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THE CULTIVATOR. 
e. you can confine them to the extremities of /. The 
shovel g. may be made 4 inches broad, and 6 or 8 inches 
in length. 
You will readily perceive that the wheel placed in 
front of the plow, answers the purpose of horse power; 
nothing being necessary but a plow boy, who by pi-ess- 
ing his weight against the handles, causes it to go right 
‘‘ahead.” A ifoUN® Farmer. 
Wood Lawn, N. C. Sept. 23, 1842. 
MOTT’S GARDEN VASE.—(Fig. 12.) 
This is a representation of one of the cast iron Vases 
exhibited by Mr. J. L. Mott, of New-York, at the Fairs 
of the State Ag. Society and American Institute, and to 
which honorary premiums were awarded at both places. 
“ In pattern equal to the finest Italian models, in durabi¬ 
lity far their superior, and embracing imitations of free 
stone, granite and marble. The cheap rate at which they 
can be fm-nished is another, and not a small recommenda¬ 
tion of this invention of Mr. M.” The Vase is 30 inch¬ 
es high, and 25 inches in diameter. They are sold 
plain, at $9—painted, with three good coats, at $11—in 
imitation of marble or granite, and japaned, $12,50. 
GARDEN VEGETABLES. 
Early Cucumbers. —The following has been found 
by the writer, an easy and successful way to raise them. 
Place small pieces of dead turf, as large as one’s hand, 
just below the soil in a hot bed, and plant the cucumber 
seeds upon them. When the stems are two or three 
inches long, the pieces of turf are removed, plants, roots, 
and all, to rich garden soil, and they will advance ra¬ 
pidly in growth and produce fruit two or three weeks 
earlier than those planted in open ground. Suitable turf 
is easily obtained where grass has been inverted the pre¬ 
vious summer or autumn. The young plants should be 
set out as soon as they will probably escape frost. 
Early Tomatoes.— Where there is no hot bed, these 
nave been successfully started in pots kept in a warm 
room, and the fruit ripened a week or two in advance of 
those otherwise treated. 
While the fruit is yet green, I have much accelerated 
the ripening, by removing the larger leaves from dense 
bunches of the fruit, and placing white boards behind 
them, so as to reflect the sun’s rays strongly upon them. 
They soon became red, while the rest remained unchanged 
in color. Would not planting them, as well as many 
other of the smaller garden fruits, against a white washed 
fence or wall, prove of great advantage? It is estimated 
in England, that a good wall for fruit is equal to an ad¬ 
vance of six degrees towards the equator; why then is 
this powerful means of producing early fruit, so gene¬ 
rally overlooked in this country? 
Early Potatoes.— It is well known that the eye end 
of a potatoe will yield a crop earlier by some days, than 
the root end. This appears to be owing simply to the 
earlier growth of the sprouts from the eye end. Earli¬ 
ness will be greatly increased by placing the seed pota¬ 
toes in a box of moist sand, early in spring, in a warm 
place in the house; and then planting them when the 
shoots are about two inches long, taking care not to break 
them off. 
Strawberries_ Many cultivators suffer their beds to 
run wild, and still obtain tolerable crops; but a still bet¬ 
ter way is to plant them in drills or hills, and keep them 
so. Hoeing or cultivation, benefits them as much as it 
does corn. By pursuing this course, the writer obtained 
nearlAj a pint of large, fat, plump strawberries from some 
single plants the past season. 
Lime. _This success with strawberries, might have 
been partly owing to the use of lime. Its tendency to 
diminish the growth of leaves and stem, and increase 
that of seed and fruit, is well known. It had been ap¬ 
plied two years before to the strawberry bed, at the 
rate of about half a bushel to a square rod. A similar 
effect was observed on tomatoes, when the manure they 
received, which was well rotted, had a small quantity of 
lime thoroughly mixed with it. The growth of their 
stems was moderate, and the product in fruit, very abun¬ 
dant. Others, manured without lime, grew abundantly in 
stem, and the product of fruit not quite so great. Slaclmd 
lime was used. The difference might have been owing 
to other causes; at any rate, more experiments are 
needed. 
Early Lettuce _This was obtained at least three 
weeks earlier than other Lettuce sown in the hot bed, by 
A TELESTICH.—NEW-YEAR’S SALUTATORY. 
Another year is fled. “Time, as the weaver’s shuttle, flies as swif T!” 
Again, with sanguine hope—with zealous cheer, we loose our cable, launc H, 
Dreaming each star and wind our friend, on the tumultuous sea of lif E. 
Yet, long as years their endless cymles roll, in speech stentorfli C, 
Through your fair columns preach, as e’er before, instruction wise. May yo U 
Long live, “to sow in them the seed of knowledge agricultura L”— 
To climb to those vast, boundless fields of scientific, living though T, 
On science’ hill; and there “drink deep her crystal fountain ’’’—(that love I, ) 
Which shall, by proper culture, upward spring, and bring forth fruit—some V, 
Some twenty, some an hundred fold. Press on until the arcan A 
Of science is unfolded to your raptured gaze. May you have migh T_ 
And wisdom to perform your arduous task and error to foreg O 
And may your toils be crowned with bright success, through each revolving yea R. 
