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fill ill. mo and botli finding room enough and enjoying the same eummer together. Parent and 

 child are one glory. The home tree was not stripped and deserted for the new-comer. Of that 

 rn(i,*t precious of our wayjide religions — the homestead-hallowing — it seems to noe, that the 

 I letnlock should be the chosen emblem." 



It would be easy to quote page after page of this pleasant volume, which will be tlie 

 more popular because not overloaded -with science, and shall we say information? It is 

 poetical fanning, it is true, but none the less attractive reading because there is no farming 

 in it; wc mean attractive to the masses. It has humor, too; and with a specimen of this 

 rarer talent in home farming, "we conclude our notice with the mistakes of n goose, which 

 may excuse the query of "Why does a goose stoop its head when it goes under a barn- 

 door?" '' Because it is a goose," to be sure: 



'•But I had a laii"'h at a goose, yesterday — with a lesson in it, too. Coming home towards 

 evening, with my wagonful of children, the air overhead was suddenly darkened by the wings 

 of a very big bird — my neighbor's fattest waddler — who, chased by a dog, had concluded to up 

 feathers, fly over the barn, and take refuge in the ever-reliable and long-tried bosom of the river. 

 But it was the day after the first sharp frost, and the stream, though as clear as a crystal, was 

 of icy smoothness, and as impenetrable as a rock. Down came the goose, with full faith in it 

 for lon'f-tried water, and the way she slid over, and brought up on the frozen bank opposite, 

 after that heavy bump upon her astonished egg-basket, w^ns boundlessly delightful to the child- 

 ren. Besides the instruction in it, as to a winter trial of summer friends, it was a comfort, with 

 a pleasant spite in it, to have one good laugh at a goose that waddles and screams after me every 

 time I trot past my neighbor's barnyard." 



"VTe have said enougli to recommend this work to our readers; no one, who can pardon 

 certain lapses of good taste, less conspicuous, however, in it, than in other works by the 

 same writer, but may be benefited by its perusal. IIoeticola. 



MlXCTES OF THE PnrLADELPHIA SOCIETY FOR TUB PeOMOTIOX OF AGRICULTLTiE, VKOM fTS IsSTmjTION IN FeB- 



p.rAEY, 17S5, TO March, ISIO. 



The appearance of such a publication as this is a striking proof of the public interest in 

 Agricultural affiiirs at the present time. In these "Minutes" we find but little beyond 

 mere mention of topics discussed or oifered for investigation ; but meagre as they are we 

 are glad to see them rescued from oblivion and put in a form for convenient reference. 

 The names of the men who figured as Agricultural officers in those days, are alcne valua- 

 ble ; a few of them are yet among us, but the greater number are gone. "We have picked 

 out the following items : 



"December 10, 1805. — Read a communication from Richard Peters (Belmont), on Peach trees 

 and other fruit trees. The method pursued by him was, baring the root and pouring a quart 

 or more of hot water or soap suds thereon, commencing about ten or twelve inches above the 

 root — and he dipped his young trees (say the root) from the nursery, also in hot water, before 

 lilanting them." 



"April 8, 1806. — Mr. Rawle informed the Society that the field mice destroyed the roots of 

 one-tenth of his Acacia hedges during the winter, and that, from the experience of his neighbor, 

 MoNTMOLLiN, the American Whitethorn appeared to succeed much better than the Englifh 

 AVhitethorn, both grown from seed, which must be two years in the ground. Mr. Shallcross 

 mentioned a species of Thorn, near Wilmington, which had a more rapid growth, and became, 

 season, large enough to be transplanted. It was observed that Yellow Willow 

 garden fences. Green Willow said also to be good for fencing." 



