THE CULTIVATOR. 
395 
1851. 
Dutchess county, N. Y. There is perhaps no crop which 
would afford a larger amount of food than cabbages, but 
they, as well as turneps, are likely to impart a disagree¬ 
able taste to milk and butter. Pumpkins are excellent 
to feed cows, and by being protected from frost, may be 
kept till December, or later. Carrots are preferable to 
any other roots for this purpose. 
Mixing Ashes with Manure. —“ A Lover of Farm¬ 
ing,” Walpole, N. H. u Do wood ashes operate on 
manure in the same manner as lime?” Lime tends to 
liberate the ammonia of manures, by combining with the 
carbon with which the ammonia was previously united, 
thus settingfree the latter. According to Mr. Bartlett, 
whose communication is given in our November number, 
wood-ashes have a similar tendency to liberate ammonia. 
We cannot refer to any experiments made to test this 
point. It is not improbable that something of the effect 
mentioned, may take place from a combination of the 
carbon of the manure with the potash of the ashes, which 
would separate the ammonia from its union with the 
carbon. Potash, however, greatly promotes the solubili¬ 
ty of carbonaceous substances, and is highly beneficial 
from this action. At present we are inclined to think 
that wood ashes, mixed with strawy stable manure, at 
the rate of a bushel of the former to a cart-load of the 
latter, would be on the whole beneficial. But accurate 
experiments on this point are desirable. 
Hops.— a F.,” Wheeler, Steuben county, N. Y. Your 
best way to obtain a knowledge of the cultivation of hops, 
would be to go into some neighborhood where they are 
grown, and personally examine the whole process. The 
roots could be packed in boxes or barrels and sent to any 
part of the country. You will find an article on this 
subject in our volume for 1847, pp. 82. 83. 
Budding on the Black Cherry. —R. H. We have 
seen the cultivated cherry, engrafted on the black, but 
it did not do well. We have heard of some attempts at 
budding on the black stock which did not succeed. If 
the union of the two were practicable, we cannot see 
that it could have any advantages over budding on the 
mazzard stock. 
NEW PUBL! CAT IONS* 
Harper’s Magazine for November is before us. It is 
well sustained, and will do much in forming a taste for 
a higher literature than has heretofore been the burden 
of our leading monthlies. It is difficult to particularize 
articles, where all are pleasing and instructive. The bi¬ 
ography of Napoleon is replete with interest, and shows 
in its true light his transcendant genius as a general, and 
his wonderful ability as a statesman, in combination with 
rare virtues. The “ Editor’s Table,” “ Easy Chair,” 
and “ Drawer,” display a marked originality, to say 
nothing of the wit. - 
Glances at Europe, by Horace Greeley.—-W e 
are indebted to the publishers, De Witt & Davenport, 
New-York, for a copy of this work. Perhaps it is a suf¬ 
ficient commendation to say that the book has the origi¬ 
nal stamp of its author. It certainly forms an epoch in 
Journals of Travel. Most American travelers seem to 
have thrown up their peculiar views and in-bred senti¬ 
ments, on the ocean passage, and straightway fall in love 
with some 11 gray old tower,” or other age-honored 
structure 5 but Horace Greeley Americanises every¬ 
thing. A free, independent, radical thinker, as he is, he 
praises all he finds to admire, and censures what he can¬ 
not approve—appropriates all the good, and frankly ex¬ 
poses the bad—tells facts as they are, and truths as he 
believes them. The book will not fail to instruct the 
reader in the social and political aspect of the European 
states, and will especially please those who like an hon¬ 
est sincerity, even if it conflict with private opinion. 
Rural Homes, by Gervase Wheeler. New-York, 
Charles Scribner. —This adds another, to books de¬ 
signed to cultivate Architectural Taste, and assist those 
who wish to combine neatness and elegance with conve¬ 
nience, in their dwellings. The author claims, as the 
distinctive, original idea of the work, il the embodiment 
of a fixed principle in rural architecture,” capable of 
adaptation to all conditions and circumstances. The vo¬ 
lume comprises models of buildings, means of warming 
and ventilation, plans for harmonising the dwelling with 
the surrounding scenery, and hints in the selection of fur¬ 
niture, &c., concluding with a theory of rural architec¬ 
ture as a fine art, and its influence on the mind, heart, 
and social virtues. -- 
The Horticulturist.— -Among other notices of pub¬ 
lications, showing signs of better things in the literary 
and scientific world, we would not forget one, that has 
grown up under our own fostering care, The Horticul¬ 
turist. Closely restricted to its own sphere, it has the 
“ spice of life,” which originality imparts to any pro¬ 
duction. The extensive horticultural information of 
Mr. Downing, his discriminating power, and easy, flow¬ 
ing style, give him an enviable rank in the editorial corps, 
and make the Horticulturist the text-book in rural art, 
and the standard in rural taste. A new volume (the 
7th) commences with the new year. Price $3 a year— 
two copies for $5. -- 
The International Magazine —published monthly 
at New-York, by Stringer & Townsend —leads off this 
month, with an extended description of the Fair of the 
N. Y. State Ag. Society, illustrated by several well exe¬ 
cuted engravings, from the pen of Horace Greeley. 
This periodical is enriched by original articles from some 
of the best American prose and poetical writers. Ex¬ 
tracts from foreign literature—a record of important 
news at home and abroad, and notices of new and valua¬ 
ble publications. It has a wide and extending circula¬ 
tion. -— 
Pioneer History of the Settlement of Phelps and 
Gorham’s Purchase, is the title of an octavo volume of 
620 pages, by O. Turner, Esq., whose “ History of the 
Holland Purchase,” we noticed a year or two since. This 
work embraces the history of the entire center of Wes¬ 
tern New-York, and shows the indefatigable efforts of the 
author in the collection of every thing tending to illustra te 
the trials, character and energy of the first settlers of the 
u Genesee Country.” It is a most valuable contribution 
to the general history of the state, and will be read with 
lively interest by the numerous descendants of those 
whose history it delineates, and who are now scattered 
over our wide-spread country—for, fruitful as is the 
celebrated Genesee Yalley, it has sent forth its thousands 
to aid in subduing the ever receding u far west.” Pub¬ 
lished by Wm. Alling, Rochester 
