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From the Transactions of the American Philo
sophical Society.
THE CULTS VA TION <i F
FRUIT T2ti.ES.
Description of a metho ' of cultivat
ing Peach Trees, with a vievf to
prevent their premature decay;
confirmed by th? experience of
forty-five years, in Delaware state
and the Western parts of Penn
sylvania. By Thomas Coalton,
Esq. of Bedford county, Pennsyl
vania.
The death of young Peach trees,
is principally owing to planting,tran
splanting, and pruning the same
stock, which occasions it to be open
and tender, with a rough bark, in con-,
sequence of w hich, insects lodge and
breed in it, and birds search after
him, whereby wounds arc made, and
the gum exudes, and in a few years
the tree is useless, To prevent this,'
transplant your trees as young as
possible, if in the kernel it will be
host, as there will then be no check
of grow th. Plant them 16 feet apart.
Plough and harrow between them,
for two years, without regard to
wounding them, but avoid tearing
them up by the roots. In the month
of March or April, in the third year
after transplanting, cut them all off
by the ground, plough and harrow!
amonn- them as before, but with great
care, to avoid wounding or tearing
them. Suffer all the sprouts or sci
ons to grow’, even if they should a
inount to half a dozen or more, they •
become bearing trees almost instan
taneously, on account of the strength
of the root. Allow no animals but
hogs to enter your orchard, for fear
of their wounding the shoots, as a
substance drains away through the
least wound, which is essential to the
health of the tree, and the good qua
lity of the fruit.
if the old stock is cut away the
third year after transplanting, no
more shoots w ill Come Io maturity
than the old stump can support and l
nourish, the remainder will die be
fore they bear fruit, and may be cut
away, taking care hot io w ound any
other stock. 7’ho sprouts when loa
ded with fruit will bend, and rest on
the ground in every direction for
many years, all of them being rent
ed as if they had been planted, their
stock remaining tough, and their
bark*smooth, for twenty years or up
wards. If any of the sprouts from
the old stump should happen to split*
off and die, cut them away, they will
be supplied from the ground by oth
ers, so that you may have trees from
the same for 100 years as I believe.
1 have now trees from one to thirty
six years old, all from the same
stump. Young trees formed in this l
manner, will bear fruit the second
year; but this fruit will not ripen so'
early as the fruit on the older trees
from the same stump. Three years
after these trees are cut off’, the}
shoots will be sufficiently large and
bush\ to shade the ground so as to
prevent the growth of grass, that
might injure the trees; therefore
ploughing will be useless, and
may be injurious by wounding them.
It is also unnecessary to manure
peach trees, as the fruit of manured
trees is always smaller and inferior
to that of trees w hich are not manur
ed. By manuring, you make the
peach trees larger, and apparently
more flourishing, but their fruit will
be of a bail kind, looking as green as
the leaves, even when ripe, and later
than that of trees which have not
been manured. Peach trees never
require a rich sod: the poorer the
soil the better the fruit ; a middling
soil produces the most bouutdul crop,
'file highest ground is the Best for
peach trees, and the North side of
bills the most desirable, as it retards
vegetation, and prevents the destruc-
tive effects of late frosts, which oc
! cur in the month of April, in Penn-
I sylvania. Convinced, by long ex-
I perience, of the truth of these ob
j serrations, the author wishes they
I may be published for public benefit,
land has been informed, that Colonel
i Luther Martin, and another gentle
man, in the lower part. o’PMaryland,
have adopted a similar plan with
great advantage. •
Aga’icssDisraJ 1 mplemrEsts.
Many a farmer and gardener loses
much of his time for want of suitable
implements. Great improvements
in the construction of farming uten
sils have been made within the last
twenty years, and many new ones
have been invented. Yet there are
many who have never availed them
selves of the advantages thus offered,
and who still toil on after the old
fashion, w ith only half tools enough
to answer their purpose, and these
often of a heavy and clumsey con
struction. A farmer who never at
tends the meetings of agricultural so
cieties, nor unites with his neighbors
in the investigation of new modes of
tillage, new implements for saving,
expediating or lightening labor, —
nor never reads the newspapers, —
must be at least half a century behinll
the age in which he lives.