■Lansing, Tompkins Co. Jan. 1, 1843. Yours, as ever, S. E. T. 
taking up plants, sown the previous autumn in open 
ground, and transplanting them into the hot bed as soon 
as it was made. They were urged forward in growth 
rapidly, by the new heat they received, and formed heads 
four or five inches in diameter, while the other lettuce 
was hardly an inch high. 
Selection or Varieties_ This is a matter of very 
great importance, where excellence in quality is desired. 
For lettuce, I have found the Early Curled Silesia, and 
Imperial Cabbage Lettuce, very good varieties. The 
latter forms large fine heads of great delicacy. 
The best Cabbages appear to be the Early Sugarloaf, 
Green Savoy, and old fashioned large winter Drumhead. 
The Sugarloaf heads earlier than the Early York, and 
appears to be superior to it in quality. For those who 
like a very tender cabbage, the Savoy will stand pre-emi¬ 
nent. The character of the Drumhead we all know. 
I have tried many varieties of the turnep for table use,and 
find none to satisfy most persons who have eaten them,bet- 
ter than the White Norfolk, whether for early or late use. 
Of beets, the Bassano excels any that I have tried. It 
is very early, will keep through winter in moist sand, 
and is as much more delicate and sweet than the red tur¬ 
nep beet, as the latter is better than the old fashioned, 
stringy, long blood beet. 
Keeping Roots through Winter.— The most con¬ 
venient and neat method of doing this, is to procure bar¬ 
rels, hogsheads, or large boxes, place them in the cel¬ 
lar, fill them with the potatoes, turneps, beets, or other 
roots, and fill in the interstices with clean sand, which is 
to be kept moist. It is to be clean as a matter of conve¬ 
nience and neatness. One load will cover a large quan¬ 
tity of roots, and may be used for many successive years. 
Macedon, N. Y. 1842- J. J. Thomas. 
“ I count the hours that are unclouded.” 
The above is a view of the beautiful Sun Dial, cut in 
•ee stone by the celebrated Thom, which was exhibited 
t the late Fair of the American Institute. “ Through- 
ut the continent of Europe, and the British Isles,” says 
Ir. Walsh, in his report on the subject, “ gardens are 
onsidered incomplete without a sun dial, while no ex- 
ense is spared in procuring such specimens as may throw 
11 competition into the shade. We have in this piece 
f Mr. Thom’s, all the qualities that excite the admira- 
:on of amateurs. Its height is 4 feet 4 inches, the lower 
option of the base 21 inches wide, the upper 15g, the 
baft 2 feet, and swelling gracefully out in the center, 
.rhile the capital is 11 inches high. We regret to say, 
lat from the very nature of the case, the highly finished 
ak leaf ornaments around the base of the ca,pital, will 
e partly obscured from view, by the^ projection of the 
quare designed for the gnomen. This disadvantage has 
leen seen and guarded against, by the raised platform, 
m which Mr. T. has caused it to be placed.”^ 
GRAFTING. 
forming the necessary operation, and a recipe for a com¬ 
position to envelope the graft. But at that time we had 
not a single article at hand to make it. 
What was to be done? My little boy was anxious to 
use the scions, and I wished to indulge him. In reflect¬ 
ing on the subject, I concluded that the envelope was in¬ 
tended to secure the graft in its new position, protect it 
from the weather and keep it warm. In looking over 
my medicine chest, my eye fell upon a roll of adhesive 
or sticking plaster, such as is used by surgeons, to draw 
together and dress wounds. This, said I, will do. The 
plaster was warmed and spread upon strips of rags, and 
then these strips were wound around the stock and the 
scions secured in their places. 
In the course of the season, we were pleased to find 
that our grafts grew and fiourished, and not one failed, 
and some are now of considerable size and Iqngth, though 
several have been bitten by cattle. Thus an emergency 
has shown that surgeon’s adhesive plaster will answer to 
bind and retain scions in their place, when removed to 
aaother tree. Richmond. 
In the spring of 1841, a neighbor gave my son a few 
loice pear scions for grafting. Not being prepared with 
ock on which to engraft them, we looked around the 
,rm and found a few young trees that had sprung up 
)ontaneously along the fences and water courses, and for 
le want of better, took them for the purpose intended, 
eing novices in the art, we consulted the volumes of 
le “ Cultivator,” and found therein, directions for per- 
NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. 
