Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-07-28

sone, and on tho head o.. the spindle, ia as place,
made a cross by halviag into each other two pie
ccs OF three by four scaning, which revoved on the
seed and Il got OUT which .as good substitute for
the clover mill, common through Pennsylvania and
some other States, which could be made by des.
cription only.
The orchard grass seeds ripe when the heads turn
yellow brown and the blades begin fade; then reap
the top. and bind them into smsll sheaves and place
them into long open shock, where they will freely re-
ccye alternately the rays Of the SUM- rain and dews,
which will prepare il Tor threshing. In two or three
weeks haul those shocks into the barn when quite dry
and whilst the shines but let the hauling be done
faster than il il threshed AMI in ihi. way 4. can he
clesr and FAST TO clean the seed run through
the common wheat fan twice, turning each time very
slow, so as to make light wind The first time, use
the chatting riddle. and the fine riddle, which
will only pass the seed with cover over the
the anths seed viii then he I'll for market, and hope
much seed will be saved and brou Chit 10 10
meet the general aeman'. While on this subject, 1
will remak for the information Of those who are ys,
unacquantcd with the valuable qualities of the orchard
that alter cuitivating il for about fifteen years.
lind It best for carly and late pasture and il sowed
thick enough and cured whilst in blossom makes good
hay, and much OF III it thrives on land moderately rich
and moist; and where 1t has free the and
air-shade being rather detrimental ,hsn useful It's
called cocksoot in England but how 1t has derived IFS
present name in This country. have not ascertained:
but am certain i. is not peculiar to orchards.
ROBERT SINCLAIR.
GFor the above letter from practical well.informed
mau our readers indebted the Farmer
THE APRICOT
The Nahum .2rmsadean. the Apricot, and the Nd
ftna Pers'e,ns, the peach-werc known in Italy ill
thirty years before the time of Pny, and were then
sold at an oxorbant price; but, in the time of Dioscor
ides, who lived under Mere, the Aprico, was so well
known, that had obtained al attn nare-,he praikokas
Of Dioscorides being prmcocia in Greek characters
"Ths, the moro mo!ern Greeks" says Martyr, shave
corrupted into PeIkokkia from which English word
Apricock seems TO he derived II is improbable also
he adds "that this fruit. when IL first brought into
England, might be called prac0r, according to the
Latin, whence our i,erate people, imagining the last
syllable cor to he cocks, concluded the word he the
plural number and therefore that was no, the article
but part OF the word and pronounced it aprecocks
and thence formed the singular aprccock and apricock
as il is written"
The fact Of thu word having formerly been written
almost universally G6ricot G5ricoch would seem TO
shew that it had not come Immediately from the Latr
but probably through the Italian Bericocche whcn ce
the French had their word dbrico: the same dilulty
however, occurs here with regard 10 the prefix a. but
il is not insurmountable La Bricof probably used
originally, and subsequently il became written Il 45r-
cot: we have several instances Of this kind of change in
the different dialects Of the English. The apothecary,
originally potca'y, is one greater difficulty would
arise from the German dprikose, il probable
that this word is taken directly from either the French
or the English, and in all likelihood from ,e latter
Pr. Lit. Museum.