The Prong or Potatoe Hoc, is one
of the most useful, simple and im-j
proved implements that is employed.
It was invented and used in the first
instance for digging potatoes —it was
afterwards found as useful for plant
ing as for digging them—and like-,
wise is used for almost every pur
pose for w hich a hoe has been used,
and they arc employed to the great
est possible advantage in stoney or
rocky lands, and in planting new
lands; they arc likewise used as a
garden hoe, being one of the best
implements gardener can have in use
or in working between rows of ve
getables, digging round young trees,
loosening the ground, &c.
Willis’s Improved Seed Sower, is
a machine, which was designed in
the first instance for sowing small
seed in gardens, is found in using to
sow large as well as small seed to ad
vantage, and proves to be one of the
best field and garden implements in
use. It is particularly adapted for
sow ing rutabaga turnip, tec.
'Pile saving of seed in the use of
the implement is qu to sufficient to
pay the cost of it in one season, and
the seed is sown more regular and
even.
Quaiity oi American Salk-
During a late interview with a very
intelligent Riband weaver, from Co
ventry, England, we showed him a
specimen of American silk, reeled
by an experienced rccler, and he
pronounced it, in respect to strength,
altogether superior to any European
or India silk he had ever woven in
his native country. He remarked,
that he had never seen silk of equal
strength or fibre, and had no doubt
that he could weave from it double
the quantity of ribands that he could
from the silk ordinarily used by the
riband manufacturers of Coventry.
This speaks* volumes in favor of the
quality of American silk, especially
such as is growed in the Northern
latitude. 'The cacoons, from which
the silk was reeled, were made on
the cold mountains of Litchfield
county, Connecticut.
RECEIPT FOR CURING HAMS.
For curing eighteen pounds of
ham, or in the like proportion for
any quantity, take one ounce of salt
petre, a tea spoonful of potash; mi x
them in a strong pickle; and let. the
hams lay in it for six weeks. If the
hams are small, a few days less will
answer. Before hanging up. wash
them well in warm uatcr. and baste
the ffeshov side with a mixture of
cayenne pepper and molases. which
u ill prevent the flies disturbing them.
This receipt is worth a years sub
scription of any newspaper to a per
son having hams to cure. There can
be no mistake about it, as we have it
direct from the lips of a gentleman
whose hams are worth double those
cured iii the common manner.
LAW?
r Subscribers will attend the Superior Courts
.ii of the Cherokee Circuit, Georgia, and the Courts
of Cherokee ahd Benton, in Alabama. All business
entrusted to their care,'will be promptly attended to.
LUMPKIN & WRIGHT.
Rome, Feb. 2. 3. ts.
Slate Rsglsts IBcHcl,
JiljW GEe.
7 EglllE subscriber respectfully informs his friends
and the public, that lie has removed from his <>]<>
stand upon the west pait of the public square to the
house formerly occupied by B. F Johnson. He as.
sttres those who maj favor him with a call, that noth
ing will be wanting on his part to render them com
comfortable. His Table and Stables will be furnished
with the best the country affords.
B. F. DANIEL.
Canton, Jan. 19—1—w6w.
Watch Repairing.
LDW r A RDS respectfully informs the pub.
sUR » lie that he has established himself in Cass
ville as a Silver Smith, where he intends to remain
permantly. He will also, attend at Rome on the first
Wednesday of each month, and oftenef if necessary,
to do such work as maybe offend. Persons haying
work to do in his line, will please send it by the dif
ferent mail routes to Rome, with the directions and
owners names, and deposit it at some place in town
and it shall be punctually nttt tided to.
AH watches warranted to perform well for one year-
January 13. I—ts.
Adniiiiistra.tor’s Sale,
A GREEABLY to an onder of the honorable the
/VI Court <>f Ordinary of said county, will be sold,
on the first Tuesday in April next, at the Court-house
in Cumming, Forsyth county, Lot of Land No. 140, in
the 2d District and Ist Section, of formerly Cherokee,
now Forsyth county. Sold as the property of Joseph
M. Waters, late of said county, deceased.
JOSEPH WATERS, Adm’r-
January 19—1—tds.
