tinumg. RENOVATE OLD ORCHARDS RATHER THAN PLANT NEW ONES, This is often the best plan. We have a case in our own orchard. There were e ight old trees planted forty years ago. The trees were neglected, and began to decay. It was proposed to remove them and plant anew, especially as some of the holes were rotten and showed but few signs of life; one trunk in particular 'was more than half decayed. We finally concluded to give the trees the benefit of a thorough renovating. The dead limbs, and the par tially dead, were all removed ; the healthy were slightly thinned out; but no vigorous branches of good size were removed; some of these were taken down, where it was deemed necessary, the second year follow ing, giving the trees time to recover from the shock. There was a remarkable growth the first year, as the soil was deep and rich, an alluvial deposit. The second year the thinning was continued. Vigorous shoots were encouraged, at the expense often of other thrifty limbs, a new set of branches being thought preferable to the old forms. This proved to be good policy: The new shoots grew, and carried with them a new impetus which was unusual to the tree. The fruit, most of ail, was improved, not only in quality, but in quantity. In a few years there was more spread at the top than ever before. This kept on; and at the end of eight years, there are eight trees which for beauty and for.benefit.are unsur passed. They are mostly Spitzenbergs (Esopus); two are Fall Pippins. All do equally well; bat the Spitzenberg is the most graceful, bending its branches down to the ground, though originally they were high enough, kept so by the hand of the pruner before they came into our posses sion, The largest tree (a Spitzenberg) measures forty feet across the top, and is as fine a specimen of a tree as one can wish to see. These tree.. are an ornament, a delight—but most a profit, affording yearly more fruit than is needed by a family of three, reaching seventy bushels—that last year—and never less than thirty.. Ann this it must be considered is of scant bear ing kinds, the Spitzenberg being subject to many mishaps. But the finest fruit we have ever seen, (which the Esopns Spitzen berg is when in perfection,) even in the West, where we have seen the.best chances of yield, as, for instance, last summer, which was a moist season there—of all fruit we have ever seen, we do not know any thing that equals the Spitzenbergs that grow upon these trees, both for size and flavor, and especially for beauty of form and coloring. We keep them till May in good condition. " Windfalls" we have kept longer. But we take care of our trees. When any of the branches are, struck with decay, we remove £hem, and the gap will be closed in a year or two, benefiting at the same time the rest of the tree But the tree with the rotten trunk it is worth while to repbrt. This had not a sound limb, if we except a small branch which shot up in the centre. Instead of cutting down the tree, I removed all the branches but the green shoot in the centre. This rushed up, and in a few years bore fruit, and spread i t tself, as the Spitzenberg will, and now touches the ground. Each year it bears the largest, handsomest fruit; but there is occasionally rot' at the core, as if it took after the trunk. This, however, may be in consequence of its location—at the side of a building—and the fact that it gets the wash front the kitchen to a certain extent, causing a moisture which is in con stant evaporation. But this is mere guess= work. The tree has one of the handsomest tops in the orchard, though not so large as the other trees, measuring but twenty feet in width. This orchard has borne fruit without in terruption, increasing even the first year the quantity over the former years. It has never done better than it gives promise For this year. The only drawback is the cur cab, which yearly stings the fruit, and hurts it to some extent—now and then ton , iderably. But there is always, even in the worst seasons, when drought and insects combine, some sound fritit, generally a geed proportion. The rapid growth and healthy Condition of the trees overcome, to a great extent, the injury. I find it also in the West. The roots of these trees have a deep seat, tail are not dependent upon influences on the surface. Manure, therefore, has but little effect, and •it is not needed. The natural soil seems best, healthiest for fruit. It is well drained naturally. The orchard has been in grass mostly since its change. ,urface influences, of whatever kind, seem is have no effect upon the trees. The orchard bids fair, apparently, to do good service another forty years. We see no reason why other trees, similarly situated with respect to soil, should not do equally well, treated as these are. Where the soil 3 less rich, and of less depth; manure iould be added; and cultivation would )e of some benefit, though in old trunks '"och less than in young trees. We are ';loo pursuaded that trees should be pro ected by branching downward, where this qui be done, as in the ease of the Spitzen- I ere. We have seen enough of high tops, ad of the benefit and beauty of low-sweep ng branches. Ploughing is no excuse !"ong old trees; and in young trees it lloold be kept at a distance.