MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND FA MIL Y NEWSPAPER. 
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ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, ENGLAND. 
This Society was founded in 1802, and 
commenced the publication of its Transac¬ 
tions in *1812, a volume appearing every 
year. They are standard publications on 
the subject of Horticulture, of the highest 
character. Thirty-two acres were leased of 
the Duke of Devonshire’s estate, at Ches- 
wick for an experimental garden, in which 
are tested all sorts of fruits, trees, flowers, 
and vegetables adaptod to tho climato.— 
Hero too are tested various kinds of ma¬ 
chinery suited to gardening purposes. By 
opening communication with kindred bod¬ 
ies, commercial houses and agonts in all 
parts of tho world, from Moxico to China, 
this Society has boen tho means of intro¬ 
ducing and testing most of the new and rare 
plants that have come into cultivation in 
England, within tho past 20 years, their list 
now of now plants exceeding two hundred. 
The Society have also spacious rooms in 
Regent street, London, at which periodical 
shows are held, and where much of their 
business is transacted. Exhibitions aroalso 
held in the garden in May, June and July. 
In horticultural science tho different classi¬ 
fications are assigned to a competent Pro¬ 
fessor, who doos nothing else than investi¬ 
gate, test, and experiment in their depart¬ 
ment. A sufficient space is allotted to the 
different kinds -of fruit, as apples, peat’s, 
plums and cherries, in which every known 
method of cultivation and training is tested. 
They have also a spacious fruit room, al¬ 
most dark, woll ventilated, in which the 
fruit is laid on wooden sholves arranged in 
tiers, and formed of narrow strips with 
small spaces between them. Choice pears 
and other fruit are laid on tho shelves wrap¬ 
ped in papers. 
They are building a largo conservatory, 
of which a section only has been completed, 
which is one hundred and eighty feet long, 
twenty-seven feet wide, and of tho same 
hoight. One half of tho basement is bolow 
tho level of tho earth, tho roof is curvilinear 
made of light iron, and covered with patent 
sheet glass. Tho air is admitted so as to 
first pass over largo tanks of rain water and 
thence ovor hot water pipes, thus keeping 
it moist and warm. Narrow stringers run 
along the walls and a path each side of the 
central bed. On tho stages are small flow¬ 
ering plants, so as to reflect their beauties 
by contrast. In tho centro beds, plants 
grow without pots. A largo variety of the 
choicest roses add their beauty and fra¬ 
grance to the delights of the place. 
Tho Society have an Arboretum, exhibit¬ 
ing various plants needing such protection, 
and a stove house for such plants as can 
thrive only in heat. There are also two 
span-roofed green houses, and a span roofed 
pit, in which aro brought, forward tho now 
hybrid Japonicas, which have been so popu¬ 
lar in London. The whole ground is occu¬ 
pied with all that is desirable and beautiful 
in fruit, plants or flowers, all of which on 
tho grand exhibition days aro open to the 
beauty and fashion of London. There are 
often fifteen or twenty thousand visitors, 
many of them coming from a distance. It 
is expected ladies will appear in full dress 
on those gala days. 
Those aro tho recreations of tho nobility 
of England, who having moans and time, are 
thus lavish in keeping up ono of tho most 
magnificent horticultural establishments in 
the world. Wo have condensod tho account 
here given from tho interesting “ Glimpses 
and Gatherings,” published by Itov. W. A. 
Drew, who visited London in 1851, as Com¬ 
missioner from tho State of Maino, to the 
great World’s Pair. + 
but one leaf which sheaths tho base of tho 
stalk, and in some measure resembles a rath¬ 
er wide blado of grass. It blooms in July, 
and where they aro rather abundant they 
make thoground look surpassingly beautiful. 
From tho nature of tho root and tho gen¬ 
eral habit of the plant, there is but little 
doubt it might, with proper care, be trans¬ 
ferred to tho gardon. In such case its 
habits should not bo changed too suddenly, 
but as moist a situation given it as is prac¬ 
ticable. Thoro aro a multitude of plants 
cultivated that will not equal tho Grass 
Pink, for delicacy and real beauty. 
