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. ITK # ♦ # V I > ., . • V ;€-• - NT ♦ 11'r. |« i Vol. 1. Milton^ JV*. Thursday, Jpril 14, (819 •/Vo. 39 PODLlSflED BY JOHN H. PERKINS, grery Tf^datj, at Thre* VioUart per Amtum paj^ibiein advance. Jf9 Pater -mil be di^coniinved until atl egeeare pmd, but ai the tUtcreMtt oj the iUUtor. AUVERTISEMEJ^'S makiitff a tquare er ‘ lest, inserted the,^ tune for Fifty Cc^«A , , md t1drty~t]aree fsr every subeegtienttneerUm. vvUljOUt applying tllC COtnpcJSltlOtl lin- ThoseJgrea^' length charged ,jieliately. Gie^t cai*c sliould also b. t*ke/«iti. ™ci. t..e, »s otherwise they wiU be continued vnHl ,.4^ t|,at naits be liot dl'IVeiT na as to ferbidt and charged accordingly. ^ ^ (lo injury, that thC slM’edft be not foo tlie wood affected to a rasty broA^Ti colour—This disease. \i no remedy is ^ppUed, will ill the tree. Apple trees arc very iiable to be infected w it)i the canker from iryn- dicioua pritning from ladders, in bruising and rubbing tlie bark off. ii4Ntberirig fruit, from thc breaking of boughs, mad various oilier causen and then leaving the wounds exposed without applying the cotnposition iin- M is expected that all Letters addressed to the Editer wiU be po^ pa»d. A.GJUGULTURAL. •V, From the jSmenedn Ctnlaxd. TO GARDENERS, FARMEKS,.&.c. JVO 2. ■Afessrs. Frick Co, inv first number, published in 'o - o TOUT liaDcr of the 9th iikst. I proinis-1 taken folf two or three buds below *..r/.eedine essay should the apparent diseased part. s« tka nothing-rruiain but soimU white wood w hen apply the coinpositioh as belbre light, which often causes a swelling in the slniot, and \ery often produces the canker. ^.Carejesa people frcqueally Ifavt the dead shoots on trees through the summer, wliich will infallibly wing on the canker. They s)i»>uld boOut off as soon in the spi ing as it can be ascertained for certainty, how far the disease Ws advaiiccd .1^ the rising of the sa|>. i w ould advise its being sfa ed that my succeeding essay should contain some general observationsou the diseases, defects and injuries o.^ different kinds of Frnit Trees, and that I would poiiit out some reinedies I should proceed. In complying with my promise I shall takp the li- t berty to observe, partly in the lan guage of Mr. Forsy til. of Kingston, Iho has had more than twenty years practice in cultivating, pruning and kwping gaiden fruit Ue«, and 1 bavint; bad some ex|>eri«iicc in}.ell, have 5i8Cived, that tiHiinnaUral cau ses, accidents, and unskUfnl inai.age- ment, they are subject to injuries of different kinds, which always dimin ished their fertUity. and licqiiently rendered fhem wholly unpindnc- tiv«. All trees that bear stone fruit are liable to omit a gum, which by pro ducing a canker, proves fihtal to the health and vegetation of the tree. I^ome receive injury from uuskid- liil pruning, bad management, acci dents, vi0ie«ico of high houghs and Umbs broken off, which being left in a state exposed to the air and bard fi-osts, and to long soak ing rains, the wounds imbibe so large a quantity of air, wet and moisture, as by causing a fermentation, wit.i the natural juices, brings on diseas es, and in a short time destroys the l]«alth and vegetation of the tree. To remove these evils, and to pre vent the ill consequences arising fi-om the causes already described, 1 submit the following remedy, which lijis been applied witli universal suc cess to all kinds of fruit trees, and has not only prevented further decay but actually restored vegetation and increased fruitfulness, even in such as were apparently barren and de cayed. It has produced also a simi lar effect on forest trees, by restoring them to soundness, and clothing them with fresh and vigorous foliage. The remedy is either to apply some of the composition described in my fiiwt number, and in the manner dftsrribcd ; or, which 1 described. When by accident or improper treatment, trees receive large w ounds aud the cures is left to