requisite. 
Pleasure Garden. —Bulbous and tuberous roots 
can now be taken up, and tulips, hyacinths, &c., care¬ 
fully put away for planting in the fall. Herbaceous 
flowering plants can still be transplanted from the 
seed-bed to the border, and should be taken up with as 
much earth as possible about the roots. Hedges can 
also be clipped in the early part of this month. Walks 
and borders should be kept constantly clear of weeds, 
and a general air of neatness should pervade every 
part of the garden. S. B. Parsons. 
For the American Agriculturist. 
Venison Steaks. —Cut them moderately thick, and 
place on a gridiron over a slow fire. When done on 
both sides, remove them to the plate, and on both sides 
of each sprinkle salt, pepper, powdered cloves, butter, 
and currant jelly, and pile as compactly as possible. 
This keeps them warm, and furnishes a rich gravy. 
A Lady. 
Good Effects of Plaster on Fruit-Trees.— 
Mr. Mussev states, in the Watertown Herald, that by 
ascending a fruit-tree while in blossom in the spring of 
last year, and sprinkling plaster freely upon them, the 
tree bore 20 bushels of apples the following fall, while 
it had never produced over 2 bushels any previous 
year. It is said, also, that plaster is a good preventive 
to the blast. 
The Turnep-Fly.— -Rolling the earth evenly and 
compactly together destroys their harboring places, and 
_is a preventive to their multiplication and ravages. 
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 
By the steam-packet Columbia, we have our files of 
European journals to the 4th June. 
Markets .—Cotton was dull, although there had been 
no reduction in price. The import into Liverpool since 
1st January, amounts to 968,000 bales, against 728,000, 
same period last season. The stock on hand is esti¬ 
mated at 855,000 bales, against 640,000, at same pe¬ 
riod last season. Stock on hand at Havre, 31st May, 
156,217 bales; same time, 1842,141,157 bales.—Amer¬ 
ican Beef has at length taken precedence in the Eng¬ 
lish market, and is now sought for with avidity at 
higher prices than the Irish.—Pork has advanced a 
trifle, but it is generally too fat to suit the European 
market. We must hereafter kill smaller and more 
delicate pigs for it. Pigs weighing from 150 to 200 
pounds, are the most suitable for English packing and 
bacon.—Cheese has risen also, and prime large ones 
are much sought for. Purchasers are flocking into 
London for it from all parts of the country.—Lard, 
Flour, and Wheat, are selling at a little better prices, 
and are in good demand, especially the latter. All 
other American products remain without change, and 
a moderate business is doing in them. 
Money continues abundant, and at low rates. The 
flow of specie to this country has somewhat ceased ; 
there remains, however, a great abundance of capital 
in Europe seeking investment. 
Chinese Agriculture .—From a work recently issued 
in England, under the title of “ China as it Was,” 
we make the following extract: I took our cutter the 
other day, and eight men, and starting from the ship 
at five o’clock in the morning, went about forty miles 
up the labyrinth of islands, landing at several places, 
and going into their villages. The country was beau¬ 
tiful in the extreme—much more so than I ever saw. 
Fancy the most hilly country that can possibly be, one 
mountain rising from the foot of another in the most 
varied manner, and cultivated in the highest degree to 
the very top ! In fact, their farming would not dis¬ 
grace an English farmer; and I very much doubt 
whether a man put down here from the clouds would 
know that he was not in England, but for the circum¬ 
stance that pieces of land which no Englishman would 
think of venturing his neck upon, are here in the most 
beautiful order; indeed, the resemblance between the 
two countries is in every respect most striking; and I 
decidedly think that the people I have seen are quite 
as much civilized, if not more so, than you would find 
in England in the same situation ; they certainly ex¬ 
ceed them in politeness. One village I landed in, I 
sailed the boat up a beautiful creek for some distance, 
until I was stopped by some large lock-gates, when I 
landed, and walked up to the houses, alongside quite 
as good a canal as any I ever saw, with good strong 
locks on precisely the same principles as our own. 
The stone bridges over it were beautiful, with heads, 
carved in stone, of angels and devils, stuck at differ¬ 
ent places on the sides. The houses were built of 
square stones, extremely neatly put together, and 
roofed with beautiful red tiles, each ornamented with 
a different device. The inside was generally divided 
into three or four rooms, all very neat; and* there the 
similarity between them and Old England, a place they 
never heard of, became most ridiculous. There was 
the plastered floor, the same shaped tables and chairs, 
and the closet, with the cups and saucers (of the most 
beautiful china, by-the-by); there, too, was the 
kitchen—the wash-house, with the boiler and sink. 
In the yard, again, the pig-sties were very amusing— 
the identical pig-sty door that they have at a place 