Tho Cypripedium, or Ladies Slipper, so 
named from a fancied resemblance of its 
largo saccate nectary to tho slipper of Ve¬ 
nus, is another beautiful plant, belonging to 
tho samo class and order with tho Grass 
Pink. There aro several species of them 
ono or two of which aro found growing on 
dry land; tho others inhabit swamps. The 
root of the C. spectabilis consists of a bunch 
of long thick fibers, and is much sought for 
as a nervine. Tho stem is sheathed by sev¬ 
eral large, ovate, pubescent leaves, — tho 
flower nods at tho summit, tho nectary be 
ing of a whitish color, beautifully marked 
within by delicate purple spots. Tho open 
ing is guarded by a broad potaloid lobe, 
boneath which are seen tho wondrous pis 
til and stamens so peculiar to tho Gynandria, 
The sepals and petals are of a greonish color 
stained with hues of purplo and twisted 
much like corkscrews. Tho whole is par¬ 
tially sheltered by a large foliaceous braet 
Tho Cypripediuim flowor in May and Juno 
Tho most beautiful species of this genus 
however, is the C. acaule or stemless ladies 
slipper. It is most commonly mot with in 
swamps, though occasionally seen on hard 
land. Tho plant has but two leaves—quite 
large and springing directly from tho root 
Botween theso rises a scape often to the 
height of a foot or fourteen inches, bearing 
a single, large purplo flower. It is worthy 
a place in the flower gardon, whoro it will 
flourish, particularly if the nature of tho 
soil is somewhat moist. Tho writer of this 
has seen it thus transferred and looking quite 
as woll as in its native situation. Probably 
some of tho othor species, if not all, would 
suit themselves to a garden. 
Vory many of our nativo plants aro 
worthy of attention in this respect. Woll 
cared for, they would make quite as brilliant 
a show as many of the exotics. t. e. w 
THE VICTORIA REGIA. 
LATE SOWN VEGETABLES. 
THE GRASS PINK. 
This beautiful plant is found in moist 
moadows and open swamps throughout tho 
United Statos and Canada. Its scientific 
name is Calopogon pulchellus, or Cymbidium 
pulchellum of some authors. It is a Gynan- 
drous plant and is grouped with the Orchi- 
dacore, famous for its many grotesquo flow¬ 
ers and distorted stoms and roots. Tho 
Orchidacere aro natives of every part of 
tho world, and aro particularly abundant in 
the tropics, where numbors of them are 
found thriving on trees, both living and 
doad. Thoro are something liko 400 gono- 
ra, and above 3,000 species. 
Tho Grass Pink has a tuberous root from 
which risos a smooth and slender scape or 
stalk, sometimes to tho hoight of 20 inches, 
bearing at tho summit from threo to eight 
vory beautiful purplo flowers, that aro quito 
largo, inverted and tho several parts spread¬ 
ing. The lip of the flower which is a char¬ 
acteristic of tho Orchidacece, is on tho up¬ 
per side, erect, narrowed toward the baso, 
but spreading at the summit where it forms 
a concave disk, supporting a quantity of 
white and purplo hairs. Tho plant has 
Some of tho greatest delicacies for table 
uso may bo obtained from quito lato sowings. 
Wo can speak most positively in regard to 
turneps. Both the round and tho flat tur- 
nep may bo sown at any time in July or 
August, and wo have known it to come to 
considerable maturity in a season in which 
there wore no early frosts, when sown in the 
first week of September. Special pains 
should bo takon to enrich tho soil, for in this 
way we secure two objects—tho more rapid 
growth of the plant, and a sweeter and more 
tender vegetable. Wo suppose it is generally 
well known that tho moro rapid the growth 
of this and several other vegetables, the 
more mild and tender they are to tho tasto 
Cabbages, onions, radishes, spinach, cauli¬ 
flower, are all much more delicate in flavor, 
and agreoablo to tho palato when grown 
Ireely and rapidly than when their growth 
is stinted or slow. Cucumbers and celery 
may also bo added to tho above named, as 
being much milder when grown rapidly than 
when of slow growth. Some of theso may 
be raised late in the season, as well as tur¬ 
neps, so as to supply the table with the dol- 
licacios of spring and summer until quito 
lato in the fall and winter. 
By tho end of July and in the course of 
August, thoro will bo vacant places in gar¬ 
den and field, which it will be good economy 
to sow with turneps. There will bo, at all 
events, tho pea and early potato ground; 
those and other such patchos may bo sown 
with round or flat turnep, and thereby, wo 
will be making provisions both for our family 
and our stock. What we do not use for tho 
table will bo well relished by our cattlo; and 
cows which have a tolorablo supply, will not 
dry up so early as cows that havo no greon 
feed.— Observer, in Alb. Cultivator. 