Strayed or Stolen
.-.k/X
the residence of William Smith, Esq. liv
iiL ing one mite trom Rome, a small Sorrel M.irc,
star in the fmehead; one while foot whin ; tto oth» r
marks r< collected. Any person deliver ng said man
to the subscriber in Rome, orto Mr. Smith at his plan
tation, will be rewarded. ♦
W JOHN M. JOHNSTON.
Jan. 19, 1 ts. . *
GEORGIA, WALKER COUNTY.
WHEREAS Robert .Allen applies to n o for
Letters of Administration on the Estate ot
John Gilbert, late ol Jackson county, deceased.
These are therefore to cite and ttdinoms i all and
singular, the kindred an I creditors, to be and appear
at my office withinthe time prescribed by law,to shew
cause, if any exist, why said letters should not i»c
granted.
Given under my lilftd at office, this 22d day ol J a t
nary, 1838. *
JOHN CALDWELL, d c. c. o.
Jan. 2G 2 3t)J.
Floyd SlirrsßTv Sale Bor March,
ILl.be sold on the first Tuesday in March
V V next, before the Court House door in the
Town of Romo, Floyd county, within the usual hours
of sale, the following property, to wit:
LotofLand No. 546, in the 16th District,
4th Section, of originally Cherokee, now Floyd coun
ty : levied on as the properly of Hiram K ng, to satisfy
lour ft. fas. issued from a Justices court of Henry
county, two in favor of Becks &, Clark, nnd the other
two in favor of Peck & Johnson, vs. said King. Le
vy made and returned to me by a Constable.
Lot No. 790, 3d District, 4th Section,
of originally Cherokee, now Floyd county; levied on as
the property ol William Davis, to satisfy a fi. fa. issued
from a Justices Court of Fayette county, in favor of
John R. Car'ill, vs. said Davis, and Rouben Millsaps,
security. Levy made and returned to me by a Cun.
stable.
WESLEY SHROPSIIER, D. Slifl.
January 26.
‘ Floyd Sheriffs Safes for March-
VS/®/ ILL be sold, on the -first Tuesday in March
V V next, in the town of Rome. Floyd county,
within the usual hours of sale, the following property,
to wit .
Lot No. 86, in the 14th District, 4th Sec
lion; levied on ns the property of John Hollan' 4 . to sa.
tisfv a fi, fa. issued from a Justices Court of Forsyth
county, in favor of John Wheeler, for the use of James
Law A Co. vs. smd Holland. Levy made and re
turned to me by a Constable.
Or.e Negro woman by the name of Ilan
let, thirty years of nge : levied un to satisfy a fi. fa.
'issued from Floyd Superior Court, tn favor of Bennet
Laurence, vs. Samuel S. Jack and William E. Mer
edtth, Executors of William H. Meredith, deceased,
Andrew Pattersen, iudor-er. Property pointed out by
said Laoreoce.
A T the same place, on the first Tuesday in April
/«. next.
One Grey Mare: levied on as the property
«>f John Gent, to satisfy a Murtg;u-e fi. fa. issued from
Fl.ivJ Inferior Court, tn favor of Joseph Ford, vs. said
Gent.
WILLIAM R. WILLIAMSON. Shff.
January 26.
LAW.'
FBTtHE undersigned will attend the Courts in all the
■L Couhties ol the Cherokee Circuit, Habersham
and Raburn of the Western, and Cobb of the Coweta
Circuit, and also the Counttea of Benton and Chero
kee Ala. All business directed to their address Cass
ville, Ga. w ill receive prompt and punctual attention.
WILLIAM H. STEELMAN,
JOHN W. Il UNDERWOOD.
Feb. 10. 4. w. 6mo.
Georgia Land for Safe.
No. 168, 28 Dist. 3. Section.
73, 14 “ 3. Do.