imture, lliey frequently overrun with gum and canker, Vrliich, if not ciiccked, will in aslioi t time totolly ruir them. In this case, all the dead and diseased part must be carefully' pared or cut off with a drawing knife, or some o- thcr coiivenicni; instriuiiont, till no appearance of iiifeytioii remaiiiR, w hen the coinpjsition must be appli ed as bofuie described. Wlien the trunk of the tree has be came hullow, cut the loosevottcn part clean out till you conic to the sound livo wood, then apply the composi tion in a liquid state, w-iih a bru?ib wherever the dead wood or cankered hark lias been cut off, after which sitt on the pivvder of w ood ashes and burnt bones, as before mentioned, it the foregojng itirw lions be cai'efuliy ciXuliov will lie eoaiidote- ly eradicated, and the hollow trunk in time, be filled up with sound wood. It is much to be iTgrctted, that such multitudes of fruit trees all o\cr oUr country, are in such a mu tilated unfruitful state. Aftor gentle men have purchased young trees from nui series, and planted them in their gardens loi ore hards, tliey are too apt to think that every thing ne cessary is done, when, in lact there is a great deal yet to do. In packing aud bringing from the nursery, the stems aud branelies are very frequently broken and bruised; in that case, the injured part of the bark and wood must bo carefully cut out, and the composition and powder apidicd, If this is neglected, the canker will follow, to the great inju ry, if not the death of the trees. In all part^pf our country, we may see vast numbers of trees so affected with this disease as not to produce fruit ,enougli in twelve or fourteen years to pay half the expense attending whereas, if they were to be accairding to the foregoing (iirectior-s, they would more than pay ail the expense in three or four years. If the injured and diseased parts he not cut nut at a very early period, the trees will not thrive, but will be come cankory and stunted, and can not be recovered afterwards without a great deal of labpiir'and trouble, whereas, if the directions liere given be early attended to, the trees will Sourish, and l^ear large ci*ops of fine DOME^nC ECONOMY. ■" '■ ■■' t - ' ‘ Froniihe Turk .Aationuf Adyo- caU, It has bcftSjt fPoqwenUy asked, what IS'the cause w this increase, of pau- lierism ui oup city ? bow' is it that our pdorhouse In not only ci'owilei) with age and d^ay, but even youth fal mendicity 'i bow is it tliat sd ma ny ^oung women become inmates o; charitable institutions, and that si; manyjofthem foteigners? and abovi all, to what^aus^wo we to attri biite an iiici^Rae afdqprravity, sen-sn- nlity and crifib ? uiese ut'c serioui quest hilts, jv}J|||k, ii/fie day) we must sfHeUaty ai^c%urtelv«fs, Voluinv> have been written on paiiperisin, \vhich, though they may not fiilly ap ply to our case, yet, in princiiile, 11 not in extent, they haVe u close con nexion.—^lankind is the same all over the wMnid, aniktbe saihc reme dies may he safqly applied in like Cases. The w ant of iiidnstry is the foundation cf the evil, hitd that in dustry in tins poor order afl^he com munity can only he promoted by ex ample among the better educated and refined. Vfe have often imagin ed that our domestic cfconomy was greatly misundiT.stood, if not.sadt,'i neglected, and wc have frcqucntl' been tempted to attribute the cause at once t;i our Svivrs and dauglitei's ; blit ihq fo If of offciiding, wiien w'r ihq fo If of offciiding, would only seek to reforai, hus evei checked our complaints. But the evil may increase until w'liolc com niimities fall virtims to its effects ; and, t! ough we tread on danger ous ground we must pluck uj> e:nir- age to say, that our ladies,g.