—Cor. Rural Vow Yorker. FARM LABOR AND LABORERS, Much time is sometimes lost, and expense kieeessarily incurred by farmers, in eon eeace of a lack of communicativeness ward their employees. It is by no means •cisplan fora farmer impart 'tct' ':'ed help, at the close o each day's busi es°, his plans and pur otica with respect each laborer during th succeeding one.. gay be said that thisdoes not concern laborer; that he is p id for his time, nether advantageously e ployett or. not, that is all he need kn, w,or care out e matte r Saitly ape ing, ,ar • t rue, but the policy of such reticence at leag questionable. farmer 'rarely never luses anything y timparting to I ' 61 p hetorehaud, his arposes in re '2nee to immediate fn ure operations. are enabled frequently, T h ey tly, frofn thVii experience in farming operations, to make valuable suggestions as to the particular business in band. Besides, being pre advised of what is expected of them, they will think about it, and hence be better prepared to act than they otherwise would be. This confidence detracts nothing from the authority of the employer, while. it im parts spirit and energy to the employed. I=3l= WHAT ._ls VANILLA ? "'Lemon or Vanilla?" is the question usually asked when one orders an ice cream, showing the great popularity of these two flavors. Of the many who are fond of this peculiar, and, to most persons, delicious aromatic, probably but few know anything more about it than that it is a sort of bean, as the a-tide is known in common under the name of " Vanilla bean." Vanilla is one of the few economi cal products of that remarkable family of plants known as Orchids, or Orchidacce, so prized by the florist for the beauty of their flowers, and so interesting to the botanist for the wonderful modifications of structure the flowers present. We have a number, such as the Lady's Slippers, Orehises, etc., which are all terrestrial, or grow• in the soil ; but in the tropics, where they abouud, most species grow upon the branches of trees, and draw all their sustenance from the air ; hence when these plants are cultivated in,our hot-houses, they are popularly knovin as " air plants." The Vanilla differs from ' most other orchids in being a climbing vine, clothing the trunks of trees. It throws out great nunibers of aerial rootsy by which it clings, and produces very thick, shining leaves. The flowers of the Vanilla are not as showy as those of most of the family, and are produced in clusters that• are succeeded by bunches of long slender pods,,which are the " beans" of commerce. The pods are six or'eight iitotesiting, nar row, three-sided, and if. allowed to •remain on the plant, finally burst into three valves or parts, Fol. scatter Ate minute black.,se.eds. The pod's -are 'gathered 4 tifiett` , fully. veloped, dried in the sun, and afterward rolled up in parcels, where they undergo a sort of fermentation, or sweating process, to • develop the .odor. 'lt is said that the fruit allowed to dry without this treatment possesses very little aroma. The pods are afterward oiled, done up in' bundles, and sent to market. The best will be found to be frosted with minute crystals, which are the aromatic principle. The name of the plant is Vanilla aromatica ; Vanilla is a' Spanish word, meaning a little pod. The Tonqua Bean, the Sweet-scented Verner grass, Seneca-grass, Melilot, and some other plants, have an odor resembling that of Vanilla, and contain the same or a very closely related aromatic principle. Indeed, the Tonqua bean is often substituted for Vanilla in flavoring, and the "Extracts ,of Vanilla" are frequently wholly, or in part, made of it. ,The Tongue bean is much less expensive than Vanilla . , but• the sullatitu-'t lion can only deceive those who are not familiar with the flavor of the two. Not only is Vanilla largely used to flavor ice cream, but for custards, russes, cakes, and many other delicacies. Probably a reliable extract is the handiest form in which to use it. The best way to use the bean itself is to beat it in a mortar, with sufficient loaf sugar to finely divide and powder it, and to absorb all the oil. This is to be kept closely stopped.