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THE CULTIVATOR. 
ed in the north of Italy, and that it is, in fact, one of the 
best kinds for the table. 
“ The last season, roots of this variety were produced 
in the garden of the London Horticultural Society, and 
from its appearance. Dr. Lindley states in the Gardener's 
Chronicle, it is likely to prove more important as an agri¬ 
cultural than a garden plant. Its form is like a Norfolk 
turnep, more than half of its bulk being above the ground; 
the color of the skin deep scarlet; flesh tender and juicy, 
white, and beautifully ringed with rose color. Some of 
the roots weighed lbs. and were 23 inches in circum¬ 
ference. It does not extend downwards like the Mangel 
Wurtzel, and may thus be grown on thin land. Its top is 
so small, that it may be grown in rows, so that the roots 
may nearly touch each other, in the manner of field tur- 
neps. It seems likely to prove one of the most valuable 
acquisitions.” 
We believe the Bassano beet was cultivated the past 
season, by our friend and correspondent, J. J. Thomas, 
of the Macedon Nursery. Will Mr. T. favor us with l\js 
opinion of it?—E ds. Cult. 
GRAFTING ON THE MOUNTAIN ASH, 
It is well known that the Mountain Ash (Sorhus ameri- 
cana,) is one of the most beautiful ornamental trees, na¬ 
tive in the Canadas and the most northern part of the 
United States; and that it is much cultivated for planting 
in grounds, and the public avenues, in many places where 
less hardy trees cannot thrive. It is also well known that 
in those districts where the mountain ash thrives best, it 
has been found very ditScult to propagate and bring to 
maturity the apple and pear, of which the country bor¬ 
dering on the 45th degree of latitude in this state, and the 
Canadas, may serve as an example. It is now found that 
this beautiful tree may be converted to a still more use¬ 
ful purpose than that of mere ornament, viz; that of 
stocks for the propagation of the apple and pear, for 
which it has been proved to be admirably adapted. 
At a late meeting of the London Hort. Soc. a commu¬ 
nication was received from Mr. Hornby, who has been re¬ 
siding in Switzerland, stating that the grafting of pears on 
the Ash, was there generally practiced, and that on some 
ofthe high plateaus of the mountains, where the climate 
and soil forbid the natural growth of the apple or the 
pear, they were now grown with perfect success, “ the 
effect being to retard the blossoms, and give vigor to the 
constitution.” The flesh or flavor of the fruit was not at 
all affected; and the practice was successful, whether bud¬ 
ding or grafting was adopted. It was found necessary 
that no shoots which the stock might make the first year, 
should be taken off, but afterwards all such growth must 
be cut away, and the graft alone remain. 
Mr. Thompson, gardener to the Society, stated in re¬ 
ference to this communication, that the mountain ash was 
one of the stocks on which pears were grafted in the So¬ 
ciety’s garden. From the pear graft increasing faster 
than the ash stock, he inferred that the trees could not be 
as long-lived as the natural pear tree; still as the moun¬ 
tain ash is much hardier than the quince, less liable to be 
attacked by insects, and w'ould thrive in almost any soil, 
it might be advantageously used in many situations. 
Great numbers of the mountain ash are annually brought 
through the Oswego canal, from nurseries in the northern 
counties, and find a ready sale in the villages of central 
New-York. In all districts where they are found to 
flourish, and the apple and pear do not, we think it would 
be well to attempt the cultivation of these valuable fruits 
on such stocks. 
domestic ©toitomg. 
