ous mass of stone was speculated on by many. 
Would the tllbert tree die in the attempt? 
Would it burst the millstone, or would it lift 
it? In the end the little Albert tree lifted the 
millstone, and in 1803 wore it like crinoline 
about its trunk, and Mr. Waterton used to 
sit upon it under the branching shade. 
M iami black cap baspbku 
Superior to the Doolittle in every reside 
:1111,1 ■'Ml* In ’’e.vrlii ' , u‘, v 
I wl guarantee it to t„. ojuut n 
to tbeSeuora Comity muck Cup In ••very rearm 
ffie P r| cu •» oMj' <nuyityh.th a* MO*. I’rfei, A per, 
ft per lOflsJtt per Also Doolittle Black Cs . P„ 
THE committee on native fruits, 
I observe, in the last Rural New-Yorker, 
some censure on the Committee on Native 
fruits, appointed by the Horticultural Society 
0 f Western New York, for supposed neglect of 
duty. It is of course a matter of no interest to 
your readers and the public what private reasons 
prevented the attendance of any of the Commit¬ 
tee; but it may assist future exhibitors of new 
fruits, and prevent disappointment, for me to 
state some of them, as Chairman of that Com¬ 
mittee. 
I saw no printed notice to the Committee, and 
bad this season but two special notices by mail. 
The first was from a strawberry cultivator at 
Waterloo, whose notice came as I was preparing 
to leave home on a previous appointment for a 
distant city, and It was impossible to be at both 
places at once. The other was from H. H. Doo¬ 
little, mentioned in last Rural New-Yorker. 
It was received on the appointed day, after all 
trains had passed! except the one reaching the 
designated place at ft P. M.—quite too late for a 
,1. ( ana. iWriphY ^ , , ; ££ 
atawlHsa ami Davtouitt Thornless RwpWry \Uo' 
Dorchester, New- Rochelle, Kirtatlnuy, Kelly wlunn and 
Crystal Whim Blackberry. Also. Uuw&rry euSts 
enormous quantities, muf 
at the very lowest rate*. Wholesale List sent on Vtmlt 
catlou. Also, 1 uitnv - Small Fhittt Cataloovk, Tor u 
cents. Address A. M. PURDY, South Bend, ImL, 11 
Or M, R. PURDY, Bos 125, Palmyra, N. y, 
Fox River Vallicy Hort. Association.— By a note 
from the Secretary, N. E. Ballou, dated Sandwich, 
Ill., Aug. 04th, we learn that a Society has just been 
formed there with the above title. That section of 
the State is said to be eminently adapted to fruit 
growing, hence the Society commences operations 
under flattering auspices. The Society organized and 
elected the following officers: Prts't — Augustus 
.Adams. Vk( Pres'tr— Israel Rogers, Jesse Brady. 
■SYc'y— N. E. Ballou. 7V«w.—n. 0. Groves, Mcecu- 
dve ^oard— William Hc-nning, Smith G. Minkler, 
John A. Cook, M. D., D. R. Brccse and Israel Skinner. 
A Fruit Farm.—E. A. Thompson of Cincinnati, 
about three years eiuce commenced operations on a 
hill two miles from Covington, for the purpose or 
making a fruit farm. Since that time he has pre¬ 
pared the ground and planted out 87,000 grapo 
viues, comprising nine varieties, and 1,000 peach and 
1,500 pear trees. The vines and trees give promise of 
abundant, frnitfulness In the immediate future. 
J UST I'l BLISHKD 
return mail for 20 cents, 
TWELVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN CULTURE OF THE 
DOOLITTLE 
Or Improved Black Raspberry, 
By II. II. DOOLITTLE, Oaks’ Corners, N. Y. 
21 Pages, Illustrated with Eight Engravings. 
My theory of propagation, method of cultivation, 
trimming, describing good from had plants, and giving 
practical directions for managing a plat of Berries -the 
result of receut experiments, ami never before published, 
WORTH $25 1*10II AC It 10 
to any one growing tnese Berries. Describes also the 
The Seneca Black-Cap, 
A new Seedling from the Doolittle—7 or 8 days later— 
larger and every way a better market berry. Also 
CARDEN RASPBERRY, 
Another Seedling trom the Doolittle, more Juicy, less 
seedy and decidedly a homo berry. Price of hook, by 
mall, go cents ; to dealers, by express, fill too, 
N. B.—Editors of Agricultural and Horticultural pa¬ 
pers sending copy, with rates ot advertising marked, 
will receive a copy by return mall, and probably an ad¬ 
vertisement. 