—Agriculturist. BLOT ON COFFEE. Professor Blot, in one of his recent lec tures at Boston, treated of making coffee.. He said the best mixture of coffee would' be in these proportions: one pound of Java, two ounces of Mocha, two ounces of Rio and two of Martinique. Roasted coffee must be kept in a tin, box and ground freshly every day. It is extremely difficult to find good coffee, andit really seems as if merchants conspired to make it as bad as possible. Mons. Blot gave a few of the secrets of the trade, such as watering the coffee while roasting, that it may not lose weight, as it diminishes f about sixteen per cent. during this operation:. Useful in regard to selecting and roasting _were given. Coffee must never boil; by so doing it does not gain in strength, but loses the delicate aroma. The professor used four tablespoonsful of Java and of Mocha to a quart of water. The water was boiled, and the coffee was moistened with the boiling water; at the second boiling of the water it was again poured upon the coffee ; it was allowed tosettle a few moments, and it was done. The result was a liquid as -olear as spring water. Rye coffee must seldom be employed. When coffee cannot be ob tallied, a very good substitute can be found in wheat; pound and roast and prepare like coffee. A TNT TO LOVERS OF FLOWERS. A most beautiful and easily attained show of evergreens may be had by a very simple plan, which has been found to an ewer remarkably _ ; on a small scale. If geraniumbranches, taken from luxuriant and healthy trees, just before the winter sets' in, be cut as for slips, and immersed' in soap water, they will, after drooping for a few days, shed their leaves, put forth fresh ones, and continue in the finest vigor all 'winter. By placing a number of bot tles thus filled in a flower basket, with moss to conceal ~the ,bottles, a show of ever green is easily secured for the Wintei j . All the different.varieties of the ,plant ,being used, the various shapes, and color of the leaves blend into beatiful effect. They re-• quire no fresh water. • So says a lady who has tried it and handed us the above slip for publieation:—dermantOton TelegrapA. • I , a s' UNPRODUCTIVE FRUIT ,TREEB.--80Me times fruit ,trees ,are unproductive-from other causes than proverty of soil, or ne glect of the orchardist: They often. grow WO luxuriantly to bear well. In this case rotft pruning , is very effectual, and is per forrued'bjt 'digging a circle round the tree: A fifteen year old tree, far 'ibbtanee, may be encircled at ftve.ffeet from 'the trut No rulesliiin ,be laid down tor this; judg must be exercised. If etit'too the tree teaSebe. ,stunted ;for years, and if too far, it will'not bb effective. The aim should be to reduce she.-root about one ‘third.,---Gardeners' Monthly. THE AXERICAN PRESBYTERIAN, THIIRSDAY AUGUST 9 1866. s 3 4', " II 4 ttir ORIGIN OF THE GLACIERS AND THEIR RESULTS . It is my belief that all these deposits belong to the ice period in its earlier or later phases, and to this cosmic winter, which, judging from all the phenomena connected with it, niny have lasted for thousands'of centirries, we must' look for the key to the, geological' history of the Amazonian Valley. I am aware that this suggestion will appear extravagant. But is it, after all, so improbable that, when Central Europe was covered with ice thou sands of feet thick ; when the glaciers of Great Britain ploughed into -the sea, and when those of the Swiss mountains had ten times their present altitude ; when every lake in. Northern Italy was filled with ice, and. these frozen masses extended even into Northern Africa; when a sheet of -ice, reaching nearly to the summit of Mount Washington in the White Mountains (that is, having a thickness of nearly six thou sand feet), moved over the continent of North America—is it so improbable that, in this epoch of universal cold, the Valley of the. Amazons also had its glacier poured down into it from the accumulations of snow in the Cordilleras, and swollen lite rally by -the'tributary glaciers delilending from the table-lands of Guiana and Brazil? The movement of this immense glacier would be eastward, and determined as well by the vast reservoirs of snow in the Andes as by the direction of the valley itself. It must have ploughed the valley bottom over and over again, grinding all the materials beneath it into a fine powder or reducing them to'small pebbles, and it must have accumulated at its lower end a moraine of proportiOns as gigantic as its own ; thus