Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1837-1839, 1838-08-25
ieRIcULTURAL
-~yATION.-CURIOUs FACTS.

-l end horticultural products, furnishes
|sss..oo respecting the beneficial effect:
~ .ulfiyation. The brsbandman may
n. ease Of the potatoe particularly, moi
~. fleets produced by accident in the
= -. Of useful plants, but the vast i'm
y ~. resulting from iudiciOus culture.
l.s-..eh Of Col. Knapp, on delivering the
.vardcd BY the American Institute to
IcEL reading in Newark, embraced many
-. sc,s. which will pobably be read with
I. ;o,ellieent farmers. We quote few
~. ding in this country (ssid he) has
s.,eht forward by protection. In this
tl.e. but few of the sustaining fruits OF
49, vere here Indigenous, or in perfect
Fen the Indian corn, SO often outsider
..,;ve here was with difficulty acclima-
t..s brought from the South. and by de-
eoaxed to ripcn in northern latitude.
..,s.;enes who cultivated il taught the pill
y. 10 raise il; they pipckcd the earliest
..L The husk and braided several Of them
~, fer the next wears seed, and their care
-.asd with an earlier and more surer
| 4. ,umpkin brought from Spain, was first
L-.l I Rowley Massachusetts,, and il was
[-~ ,ears before they came to n hard knotty
~ In marks the true yankee pumpkin,
-s.,,s selected for the golden pies of their
- thanksgiving festivals.
~ vheat was with difficulty ncclimated.-
n, hrnsht from the mother country had grown
4. scpe to faiI, but the season was not long
,.noh he,s 10 insure Il crop; IL was then sown in
as I'm. INV under snow in winter, and catching
Is. v.nsest grswth Of spring, yielded its i'll
Esass ty NJ srmmcr.
.Asp1i1xus, which is now the delight Of all us
sdy vegetable, and for which several mil
Il donass are paid our gardeners yearly, is
|ss culture in this county. AT the time OF
nsoiuiion, asparagus was only cultivated on
bKs5oard; This luxury had not then reached
inner Of the interior.
NJ history of the potateo Is "A singular one.
gEncyclopedia, states that the potatoe was
III from Virginia, by Sir Walter Raleigh, to
be writer should have said from South A.
y, ia the latter part Of tho sixteenth centu-
|lh had no idea Of its ever being used rs an
hl ut that timn. 1t WIS pointed out 10
sa beautiful flower, and its hard, bulby
- iii, by tho nativcs, TO possess medical
~. lie took IL to freIand, whore he had
\, o,escnted 10 him by Queen Elizabeth, |
SamsAu in his garden. The flower did |
J, lnorowe BY cultivation, but the root grew |
rs M pticr. The potato, in it's native
!, vas 4 coarse ground nut. The thought
ii ibe philosopher tn try the potatoe as an
"a and on boiling and roasting It, found II, by !
Irpncess excellent He then gave some of
|hsts to the peasantrv, and they soon be-
"a q measure, a substitute ior bread, when
|mvest was scantv.
Ne polaioe was successfully cultivated in
before it was thought Of in England; Il
= 10 favor by slow degrees, and was SD little |
shen our pilgrim fathers came to this
p, that il was not thought OF for crop IN
b. World. Ii would have been an excellent !
] { them, il they had been acquainted with
Hhso the po,aioc.lt was not until l7l9thai /
~ potatoc reached this country. A colony
EnAsterian Irish, who settled in London
snNew Hampshire, brought the root with
The people found that their favorite vcgi-
hhrisheo well in new grounds. By de-
~ neish bors came into the habit OF rais-
mes; but many Years elapsed before the
san OF them was general among yeoman-
|ae country Long after they were cuiti-
Anew England, they were held in con-
and the master mechanic often had TO
V with his apprentice that he should not
agcd to ca, potatoes An aged mechanic
Horned me that he raised nine bushels,
At that time U146l dozen apprentices,
mot venture to offer them n boiled potatoc
10 meat, but left them in the cellar for the
tees !" get and roast as they pleased; he =,
and that he should not have enough for
lad locked up what was left. The next
raised the enormous quantity Of thirty i
Haes; the neighbors started--but the BOYS ,
"a them during the following winter. .
"a this time, some of the gentry brought ,,
|Tiable on their tables, and the prejudice ,
hem vanished. Thus, by degrees, |
9 this food was formed, never to be cxtin-
The cultivation of the potatoc is now ,
denlaod-a crop ameliorsics, instead of {
sraAag the soil, and the culture can be .
|sssasny extent. Thus by the Curiosity {
msd nature, and his experiments, has
~ ned been brought from the noun
0 America, until it is emphathe- S
ssd The bread Of nations Still, the !
.! aM which it was taken, has been too @
superstitious to attempt its cul,iva- I
within few years. Now, the lights 4
s's chasing away the long deep shadow @
re brought from India in 1892, and 5
oy way Of experiment in s. Carolina. Y
we'll, and was, for many years. she b
&ie OF tho State Ii seems strange, $
more strange than true, that Z veg
80 have a moral and religious inf u 5
ne minds of men. Brsham could
enforced his code of religious rites, =,
dred incarnations. if India had not a.
Hs INC rice plant. His followers would !. =
carnivcrous, notwithstanding all J." =
es glory, and the awful exhibition of y
l7a ne had not driven tho animals a. n
cured the vegetable kingdom to his G