Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-10-04
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
EDITORS CORRESPONDENCE.

EDITORS CORRESPONDENCG.
The Improvement Of late gears IN the ,agrscult,re
of fhe resio, surrounding NeU York. The
spirit extending over the Union, Uhich IS now
annualhv draving millions Of dollars ,oorth Of
;uaproped iu,Dle,ne,ts, trees, plants, &c. from
this point. The celebrated Nursery Of Par
sons y Co.
New YORK. SEPTEMBER 80.
In nothing has New York and its vicinity improved
rapidly Of late years than in the system Of cultivang fruits
flowers vegetables and ornamental trees, and n the quail
ties Of such productions Of the soil characterize
this region Twenty years ago the science Of horticulture
was as much neglected here present by the great mass
of the sgrcuurists Of your immediate neighborhood
who am happy be able to write from my own know
ledge are last awakening to the importance Of bringing to
their aid the wonderful advantages in the prosecution OF their
business which science has Of late years placed within the
reach Of all farmers As fond as Of tracing out step BY
step the history Of progressing improvements in other indus
trial arts Of them interests me ss that OF agriculture
the basis Of our couny past unequaled progress and the
main hope Of her future.
We may thank free and cheap press and the spirit OF
ahead. .aiveness" which marks every thing in and
around the Empire State for the unprecedented improvement
of her agriculture which readily appreciated in this
immediate vicinity where all farms literally gardens or
nurseries than in the Interior wherein the farmer is but the
competitor with the agcuursts Of the rest OF the Union IN
the production Of staple articles The city Of New ork
not only the point from which the country large draw their
chief supplies Of imported goods and domestic manufactures
(sold from hence but annually millions Of dollars worth Of
the improved agricultural implements improved fruit trees
SEEDS bulbs roots &C. which eecng SO great and ra-
pd changes Maine Mexico in the results of sgrcuu-
raj labor. This fact will be impressed the mind Of the
observing who takes the trouble to note what ne sees
around the cys DOCKS whereon will always find an un-
due proportion Of farming TOOLS bundles Of trees &C. in
COURSE Of shipment for distant points Indeed the business
of supplying our county's in immediate connexon
with agricultural improvement has come to be Of commanding
interest and Importance the city, giving employment to
tens Of thousands hands, and hundreds Of the most cu
tvated aud intelligent minds Of writers, inventors scientific
Investigators &C. The establishment Of A. B. ALLEN Co.
for the manufacture Of agricultural implements in which
some four hundred and fifty find constant employment
is probably the largest and most complete in the world turn
ing does at far cheaper rates. larger variety and
greater quantity OF such tools than manufactured at any
similar establishment in Europe. On recent visit to the
shops Of this house struck with the fact that ninetenths
Of their mechanics dischargng the duties literally Of
gneers that s each seemed be experimenting the labor
of some combination Of machinery which doing work in
the of day that, if done formerly by hand
would occupy from hundred men. can in more
effective explain the secret of the great reduction in
the prices well improvement in the quality Of these now
prime necessaes Of @ than by calling the readers attention
the fact that wcngh all the boring, moricing, enoning
planning saving &C. done in these works are effected not BY
strainng human snews but by Of never-trng mpe
ents conceived in ingenious brains The Aliens sold fifteen
thousand ploughs last year, almost all of them being
suced on their own premises while their sales Of thousand
other implements and farming accessories in due propo
ton. mention these circumstances here only by way Of
illustrating the fact that from Maine to Texas farmers
within the last few years rapidly coming to appreciate the
better economy Of scientific agriculture The increasing de-
ands the nurseymen whose business centres in this Vi
ciny also tell well for the spirit Of agricultural Improvement
now abroad in the land There large number of such
establishments within hours ride sail Of the ciy and
they are always being visited by strangers from the interior
who are competent to understand the benefits which all de-
rive from improved agricultural economy.
l have recently visited the nursery of the Brothers
PARsoHs Flushing and propose to discourse your readers
to-day what there 1t is the largest and most COM
p!ee establishment of the kind the American continent
which alone sufficient to invest with great interest II
is worthy Of remark too that the ground which stands
has been possession Of the family for quite two centuries
rare occurrence indeed in this land with laws against
taments. The propretors, were their ancestors are
members Of the estimabe society Of Friends and point with
no little satisfaction venerable and beautiful oak Of huge
dimensions yet sheleng their threshold under the spreading
branches Of which the celebrated George Fox dispensed the
word Of life to field meeting in 1862 They gentlemen
who after passing through college went to Europe in pursuit
of information in this businessthe nobest in the world
which they had determined follow. Their premises tell
what the combined advantages of appropriate and thorough
preliminary educaion Quaker habits and subsequent study
in the more advanced schools Of European agriculture can e
fect for there is nothing like them elsewhere in this coun-
try. They devote sxty-fve acres wholly to their
nursery ransackng all four continents as were to obtain
the foundation for the and improved trees and plants
with which, may write, they literally stocking the Uni
ted States. Africa, Oregon, China, the Himalayan noun
tans the South Sea Islands, Norway, Borneo, and indeed
all places and countries with which England the United
States have intercourse appear have furnished something
rare valuable or beautiful add to the completeness Of their
stock they evidently in the habit Of closely and tho
roughly studying the character Of every tree, shrub or
plant which they obtain from abroad essay domesticae
from muchnegeced forests The vast critical
peence and information they have thus acquired renders
their advice horticultural improves dealing with them of
great value to the latter in whatever section of the Union
they may be located, for they know thoroughly the att
bu,es character and habits of every article hoy sewhat
fruits will do we'll north, and what south-whch frs will
grow best the shore, and which will soonest form
the most desirable ornaments to the genemans lawn in the
far West noticed that their plants and trees directly from
abroad appeared thrive less satisfactorily than such Of the
kind they had themselves succeeded in propagang
from foreign stocks, and informed by them that nowh