building a colossal sea-wall across the mouth `of the valley. I shall be asked at once whether I have found here also the glacial inscriptions—the furrows, strim, and pol 'Abed surfaces so characteristic of the ground over which the glaciers have tra veled. I answer, not a trace of them". for the simple reason that there is not a natu ral rock surface to be found ,throughout the whole Amazonian Valley.' The rocks them selves are of so friable a nature, and the, decomposition caused by the warm torren tial rains and by exposure to the burning sun of the tropics so great and unceasing, that it is hopeless to look for marks which in colder. climates and on larder substances are preserved through ages •unchanged. With the exception of the rounded surfaces so well known in Switzerland as the roches moutannees heretofore alluded to, which may be seen in many loealities, and the boulders of Errere, the direct traces of gla ciers as seen in other countries are wanting here. I am, indeed, quite:-.willing to. ad mit that, from the nature of the circum stancesi I have not here the positive evi dence-which has guided me in my previous alaciLd investigations: My conviction in this instance is founded, first, on the ma terials in the Amazonian Valley, which correspond exactly in their character to materials accumulated in glacier bottoms; secondly, on the reseiniflance of the upper or third" Amazonian formation to the Rio 'drift, of the glacial origin of which there I cannot, in my opinion, be any doubt; thirdly, on the fact that this fresh-water basin must have been closed against the sea by some powerful barrier, the removal of which would naturally give an outlet to the waters, and cause the extraordinary denudations,-the evidences of ilia meet. lIEI everywhere throughcart the valley. On a smaller scale, phenomena of this kind have long been familiar to us. In the present lakes of Northern Italy, in those of Switzerland, Norway, and Sweden, as well as, in those or New England, especially in the State of Maine,, the_ waters are held back in their basins by moraines. In the ice period these ' depressions were filled with glaciers, which, in the course of time, accumulated at their lower end a wall of loose materials. These walls _still remain, apoil serve as dams to prevent the escape of the Inters. But for their moraines, all these lakee would be open valleys. In the Roads of Glen - Roy, in Scotland, we have an instance of afresh-water lake, which has now wholly djsappeared, 'formed in the same mannerrin4 reduced successively to lower and lower' 'levels by the breaking down or wearing away of the moraines which originally IWetented its, waters from flowing out: Alfttnaing,*p,,...that, under the low, teMperi v aiire - tf - iceiteriod, the climatic conditions necessary for the formation of land-ice existed in the Valley of the Ama zons, and that it was actually filled with an immense glacier, it follows that, 'when, these fields of ice yielded to a gradual change of climate, and slowly melted away, the whole basin, then closed against the sea by a huge wall of debris, was trans formed into a vast fresh-water lake. . • However thjs may be, it follows from my premises that, in the erkl, these waters ob tained a sudden release, and poured sea ward with a violence which cut and 'de nuded the deposits already formed, wearing tkem,'down to a much lower level, and leaVing only a few remnants standing out in their original thickness, where the strata were solid enough to resist the. action of the currents.—Agassic in A.aantic Monthly. Nothing can more thoroughly demonstrate how far Austria must be and is behind-the times in her muskets than the astonishing results'attributed to the Prussian needle guns. Many have supposed- them some new invention. Butokhe tact is, that the,pre : cise arm has been well known for more than ten years, aiid a similar one was on exhibi tion in a gutimaker's Shop in this . city in 1851 or 1852: SO far as the needle prin ciple is concerned, it may be doubted yet' whether,the objection which caused it to be rejected altogether by the English army is not valid; i. e., that-it—the needle and the tua o chinery, that operates ; it—are too delicate and liable "to' 'get 'mit of Order.' Since the battl e at - the 3d of July, an army officer writ, t3 that in cocking this weapon, it r. tito g ly-t I i;b e lue l a to tu r s e e l t y i , d t an .b d e fee b e efo d r lc e ,' the Ltqlski-t tc-41. 