PROPAGATION OE PLANTS BY LAYERS. 
This is the time to multiply plants, bv 
tho process called Layering. 
Tho best mode of doing this, is to spade 
up the ground lightly, around the plant to 
be multiplied. Then select a branch of this 
year’s growth, and near a bud, which will be 
buriod, cut in through tho bark, and then 
turn tho knifo upward toward the point of 
bixinch, and slit it up a littlo way. Then 
make a little ditch in tho earth, and bend 
down tho branch into it, so that the place 
cut will be on the bottom of it, and pin it 
down with wooden pins, that havo a hook 
in thoir tops. Bury this part two or three 
inches, and soo that it be kept moist. 
Roots will start from the part that has 
been cut. In tho spring or late in tho fall, 
the branch thus rooted may be separated 
from tho parent stock, and set out to begin 
life on its own strength. Some only cut in 
a notch near tho bud that they bury, and 
some do nothing; but tho branches laid 
down aro found to root quicker by being slit 
as above directed. G rapos, currants, goose¬ 
berries, roses, shrubs, &c., &c., aro vory 
easily multiplied in this way.— Me. Far. 
The first flowering of this magnificent 
plant, in the conservatory of J. F. Allen, 
Esq., of Salem, Mass., took place last week, 
and was witnessed by hundreds of visitors. 
Wo find the following description of tho 
rare scene in tho Salem Observer of Satur¬ 
day : 
“ When the bud, which was very large, 
first burst, the outer petals expanded to the 
great diameter of 12 inches from tip to tip ! 
This was about 5 o’clock on Thursday after¬ 
noon—for it is one of the many peculiari¬ 
ties of this plant that it has always unfold¬ 
ed its buds at that hour of the day. In col¬ 
or, tho petals wore of a pure whito—the 
general form and appearance of tho flower 
partaking of those of tho pond lily and tho 
magnolia. The inner petals remained closed 
until yesterday, concealing a host of smal¬ 
ler petals of a delicate pink color. During 
yesterday tho flower was undergoing a 
change which results in an entire alteration 
of color of tho petals from whito to pink.— 
Tho flower continues for about 48 hours, and 
is immediately succeeded by others. A sec¬ 
ond bud has appeared upon Mr. Allen’s 
plant, and has reached tho surface of tho 
water, while a third is part way up. These 
flowers will bo constantly appearing, for an 
indefinite time, at the rate of about ono a 
week. And it is probable thoir size will in¬ 
crease, as that of the leaves has done. In¬ 
deed, tho second bud is obviously larger 
than the first one was at tho same stago.” 
One of the leaves of this plant measures 
five feet seven inches across, and is said to 
be capable of sustaining a weight of thirty 
pounds. According to tho Bee, Mr. Alien s 
kindness in allowing all who wished to see 
this beautiful plant, was sadly abused, holes 
having been punched in the largo leaves, 
with canes and parasols, by some of the visi¬ 
tors—a species of vandalism of which no 
one but a savage or a Yankee could havo 
been guilty.— JY. E. Farmer. 
LIST OF PATENT CLAIMS 
ISSUED FROM THE UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 
For the week ending July 19, 1853. 
MODES OF PREPARING THE PEACH. 
A WRITER in the New York Times pub- 
lsihes a long account of the Peach, its uses, 
and the manner of preparing and preserv¬ 
ing it. Ho concludes his article with the 
following recipes, which wo commend our 
feinalo readers, if they observe anythin»• 
new in them, to keep until the proper time 
arrives to test their application: 
Peaches in Brandy. —Wipe, weigh, and 
carefully select the fruit, and have ready a 
quarter of the weight of powdered white 
sugar: put tho fruit into a vessel that shuts 
closely, throw tho sugar over it, and then 
cover tho fruit with brandy; between the 
top and cover of the pot, put a piece of 
double cap paper; set the pot into a sauce¬ 
pan of water till the brandy is quite hot, 
but not boiling ; put the fruit into ajar, and 
pour brandy upon it, and when cold, put a 
bladder ovor, and tie it down tightly. 
Pickled Peaches. — Take a gallon of 
good, vinegar, add a few pounds of sugar, 
boil it for a few minutes, and remove any 
scum that may rise; then take cling stone 
peaches that are fully ripe, rub them with a 
flannel cloth, to get off the down upon them, 
and stick three or four cloves in each ; put 
them into a glass or oarthon vessel, and 
pour the liquor upon them boiling hot; 
cover them up, and let them stand in a cool 
place for a week or ten days, then pour off 
tho liquor, and boil it as before, after which 
return it boiling to the peaches, which 
should be carefully covered up and stored 
away for future use. 
