tling. The trees are certain bearers; through the winter, and is much esthe apples fall about the first of No-teemed as an excellent kitchen fruit vember; they are below the middle in the latter part of the winter. This size, remarkably free from rot, and tree is of a handsome regular growth, will keep well. Ten bushels are re- and a great bearer; the opinion of quired for a barrel of cider. One bar-dealers is, that this Cider is difficult rel will produce 14 quarts of spirit. to fine fit for bottling, when perfectly One tree of this kind, in the year clear, amongst our first finest liquors. 1817, in an orchard in Essex County, produced upwards of 100 bushels, 87 of which were gathered when full ripe; the others were fallen fruit, carefully measured to ascertain the quantity. 34. PENNOCK, a very large, fair, red apple, much admired as an early winter fruit. The form is singular. When standing on its end, the axis of the fruit inclines twelve or fifteen degrees from the perpendicular line.. The shape varies, but is generally flat. The skin a deep red, with small indistinct streaks of dull yellow and small black clouds, and light spots on the side next the sun. The flesh is -pale yellow, rich tender, juicy, and sweet; keeps well. The tree grows large and regular, spreading finely, with great beauty. It is a great and constant bearer. The apples command a high price in Philadelphia market. 37. TENDER SWEETING (for Cider).. Green, pretty good size, good for cooking, requires no sugar, makes good apple butter, and is good for Cider. It is very tender, almost as tender as a peach. Keeps well till Christmas. 38. MIDSUMMER APPLE. Fit to eat in July (in Long Island); a very fine Apple, but not very large. It is the earliest apple to ripen. 39. MAMMOTH. The largest of all' the apples in America. It weighs from 1lb. to 2lb. It is chiefly used for pies and sauce, for which use it is much esteemed. 40. LONG ISLAND SEEDLING (for Cider). The graffs of this sort were, by my direction, taken from a tree, which came from seed, and which. stood (and stands) within a few rods of the house that I occupied in Long Island. The fruit is rather small; but it was excellent for Cider; and it always bore prodigious crops. The tree was straight in the trunk, and looked, in winter, like a forest-tree. I call it the Long Island Seedling; because it is necessary to give it a name, and it had none before. 35. POUND SWEETING is about the colour of the Doctor. The ground of a deeper yellow than the Doctor; it is also larger. It ripens early; is VERY SWEET. It is used to make apple sauce, (or apple butter, as the people call it,) for which purpose it 41. LONG ISLAND CODLING.---I is most excellent, as it requires no speak, in the Journal of my Year's sugar; it is of course good for bak- Residence, under date of 9 July, ing. In the neighbourhood of Yan- thus: "Apples to make puddings kees, they call it the baking apple," and pies, but our housekeeper does It sometimes weighs a pound. "not know how to make an apple 36. RED STRIPE (for Cider.) The "pudding, she puts the pieces of fruit is rather small, the form oblong," apple amongst the batter! She has flatted at the ends. The stem and crown both sunk; the skin is red, faintly streaked, and spotted with yellow. The fesh is yellow, rich, firm and dry; it hangs late, and requires to be matured by housing, to make the finest Cider. The character of the Cider, when properly made, is very high both for strength and flavour. The apple keeps well "not read PETER PINDAR!" I have no other authority for calling these apples Codlings. They were the finest apples I ever saw for making puddings and pies. They were good to eat also, and they came early. They were the most valuable apples that we had. I never saw any of the sort that I know of, except in the orchard of the house wherein I lived. I, therefore, sent out to my friend to get me some of the cuttings from that orchard. 42. NEW JERSEY SEEK NO-FARTHER is a red apple, of a pretty good size, of a very fine flavour.. PEAR GRAFFS. 43. LONG ISLAND PERRY PEAR. This Pear is a prodigious bearer. A middling-sized tree would keep an or for several weeks. We used to let the oxen and cows help themselves as far as they could reach, and then we used to shake the rest down to them. The cattle preferred these pears to all the other fruits of the orchard. This is a proof that they were more nutritious than the other fruits. It is a hard and very backward pear. Not pleasant to eat raw; but it has more syrup, and is said to make finer Perry than any other pear whatever. 44. LONG ISLAND FALL PEAR. This Pear ripens in October and keeps till Christmas. When ripe, it is of a greenish yellow, and it weighs, upon an average, about ten or eleven ounces. It is, beyond all comparison, the finest pear that I ever tasted. One or more of the cuttings of each sort of the above Trees, will be contained in each packet. In addition to the Graffs or Cuttings, there will be a small quantity of Apple Seeds. These ought to be sown immediately in very finely-broken ground, and at the depth of about an inch and a half. I sowed some last year, which I got from America, and I have got about 2,000 plants from them. A great number of fine Apple Trees are raised from the seed in America, especially the Cider Apples. I do not know, that the American Apple Seeds will produce better fruit than our own; but, they may, and the thing is worth trying. The plants that come from them may be put into shrubberies or hedge rows; and I should think that it would do very well to put such plants (in good land) in along with quickset plants, when new hedges are planted. They would grow faster than the quicksets. They might be trained with a pretty long stenr; and, if at a few rods distance from each other, they would not at all impede the growth of the hedge. I shall, as I notified before, put these Graffs and Seeds into packets, each packet will contain fifty Graffs, These will be numbered to at least. correspond with the above Catalogue. The Graffs can be sent to any part of the Kingdom, with perfect safety; but when they arrive at the place of their destination, they ought to be taken from the packet, and laid in sand, or in the earth. I cannot help hoping that this project of mine will, in some degree, at any rate, cause a renovation of our. Apple Orchards; and that such renovation is wanted, every body seems to allow. It is by no means necessary to have young Stocks to put the Graffs upon. They may be put upon the limbs of Apple Trees, however old, that is, indeed, the quickest way to get fruit; and, in the meanwhile, young Stocks may be provided.