WAJNTTEn : 
Some oue living near where Agricultural anil Horticul¬ 
tural Barnettes hold their Fairs, or meetings, tills Fall, tn 
every State, to sell or distribute, as directed, the above 
described little, book. Liberal compensation allowed. 
Write by return mail, stating number of such Fairs,and 
whether State or County .Ac., you can visit,, and giving 
the terms or price per duv, (with good reference,;! for 
which you can serve me. Address 
It, if. DOOLITTLE, Oaks'Corners, N.Y. 
AND SENT BA' 
Catalogues, Pamphlets, .fcc,, Rkckiveil— Frobt 
& Co’s. Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of 
Frails. Aieo their Wholesale Catalogue of Fruit, and 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Roses, Bulbs, &c„ for the 
autumn of 18(17. Address Frost & Co., Genesee Val¬ 
ley Nurseries, Rochester, N. Y. 
THE SWAMP HUCKLEBERRY, 
certain. The seeds are qnite’small, and require 
considerable care in sowing. 
A good plan is to crush the berries, and mix 
them with line sand ; then put them in a box or 
flower-pot, and bury in the open ground until 
spring. Prepare a seed-bed, the soil of which 
should be, at least, half leaf-mould, Or peat, 
from a swamp; the remainder may bo any good 
garden soil. Surround the bed with boards, a 
foot or more in width, mix the soil thoroughly 
and rake, level, then sow on the sattd containing 
the seeds; then silt over this soil suilieicnt to 
cover the seeds about a quarter of an inch deep, 
give a good soaking of water and place a screen 
over the frame. It may be made of lath, coarse 
cloth, or anything that will partially shade the 
plants when they come up, but not wholly ex- 
olnde the light. Keep the soil well watered, ap¬ 
plying the. water with a watering-pot, or in such 
a manner that the seeds or plants will not be 
disturbed, 
Lakh Shohe Grape Growers’ Association.— Our 
Report of the meeting of this Asssociation, nud some 
notes of the excursion to the Islands, are necessarily 
deferred until next week. 
VARIOUS ORIGINAL RECIPES, &c 
Eds. Rural :—As I have learned many excel¬ 
lent things from your paper, 1 will venture to 
give you some of my recipes : 
Dyspepsia Bread,— 8 qta. of unbolted wheat 
meal; 1 qt. of soft water; 1 gill of yeast; 1 gill 
of molusses and 1 teaspoon of saleratus. 
Muffins.— 1 qt. of milk; 2 eggs; 2 spoonsful 
of yeast; 2 lbs. of flour; a lump of butter the 
size of an egg—which is to be melted In the 
milk—and u little salt. The milk is to be warm¬ 
ed and the ingredients added. Lot it rise, and 
then turn the mixture into buttered pans. Bake: 
to a light brown. 
Plum Pudding,— Pound 6 crackers and soak 
them over night in milk enough to cover them; 
then add S pints of milk ; 4 or 5 eggs; }4 lb. of 
t'u.wiu«, mill cilice with nutmeg. Sweeten with 
sugar and molasses. Bake about two hours. 
Pound Cake— 1 lb. of flour; 1 do. of sugar; 
1 do. of butter; 10 eggs; rose water and nut¬ 
meg. 
Warts.—A pply caustic or wash the wart jvith 
milkweed. 
For a Cut.—Do it up in fresh blood; keep it 
wet with hot drops, and it will soon get well.— 
Maria, Maple Grove , N. Y. 
