Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1822-11-14
From the .Aurora.
THE NATURALlST'S DIARY,
For NOVEMBER.


THE NATURALlST'S DIARY,
FOR NOVEMBER.
Now frowns the northern blast:
The dret chingrain and fieecy snow descend,
The wise review the past,
But fools know not whenee their labors tend
TIL blghting winter, with all its cherries
Gives man to know that vice is loss and vir.
tue gain.
We began the dialy so late 10 October,
that we merely introduced ihe subject in
that month, II is our intention 10 be
more diffusive, and bring under the obser-
walton of the husbandman, gardener ana
horticuItusist, some of their more proni-
nent duties for succeeding months. Inc
history OF newly discovered plants and
improvements in labor-saviBg machines
and agricultural implements, Will DE no.
iiced under the head of Agricultural Mem.
oranda.
House your apples those you intend
Tor winter use. pick by hand. put IN bar
res, and keep them dry, and cool !; gamer
and assert those for cider; Pot them IN
heaps under cover, that they NAV under
20 the process of fermentation, called mel.
ioving. Your CIDER will not Keep we'll
without, nor be fine favored.
Pull carrots, beets, cabbage and turnips,
before you carry them to the cellar keep
them 80 cool that they do not wilt, Keep
celery we'll eartbed up 10 blanch.
Examine and mend your fences and
walls. 1t is good month to cut drains
aud ditches, If you have swampJ or drown.
ed lands. Plant apple. pear, peach, APP
Ticot, plumb, cherry, ounce, aud necta'
rine trees, on dry ground only: prune
your orchards. 1t is the bsst month in
the wear to plant raspberries, curranis
goosaberries, and fIlberts; also, wainuts
and chesnuts, il you have not done II 10
October. This is the time to prune all
kinds of hardy fruit aud forest trees.
II YOU have any grape vines, will tell
yo,, how 10 manage them; it you have
none, get some. 1t IS snamSiGi 'hat we
should import all our wine. The cuItiva--
ton of the vine merits the attention ana
support of every lover of his country. 1t
IS beyond doubt that the United States
can, and have no fears but they will pro-
Once wine enough 10 few years, tor
home consumption, and, at no distanttIme
large quantities tor expectation. There
ia not much to be done with vines this
month. You may plough between The
rows where practicable, having hrst tied
uo the trailing runners 10 stakes and lay
mn the sartb az much as possible to the
stsns of the vines. Plants of one and two
years old, require this, TO preserve the
lower part of the stems and buds from
freezing and thswiRg, IN this slate they
NAV remain till the time tor pruning IN
Febuarv. fyou cannot use the plough,
Tho spade and hoe must be applied; ii pro
tocts the plants and destroys weeds. A
dressing OF manure, If wanted, should be
gwen before ploughing, -
RIVE NAV be sown bis month on light
dry soilsEand frequently answers better
than an early sowing particularly where
YOU could not harvest corn, potatoes. and
;urnibs, in season to SOW earlier: Garry
ont and spread manure in dry meadow
lands and that intended tor corn land
NAV remain IN heaps during the winter on
The fields. and be spread as easly as 1t
thaws in the spring. The seeds OF gras-
ses and weeds which it contains, will ye-
se,ate early and be destroyed by the ear
~ ploughng. Mend your stables; shell
ter your sheep AMI cattle from the cold
rsins and SHOWS of this month. Cattle suf-
fer more than you are aware OF by expo
su,e-,hey cal much more than IT housed.
Pull ali the old hats and petticoats out
Of YOUR windows, aud put in glass; IT will
save four times the cost IN wood, besides
saving your character -
if YOU have fences to make, and walls
10 build, cut and split trails, and org stones
and nut Them in heaps, that you may draw
them to their proper places The hrst sled
ding Keep good look 0ut that your
DAN do not rot too much. This rottlng
fax on the field is a pernicious method OF
doing. We shall give better process
when we get among the tax'dresssrs next
winter. We shall have more leisure then
This can tell you, that salt, about twcle
as much per acre as you SOW. OF seed, IS
the best manure known tor hax, Salt Is
also the finest manure in the world tor as
paragus. Sow il pretty thick this month
over the beds, aud give it slight sprink-
ling in the spring. 1t will Kill all the
weeds and not inlure the plants. Tor salt IS
congenial TO their nature. This vegeta-
bic grows spontaneously in the salt marsh-
ss on the sea board II was brought to-
Europe from Egypt during the crusades.
We shall say good deal about salt be,
tore May.-You can by good manage
menf get a crop Of potatoes and fax from
the same ground in a season which will
be shown before planting tue.
.fyou have any potatoes tor your pig
and young cattle boil or steam them; they
are worth one third mors than when raw
SHUT up your ho2S to iced on corn and
peas, to ft them fog the market before