=^nerally are not suffeientlv industrious, am having said so we throw tlicr evil now strikes m« forcibly. We have too inaiiy sjicivties errone ously called charitable, which cre ate artificial wants rather than sup ply real ones, which tend to eiicour- ago pauperism instead of industry. Bur wives and daughters are ambi tious of the honor of being mctnftei^ of these multiplied associations, civil, ecriesiagtical and meciuuiical socle ties ; and the annual contributions Snd admission tecs, sWeli in the ag- giTgato to a sum which in truth, the h^ad of a fairly, careful of his iWH interest, cannot well 'afford, in addition to taxbs and otlrer buiuicna. Dress is exorbitantly extravagant- simplicity is no longer known—lash- triumpliai't, Qashioere and moidno ■{bawls, Leghorns at for^ dollars, vatcli,; chain,' aiid seals, rings and of morning came, and glanced upon the curling-^volumes that rose from the abyss beneath; mj eye searched the bottom of this awfiu gulL fiiond ill its bosom darkness, gloom, and indescribable tumult. My i-e- ilectioiis d welt upon Uieir never end ing conflict, tiliiT eternal march of the elements, and my very soul shrunk back upon itself. The sbelv. hig rock on vyhich 1 Stood, tnembUd under my feet, and tlie iriesiltildo flood before me -seemed to present the pictured image -of evanescene. The rock was yielding peacemeal to ruin, fragment after fn^ment w.'is borne in the terrible chasm be« nentli ; and the very stream that ipn w ilh an iroirik;epter, now reignsfkuvried tbcae broken morsels to di»* . • • . a ^ ...-.A,.. •X ___ X tintCtiuu, was itself a oionument of changing power, I retraced ray way to Col. Whit- )ther unnecessary valuables, consti-'iioy’s, dnd after breakfast returned, tute our ladies a walking mine of and descending the almost perpendi* wealth.—Those who cannot afford'cular bank of rocks, found myself un to be in the fashion stretch their ut- dcr the tremendous FALL OF WA most means to iinilatcjtheiF nejgh- iiors, and gradually become pw»j‘, '.vben, with proper economy they, inight have been comfortable. AU classes of society are inoi^ or less affected by fashion, or borne Rw'ay by example. Hence pauperism i>o- verty in old age, aud want in early fife. A lit'.le i*cs{)liitioK and the' evil Is overcom'» If we agree to call a pi lio chip hat and muslin gown fasV iiinablc—‘if we agree that the indus trious wife is the mo.st fashionable being in the world, who dae 'd'S- puteit ?—Here we have the remedy ill our ow'ii hands; and never ran the wife be rtiade sensible of these facts until the husband, by a proper example, confirms them—until they both unite to promote industry, , and economy content and happiness, ours^rives HOWARD. on their mercy for an indulgent hear- ti »' i . i ■ n ■■.■i-n ing. It is sometimes necessary to MODERN TRAVELS. ingle iri doim Stic concerns—to —“hi" leave tlie ai cana ol governments, the ■ ^ tuurdi asperity of polities, and the hurry therein also described ; or, which think ratherprefcrable, take some of _ ^ the composition and mix therewith j equal parts of urine and soap-suds to reduce it to the coasistence i>f pretty thick paint, and lay it on the wo4i»»ded parts of the trees with a painter’s brush ; when the of wood ashes and burnt bones must . be applied, as before directed in ray first number. Before applying the composition in any way, all the de cayed dr dead wood must be cut frem the wounded a*sharll Oourisli, ana near large be carefully smoothed with a suarp flavoured fruit knife or instrument of some kind. 1 ... This compound is of a soft and heal-^ log nature, and possesses an bent and adhesive resist and prevent any bad from frost, rains, bot sun, or diying windr, and whenever it shall ^ pro- periy aimlied, it will be productive of all the advantages* that can rived frinn restoring as well as serving vigor and f^^rtiUty m. all kind! of frulf trees, as also .frem preventing decay, and promoting health, in every other species of fruit treees. ' ^ The Cancer is a disease incident to trees, which occasions the Imrk to, grow i^ngh ao^ aSabby, and tunis The heading of trees the first year after being transplanted from the nursery, U practised by soipe with great success. ^ So likew ise is wash ing them