THE CLEVELAND COMMITTEE AND 
WALTER GRAPE, 
Eds. Rural New-Yorker I have just bad 
my attention called to an article in your journal 
over the cognomen of “ Penn Yan.” Your cor¬ 
respondent seems to have been seized with quite 
an uncomfortable billious attack from inability 
to digest the grist ground out by the Cleveland 
Committee. He wonders “by what road the 
mill is reached that grinds out such monstrous 
opinions.” Mr. Editor, If your “ Master in the 
Vineyard” will keep a close lookout for a few 
ytiiuv, he will Und that some of us have a way of 
getting to mill without going round by Iona or 
1'cnn Yan; and that there is no accounting for 
taste, on which we base onr opinions. The Com¬ 
mittee went to their work strongly prejudiced in 
favor of the luua grape, and we feared at first 
that we had before us inferior specimens of that 
xcellent variety! But as this is not claimed by 
any or either of the champions of the Iona, who 
furnished the samples from her native isle or 
deewhere, the Committee are the better satisfied 
with their decision ; and as the must from the 
best specimens of Iona, picked from the vines 
it late as the 12th of October, could only regis¬ 
ter 7ft deg., or 18 1 -10 sugar, ft 8-10 acid, it will 
>e conceded the committee may possibly have 
had some grounds for presuming to notice a 
competitor. The veteran vinejardiste on the 
/ IRA I'K VINE!*'. All tliu lii’Nt vii rleli pk, in- 
NT eluding Hai.km and MARTHA. FrlCo urul (| 1 lulfly ot' 
vines arc worthy of the special attention of Dealers and 
Planters, Price List free* to applicants. L, HOAG & 
CO.,Loukport Gratia Nurseries,backport. N. Y. 
Tbe seedlings may be transplanted 
when one year old, if they have made a good 
growth, or remain in the seed-bed for two years. 
They will usually come Into bearing in three to 
six years, at which time the best shonld be 
marked, so that they may be propagated. The 
inferior kinds may be thrown away-, or be re¬ 
served for stocks, on which to work;the others. 
Budding and grafting may be employ ed In prop 
agation, as well as layers, the operation being 
performed in the usual maimer.— Fuller's Small 
Fruit Oulturist. 
IH iWW! I’ATAWIHMA RASPBERRIES 
LGiVWU and Hoiioiito.n Goosiuiieitiu io, for Halo. 
Send stamp for our Circular, allowing trio haliiis of this 
prolilic Raspberry, which hours a crop in duly, and an¬ 
other llial 1(1 abundant tn 8cpt, and Oct. Address ( HAS. 
D.COPELAND, Agent, Genesee Nurseries, Lima, N. Y. 
MONROE <OI NTV NrilSEUIES, 
nOCHESTER, U. Y. 
, "'terror Ojo Full Trade a amoral assortment of all 
kinds of Fruit trees, both Standard and Dwarf; also, 
Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Plants and Vines, amluverv 
desirable variety of bm«(I Fruits. Would cal) special 
attention to onr stock of Roses, on their own roots con- 
s ating of over 000 different sorts, Also, a tine lot of 
KtiinrJunl KoHPW* CfltfwOjEUiiH sunt on annum- 
MOD. GOULD, DECK Wl'l'II & t ?) . liochcstert^ Y. 
HORTICULTURAL GLEANINGS, 
tiTRA \V BERK I US BY 111 AIL! 
r-' 7 FREE OT*’ POSTAGE. 
Dr. Nicaise, $1 each; $10 per Dozen! 
Wilson's Albany, Hooker, Trlonipliu de. Hand Russell’s 
Prolific, Agriculturist, 100; Golden & Golden 
Seeded, Jacundu, V„t n loo. Now ready Ibl delivery 
Send year orders, large or small, cheaper bv the Diou- 
sa “ ( J' 0 , .. mark d. Willson, 
No. 1D5 North hi... Rochester, \. v. 
S BBDIifJVtrS! SEEDLINGS! SEEDLINGS' 
Ira ant? £i u !P Seedlings, 1 yeur old, very line. 
•JOOMf! HheSre •• } ■ v ” nr 0 ,*{fc vt ' r -y fine. 
•WO.OOO V llt,r Y . 1 year old, extra >Jze. 
Salt Does It. —n. M. C 
Spinach. — “A.,” Grattan, Mich., writes: 
“ We have some lusty nice spinach, but know 
not how to use ib—whether to boil, stew, fry, 
bake or roast. Will some oue please tell us, 
and oblige a hungry soul.” 
This plant is sometimes used in soups, but 
more generally boiled for greens. Prepared In 
this way we know of one hungry soul that would 
be at no loss as to the disposition to be made of 
it. Try it as greens.—E d. 
