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THE CULTIVATOR, 
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Mr. Morris’ Cattle Sale. 
Mr. Morris’ third annual sale of improved breeds of stock, took 
place at Fordham, on the 9th of June, agreeably to advertisement. 
There was a large attendance of company from various parts of the 
country, and the prices obtained,- show that the interest in improved 
stock was well sustained. We annex a list of the sales. 
Short-liorn Cotvs, Heifers , and Calces. 
1. Rose, 6 years old, Gen. Cadwallader, Penn.,. $80 
2. Fan, 9 years, Gen. Cadwallader,..... . 100 
3. Woodbine 2d, 4 years, do . 105 
4. Pride, 17 years, Mr. Firmstone, Easton, Pa.,. 60 
5. Jane, 16 years. Mr. Taber, Dutchess co.,.. 55 
6. Woodbine, 16 years, A. Van Ingen, Jr., N. J.,. 50 
7. Alice, 2 years, Mr. Schellingford,. 80 
8. Chinchilla, 2 years, Mr. Firmstone, Easton, Pa.,.. 85 
9. Zepher, 11 months, J. D. Thorpe, Albany,. 90 
10. Susy Walker, 3 months, Mr. Simpson,. 50 
11. Agnes, 3 months, J. D. Thorpe,. 120 
12. Miss Spencer, 6 years, (l Dutch) Mr. Johnson, L. I.,.. 130 
13. Miss Spencer 2d, 3 months, Dutch,) Mr. Wilmerding, 90 
Short-horn Bulls. 
14. Lord Eryholme 2d, 9 months, J. D. Thorpe,. 270 
15. Kossuth, 6 months, Mr. Colegrove,.. 155 
16. Gladiator, 2 months, Mr. Hoopes, Chester Co., Pa.,.... 150 
17. Cato, 22 months, Mr. Firmstone, Easton, Pa.,. 180 
18. Ajax, 2£ months, Mr. Thorndike, Mass.,. 55 
19. Hercules, 2 months, Mr. Cooper,. 25 
20. Orion, 1 month, Mr. Rives,... 30 
21. Medley 3d, 2 months, Mr. Keim, Penn.,. 50 
Lamartine rented for one year to Calvin Fletcher, Indianapolis, 
for $200. 
Devons. 
22. Gazelle, IS months, Mr. Wainwright, Dutchess co.,... 90 
23. Belle, 5 months, Mr. Wilmerding,. 55 
24. Nell, 2 months, Gen. Cadwallader, Penn.,. 35 
25. Fairy, 1£ month, do . 35 
Ayrshires. 
26. Rose, 4 years, Mr. Firmstone, Easton, Pa.,. 125 
27. Effie Deans, 3 years, Mr. Maitland,. 80 
28. Miss Chrystie, Mr. Haines,. 65 
29. Highland Mary, 2 years, Mr. Minot,... 70 
30. Caledondia, 2 years, Mr. Maycock,. 85 
31. Jessie, 2 years, Mr. Schellingford,. 65 
32. Bessie Bell, 2 years, Mr. Maitland,. 100 
33. Mary Grey, 2 years, Mr. Simpson,. 80 
34. Nannie, 2 years, Mr. Minot,. SO 
35. Jennie Deans, 2 years, Mr. Wilmerding,. 80 
36. Bonne Lassie, 1 year, Mr. Schellingford,.. 55 
37. Maggie, 1 year, Mr. Simpson,... 30 
38. Lucy. 1 year, Mr. Clift, Putnam co.,.... 25 
39. Lilias, 1 year, do . ...... 25 
40. Fan, 1 year, Gen. Cadwallader,. 55 
41. Sally, 1 year, Mr. Wilmerding,. 25 
42. Rose of Ayr, 2 weeks, Mr. Harvey,. 12.50 
43. Robert Burns, 2 years, Mr. Russell,.... 90 
44. Sir Walter Scott, 9 months, Thomas Evans,. 80 
South-Down Sheep.— -Three yearling Rams were rented for one 
season, at $37.50 each. Two yearling Rams, were sold at $35 each 
—one to Mr. Clements, Philadelphia, aud the other to Thomas Beek- 
man of Columbia Co. Two ewes to L. Spencer, at $15 each—two 
to Mr. Cadwallader, $12.50 each—one ewe lamb to do $7.50—three 
to Mr. Stone at $8 each—one ram lamb, to do. $6. 
