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THE CULTIVATOR. 
Dec. 
The Architect, a series of Original Designs for 
Domestic and Ornamental Cottages, connected with 
Landscape Gardening, adapted to the United States. 
Illustrated by Drawings of Ground Plots, Plans, Per¬ 
spective views, Elevations, Sections, and Details. By 
William Ranlett, Architect: Published by W. H. 
Graham, New-York. 
This highly respectable work is issued in numbers, 
each number containing two or more plans of buildings, 
with perspective views, ground plans, interior details, 
and complete specifications and estimates. The work, 
as we are informed, has been projected to supply a sys¬ 
tematic treatise on Rural Architecture, with scientific 
and practical developments of various styles adapted 
to the United States. It is to be comprised in two 
volumes, the first of which, consisting of ten numbers, 
is completed, and contains twenty-one original designs 
of rural residences, cottages and villas, exemplifying 
twelve different styles of architecture—the erections 
varying in cost from nine hundred to twelve thousand 
dollars. The work also contains sketches of different 
styles, essays on ventillation, the appropriation of light, 
heat, water, and other subjects connected with build¬ 
ing. It is intended that the whole work shall consti¬ 
tute a “ scientific and practical guide for the erection 
of country and suburban dwellings of all grades, from 
plain cottages to elaborate and ornamented villas in the 
most approved styles of rural architecture; also for 
laying out and improving the grounds connected with 
them.” We deem the. work especially deserving the 
patronage of all who are interested in the subjects to 
which it is devoted. 
Emigration. —Rev. Mr. Goodwin, in his address 
before the Middlesex County (Ct.) Ag. Society, dis¬ 
cusses the subject of emigration. He thinks u there is 
no necessity, as many would suppose, of emigrating to 
the fertile regions of t-he West. We love to hear,” he 
continues, “ of the fruitful soil of that region, and from 
our inmost hearts we thank God that such a goodly 
land is given us; but with all that may be said in favor 
of those rich and fertile prairies, we love more than 
these, the hills and vallies of our own New England. 
True, the latter require more labor at your hands. 
Year by year they must be enriched by you, and that 
perhaps in no small measure; but when this is done 
they will certainly repay you. With less abundant 
crops, perhaps, than those in distant sections of our 
land, you are sure to realize a much more liberal price. 
You have here, moreover, the society that you love,— 
you have those around you whom you have known from 
childhood up, and whose characters you respect and 
value. You have, too, schools and churches established 
at your hands. Besides, we believe it is a mistaken 
idea, that so much is gained, in any respect, by those 
who, relinquishing their birth-places and their friends, 
secure in the thinly settled regions of the West, the pos¬ 
session of lands on terms which seem so low. There 
are various improvements to be made on those lands. 
These improvements demand no little additional sacri¬ 
fice of time, labor, and capital. We believe, if this 
were all considered, it would be found that in this state, 
and various portions of New England, there could be 
/arms obtained, with every improvement in the way of 
walls and buildings, as reasonable as, in the end, will 
prove the lands I have referred to.” 
Mental improvement of Farmers. —Professor 
Meacham, in his address before the Addison County 
(Vt.) Ag. Society, observes :—“In making provision 
for your family, you should provide something to read , 
as well as something to eat. You have little reason for 
congratulation in improving land and stock, if the mind 
about you is going to waste. Every farmer has more 
time in the year for gaining general knowledge than 
any professional man in the active pursuit of his pro¬ 
fession. But it does not depend on time so much as 
on inclination. Webster says that 1 even in matters 
of taste and literature, the advantages of a man of 
leisure are apt to be over rated. If there exists ade¬ 
quate means of education, and the love of learning be 
excited, that love will find the way to the object of de¬ 
sire through the crowd and pressure of the most busy 
society. 1 ” 
Apple trees bearing in even and odd years.—■ 
We mentioned in a late number of our paper, that Mr. 
Cole, of the Boston Cultivator, entertained the belief 
that apple trees produced more fruit in even than in odd 
years. As he has expressed a wish to have his views 
placed “ in a proper light” before our readers, we make 
the following extract from his paper of the 13th of 
November :— 
“ In New England, generally, when the seasons are 
favorable, we have a large crop of apples in even years, 
and a small one in odd years. These remarks apply 
both to natural and grafted fruits, and to most parts of 
New England. We have noticed for thirty years, so 
far as our observation has extended, and so far as we 
have heard by reports, that orchards of natural fruits 
bear mostly in even years, and nearly all of our valu¬ 
able kinds, such as Baldwin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, 
Rhode Island Greening, Danvers Winter Sweet, Por¬ 
ter, Jewett’s Fine Red, and some others, bear mostly 
in even years. There may be exceptions in single trees, 
and even whole orchards and neighborhoods, still the 
general principle, as we have stated, is correct. As 
to other parts of the country, besides New England, 
we have made no remark, but we think that in the 
middle and western parts of New-York, there is gener¬ 
ally as large a crop of apples, if not larger, in odd 
years; for when we have a scarcity here in odd years, 
there is a large supply from that state.” 
Yield of Potatoes for 1847.—The committee 
of the Berkshire County (Mass.) Ag. Society, appoint¬ 
ed to examine crops for the year 1847, state in refer¬ 
ence to potatoes, that they believe one-fourth of the 
crop in the county was lost by the rot at the time of 
the examination—first of October—and that the disease 
was then progressing. The committee, however, 
awarded the following premiums: For the best acre 
of potatoes, the long-red, or Merino variety, estimated 
at 480 bushels, raised on swamp muck, lightly ma¬ 
nured. For the second best acre, 380 bushels, Mer¬ 
cers. Third best acre, 380 bushels, June Pink-eyes. 
Good Mode of Trenching. —A “ Suburban Grow¬ 
er ” of strawberries, Boston, describes in the Horti¬ 
culturist, the following excellent mode of deepening 
and enriching garden soil, which may be applied to 
other crops than strawberries:—Take off the soil one 
spade deep along the whole side of the piece to bo 
trenched. Carry it in a wheelbarrow and empty it on 
the opposite side of the plat, where the trenching is to 
end. Then cover the earth in the bottom of this trench 
with a heavy coat of manure, and dig it under at once. 
Then dig another such trench by throwing the top soil 
on the soil just manured and dug. Pursue this course 
till the whole is finished. 
This doubles the depth of the soil, and enriches it, 
and does not deteriorate the quality of the surface by 
the admixture of the subsoil, as in common trenching. 
Fine old Pear Trees. —According to S. G. Per¬ 
kins, in the Horticulturist, many trees planted by the 
French Huguenots, in the early part of the last century, 
are still standing. “ There are a few solitary trees of 
the old fruits of a hundred years standing, and more 
left in yards, which continue to produce the finest St. 
Michaels [Doyennes,] St. Germains, Brown Beurr6s, 
Virgalouse, "Winter Colmars, &c., as fine as they did 
fifty or sixty years ago.” 