The huckleberry is one of those fruits which 
have always been neglected ; none of our horti¬ 
cultural writers have deemed it worthy of any 
particular description, and but very few have 
thought it worthy of mention. Why this neg¬ 
lect 1 am at loss to understand, for the huckleber¬ 
ry possesses naturally better qualities than even 
the currant and gooseberry. All otir northern 
species are perfectly hardy, producing no thorns, 
(which is such a disagreeable feature with many 
of our small fruits,) and the plants are gcneraily 
The berries are more firm 
HOME MANUFACTURING, 
H TACYNT1IS, TULIPS, Ac., Ac - 
I shall receive from Holland about the 1st of bout 
a splmdld lot of JIT A GIN THE. TULIPS CROgUsM. 
o/imVinw lin /j other Hardy Bnibn suitable for Autumn 
planting, CatulognoB Hupnllc.d free. 
^Address .JAMES VICK, Rochester, N. Y. 
A NEW GRAPE. >AI,KYI. Till* Mljj„M- 
‘ rJmJc « K V Jr , ,“* c f ,,r ", l< ‘ 11 W- time tlin above grape, 
No branch of industry is more neglected by 
tbe farming community than that of manufac¬ 
turing their common wearing apparel and house¬ 
hold goods, such as sheeting, toweling, blankets, 
carpets, grain sac Its, Am.; and yet there is no 
[ branch of industry that will pay the farmers’ 
wives and daughters so well. Most of farmers 
raise, all could raise, the material of which such 
goods are made; and, if manufactured at,Lome, 
they would not cost more than half what they 
are now paying for goods that will not wear so 
well. At first view many will say that manufac¬ 
turing haB been brought to such perfection, and 
goods are sold at such small profits, that there is 
no advantage in manufacturing goods at home; 
but before deciding the question, let us see what 
is saved by so doing. First, you save the profit 
of the wool buyer 
quite productive, 
than the raspberry, blackberry, or strawberry; 
consequently will bear carriage well, and arc suit¬ 
able for market. Thousands of bushels are annu¬ 
ally gathered from the woods and fields, bnt these 
sources of supply will not always be available; 
besides, we should not be content with depend¬ 
ing wholly upon Nature for either the neces¬ 
saries or the luxuries of life, while a helping 
hand would not only increase the quantity, but 
improve the quality. 
Those species which naturally grow upon high, 
dry soils, will probably be the best for garden 
culture; still, because a plant is found in its 
wild state in any particular soil or situation, it 
does not follow that similar circumstances are 
always necessary lor its best development when 
under cultivation. If Nature invariably located 
plants under the most favorable conditions foi 
growth, then improvements would be less cer¬ 
tain and far more difficult than now. The his¬ 
tory of horticulture affords abundant testimony 
to the fact that many plants succeed far better in 
soils and locations differing very materially from 
the one in which Nature has placed them, than 
otherwise. 
The swamp huckleberry, (V. co/y/mdosum,) is 
sometimes found upon high, dry soils, although 
it grows chiefly in locations where the roots are 
im mersed in water for the greater portion of the 
year, That it will grow and produce fruit upon 
high and dry soils, I have proved by experiment. 
There is no great difficulty in removing the 
plants from their native locality to the garden, 
but our main dependence for improvement 
should be upon seedlings, because they will 
always vary more or less from the parent, and by 
■Tin* Subscriber 
irTT* riY *• » V*. *-■-'* n*'- DJJlii? Llit! uiiovo Mra.DC. 
U^orlcin ‘ hybrids, iiaiiiwl SALEM, from the place of 
Tills jirnpe has been withheld from sale or exhibition 
orvm-i.,;,, reimon..’, until a stock of p Units could tm ol,“ 
11 variety conitlrtfircd Hot only superior to 
any r.t Hie former well-known hampers, But also to .uiv 
haidv urttpe.at nreiwnt before the politic, combining, «s 
11V ,'T7 duality desirable In an outdoor 
wOMtiVT... i 01ul hardiest, healthiest und most 
LiMiM+ir'.i " i V J r i“ m a S' 1 I"'odtjcln« euormoiw crops of 
hcanltlul arid llljjblv-flnvorcil frail 
.. h i crape Is a hybrid bet ween the native and Black 
Hamburg; bunch lurife and compact, berry Uirvn as 
gKL h ,”. r «. <-f * Utto chestnut „r Uta’wb* m.lor, thim 
Sri?,?. 1 ’.!’ ,n;r ?;. l ’"y lr<w from bard pulp, very wvoct and 
*Pristhtly. with a most exuuialto aromatic flavor, not 
equaled by any other out-door ^rape for wine or tuble: 
as early as Delaware or Hartrord, huvine never faileii 
to ripen In tbe most unfavorable season for the past six 
years. 
faking all its qualities Info consideration, earlltiess. 
hardiness, and great vigor of vine,size and quality of 
fruit, It Is pronounced by a few of the Best judges who 
have tried It, to have no equal wron-,; all the numerous 
varieties now before the nubile; and I can, with con¬ 
fidence, recommend It us the Lest of my collection, and 
now otter It for sale. K. S. ROGER*, Salem, Mow. 