308, 7 « 3. “
195, 7 “ - 4. “
231, 13 “ 4. “
285, 27 “ 2. “
209, 8 “ 2- “
85, 26 “ 2. “
2 7 “ 2. “
19, 7 “ 2. “
128 7 “ 2. “
169, 8 “ I. “
40, 20 11 2. “
582, 21 “ “ “
195, 21 “ “ “
102, 21 “ “ “
490, 21 “ ‘ “
157, 1 “ 4 “
281, “ “ 4 “
444, 15 ‘ c 1 “
464 12 “ “ “
784, “ “ “ ‘‘
3i)9, 18 “ 3 “
1075, 3 “ 3 “
1158, 3 “ 3 “
434/ 11 “ I “
265, 2 “ 3' “
1163, 3 “ 4 ‘
1243, 4 “ 3 “
248, 4 “ 3 “ •.
71, 2 “ 3 “
'405, 4 “ 1 “
34, 3 “ -.1 “
938, 3 “ 1 “
607, 17 “ 2 “
For all or any of the above lots apply to
the Subscriber at Cuthbert Randolph County,
Georgia. A. HOWARD.
Jan. 26.—<>.-4t.
w. a. p.vrTUß^orv -
"iLB EING permanently located in" Rome, Floyd
county, tenders bis services to the Citizens
generally, in the prac ice of Medicir.e and its collate
ral branches.
Rome. Jun. 13—'—tf.
NOTICE.
HE Sheriffs of Murray county, will in future ad
da. vertise in the Western Georgian. Letters on
business connected with office, must come Post
Pa d, otherwise they will not he attended to.
STEPHEN JONES, Sh’fl'.
February 2 3 4t.
WALDOS
NOViafi. ANO E.?a i'tOai k'A.* S'
Lit erar if En! crpi.sc—Novels, 'Eales,
Biography, Voyages, I'cavels,
Reviews, and the news of
the Day.
g T was one of the great objects of “ Waldie’s Lt-
IT brary,” •• to good reading cheaper,” and to
br.ng literature •o-evety mans door.” Their object
lias been accomplished; we have given to books wings,
and they have flown to the uiierni.>Bt parts of our vest
e ntineut, carrying society to the secluded, occupa
lion to the literary information of all. We now propose
still further to reduce prices, and render the access
to a literary banqnut, more than .wo folds aceessiblt;
we gave and; shall continue to give in the quorto li
i brary, a volume weekly, for twocents a clay. We now
propose to give a volume in the same period for less
1 than lour cents a week, an Ito add as a piq lout sea.
soiling to the dish, a few columns of the shorter lite
-1 rury matters, and a summary of the news and even’s
ol me day. We know by experience and calculations
that we can go still further in the matter of reducti >n,
’ and we leel that there is still verge enough for us to
aim at offering to an increasing literary appetite,.that
mental food which it craves.
The Select Circulating Library, now as ever so
r great a favorite, will continue to make its weekly vis.
■ its, and to be issued in a form for binding and preser
vation, athf its price and form will remain the same.
But we shall tn the first week ol January, 1837, issue
, a huge sheet of the size of the largest newspaper of
I America, but on very superior paper; filled with books
ot the newest aud most entertam ng, though in their
several departments of Novels,‘Tales, Voyages, Tra
vela, Ac. select tn their character, joined with read
ing such as should fill a weekly newspaper. By this
method we hope to accomplish a great good—to enli
ven and enlighten the family circle, and to give to it,
at an expense which shall be no consideration to any,
a mass of reading that in book form would alarm the
pockets oi the prudent, and to do it in a manner that
(tie most sceptical shall acknowledge, ” tho power ,
ol concentration cun no further go.” No book which
i appears in Waldie’s Quarto Library, will be ptiblish
' j cd in the Omnibus, which will be an entirely distinct
i periodical.
I every description.
TERMS.
Waldie’s Literary Omnibus, will be issued every
' Friday Morning, printed on paper of a quality superior
to any other weekly sheet, andol the largest size, it
' w id contain,
Ist. Books, the newest and best that can be pro
cured, equal every work to a London duodecimo vol ,
ume, embracing Novels, Travels, .Memoirs, Ac. and)
only chargeable with newspaper postage.
2d. Literary reviews, tales, sketches, notices ol
books, and information trom “ the world of letters,’’ of
3d. The news of the week concentrated to a small
c->tnpass, but in sufficient arnouut to embrace a know
ledge, ot the principal events, political and tnisceUa- j
neous of Europe and America.
The price will be two dollars to clubs of live sub.
scribers, w here the paper is forwarded to one address.
