410 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ROMANCE OF AX AGRICULTURAL MAX. 



While contemplating nature's store, 



Now full of treasures rare, 

 Rich fruits of agriculture's skill, 



Garnered with patient care, 

 It is quite proper that I should, 



As briefly as I can, 

 Tell the picklure history of 



An agricultural man. 



As you'd at once surmise, he has 



A Mammoth cabbage head. 

 Also a Flat Dutch turnip nose ; 



His cheeks are turkey red ; 

 He has an early roasting ear, 



A siveet potato eye ; 

 His chin May Beardless be, and yet 



His face is ne'er &-?-ye. 



His Early Breakfast radish hair 



His crown is covered o'er, 

 By use of a cox comb he keeps 



It arranged pump- at door. 

 His Tulips are of Cherry red, 



When parted they disclose 

 His ever poplar wagin tongue 



And harrow teeth in rows. 



No corn among his toma toes; 



With all mankind at peas; 

 Though lofty and at least Shang-hai, 



He moves about with ease. 

 His thoroughbred, well-fatted calves 



Hold Plum his Early frame ; 

 He boasts of a Fai^bank account, 



Enjoys a shire of fame. 



A dande-lion hearted beau 



Is he, though called a bore, 

 Of Nonesuch save he have I herd, 



Nor think that I Woodmower; 

 And yet when in his Rusty-coat, 



Sporting a sugar cane, 

 The Maidens Blush and watch his gate. 



He stalks about so vane. 