Notice.— The subscriber would hero state that he has 
disposed u! hN entire stoek pi v/o<and wood of the 
balcm Grape to J. L WARING oi ' Amenta Vineyard,” 
Amenlu, Dutchess Co., N. V., to whom all order- tor the 
same must, hereafter lie addressed. R. 5, ROGERS. 
Salem, Muse., Murch 2 d, 1807. 
The, nndersltmcd nowoifers for sain this Autumn, the 
above valuable vine, In quantity, one ami two your old 
plants,.suitable for vineyard purposes. The. demand for 
it wfll.be large, and those wishing to secure them would 
do well to send iu their orders early. Price List and 
engraving will he sent in August, on application to 
J. L. WARING, bole Proprietor ” Sai.kii " vine 
Committee have long felt thankful for the Dcla- 
* 4re t the Iona, and the grand old broad-leafed 
people’s Concord 
and if a better than these 
l^tall be raised up in the Walter, or any other 
jgrape, we are free to be thankful for that also. 
- 1 is a little noticeable that 
you save the manufacturer’s 
profit, the six per cent. Government tax, the 
commission merchant’s profit, the wholesale 
merchant’s profit, and lastly the retail mer¬ 
chant’s profit, besides freights, boxing, ware¬ 
house charges, &c., &c. 
Within n reasonable distance of most neighbor¬ 
hoods there are factories at which wool can be 
carded and spun. Every family can get a loom. 
The old-fashioned hand loom, on which our 
grandmothers used to make all the clothing of 
the family, will pap, if you can not do better, 
but is very far behind the times. Wo know of 
no loom for general family purposes that will 
compare with the Mendenhall Improved Self- 
Acting Hand Loom, sold by A. B. Gates ik Co., 
Philadelphia, Pa. It is simple, easily under¬ 
stood, and easy to operate; all the operations of 
Penn Yan” states, 
j' 1 ru e beginning of his attack, that the Walter 
entire stranger to him; and then, before he 
. — j essays to give a full description of its 
a thick, furry skin, 
center,” Arc. Per- 
j£ an (■-"’ ' * • - 
closes, he t ■ 
Wul qualities, as having “ 
■bill a tough, acid, unripe 
“ a P s > was unfortunate in falling in with the 
: Pecimena iu the Newburg vineyards,—for I am 
'-Id it is claimed that the Walter is growing in 
•‘F-se grounds; or perhaps he was present at the 
*pu3t with Mr. Mead at “ a well-grown and 
^ell-ripened plate of Dianas;”—or, more likely, 
1185 read tiic report of our excellent Secretary 
J the Lake Shore Grape Growers’ Association, 
'-0 seems to make Mr. Caywood, the exhibitor 
the ^ Alter, say it was tough at the center, 
11 -h a thick skin, which all who were present 
Ri'.'W i& uot so; but he did say its skin was 
in as Delaware and center no tougher than 
The Power of a Growing Tree.—Walton Hall, 
says an English paper, had at one time its own 
corn mill, and when that inconvenient necessity 
no longer existed, the millstone was laid in an 
orchard and forgotten. The diameter of this cir¬ 
cular stone measured five feet and a half, while 
its depth averaged seven inches; it* central hole 
had a diameter of eleven inches. By mere ac¬ 
cident, some bird or squirrel had dropped the 
fruit of the filbert tree through this hole on to 
the earth, and in 1812 the seedling was seen 
rising up through that unwonted channel. As 
its trunk gradually grew through this aporature 
and Increased, its power to raise the ponder- 
,, - v » vvuiiVi luuguu I. LicU L 
Utawba. 
f hope, Mr. Editor, that your correspondent 
3Ea maQ y others interested in the culture and 
P ARKER’S PATENT 
KR. Sand for Circular*. 
Sclo, Allegany Co.,N. Y. 
?RIJIT GATHER. 
OLDliN & HOWARD 
905-tl' 