To clubs of two individuals, five—dollars, single mail 1
subscribers, three dollars. 'J he ait-count on uncur. <
rent m< riey w ill be charged to the remitter; the low
price and superior paper, absolutely prohibus paying
a discount.
On no condition will a copy ever be sent until the
paymant is received in advance.
As the arrangements for the prosecution of this >
great I trrary undertaking are all made, and the pro
prietor has redeemed ail ins pledges to a generous pub- !
lie for many years, no fear of the rxm-fulfillment of
the contract can befell. Tho O'.iuybus will Im reg u
gular'y issued; and w ill contain in a year, reading mat.
ter equal m amount to two volumes of Rec’s Cjclopc.
du for the small sum mentioned above.
Address post j aid,
ADAM WALDIE. ’
46 Carpenter Bt. Philadelphia. {
Strayed or Stolen
I ’ ie subscr ’ hcr living thr,
miles below Rome on the Cq \
River, on the night of the 10th inst. I
Vi Roan Mares, one seven years old, f* I
teen hands high; the other two ytf
old, and well grown. Also, a bright sorrel hot
fourteen nnd a half hands high, with a white sire <
in the forehead, trots and racks well. Any person dl
livering said Horses to me or giving information whet 5
th may be found, shall be liberal!v reworded.
RO WLAN D COBB. |
Jan. 19. 1 2t. • 1
“COMM EKCIA f?
Rome; Floyd Cosisaly, Bncorg-iaL
y&rrdk. Subscriber having opened hi<
ncw Brick House in the Town o'*
Borne, as a Hotel for the purpose of ar t
commodating permanent boarders, an I
trancient customers, tenders his services to the ptibliL.
lie trusts that his nccodations will be such as will s;t
tisfy the most fastidious. His table will at all times
be furnished with the best the country affords, and ev>
ery exertion will be made ■ • conduce to the comfbrt
and convenience of all who tn iy call tmon him. llij
will also be prepared to accommodate Families with*
board and retired Rooms during the summer season
His stables will be attended by a faithful and nuentivo
Ostler, and provinder supplied in plenty. He there,
fore feels himself authorised in soliciting public pat.
ronage.
FRANCIS BURKE.
Rome, Jan. 19.—1—ts.
“ us ’ '
OF THE
SOVTIIFAIN REVIEW. ....
rSIO be published at Washington, quarterly, in an
Ja_ Bvo No. 0f275 to 3)0 pages, price tS-b per an
num, payable in advance. The place is clmsbn, not
only for ns facilities of information..lifcMrry and politi
cal, but as that at which the Southern States can be
united upon the undertaking, the greatest ease,
and with the completes! exemption from all State or
Party jealousies. ; ;
Os the matter, thrQe.fbtirths (say 225 pp.) shall com
sist of regular Reviews, making about 9 of 25 pp. each.
These must, as literary works at least, return as a ge’.
neral . nle, somewhat towards that older method. noW
almost forgotten, and give a regular analvsis of the
book reviewed, if it be of any merit. Tn Politics and
upon Occasional Topics, there may he a greater liber,
ty of deviating into mere disquisition.
I i this portion of the Review, there will be gi en,
in each No. a paper historical of the Politics nnd gen.
efal eVeilis of the day; to serve aS a Historical Regis,
ter. Its execution will a’ways be committed to the
strongest hands only; and its purpose, to give a unity
and consistency to the Public Doctrines of the Review
such as can scarcely be so ell effected in any other
matter.-
1 Occasional Retrospective Reviews will also be cm.
bodied in this part of the plan, with a view of favoring
in a certain degree, the more curious studies; or to re
vive the knowledge of important books, forgotten in tlto
confusion of modern lyarniiig.
Writers will be led, of regular purpose to give their
papers, m the subject will perptit, the form of
a service; in order not or ly that they may thus afford
a completer body of mformation, serve, also, to reprint
' apart, for popuhtr circulation; a method that will much
I a'igmdnlboth Tbe reputation and usefulness o! the Re.
vie W.
A body of fat isc- llaiiies (stv some 50 pp.) will form
the suliordinatejand more simiistng of the Journal.