with a decoction of fresh cow-dung, soap-suds and .urine, in the morning of a clear summer day. It should be remembered, that all fruit trees love a fine rich mellow loom, and thrive much better in it than in any'other soil. , I contemplate giving in my next number, some further obscrvatioiif on some other diseases to which frtiit trees arc very liable. PENi^. FARMER. of busincKs, to look’at home, where, after all, true happiness is only to be totiiid—where surruuitded by tam- ily, by endearing tics» and by house hold gods, a tine estimate of charac ter can, atone, be formvd. em ploy too many. (loineHtirg, and thus encourage idleness and ^extrava gance. The labor of a house which cun be effected by two pei'soiis should never employ four. Servant maids, whose time is not wholly engi ossi d by employment, and who have not before them the cheering and judii cions example of industry in th*lr mistresses, acquire too soon a negli- gence, extravagance and listlesncss^ w^bicb begets indifference, pampers the bqdy'^ aid corrupts tljte mind. They arc then dismissed their place ; they try anot!|er, and the result is the same ; wjihout stability and in dustry they rontinue to change un til Uiey can no longer find a place, and then they swell the list of depra vity or increase the number of men dicants. The mistress who sets an example of industry to the maid; will ever derive the benefit of her labor^, aud the mkid will' reciprocally gain every thing from the example. But says tlm lashionabie wife, am I to rub furniture, visit the kitchen, and darn nightcaps ? We say» good dame, for it will produce health and content, edopoiny and happiness* Why do ouriadies look pale ? Why aro they notflorUl and robust? Why do so many fall victims to di: ease and early death ? It is because they do not tgl^e sufficient exercise—they do ifot bustle sufficiently about the house—‘they do nut appropriate d due portioirof tlimr time to domes tic copcerns. Wh^ can be more cn- g?g*”g than seeing the tidy, active wife,and the accomplished woman blended in aneperson?—What, in domestic life, wears an aspect so winnioit ^ cultivated mistress to Detroit. FALLS OF NIAGARA. I passed between Navy and Gi^nd* Islands, and landed at old fort Sco-' losser, aiid walk^ down tlto fbuiv to Whitney’s opposite the falls; it w as near sun-set; silenee began to reign over t|ie face of nature. Slow ly, and at intervals, I lieard the deep, long and awful roar of the cataract; my mind, which for years had dwelt with anticipation upon this greatest of the World’s traits, approached the scene with fearful solicitude. I be held Hie permanent objects, the trees, the rocks; and 1 beheld also the passing clouds, that momentarily flitted over the most interestii^ pic ture that nature ever painted and exposed to tlie admij*ation of intelii- gent beings, with more than my common forbearance ; 1 concluded to behold amid the beams of a rising sun the greatest objcjct ever presem- ed in human view*. Rut w hilst Ike stars of tlie night gleamed through the niisty atmosphere of this appa rently fairy laiid, I walked forth to the margin of tlie cataract, and in TER, that even in description has excited the admiration of cultivated niaH ! I crossed the Niagara strait about 250 yards below tlie chute, Tbo river w'as, in some meitsare, ruffled by the conflict it bad sustained above, but no danger approached the pas senger. I’crpeiidicular walls of rock rose on both sides, to the appalling elevation of beiw’een three and four hundred feet. The trees which crown ed the upper verge of this abyss ap- {veared like nhimbs. I was drenched to the skill by the spay of the catar act ;—but the sublime scene tower ing over. my. head, was too impres sive to permit much reflection upon a momentary inconven ience. The river below the fall flows with considerable rapidity, but with less velocity or turbulence than I had leen induced to expect. The oppose ng banks are half the descent > jebiw which