J. - 
Communications have been received during the past month 
from N. Reed, F. A. Phenix, M. T. M’Gehee, Wm. Partridge, 
Solon Robinson, John Moxon, W. H. Sotham, Chemist, Plow- 
boy, Th. Gilbert, Magnolia, C. H. Tomlinson, A Lover of Good 
Poultry, J., A Constant Reader, J. J. T., A Wheat Grower of 
Western N. York, J. Odell, N. Darling, P. P., John Beach, E. 
Manley, A. E. Allen, Tweedside, D. Tomlinson, J. McD. McIn¬ 
tyre, S. E. T., Richmond, D. G. Mitchell, S. W. JJewett, H. W. 
S. C., R. T. Bentley, J. H. Young. K. Gallup. 
Books, Pamphlets, &c. have been received as follows; — From 
Thos. Hancock, Esq., Burlington, N. J., a continuation of the 
“ Transactions of the Penn. Hort. Society,”—from some un¬ 
known friend, “ Address of Hon. Garrett Andrews to the Plant¬ 
ers’ Club of Hancock County, Ga.”—from Tappan ^ Dennett, 
publishers, Boston, Sparks’ “ Life of Washington,” 2 vols. 12 
mo., and Smith’s “ xjniversalism Renounced,”—from J. R. 
Ames of this city, two large 12 mo. vols. entitled “ The Bible 
of Nature, and substance of Virtue”—from the Author, “An 
Address before the Fredericksburgh Ag. Society,” at its late 
meeting, by J. M. Garnett, Esq.—from the Author, “ The Muok 
Manual,” by S. L. Dana, M. D., 2d edition—from E. H. Pease, 
bookseller, of this city. Part I. of “ Alison’s History of Eu¬ 
rope,” and Parts I. and H. of Brande’s “Encyclopedia of 
Science, Literature and Art,” two valuable works, which are 
now publishing in parts, at prices lower than any useful work 
has heretofore been published—from the Author, “An Address 
before the Monroe Ag. Society at Rochester, Oct. 26, 1842, by 
Henry Colman, President of the Society”—from some unknown 
friend, “An Address by W. W. W. Bowie, Esq., before the 
Prince George’s Co. Ag. Society, Nov. 3, 1842”—from the pub¬ 
lisher, Charles Foster, Cincinnati, “ The Western Farmer and 
Gardner’s Almanac for 1843.” 
5^3“ It is not in our power to comply with the requests of 
Thomas Gilbert, Esq. Georgetown, New Brunswick, or “P. 
P.” near Pittsburg, Pa , nor can we answer the inquiry of 
Parsons & Co. Flushing, 
AGENTS FOR THE CULTIV-ATOR, 
IN THE FRINCIPAL CITIES. 
Boston—Eben. Wright, Druggist, 46 Milk st. 
Hovey & Co. Seedsmen, 7 Merchant’s Row. 
Providence —A. H. Slilwell, Bookseller. 
Hartford—E. W. Bull, Druggist. 
New-f/aticn—George Sherman. „ , „ 
New-York —^Dayton & Newman, Booksellers, 199 Broadway. 
Vtica—Wm. Bristol, Druggist. 
Boc/iester—Samuel Hamilton, 8 Bullalo st. 
Philadelphia—Joiaii Dobson, Bookseller. 
D. M. Landreth & Co. Seedsmen. 
Pittsburgh —R. G. Berford, 85 Fourth st. 
Baltimore— Dt. G. B. Smith. 
Washin^toTi City —F. Taylor, Books6ll6T. 
® J. F. Callan, Seedsman. 
Richmond—B. Hill Jr. & Co. 
Charleston—D. M. Landreth, Seedsman. 
St. Louis—E. P. Pettes. 
Augusta, Geo.—Wm Haines, Jr. 
Nashville — A. Fall. t. • j- i a • 
Jas. A. Creighton & Co. Periodical Agents. 
Louisville- J’&mes George, Ag. Warehouse, 4th st. 
Montreal, L. C.—Benj. Brewster. 
Toronto, V. C.—Eastwood & Skinner, Booksellers 
Halifax, N. S.-C. H. Belcher, Bookseller. 
St. Andrews, N. B.-G. F. Campbell, Esq. P. M. 
St. Johns, N. B.—T. H. Wentworth, Esq. P. M. 
CHARLES STARR, Jr. 
Mendham., Morris Co. New-Jersey, 
T-YTTTT be nrenared to execute orders the coming spring, for 
W thorough bred Berkshire Pigs, from the imported Boar 
Hasbourne, and a superior boar of Windsor t^stte famfly, and 
fifteen choice sows, lately procured from A. B. Allen, Esq. of 
®'wvl°of this superior stock, from two to three months old, 
will be delivered, well caged, on shipboard, from twenty-five to 
'■^Persons^desiring'pigS) or full grown 
with all the advantages of Mr. Allen s stock, at Buffalo, with 
out incurring the risks and costs ■ of canal 
advertiser’s residence being hut half a day’s ride from N. York. 
January, 1842. 