■ Its contents will be somewhat various; but will, forth®
l most par:, consist of short L'terary Noi/ces; Biblio.
! graphical Articles; a crin al list of New I’ublit ntions,
; fuwiign and domestic, and general Literary Intelli
gimce.
I) Communication’, the most compressed mode of
writing will be every where required. Papers in
winch the works do not bear a just pr >p >rtion to the
1 information conveyed or the effect intended, will be
cither rejected, without sctuple, or abridged, without
' merer’
To warrant this ex 'Clion, the u<-unl rate of compen
tation to writers will be advat < td to 2 1.2 dollars per
printed page; a price that will offer lair rt tmineration
to the talents nnd labor which we wish to secure.
Ol! this revival of a Review of the Soutlt, the pur.
pose is. to give once more to our region, snow emin
ently needing it) an Interpreter and a defender ; the
common Representative of our Institutions, nud of the
M ind itself among its. Such in that great Congress
of Opinion, where the fates ol civilized nations ire now
so largely hCttled, we do not possess and wo have al.
ready suffered much lor if. Ii is time to make our.
selves understood and respecit d there. The Journal
which shall d i this, must < <>mb ne the general strengh
1 of all who, throughout the South, love the country,
i and are capable of doing it“!7itelk‘C«ed service. It must
then be, not the Chnmpkitt or the propagandist of lo
cal opinions, but the friend of all that pursue the pub
i lie good. Into the vulgar methods of Polities, debits.
I ed by Partiz in rancour, or corrupted by the interest,
; or overborne by the popular passion of the hour, it must
not fall—Front it, the pride of the Nulhfior must re
ceive no diminution, the fideli-y of the Unionists no
reproach : It must be no vantage.ground to either part,
jtor serve but as an equal field, where they will only
, contend which shall most advance the cause ol the
South, and of that older doctrine ol Jelfersotiirm State
Rights, avowed by both parties alike, arid now tho
only hope of rallying and of rescuing the country.
To vindicate, then, our peculiar Institutions; to ro
be! witlt argument, lest presently we be forced to re.
be! with anna, all interference with on. domestic con
dition, against the wild rule of mere Chance and Cor
ruption, to u; hold u Republican and Federative, asdis
tingtitshed from a Democratic and Consolidating ad
mmislraiioii of the National affairs, from the diaor.'
' ders of the Central government. Where Reform is
hopeless, and even useless, till you have given your
selves stronger aud wiser local systems—to dricct the
public view towards a home policy of the State, capa
ble, through itself, to confer upon us the blessings of
Mell ordered Liberty, expected in vain from the Fe
deral Power; from the delusiouol Party Politics abroad
to call home the wise and brave have often raised
petty States into noble and prosperous Commonwealth ;;
to attach men, if possible, to their birth place, and
convert tjfcrn from wandering and stdfisli adventurers,'
into ci ijens, the lovers of civilization, to re.animate
public spirit, and give it purpose, as well as energy;
to hold, over parties and Politicians, the tribunal of a,
Public opinion far different from that idle and corrupt
one, of which the newspaper Press is the voice; for
these purposes, to diffuse through the land, sound and.
well considered public doctrines, with knowledge and
Paste, their natural allies, such will bo the general
aim of that literary league, among the best talents ot
the country, which has been seton loot in the present
undertaking.
Os its critical purposes, it is not necessary to speak
so minutely. In general, it will of course strive to
guide the popular taste towards the best sources in
knowledge, aud the truest models in Elegant Letters.
Its judgments will however, found themselves upon
the dent of his temporary renown, nor that of his birth
on this or the other side of the Atlantic. Towards
the few good writers, the want of cultivation his yet
permitted us have in America, it will know bow to be
respectful. But in Literature, as lately in Trade, we
shall insist that no man’s bed commodity be forced up
on us, under patriotic pretences. Upon all that school
of writained.
Upon the J.iterature of mere amusement, existence
enjoyed by this literary grass, which flourishes green
ly in the morning, ond is cut down and flung away be.
fore the night. Life is <co short, Art too long, and
Learning grow n too prolific, for people to occupy them,
selves more than an instant with bad books, w hile
•ush great bodies of good oucs arc a', their command.