LETTER FROM A FARMER’S WIFE. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
Messrs. Editors.— I am a Farmer’s wife, and as 
such should be pleased to become your correspondent, if I 
could by that means induce others of my own sex, w'ho are 
much better qualified to write than I am, to become con¬ 
tributors to your paper; for I really think you could de¬ 
vote a column,or a part of a column, for our be.ieflt. Why 
should all your attention be paid to cultivate the mind 
of the farmer, while the farmer’s wife is wholly neg¬ 
lected. We have no papers devoted to ourselves. There 
are the fashionable Magazines, &c., but they are filled 
up with love and murder stories, the fashions of our 
great cities, music, and a sorry kind of poetry, which 
are good enough in their place perhaps, but they do not 
furnish us with the information we want. The farmer’s 
wife wants something more. She wants to know how to 
fulfill her duty in the sphere in which an all-wise Pro¬ 
vidence has placed her. I do dot think you are so much 
of a flatterer as to tell us that we are perfect; neither 
do I think you so much of a slanderer, as to say we are 
so proud, vain, or ignorant, as to be unable to learn our 
duty as the wives of farmers. As almost every thing, in 
and about the house, comes under the superintendence of 
the wife, she ought to be well instructed in the art of 
house-keeping, taking care of the garden, dairy, poul¬ 
try, &c.; and let me tell you, I think the success of the 
farmer depends very much on the proper management 
of his wife. How can a farmer thrive, when his wife 
crawls out of bed after the sun has been some time shi¬ 
ning, jerks on a dirty dress, jumps into her shoes slip¬ 
shod, which shows the holes in the heels of her stock¬ 
ings to advantage, and then starts in a flurry to get 
breakfast with her night-cap on, and her bed left in the 
way she got out of it? In two hours after all hands 
ought to have been at work, breakfast is ready, which 
may be a mixed up mess, with sour bread or heavy 
cakes, spread on a dirty table by the side of the wall, 
which nothing but a keen appetite, and one continued 
volley of scolding, could make go down. With such a 
start in the morning, it is not hard to guess how busi¬ 
ness will go about the house as well as on the farm, 
through the day. Instead of this, we ought to rise with 
the lark in the morning, and as cheerfully go to the bu¬ 
siness of the day, neatly’ dressed from head to foot, our 
houses in order, with a clean good breakfast ready by 
times. Then if the farmer does not go to his work 
with a light heart and strong arm, it is not our fault. 
As a well-wisher of the cause you are engaged in, I 
send you these few hints, hoping you may do much to¬ 
wards promoting the proper cultivation of the soil, and 
the proper cultivation of the mind of the farmer and the 
farmer’s wife. Yours respectfully, Sarah. 
Ohio, June 20, 1843. 
Monthly Notices,. 
Mr. Ellsworth’s Report—Natural History of New-York,.. 
Faring and Burning Soil — Kollers—Manuring Meadows — 
Treatment of Soils — Oil Scraps — Tan Bark — Sugar 
f-om. Corn, .... 
Use of Poudretie —Bees, .... 
N. Y. S. Ag. Society — Cattle Shows this Year—Spring 1 
Wheat—KiiHin's Essay on Calcareous Manures—I 
Seed Stores, &c. —Agricultural Papers inNew-Eng- | 
land—Extraordinary Figs — Silk Culture — Credit,--J 
The Times —-Agricultural Addresses— Pork and Lard Oil— > 
Hartford Ag. Transactions, .J 
Dictionary of Agricultural Terms — Making Manure,. 63 
Guano as Manure — Culture of Indian Corn,. 
Unproved Cultivator — Major Dill’s Short Horn Cow — Cul- / 
ture of Wheal—Comments on Jan. No.,.y 
Black Sea Wheat, &,c. — Ag. Thermometer, . 
Caponizing Turkies, &o. — Mr. Bates’ Short Horns, ........ 
Townley's Observatoiy Bee Hive — Geological Survey — ) 
Analysis of Soils — Culture of Silk — Reclaiming > 
Swamps—Grafting, . ) 
Plan of a Farm House—Rotation of Crops, . 
Mole . Trap—Surface Covering of Wheat and Clover — ) 
Horse Distemper—Cure for Foot Rot in Sheep — > 
Mange or Itch in Swine—Lice on Fowls,.) 
Culture of_ the Grape and of the Strawberry — Trans- ) 
planting Evergreens—Hovey’s Magazine of Horti- > 
culture,. ) 
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Lilac Grafting.— It has been said that the Lilac 
might be successfully grafted upon the common ash, but 
it has never to our knowledge been done in this country, 
until the past season, when a gentleman in one of the 
southern states, performed the operation successfully. He 
thus describes the process in a southern paper:—We 
have grafted about three dozen ashes, varying from four 
to ten feet in height, with the common and Persian li¬ 
lac; and I am happy to say the result has exceeded my 
most sanguine expectations; for we have grown about 
twenty-five healthy plants, with branches from one foot 
to eighteen inches long,which I hope in another year will 
be covered with bloom. They were grafted in April, 
after the lilacs had made considerable shoots. I would 
advise that the scions be taken from the lilac in January 
or February, in order to retard their vegetating too soon 
for the stocks.” Lilac grafts, like those of apples, or 
other trees, may he cut at any time before the sap begins 
to circulate freely; and we hope those of our friends who 
have the opportunity, will make the experiment of lilac 
grafting; for if we are able to convert the lilac bush into 
a tree, by transferring its foliage and flowers to the ash, 
we shall have one of the finest of ornamental trees. 