enormous walls, extend slbpes, composed of tlie broken fragments that haye been torn from their original pomtiqn by the tor rents frentf abovew—Most mapd of NiagarJ are very defective, the t’irer being represented too straight: I'he best delineation of this pheno menon which 1 have seen is contained in the map of Nia^ra river, puK* lished with Gen. Wilkinson’s Me moirs. lu that draft, the river above the falls is represented, as it is in^ fact, iTowiog almost westward. Be low the chute the stream flows ab ruptly to tlie north east, which course it pursues more than a mile, from whence it again resume a northern direction, which, with sinne partial beads, it continues to the. place of its final exit on lake Ontarto. Between the lower extremity of Grand isle and the mouth of Cbippe- w'a river, the Niagara to upwards of a mile wide, but contracts a little as the rapids cnmmence. The banka as high as Ciiippewq river are not very much elevated above tlie sur face of the strait, but apparently rise in descending to the pitchier rhute« bllC» Alicaa ^ail ^ - * fancy conceivwl the beauties, the hor-j This change of relative height is on rors^ and the wondera^ the coming morning would produce. That morn opened. (July SGth) it was clear and serene. 1 expected much, and was not disappointed. The point of land above A. [in the map] is a thick wood standing upon a sloping Imuk. The noise of the cataract is heard, but its (eatures unseen until tlie ob server advances to the verge of the destroy its best effect.: Defensive, however, as was this perspective of Niagara, it presented beauties infinitely transcending any 1 had ever^cen before. I stood upon the very slope over whicli the torrent rushed, and for many minutes for got every oilier object except tbeun- describable sccRe belj^re me} but when the fervor of imagination had ly a deception in vision, occasioned by the wear of the cataract. After crossing as 1 have already mention ed, I traversed the Canada shore to the bank above the grand or Canada cbutc. On the diagram enclosed I have marked the letter C. upon the spot, froto where the best view cao be token of the falls, rapids and isl ands. Many persons have insisted fall; it'to tlienscen so obli^ely aS to that the boot vjew of tlie falls is to destroy its best effect.: Defensive, be had from goat island. At tbto of the drawing room and the indus-j in some measure subsided, 1 belield “ under my feet, carved on the smooth ^ck, O. D- C« I W. P. hnd'J, B. and many ether initials of friends that bad visited this incomparable spot, and left thto* memoi ia, that friends only could understand- Do behidding these recollections of home you will forgive me Whea l acknowl- e^;e having drop! upoBi their traces tsars, that were rapidly swallowed triaus mother combined ^ Ecoiipaiy is the foundation of prosperity in all things, but particularly in dorae^ic Hfe. Ladies slmuld make their V»wn dresses and fabricate tVeir own bon nets. Milliners and mantuamakers, it is true, would not beancouriiged, but what then ? Money would be saved, rents would decrease, provit- "Ions would be cheap. Idleness n- known, «nd poYarty j^tl^ vortex Niagara* The beams time 1 cannot fonfi'^a comparotive jtt'Jignmeut, as tlic bridge built by jud^ Porter, from the New York shore to Goat island, was broken by „ the ire of last winter. 1 am doubt- fidjof the fact, of the falls being seen to very iQUrh advantage from thin island Sir the perspective ratwt be very obtiijiiie. The rapids are, how ever, but little less worthy of,a visit than the falls tbems^ves, and can no doubt be seen witti much greateu- eilbct frem Goat idand than from either shore of the strait. The ra pids, indeed, on tbe Can^a ebannei is a scene ef sublunity and gran** dear.—Tumbling over ledges, many of which are four or ten fleet ,per- pendSenlar, descent; tiieee rapids arq in fiict a chain ofeataraetk over wMrii^iigminifl foQt ipb Ai r
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