1 1ao1irciught t) of rc t ,'„,,,;,„d. van r a iieA, , cjaimed for the gun 6. tit ii:lfeithat - part of the ttElt I It'. IN THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. THE NEEDLE-GUN. rafderfnistrWhielritruumeerMitebailran , - thus secures the explosion of the whole charge in the piece, and so gives a longer range. It is, however, the rapidity of these• as breeoh-loading muskets, and as losing no time in planing the cap, that have given the Prussians their great advantage in the pre sent war. 1 The greatest advantage of breech-loading rifles is in the rapidity of fire; and this is so great that the same man who rezently found he could load awl fire his muzzle-loing "Springfield ten times in four minutes, and forty-six seconds, fired his ten rounds with the breech-loading or Snyder Enfield in one minute and rorty-seconds, or less than one:, third of the 'time ! let for years have the military men 'of the old world been fighting against breeeh-loaders. Now, suddenly, since the battle of the 3d of July, orders have been given to convert 100,009 of the Enfield rifles into Snyder Enfields. It is chiefly, against charges of cavalry that breech-loading rifles are so• extremely formidable. The infantry formed in squares to receive a charge, and beginning to drop their antagonists at 1000 yards, could clear almost every saddle before a man could come near enough: o fire off his carbine, much less use his sabre .to any advantage. Each toot soldier would have his antagonist under fire long enough to shoot at him ten or fifteen times, according as he took aim. Let any one 'think of the charge of the Light ,Brigiule sand p ask how- many - many of them would have.Tettirned from charging in that style upon a-,regimerit armed with breech-loading rifles. Allthrough our war the English officers who viewed our battles spoke with gfeat contempt of the way in' which our cavalry behaved in not making furious and decisive charges. But such charges against a cool and well-armed adversary now and hence forth must ever be decisive, but only of defeat. We knew the men and arms we had to face. Such a charge as that at. Balaklava will never again be made, even by officers having no more sense than those who gave the fatal order which consigned, to the grave uselessly so' many brave men. Thus far, the war in Europe his devel oped nothing but what hasheen well known in our army for years, and been acted upon as far as possible all through our late war., The escape of gas has now been so per fectly prevented, as to leaVe nothing fur thento 4 desired in this respect Tile thin 'brass or copper cylinder in which the cartridge is contained, overlaps.the crevice of the joint, and, expanding, makes the whole perfectly air-tight. It seems that if 'it were found greatly deshable to explode the front portion of the' chaige first, it would not be difficult to effect-even this.by. simpler and better means than the needle of the Prussians. ORGAN6' OF PERCEPTION IN THE LOWER ANIMALS. The long whiskers of the felidEe are deli cate organs of the sense of feeling; but those of the shrews even surpass them in sensitiveness of touch, and seem to make amends to these active little creatures for the smallness of their eyes, which are almost hidden in the surrounding hairsf and formed but for twilight vision. Thus armed, they feel at a distance of eight or nine inches the slighest motion of the air, and the mere bending of a finger, held out to them unseen suffices to alarm them. The utmost delicacy of touch, so as almost to reach the limits of credibility, is, however, possessed by the bats, who need no colli sion with any object to advertised of ,its vicinity, but in the midst of darkness avoid any object that presents itself; with the same unerring certainty as in the light. Spallanzant, having observed this won derful power, instituted a series, of experi ments, the results of which proved that bats, when deprived of sight by the extir pation of the eyes, and as far as possible of hearing and smell, by the obliteration of the external passages of these senses, were still aapable of directing their flight with the tqame 4ecurity and accuracy as before, s'eering their course through passages only just large enough to admit them without coming in contact with the sides, and even avoiding numerous small threads which were stretched across the room "in various directions—the wings never, even by acci dent, touching any of them. These mar velous results led him to believe thaYthesin anima's are endowed with a sixili sense, the immediate opperation as, well as -the locality of which is, of course, unknown to , and inappreciable by us; but the eagacity of Cuvier removed the mystery without weakening the interest of these curious facts, by referring to the flying membrane as the seat of this extraordinary faculty. According