HUSSEY’S REAPING MACHINE. 
G rain growers of the United States are respectfullv^inform¬ 
ed, that the subscriber continues to manufacture his Reap¬ 
ing Machines in Baltimore. He has made great improvements 
during the past year, by which more than 20 acres can be cut by 
one machine, in one day. Besides which, a pair of forward 
■wheels have been added to support the fore part of the machine, 
which formerly rested on the shaft horse. This admits of a 
tongue to gear t-wo horses abreast. 
HUSSEY’S CORN AND COB CRUSHER, 
Which obtained the first premium at the exhibition of the N. 
y. State Ag. Society, held at Albany, on the 27th, 2Sth and 29th 
of Sept. 1842, will be kept constantly on hand for sale ; -war- 
Tanted to crush finer, and faster at the same fineness, than any 
other implement for the same purpose. Orders may be directed 
to the subscriber, at Baltimore, Md. 
March 24, JS43. OBED HUSSEY. 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
Fig. 28—A Roller,. 
Figs. 29, 30, 31^—Mills for Pressing out Corn Juice, 
Fig. 32—Major Dill’s Short Horn Cow,. 
Fig. 3.3—Agricultural Thermometer,. 
Fig. 34—A Farm House,. 
Fig. 36—A Ground Plan of do.,. 
Fig. 36—A Mole Trap,... 
TOWNLEY’S PATENT PREMIUM BEE HIVES. 
I NDIVIDUAL rights for constructing and using the above hives, 
may be obtained for five dollars cash, by addressing the sub¬ 
scriber. All letters to be post paid. 
Also for sale, a Treatise on the Cultivation and Management 
of Honey Bees, by the subscriber, 75 Thompson st., New-York. 
Feb. 7, 1843. EDWARD TOWNLEY. 
Recipe for making Good Bread. —James Roche, 
long celebrated in Baltimore, as a halier of excellent 
bread, having retired from business, has furnished the 
Baltimoi’e American with the following recipe for mak¬ 
ing good bread, with a request that it should be published 
for the information of the public: 
“ Take an earthen vessel, larger at the top than at the 
bottom, and in it put one pint of milk-warm water, one 
and a half'pounds of flour, and half a pint of malt yeast; 
mix them well together, and set it away, (in winter it 
should he in a warm place,) until it rises and falls again, 
which will be in from three to five hours, (it may be set 
at night, if wanted in the morning;) then put two large 
spoonfuls of salt into two quarts of water, and mix it well 
with the above rising; then put in about nine pounds of 
flour, and work your dough well, and set it by until it 
becomes light. Then make it out in loaves. New flour 
requires one-fourth more salt than old and dry flour. The 
water also should be tempered according to the weather; 
in spring and fall, it should only be milk warm; in hot 
weather, cold; and in winter, warm.” 
TROY AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE, 
A t 437 River st., nearly opposite the Northern Hotel, is con¬ 
stantly supplied with all descriptions of approved Farming 
Implements and Machines, at prices to suit the times; among 
which are 
Minor & Horton’s celebrated Premium Plows, 
Livingston County Plows, 
Onondaga County Plows, 
Wright’s, Staxbuck’s, &c. &c. , 
Scrapers, Cultivators, Drill Barrows, Horse and Hand Rakes, 
Fanning Mills, Churns, Cheese Presses, Corn Shellers, Root 
Cutters, Straw Cutters, Cradles and Scythes, Grass Scythes and 
Snaths, Bush and Bill "Hooks, Hedge and Sheep Shears, Manure 
and Hay Forks, Steel and Iron Shovels and Spades, Spinning 
Wheels, Cheese and Wash Tubs, Pails, Pine and Cedar Ware, 
&c. &c. &c. Also 
MINER’S PATENT PUMPS, 
For Wells and Cisterns. Quality improved, and price reduced. 
Manufactured by the subscriber, and warranted superior to any 
other kind in use. 
Also a fresh and choice assortment of Garden Seeds, by the' 
pound or in smaller quantities. HENRY WARREN. 
Troy, March) 1843. 
Vinegar. —Get a good cask and put it into your cel¬ 
lar. Procure a gallon of good vinegar, and let it stand 
in your cask a day or two, occasionally shaking it around 
the cask. You may then commence filling up your cask 
gradually with whiskey and water, in the proportion of 
one gallon of the former to eight of the latter. It is best 
not to fill it up too fast at first. By this process, you 
may always keep an abundant supply of the purest and 
best vinegar. 