-The price of each packet is a Sovereign. The packets may be had at No. 183, Fleet-street, the application being made either verbally or by letter, postage paid. . COBBETT-BONNETS. rous of learning the art of platting, THOSE persons who are desiknitting, and making Bonnets, upon the same principle as the Leghorn, or who may wish to have persons sent to teach this art to any part of the kingdom, may hear particulars by applying (if by letter, post paid), to J. CoвHat Manufactory, next door to BING, BARRETT Ed Co. Strawthe Post-office, BURY SAINT EDMUNDS, Suffolk. Cobbing and Co. have received a notification from the Secretary of the Society o Arts, that the Ceres Silver Medal If there were 20,000 plants, and has been awarded by the Society if each weighed 3 pounds, the acre would be for a Bonnet made in their Manu- weight of an factory. 60,000 pounds; or, very nearly twenty-seven tons. Now, I have received a letter from MERSTHAM, dated 6th March, 1824, in these words: "SIR, In your Ride from SEEDS FOR SALE. IN my COTTAGE ECONOMY, I" London through this place some recommend the cultivation of the time ago, you were pleased to EARLY YORK, and of the SUGAR-"notice a fine piece of Cabbage "of Mr. Joliffe's in your follow LOAF, cabbage, as food for cows. I accurately See COTTAGE ECONOMY, from pa-“ing. Register. a square rod of ragraph 118 to paragraph 126. " measured In paragraph 121, I say, that 36"ground, of this piece of cabrods of cabbages will yield 80"bages,counted the number of cabpounds a-day for 200 days; that" bages upon the rod of ground, is to say, 16,000 pounds; or, ra- "then weighed them, and the weight of cabbage upon one ther more than seven tons. Now, (4 acre of ground was fifty-five if 36 rods give seven tons, 160 rods (an acre) will give thirty-one" tons eight hundred and eighty tons. This has, I dare say, ap- pounds." That is to say, more peared incredible to thousands than double the weight that I How odd it of persons. Well, in my Ride guessed the crop at. across Surrey, last Summer, on is, that people do not cultivate the 26th of July, I make (in Re- these things more frequently than gister of 9th August, 1823, page they do! 324, the following remark :-" At "MERSTHAM there is a field of cabbages, which, I was told, belonged to COLONEL JOLIFFE. "They appear to be Early Yorks, " and look very well. The rows "seem to be about eighteen inches 66 apart. There may be from "15,000 to 20,000 plants to the 66 acre; and I dare say that they "will weigh three pounds each, or I know of no crop of "cattle food equal to this. If "they be Early Yorks, they will The Swedish Turnip and the "be in perfection in October, just when the grass is almost gone. Mangel Wurzel are well known. "No five acres of common grass My seeds of both these, and also "land will, during the year, yield my Cabbage seed, are of the "cattle food equal, either in quan- very best. The Swedish Turnip tity or quality, to what one acre is Is. a pound, if the quantity be "of land, in Early Yorks, will 10 pounds, and 1s. 3d. if less. เ produce during three months." The Mangel Wurzel 1s. 6d. if "more. 66 Pumpkins are good things for cows. I had eight hundred grow, last Summer, upon two square rods; and this is more than fifty tons to the acre. They kept a cow ten or twelve days. They are excellent to produce milk. But, they are inconvenient to keep; and cannot, in England, be cultivated upon a large scale. They are, however, pretty and curious, and, in almost every gentleman's garden, there might be a "patch," as the Yankees call it. terms. 10 pounds, and 2s. if less. Of unsaleable. Barley for malting is Cabbage seed a quarter of a rather dearer. Beans and Peas pound to an acre is enough; that are dull, at Monday's prices. Oats. is to say, to raise plants enough sell more freely, on rather better for an acre. This seed should be sown, and the plants should be managed, as directed in Cottage Economy.--Pumpkin seed, enough for a shilling to last twenty years. -A dunghill, or something like it, very often lies idle during a summer. It is full as well to have a ton or two of Pumpkins from it. ties of Corn that came in last week Monday, April 5.-The quantiwere only moderate. This morning the fresh supply consists of small quantities of Wheat, Barley, Beans, and Peas, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, with a few more vessels from the north with Oats. Our Millers direct their attention only to prime dry samples of Wheat, and such found sale at the prices of this day se'nnight; but other qualities were heavy, and damp samples are nearly unsaleable. There has been a good demand for fine Barley to-day, at 1s. per pr. advance on the rates of this day se'nnight. Dry Beans have sold freely on rather better terms than last quoted. White Peas are very dull. Grey Peas sell freely at last quotations. There is still a good quantity of Oats left in the Market for sale, and prime dry samples maintain last week's prices, though the trade is not brisk, but other qualities are heavy in disposal. Flour is unaltered. Prices on board Ship as under. Wheat, red, (old).....64s. to 72ś. 78s. .... 50s. 52s. 56s. Barley 5,550....10,066 11 superfine. Beans white, (new) ..50s. fine ..55s. 63s. superfiné. Seconds Oats.. 16,634....21,072 6 4...... .2,179........ 4,247 12 9..........38 11 Peas....1,191.... 2,230 19 5..........37 9 Flour, per sack Friday, April 2.-The arrivals of all sorts of Grain this week are very short. More money has been asked for prime samples of Wheat, but there has not been much business done, and damp samples are North 'Country..46s. the 4lb. Loaf is stated at 101d. by Price of Bread.-The price of the full-priced Bakers. |