to his view of the subject, the whole surface of the winds on both sides may be considered as an enormously ex panded organ of touch, of the most exquisite senEfibility ; and it, is, therefore, by the varie" modificatiot.9 of the impulsion of the fitmos 'ere - upon this surface that the i knowl dge of the propinquity' of 'foreign tk rt kindles is communicated. But touch is not the only senile which is highly developed in the bats, for the vast extent of the shell of the ear in the in sectiSorous species is undoubtedly of great assistance in the collection 'of sounds, and their smell is also .wonderfully acute. In many of them, particularly in the Oinole phidre—whose habits are more completely lncifugous and retired than any othefe, and , who are found in the darkest penetralia of caverns and other places where there is not even the imperfect 'light which the other genera of bats enjoy;.the nose is fur nished with folaceous appendages, formed' of the integument doubled, folded, and cut into the most curious`' and 'grotesque forms —an organizationevidenflyi intended . to give . ,inoreased power and delicacy to 'the organ of smell, and thus to ,supersede the sense of vision in ,situations where the lat ter would be unavailable. 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The government isles& and safe—the Course-of study tally equal to the well known Standard of other Colleges, including Modern. Languages, without extra expense. Next Session. 'begins . . - • SEPTEMBER sth. • Apply early, in order to secure rooms. Address. Rey.. A. W. COWLES. D.D. 1053-2 m 'President AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. The annual course of study in this Seminary will , commence on Wednesday, the sth of September.. Candidates for admission will apply at two o'oloek P. M. of that day, The student's rooms were furnished one year slate with carpets and every article necessary to cement. The expenses of living will be somewhat less, it is hoped, than last year, and students can receive aid according to the necessity of their eireumstaneet, from the Education Committee of the Presbyterian Church, andfrom Seminary funds, to an amount not exceeding two hundred and thirty dollars. The appointment of Rev. James B. Pierce sand jurist professor of Hebrew:, places the department - if Biblical Criticism in a situation to compare favorably with that of any other institution in the country. The undersigned requests that any alumni of the Seminary who have not received a circular letter et inquiry issued by him. will apply for a co y. 1054-4 t 1054 - 4 t SAMUEL W. HOPKINS. INGHAM UNIVERSITY, LE ROY, N. Y. THE'THLRTY-SECOND YEAR Of this Institution.for YOIING LADIES WILL OPEN SEPTEMBEIt 18. Catalogues sent on application. 1054-4 t.. THE. WEST CHESTER ACAbEMY: MILITARY INSTITUTE, The Seoond Term of the scholastic year commences on theist of February next, and closes en the last Thuraday in / . une. The Corps of Instructors numbers Ten gentlemen of ability, tact, and experience. beside the Principal, who is always at his nest in the School— room. • ' , The` Principal having purchased the . extenaiegr school 'Property of the late A.Bolmar. lately occupied by the,Pennsyleania Military Academy. designs le ruovinchis school there before or , during . the Baster Poi. Catalogues, apply at the Office of the AMERI CAN PRESBYTERIAN. or to WILLIAM F. WYERS, A. M.. PrincipaL .11111,13SICAL SCINL, ROIL BOARDING* AND DAY SCHOLAB.B. FORTIETH STREET AND BAI.TIMOBIS AVENUE, ' WEST PHILADELPHIA, BEV. S. H. McMIILLIN, PRINCIPAL. Pupils Received at any time and Fitted for Faintness Life or for College. REFEnaIiCES : Rev. J. EL Entkr, D.D.: Rev. J. W. Mears; Rev. Jonathan. Edwards, D.D.; Rev. James M. Crowell,. D.D.; Dr. C. A. Finley, D. S. Army; Samuel Field.. Esq. tt Plllllolllllll COLLERATI lISTITOTI FOR • : YOUNG LA.MSIES, NORTMICST CORNER OF CHESTNUT aa4 EIGHTEENTH STREETS. REV. MUMS ROTH, DD., PRINCIPAL. Circulars may be obtained of S. P. Moore & Co., 1334 Chestnut Street.'and. at the Presbyterian Book Store 1334 Chestnut Street. 'FREDERICK FEMALE SEMINARY, 'FREsziracm, Pommeling fall Collegiate Power, will commence Ito TWENTY-FOURTH SCHOLASTIC YEAR, ~ ON . ' ' F9r qataaftrues. du?.. adcreav THOMAS Ad. CANN. A.M. .111152-2 m , f :THE ~PHRENOLOGIO4, , Q.AA NT Aligt:-;; AND BOOK STDDE. .. . 4 - wit-TON- Thar' the sale' or Booliti Oh' rbieboloire, , ggit , phygujogy..avgiene. and , Phunography, i 2 / j, and for Phrenological exentinations. 07 , ' dere by mail should be addressed to .' A bh JOHN L. CAP EN, He. 25 South Triali SL:, Plbna: . . President.
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