Peach Preserve.— Take enough clarifi¬ 
ed sugar to cover the fruit, boil it till tho 
syrup blubbers on tho opposito side tho 
skimmer, then put in tho fruit, and let it 
boil lively two minutes; remove tho same; 
let it stand from the fire till the next day; 
then take out the fruit, boil the syrup again, 
and as soon as tho fruit boils take them 
from tho fire, and when cold put into jars, 
and keep free from heat or moisture. 
Peach Jam. —Gather the fruit when ripe, 
peel and stone them, put into the pan, and 
mash them ovor the fire till hot; rub them 
through a seive, and to each pound of pulp 
add a pound of white sugar and half an 
ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and 
pounded; let it boil ten or fifteen minutes, 
stir and skim it well. 
_ Peach Jelly. —Take free-stonos, not too 
ripe, wipe them, and cut into quarter; crack 
the stonos and break the kornels small; put 
the peaches and kernels into a covered jar, 
set thorn in boiling water, and lot them do 
till soft; strain them through a jolly bag till 
the juico is squeezed out; allow a pint of 
white sugar to a pint of juice; put the sugar 
and juice into a preserving kettle, and boil 
thorn twenty minutes, skimming very care¬ 
fully; put the jelly warm into glasses or 
jars, and when cold, tie up with brandied 
papers. 
Peach .Wine. —Take nearly ripe fruit, 
stone it, and bruise tho pulp to one quart of 
water, and let it stand twenty-four hours, 
then squeeze out the juice, and to overy 
gallon of it add two pounds whito sugar ; 
then put it into a cask, and when it has fer¬ 
mented and become perfectly clear, bottle 
it up, and use at pleasure. 
Mending Glass. —Molt a little isinglass 
in spirits of wine, and add a small quantity 
of wator. Warm the mixture gently over a 
warm fire. When mixed by thoroughly 
molting, it will form glue perfectly trans¬ 
parent, and which will reunite broken glass 
firmly, neatly and invisibly. Lime, mixed 
with the white of egg, forms a very strong 
cement for glass, porcelain, &c., but it must 
bo done neatly.— Scientific American. 
S. T. Barnes, of Columbus, Ohio, for improve¬ 
ment in press mould candlesticks. 
J. C. Booth, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in processes for obtaining chromates. Pa¬ 
tented in England, Nov. 9, 1852. 
A. H. Brown, of Washington City, D. C., for 
improvement in feathering paddle wheels for 
steamers. Patented in England, March 5, 1853. 
Isaac Brown, of Baltimore, Md., for improve¬ 
ment in driving saws. 
N. T. Coffin, of Knightstown, Inch, for improve¬ 
ment in hanging saws. 
C. J. Conway, of New York, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in lamps. 
John Jackson, of Lawrence, Mass., for improve¬ 
ment in spinning jacks. 
Edmund Munson, of Utica, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in eyes for mill stones. 
R. C. Pratt, of Canandaigua, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in machines for ditching. 
John Farrel, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in lining for fire-proof safes. 
Bradford Rowe, of Albany, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in gripes for holding leather. 
Geo. B. Salmon, of Elmira, N. Y., for improve¬ 
ment in grain winnowers. Ante-dated, July 6, 
1853. 
Ephraim Treadwell, of New York, N. Y., for 
improvement in ovens. 
Wm. H. Thompson and Wm. H. Plummer, of 
Biddeford, Me., for improvement in compressers 
for flyers. 
P. P. Trayser, of Baltimore, Md., for improve¬ 
ment in spike machines. 
S. J. Sherman, of New York, N. Y., for im¬ 
provement in mounting spirit levels. 
T. C. Weildon, of Hartford, Conn., for improve¬ 
ment in manufacture of wigs. 
Chas. Williams, of Philadelphia, Pa., for im¬ 
provement in bristles for brushes. 
Leonardo Westbrook, of New York, N. Y, for 
improvement in gutta percha stereotype compo¬ 
sitions. 
A. O. Wilcox, of Philadelphia, Pa., for improve¬ 
ment in caloric air engines. 
Frederik Hesse, of Bethlehem, Pa., assignor to 
H. J. Oerter, for improvement in paper cutting 
machines. 
DESIGNS. 
