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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ... away in drawers. Some recommend that hey be soaked in soap-suds, to destroy a worm with which they are sometimes affected. Autumn flowering bulbs should all be lifted as soon as the foliage is decayed, kept a few weeks out of the ground, and then be again replanted in fresh soil. To make carnstions flower well, they should be firmly tied up to the rod and watered in dry weather. When pinks are in flower, their beauty may be prolonged by giving them a little shade at mid-day. Budding and inoculation of roses may be performed next month. Lately planted shrubs should be frequently watered in dry weather. Buist, from whose valuable work, called the American Flower Garden Directory, we select much on the subject on which it treats, says that: "We do confess that we used to be advocates for giving plenty of water to the dahlia, but the severe drouth of 1838 put our science to the test, and the result was, that about 100 plants of our most choice-kinds, which we regularly watered three times a week for nine weeks, during which period we had not a drop of rain, grew luxuriantly, but many of them never produced perfect bloom; and those that had no attention whatever paid to them, except a little manure or litter placed on the surface over the roots, flowered almost as well as in our most moist seasons." Hence we infer that an occasional watering may be of service, but continued and repeated artificial waterings are injurious. for getting rid of the second brood of caterpil-the house, we have but the empty walls to dea Hot-house.--This month is a play-spell in this department--watering the roots when necessary, and syringing over head, is almost all that will be required until August. As the house is now open, watch carefully for insects, and after showers...
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James Jay Mapes was born in Maspeth, Long Island. He was the son of Jonas and Elizabeth (Tylee) Mapes. His father, descended from Thomas Mapes who came from Norfolk, England, to Southhold, Long Island, in 1649, served as major-general of the New York militia in the War of 1812 and for some years was senior partner in a New York firm of importers and merchant tailors.
James was sent for a time to a classical school conducted by Timothy Clowes at Hempstead, Long Island, but was in the main self-educated. A boy of precocious mind with a turn for the practical sciences, he began his career at the age of eight, when, after hearing a lecture on the subject, he produced illuminating gas with a clay pipe for a retort.
In his teens he entered business as a clerk, but upon reaching his majority launched out for himself as a merchant. Acquiring a reputation as an analytical chemist, he abandoned his mercantile pursuits to open an office as consultant and was frequently called upon for expert testimony in patent cases. He made analyses of beer and wines for the New York Senate and temperance societies, and was the author of improvements in distilling, dyeing, and steel manufacture. An amateur miniature painter, he experimented with pigments, and between 1835 and 1838, as professor of chemistry and natural philosophy of colors in the National Academy of Design, New York, gave a course of lectures on the chemistry of colors which displayed both scholarship and a quiet, humorous humanitarianism. From 1840 to 1842 he edited the American Repertory of Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures in four volumes, and from January 1842 to June 1843 he was associate editor of the Journal of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. In January 1845 he became president of the Mechanics' Institute of the City of New York, delivering an Inaugural Address, published that year, in which he set forth the delights and advantages of a liberal education. He was also a member of the New York Lyceum of Natural History and in 1847, vice-president of the American Institute of the City of New York. In the latter connection he had a share in founding conversational schools and night schools that were the forerunners of such ventures as Cooper Institute. In 1847 he purchased a worn-out farm near Newark which he converted into productive acres by subsoil drainage, rotation of crops, and judicious fertilization, and there he demonstrated by precept and example the practical application of science to agriculture. His neighbors were invited to observe and benefit by the experiments conducted. Seeds were grown under controlled conditions to produce more hardy and profitable crops, and these were sold and given away with excellent advice for good measure. In February 1849 he founded, and edited until 1863, a journal called The Working Farmer, in which he published the results of his experimental farming, making it a point to explain the scientific principles underlying his practice. Through its columns he was an early advocate of a federal Department of Agriculture with a cabinet officer at its head. He took pupils in scientific agriculture on his farm, and advertised his services as consulting agricultural chemist. He died on January 10, 1866 in New York City, at the age of fifty-nine.
James Jay Mapes mostly known for his achievements in scientific agriculture. About 1832 he invented a process of refining sugar. He was one of the organizers and second president of the Franklin Institute of Newark, New Jersey. He invented a subsoil plow, and developed a formula for nitrogenized superphosphate which was probably the first complete plant food among artificial fertilizers used in the United States. This, after considerable litigation, he patented November 22, 1859, and it was subsequently manufactured and sold by his son, Charles V. Mapes. Mapes was for years an officer in the New York militia, and was honored by the presentation of a sword from his company.
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Mapes's vigorous personality and winning conversational ability enhanced his influence among all classes and led many to adopt the measures which ahead of his time he advocated.
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Mapes's friend Horace Greeley, writing an editorial on his death, said of him, "American agriculture owes as much to him as to any man who lives or has ever lived".
In 1827 he married Sophia Furman, of a Long Island family. They had three daughters, one of whom was Mary Mapes Dodge, and his son Charles, who was also an agricultural chemist.
1768 - 1827 Was a major-general in command of the New York state forces in and around New York in the year 1812.
January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905 Was an American children's author and editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker. She was the recognized leader in juvenile literature for almost a third of the nineteenth century.
Was an artist.
July 4, 1836 – January 23, 1916 Was an agriculture scientist and engineer, the originator of the "Mapes Complete Manure", and a member of the New Jersey State Board of Agriculture and the American Chemical Society. For many years since 1877 he was vice-president and general manager of "The Mapes Formula and Peruvian Guano Company", a stock company established in New York in 1877.