PRINCE’S LINNiEAN BOTANIC GARDEN AND 
NURSERIES, Flushing, near New-York. 
W M. R. PRINCE A CO., successors to the late Wm. Prince, 
deceased, offer for sale the largest and choicest assort¬ 
ment of Trees, Plants and Seeds, to be found in America. The* 
new Catalogues of this immense collection, which comprises 
the most valuable productions of Europe, Asia, and America, 
will be sent gratis to every post paid applicant, and all orders 
will be executed with that precision and despatch which have 
distinguished the establishment, and be shipped to any port de¬ 
signated. The Catalogues comprise ; No. 1. Fruit and Orna¬ 
mental Trees and Plants—No. 2. Bulbous Flower Roots, and 
splendid Dahlias. No. 3. Green-house Trees and Plants. No. 4. 
Garden and Agricultural Seeds, with reduced wholesale prices. 
The proprietors of Nurseries, will, on application, be fur¬ 
nished with a catalogue of Trees and Shrubbery of the smaller 
sizes, at low w'holesale prices. As the prices have been reduced 
to a cash basis, to suit the times, all orders must be accompa¬ 
nied by a remittance, or by a satisfactory arrangement for the 
payment; and in regard to all Trees and Plants, when a draft 
is remitted with the order, a discount will be made of 10 per 
cent, if for $'50 or under, and 16 per cent if for $100. On Bul¬ 
bous Roots and Dahlias, and on Roses, w'hen 12 or more kinds 
are ordered, the discount will be 25 to 33 per cent, as stated in 
the catalogues. 
A draft on New-York, at 4 months, or on any other city, at 90 
days, will be deemed equivalent to cash. 
The following books are for sale—Prince’s Treatise on Horti¬ 
culture, 75 cents; Treatise on Fruits, $2; Treatise on the 
Vine, $1,60. 
Flushing, Feh. 16, 1843. ■ r 
N B 200,000 Mulberry Trees of the choicest varieties for 
silk, will be sold lowq at 6 months to 2 years credit, or will be 
supplied to be cultivated on shares. 
Ink _^You may restore ink that has been frozen, by 
dropping a small lump of gum arabic into the ink bottle, 
and when it dissolves, shake the ink -well, and the gum 
will hold the coloring matter in solution. 
Experimenter. 
POUDRETTE AS A MANURE, 
M ay be had, a superior article, in barrels of four bushels 
each. This manure has been used extensively on Long 
Island, in New Jersey, Connecticut, and other states, for seve¬ 
ral years past, and has been found an excellent fertilizer. A 
barrel, four bushels, is considered equal in fertilizing proper¬ 
ties, to sixty bushsls of yard manure, and is peculiarly conve¬ 
nient for garden purposes, as there are no foul seeds in it. Pre¬ 
sent price, $5, for three barrels, or $15, for ten barrels. Or¬ 
ders containing the cash, will be promptly attended to, if ad¬ 
dressed to B. K. MINOR, Agent, 
Jan. 26. 3t. US Nassau st, New-York. 
03 = Shares in the company may be had at $110, which will en¬ 
title the holder to one hundred bushels a year, for 16 years. 
AGENTS FOR THE CULTIVATOR, 
IN THE PRINCIPAL CITIES. 
Boslon—Eben. Wight, Druggist, 46 Milk st. 
Hovey & Co. Seedsmen, 7 Merchant’s Row. 
Providence —A. H. Stilwell, Bookseller, 
Hartford—F. W. Bull, Druggist. 
Nem-Htrocn—George Sherman. „dwair 
New-Vori—Dayton A Newman, Booksellers, 199 Br'^adwar. 
Vtica-Wm. Bristol, Druggist. 
Rochester— Samuel Hamilton, n Bulfalo st. 
Lansingburgh, N. Y.-A. Walsh, gratuitous. 
Philadelphia—Sodkh Dobson, Bookseller. 
^ D. M. Landreth A Co. Seedsmen. 
Pittsburgh—Y. G. Berford, 85 Fourth st. 
Lancaster J Pa- —J- 
Raltimore-Dr. GB. Smith 
Washington City J; "Seedsman. 
Richmond- —R- Hill Jr. Sc . 
Alexandria, B. C.--Bell * 
Charleston—D. M. Landreth, Seedsman. 
St. Louis—D. P. Pettes. 
Avgusta, Geo.—Wm. Haines, Jr. 
Creighton A Co. Periodical Agents. 
Lovisville—J&mGS George, Ag. Warehouse, 4th st. 