J. J. Dudley, of Troy, N. Y., assignor to John¬ 
son, Cox & Fuller, for design for a cook stove. 
John Mason, of Providence, R. I., assignor to 
I. H. Holden, as the Agent of the “ High Street 
Furnace Co.,” for design for a cooking stove. 
PLANK ROADS. 
Orville W. Storey, Civil Enginoer, of 
Belfast, N. Y., furnishes the Working Far¬ 
mer the following information relative to 
the construction of Plank Roads. Mr. S. 
has had considerable experience in laying 
out and building roads of this description, 
and consequently his statements are entitled 
to weight. He says : 
The road-bed for Plank Koads should be 
so formed, eithor by embankment, turnpik- 
ing, or side ditches, as to admit of thorough 
drainage, and of sufficient width for teams 
to pass each other. 
That part which is to be planked, must bo 
prepared by plowing and otherwise pulver¬ 
ized, so as to leave an uniform bearing for 
tho sills and planks. One track is sufficient, 
except near large towns, laid with plank 
eight feet long, four inches thick, where 
there is much travel or traffic of heavy loads 
—or threo inches whero tho travel is light 
or the loads small, laid on one side, instead 
of centro of road, inclining a little down¬ 
ward towards the nearost ditch. 
For roads constructed on lands which de¬ 
scend across its lino, the plank should be laid 
on the side of road-bed next the low ground, 
as it will save much expense in maintaining 
a proper drainage. Tho plank should lie 
crosswiso of the road, resting on four sills 
6 inches wide—ono inch thick for threo inch 
plank. The insido sills to be four and a half 
feet apart in the clear, and tho outside sills 
placed so as to leave six inches spaco from 
the inside sills; the outside sill to be laid 
so as to break joint with tho insido sill 
adjoining. 
On all roads with which I am acquainted, 
the planks aro pine or hemlock, preference 
being given to pine at the same price. 
Tho cost of turnpiking a road and laying 
planks, varies from 75 cents to Si 25 per rod 
in cleared lands, depending on tho stiffness 
and other qualities of tho soil. 
I havo no knowledge of any experiments 
having been made, either in Kyanizing plank 
or of any saturation with minerals, or any 
coating with tar, or charring. 
Planks placed diagonally, are moro liable 
to be displaced, in consequence of teams 
and vohicles coming in contact with one 
end, without a counteracting force on the 
other. 
DAGUERREOTYPES OF THE MOON. 
The curious and scientific cannot fail of be¬ 
ing interested in the annoxod account from ^ ** 
the New York Times of the daguerreotypes 
of Luna herself. This wonderful invention 
has been used for years to amuse tho public, 
and minister to our affections, by present¬ 
ing faithful portraits of the absent or lost 
ones. It has now been fairly pressed into 
the service of the science of astronomy, and 
as will 1 /e seen has been eminently success¬ 
ful. The Times says : 
I ho first lunar daguerreotype was takon 
by Mr. S. D. Humphrey, of Canandaigua, 
A. Y. At a meeting ot the Cambridge Sci¬ 
entific Association, in 1849, five of Mr. Hum¬ 
phrey’s pictures wero exhibited by Mr. 
Wells. Since that time, Mr. Whipple, the 
Daguerreotypist, of Boston, has been very 
successful in daguerreotyping the moon, 
using the great reflecting‘telescope at Cam¬ 
bridge for that purpose. But lately he has 
quite popularized these lunar transcripts, 
by tho newly discovered art of deguerreo- 
tvping on glass. This art, which is called 
crystalotyping, has never yielded moro beau¬ 
ty 1 results. Air. Whipplo’s Crystalotype 
of tho moon ranks among tho wonders of 
the ago, and by its easy reproduction, en¬ 
ables every person, whose cultivated tasto 
leads them to care for such things, to pos- 
sess a picture of the moon, actually drawn 
by herself. Tho picture, let us observe, is a 
faithful copy of the lunar features,—as 
faithful as an ordinary daguoreotypo of a 
friend s face. Nothing more curious has 
ever fallen under our notice. 
These pictures are to bo exhibited at the 
Crystal Palace, where they will attract, as 
they deserve, tho attention of the public.’ 
