The New-England Farmer For 1862

The New England Farmer is published weekly, in folio form. One entire page is occupied exclusively with articles relating to Agriculture, nearly all original, and written for our columns by men of practical experience on their own farms. Our leading object is to give the results of practical operations, and the knowledge drawn from them, and not mere speculations or plausible theories.

The remainder of the paper contains: A carefully prepared digest of the News of the Week, as full and accurate as constant care can make it.

Miscellaneous Reading for the family circle, always instructive, and of good moral tone, as well as entertaining. Market Reports, and Prices Current, including the best and only reliable report of the Cambridge and Brighton Cattle Markets, prepared exclusively for our columns.

New-Mown Grass For Mulching

Nothing that I have ever used equals new-mown grass for mulching newly planted trees or for placing among strawberry vines. It keeps its place, is clean and neat, leaves no seeds, and creates no fungi, as is often the case with old tan bark or rotten wood. E.

Newburg Bay Horticultural Society

The eighth annual exhibition of this Society will be held at Newburg, September 29th and 30th. Premium list can be obtained by addressing D. Smith, Esq., Newburg, N. Y.

Editor Horticulturist : Can you give me any information about the "Miner Plum ?" Some one has said it is not injured by curculio. Perhaps this is the kind after all. A Subscriber.

Cobden, August 5th, 1868. [The Miner plum is a seedling of a wild variety, originating at or near Lancaster, Wisconsin. We have our doubts as to its being curculio - proof in sections where the curculio abounds. Other wild plums, with equally thick skins, are not so. We have not been able to fruit the variety in this locality yet, but hope to do so next season. See November Horticulturist, 1867, for illustration and description. - Ed].

Newly Planted Groves

The young groves, planted since the war, are numerous, and some of them extensive. They are generally receiving some cultivation, and where they were properly planted, are flourishing finely. In many cases, however, the planters have manifested the most ntter ignorance of the first principles of horticulture, and if they succeed in producing good crops, the result will not be due to any skill in the cultivators, but to the astonishing vitality and recuperative energy of the noble tree they are so shamefully abusing.

Newman Plum

Mr. Elliott, of Cleveland, writes us that he has "received samples of the 'Newman Plum' from D. L. Adair, Esq., of Hawesville, Ky., and that the variety so sent is of a roundish-oval form, about one inch in diameter, clear light red, with a blue bloom, and until the fruit is fully ripe, there are numerous white specks or dots; flesh yellow, sweet, somewhat stringy, yet tender, and adheres to the stone, which is quite large for the size of the fruit. In my earlier days I fre-quently met with wild plums in Ohio, and have often done so in Missouri, that were almost if not quite identical, and in the years 1836 to '45, or thereabouts, they were abundant in the markets of all the Western towns and cities. Mr. Adair claims for it perfect exemption from the curculio - a matter of course of which he should know; but unfortunately for its chances in Ohio, I am disposed to think it would be no more free than any of our wild varieties."