Suffolk Pigs.— Five boars were sold, at $40, $20, $15, $10, and 
$30. Nine sows at prices varying from $20 to $77.50. Nine pair 
of pigs, from $8 to $25 per pair. 
Essex.—T wo pairs pigs brought $32.50 each, and a third pair, $30. 
The Horticulturist for June. 
We cannot perhaps, do our readers a more acceptable 
service, than to present occasionally a brief abstract of 
the successive numbers of this magazine, unrivalled as it 
is for the amount of its horticultural facts, experiments, 
and intelligence—especially if it should induce those who 
do not possess the privilege of access to its pages, to be¬ 
come subscribers. 
American versus British Horticulture.— -The lead¬ 
er points out vividly the distinction between the two. The 
editor states that our practical gardening is almost whol¬ 
ly in the hands of foreigners—that not three per cent of 
all the working gardeners in the United States, are either 
native or naturalized citizens—most being Irish, a few 
Scotch, and fewer still English and Germans. As a con¬ 
sequence, their practice is not adapted to our climate- 
failures result—and employers are discouraged. They 
cannot readily change the notions in which they have been 
educated. They have been from childhood led to regard 
as the great evils of the art, “ damp, wet, want of sun¬ 
shine, canker,” while the great causes of failure with 
us, are “ drouth, hot sunshine, great stimulus to growth, 
and blights and diseases resulting from sudden checks.” 
As an example of bad adaptation, a large vinery, 200 
feet long, was erected in one of our cities in the middle 
states,—under a warm bank, facing the sun, with a full 
exposure, just as it would have been placed in Britain, 
without provision for either sufficient ventilation or wa¬ 
ter. The result was perfectly natural. “The vines 
were burnt up with light and heat, and starved for air 
and water.” “ We pointed out how the same money, 
applied in building a spau-roofed house, running north 
and south, instead of east and west, and treated by a 
person who would open his eyes t© the fact, that he was 
no longer gardening in the old, hut in the new world,— 
would have given tons of grapes, where only pounds had 
been obtained.” 
Liquid Fertillizer eor choice Plants. —A corres¬ 
pondent states he has found a very valuable fertilizer in 
the solution of sulphate of ammonia, half an ounce being 
dissolved in a gallon of water- This, weak as it is, will 
kill the plants if applied daily—they are therefore only 
watered once a week with it, and once each other day 
with water. Applied to strawberries, they grow luxu¬ 
riantly, twice as large as where unwatered, and much 
larger than where watered with water alone. Peas were 
a week earlier, and much stronger in leaf and pod. Sick¬ 
ly dwarf pear trees were rendered luxuriant. Dahlias 
and Fuchsias grew with great vigor, and flowered bril¬ 
liantly. These experiments are worthy of repetition, 
although experiments with specific manures often utterly 
fail, with a variation in soils and circumstances. 
Severe Winter and Rare Evergreens. —II. W. 
Sargent, of Fishkill, N. Y., gives a statement of the ef¬ 
fects of the past severe winter on his collection of rare 
evergreens.. Some species, as for example the Deodar, 
which for several previous years, had stood uninjured, 
were considerably browned, the thermometer sinking to 
13° below zero. Among those evergreens which past 
results induce him to consider as “ fairly hardy,” that 
is, by the time they are three to five years old, are the 
following:—Himmalayan Spruce, Pinus excelsa, Cedar 
of Lebanon, Japan Cedar, (on its own roots,) Stone 
Pine, Cephalonian Fir. 
Insects and Pear Blight. —Prof. Turner of Illinois, 
thinks he has discovered the cause of the western pear 
and apple blight. He finds little white specks on all 
parts of the tree—as every one has observed—but some 
of these are larger than the rest, appearing like a “'mite 
of mould” on the bark. These he finds, by the use of 
the microscope, to contain “ infinitessimal” eggs in vast 
numbers, which subsequently hatch into microscopic in- 
sects. They appear to exude a poison, which destroys 
the bark beneath, leaving small holes like the prick of an 
awl, and are in short the cause of blight, that is. in other 
words, death. As many close observers, with powerful 
microscopes, have never discovered these punctures in 
diseased trees, we may fairly infer, that if these insects 
cause the death of Prof. Turner's trees, they do not of 
most other peoples. He has tried ineffectually to de- 