BAR IRON-IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 
AIessrs. Davis & Co., Cincinnati, havo 
become interested with tho owners of Hil¬ 
ton’s patent process for making wrought 
iron directly from the oro, with wood or 
mineral coal, at a single heat, and have put 
the matter to a practical test with the most 
favorable results. They have put up a Fur¬ 
nace, Forgo and Rolling Mill in ono room, 
and the first attempt produced iron, though 
all the hands, with ono exception, had never 
seen such a furnace. The furnace and pud¬ 
dling oven are connected ; when the ore is 
melted it flows into tho oven, and by tapping 
a few inches above the oven hearth, tho slu°- 
or drop flows out The iron is bailed and 
put under tho trip hammer, made into 
blooms and prepared for the rollers; all 
done with but a small quantity of fuel. 
The ore is pulverized and mixed with 20 
per cent, of carbon — common bituminous 
coal —and then put into air chambers pre¬ 
pared for it, which are also heated by stone 
coal. In tho puddling oven it is also heated 
by stone coal to a white or welding heat, 
and made ready for bailing. No charcoal’ 
or anthracite, heretofore considered as es¬ 
sential, is used. Nino blooms, of 70 pounds 
each, averaging ono in fifteen minutes, re¬ 
quired but three bushels of stone coal to tho 
bloom. They are now turning out about 
21 tons of the best quality of blooms every 
twenty-four hours, at a cost of $12,50 per 
ton in Cincinnati. 
The iron manufactured by the new pro¬ 
cess has been subjected to the severest test, 
such as making into horse-shoe nails, nuts’ 
&c., and proves to be as good quality as the 
bost of blooms brought "to the Cincinnati 
market. The above particulars of this im¬ 
portant invention to the iron interest aro 
obtained from the communication of J. 
Greer to the Dayton Journal, and Charles 
Cist to tho Cincinnati Enquirer. Both have 
visited the works, and witnessed tho pro¬ 
cess.— Cleveland Herald. 
tires; but greater wear is made by the corks 
of horses, by butting and splitting tho plank. 
Still, a more serious damage is done by neg¬ 
lect of a proper drainage. On many roads 
water is allowed to remain under the planks, 
causing them to float and acquire an un¬ 
even bearing, permitting the planks to 
spring and break before they are half worn. 
Several roads have been built by contract, 
but on tho best roads tho planks have boon 
laid by judicious foromen in the employ of 
the company. In this case the materials 
can bo furnished and grading performed by 
contract. 
THE MOUNTAIN BORER. 
The Hartford Times speaks as follows of 
an invention by a Mr. Talbot of that city, 
called the “ Mountain Borer 
“Worked into its own machinery, is an 
engine of 60 horse power. This drives four 
piston rods, horizontally, and theso turn 
four half-circlo plates, of stout proportions, 
on which circular revolving blades aro set! 
These four plates are turned with exactness 
about one-fourth of a circlo and back, and 
are all set upon a revolving plate, of about 
ten feet in diameter, and as thus set, cut a 
circle of 17 feot in diameter. The machine 
weighs about SO tons, and is of stout pro¬ 
portions throughout. Tho motion obtained 
by this invention is novel—entirely now._ 
By it tho revolving knives, each running its 
quarter circle, cut completely from tho cen¬ 
tre to the circumference, and thoy do their 
work steadily and surely, cutting a round 
hole as they are turned by the largo or cen¬ 
tre plate. But we cannot describe the great 
machino so as to give a good idea of it. and 
will not attempt it. We say, howover,’that 
it stands among tho greatest invontiens of 
tho age, and will boro its way to an enviable 
notoriety. It is to be taken to a rock at or 
near Harlem, N. Y., for an experimental 
trial. All tho rare things in the Crystal 
Palace combined, aro not equal to this ma¬ 
chine, in the way of interest to the lover of 
true mechanical genius and bold conception. 
The Coke Experiment. —The experi- 
Wheels with wide tires would undoubted- I ments with coke, as a fuel, for the passen- <! ( 
ly be less injurious to planks than narrow j gor engines of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- sll> 
road, continue highly successful. Tho Cum¬ 
berland Aliner’s Journal says: “Is it now 
demonstrated that coke is not only far supe¬ 
rior to wood as a fuel for locomotives, but 
that it can be used at one half the cost.— 
Such is the conclusion at which the Rail¬ 
road Company havo arrived, and according¬ 
ly havo ordered tho employment of coke on 
all their passenger locomotives as soon as 
tho necessary alterations in tho grate, bars, 
&c., can be effected. In tho moantime, coke 
has been sent to many of the Northern rail¬ 
roads from this region, with the view to its 
introduction also in that quarter.” 
