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THE CULTIVATOR. 
ALBANY, NOVEMBER, 1845. 
$Cgp The present volume of the Cultivator will close 
with the next no. (December,) after which, agreeably to 
our invariable custom, the paper will be discontinued to 
all who have not ordered and paid for the next year. 
We give this notice now, lest it should escape the at¬ 
tention of some of our readers, when given in the Decem¬ 
ber no. We shall send out our Prospectus for the vol. 
for 1846, with our next no., and shall be greatly obliged 
to such of our present subscribers as may find it con¬ 
venient to interest themselves in procuring subscribers 
for the next year. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
During the past month, communications have been re¬ 
ceived from C. C. G., C. H. Tomlinson, E. G. K., Alex. 
McDonald, D. G. Mitchell, A Subscriber, S. F. Chris¬ 
tian, T. H. H., Charles Fox, J. F., Samuel Camp, S. B. 
Buckley, E. P., E. Smith, Claudius Allen, H. Goodhue, 
Whi. F. Guernsey, J. H. C., J. P. Norton, G. E. J., S. 
W. Jewett, R. Parnell. 
Potatoe Rot. —We have several communications on 
this subject, the publication of which we are obliged to 
decline, as they appear to give but little new light in re¬ 
lation to the malady. 
Transmutation. —We have received a communica¬ 
tion signed “ A Farmer of 45 years' 'practice in Chenan¬ 
go county ,” the principal object of which seems to be to 
ascertain what we would et acknowledge to be showing-' 5 
that wheat changed to chess. We refer the writer to our 
last number, page 322, for a plan which we think per¬ 
fectly fair, and if he will produce chess from wheat ac¬ 
cording to that plan, or any other which shall amount to 
positive proof, he shall receive the $50 premium to which 
he refers. We conceive it can be of no advantage to 
publish any more suspicions of transmutation—when the 
thing is proved the public ought to know it. 
C. C. G., Mobile.—You can order the works you want, 
through your booksellers or merchants, from New-York. 
The prices are—Downing's Landscape Gardening, $3.50 
—Cottage Residences, $2.00. 
J. A. W., Norfolk.—We know of no work on the sub¬ 
ject to which you allude, worth purchasing. 
A. H., Lee.—See communication in another part of 
this paper, for directions for building an Ice-house. 
Crickets. —H. K. C. wishes to be informed of the 
best way to destroy house crickets. Who will tell him? 
S. F. C., Lexington, Va.—Will reply to your inquiries 
through the Cultivator, as soon as time will permit. 
ALBANY AGRICULTURAL WAREHOUSE. 
It will be seen by a notice in the advertising depart¬ 
ment of this paper, that the editor of Cultivator, has en¬ 
tered into partnership with Mr. Elon Comstock, for the 
purpose of establishing in this city a warehouse for the 
sale of Agricultural Implements, Field and Garden Seeds, 
&c. and in connection with it an agency for the purchase 
and sale of all the improved breeds of stock. The want 
of such an establishment, in this city, has long been felt, 
and a thorough conviction of its necessity and utility alone 
induced the editor of this paper to become interested in 
it. It will be conducted under the sole management of 
Mr. Comstock, a gentleman, it is believed, every way 
qualified to manage it to public satisfaction. The estab¬ 
lishment is but just opened; and consequently is as yet 
imperfectly filled, but it is the intention of the proprie¬ 
tors, to procure, as fast as circumstances will permit, every 
variety of machines, implements, and seeds required by 
farmers and gardeners, and to make the establishment at 
least equal to any similar one in the Union. 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. 
Samples of Apples. —We have received from Mr. 
J. C. Hastings, Clinton, Oneida county, samples of the 
following varieties of apples: Detroit Red, (or Black 
Apple;) Lowell, or Orange; English Fall Pearmain; 
Rutledge. They are each good samples of their kind. 
The Rutledge is an apple of the first quality. It is just 
now (Oct. 4,) in a fit state for eating. The English 
Fall Pearmain is a good sized apple, of fine appear¬ 
ance, and good quality. The Detroit Red, (or Black,) 
is a very large showy fruit, of pleasant, but not very high 
flavor. 
Mr. C. McCoun, of Albany county, has also sent 
us several samples of apples grown on his farm. Among 
them was a very large apple resembling Pennock’s Red 
Winter, weighing upwards of a pound. There are seve¬ 
ral other kinds of fine appearance, such as Spitzenburgs, 
Wine Apple, Lady Apple, and some varieties the names 
of which we did not recognize. 
Seedling Peach —Mr. Dorr, of this city, has left 
us a specimen of a seedling peach, which appears to us 
ileserving of propagation. It ripens about the first of 
October, at which season it is difficult to obtain a good, 
well-flavored peach. It is of good size, and of a quality 
equal to most of our good summer peaches. Mr. Dorr 
has also several seedling clings , well deserving cul¬ 
tivation. 
Catawba Grapes. —This fine grape, which is so 
prolific and attains such perfection in the vicinity of 
Cincinnati, seldom acquires its full natural flavor here— 
owing probably to want of sufficient heat. We have 
just seen, however, in the garden of Dr. March, of this 
city, some Catawbas of a quality equal to any we re¬ 
member ever to have met with. They had though, it is 
proper to say, an advantage of aspect equivalent to several 
degrees of latitude. 
Seedling Pear. —Dr. March has a seedling pear 
which he keeps well through the winter. He exhibi¬ 
ted some of them at our weekly agricultural meetings in 
the latter part of April last, in fine perfection. It is a 
good pear and highly deserving propagation. Dr. M. 
will furnish a few scions for grafting. 
Since writing the above we have received from Mr* 
Elisha Dorr, of this city, some excellent samples of 
Catawba grapes, grown in his garden on Lydius street. 
They do full justice to the high reputation of this famous 
variety. 
We have also received from “A Subscriber ’ 5 at 
Brooklyn, Long Island, some splendid bunches of Isabel¬ 
la grapes, in reference to the production of which see an 
article in this number under the head of “Guano for 
roses and grape vines. 55 The samples sent are superior 
to any Isabella grapes we have ever before seen, the 
bunches being very heavy and the fruit of uncommon size 
and richness. 
{jCp 3 We would acknowledge the reception of a barrel 
of beautiful apples from D. Hill, of Bridport, Vermont. 
There are several choice kinds—Spitzenburgs, Gillefiow- 
| ers, Blue Pearmains, Stodards, York Russets, and Fall 
Pippins, all very large and fair. If such apples as these 
are produced in the “Green Mountain State, 55 her citi¬ 
zens need not go elsewhere expecting to find better. 
Old Cheese. —We have received from Messrs. S. 
& L. Hcrlbut and Mr. Norris Coe, of Winchestea, 
Connecticut, a couple of cheeses (two years old) manu¬ 
factured by Mr. Coe, whose dairy was described in our 
September number, (pages 283, 284.) On trial, they ap¬ 
pear fully to sustain the reputation for excellence which 
Mr. C’s cheese has acquired in New-York and the south¬ 
ern cities. 
Honey. —We acknowledge the receipt of a pot of 
superior honey, from Mr. Nathan Howard of Stephen- 
town. From one swarm of bees placed in his improved 
bee-house, Mr. H. took four boxes of six pounds each, 
or twenty-four pounds, in ten days. The article is of 
the very finest quality. 
For editorial notice of Mr. Colman’s Tour, Part 
VI., and several other editorial articles, see pages, 341, 
2 and 3. 
