No. 11. 



JVaming F/owers.—Sijstems of Af^cuUure. 



343 



I enjoy those two verses which we siiitj 

 every night before going to bed ! the feeling 

 is heavenly ! 



"Oh ! sweeter than the fragrant flower 



At evening's dewy close, 

 The will, united with the power, 



To succour human woes! 



And softer than the softest strain 



Of music to the e;ir. 

 That placid joy we give and gain, 



By gratitude sincere !" 



Grabb. — Ah, times goes gaily with you ! 

 I'm sure I never feel in the humour to sing, 

 either at night or morning — mine's a very 

 different feeling. I often says, I was born 

 to be unfortunate, and I have no doubt on 't. 

 God knows my heart; and as I says to my 

 wife, here am I, with the best intentions in 

 the world — but I must go, for I dare say I 

 am wanted in twenty places at once by this 

 time. 



SyJces. — Yes, there is one that wants you, 

 I know — that confounded old rooster of 

 yours — there he stands, with his tail in the 

 wind, crowing away like mad. 



Grabb. — Does he, though'? then I'll be 

 bound we shall have it to-night, after all, for 

 he is pretty generally not far out in his 

 reckoning — so, good bye. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Naming Flowers. 



Sir, — I had once the honour, while so- 

 journing in a foreign country, to propose to 

 a Horticultural Society the plan of naming 

 their finest seedling flowers after the most 

 beautiful ladies of the city and neighbour- 

 hood ; the plan was adopted, and succeeded 

 to admiration : and I must not forget that 

 the first name which was given was that of 

 a married lady, a Madame Amiraux — de- 

 cidedly the most lovely woman in the town, 

 to a geranium of superlative beauty and 

 sweetness. Every one was eager to see 

 Madame Amiraux; and the gentleman who 

 raised it, a Mons. Oudinot — the brother to 

 Buonaparte's favourite general of that name 

 —was prevailed upon to cut the plant into 

 five portions, the branches into three, the 

 roots into two, for the purpose of propagating 

 so beautiful a flower — each plant having 

 been engaged at very high prices by five of 

 the handsomest young men in the town: 

 unfortunately, however, one only of these 

 cuttings grew, so that the old story of kill- 

 ing the goose for the sake of her golden 

 eggs, was near being renewed. 



Now, would there, Mr. Editor, be any 

 thing preposterous in the proposal, that those 

 who engage in the cultivation of flowers 

 here should name their new varieties after 

 the beautiful and excellent amongst the 



female portion of this, the most beautiful 

 country in the world ; boasting too, as it justly 

 does, of the most lovely women in creation T 

 I think not, and I am decidedly of opinion 

 that sucli a plan would be to add a delicious 

 fragranre to their labours : and who knows, 

 but that by such means, the end so long and 

 arduously sought after iniglit be at length 

 accomplished — namely, to ^ive scent iolhe 

 ivhitc Camilla? according to the spirit of the 

 fine old song — 



" I sent thee, love, a rosy wreath, 



Not so much honourin;; thee. 

 As "iving it a hope that there 



It might not withered be. 

 But thou thereon didst only breathe, 



And send'st it hack to nie. 

 Since which it smells so sweet, I vow. 



Not of itself, but thee ! 



Fleurs. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Systems of Agriculture. 



Sir, — The question has been asked, "how 

 far can the European systems of agriculture 

 be adopted with confidence in this country, 

 so different in soil, climate, circumstances, 

 and situation ]" 



And I take leave to answer, confidently, 

 in the practice of the four essential points 

 of good husbandry, without which, no sys- 

 tem ought to succeed in any country, soil, 

 circumstance, or situation. 



1st. Rotation of crops. No two corn or 

 grain crops ought ever, on any account, to 

 follow each other; for, according to the old 

 quaint adage, 



" One crop for man and another for beast, 



And your cattle and purse will be always increast." 



2d. Cleaning of crops. Is it reasonable 

 for any one to expect to reap a full crop 

 from land, the strength and substance of 

 which have been exhausted in the support 

 of a natural crop of weeds, more than equal 

 in quantity to the amount of its artificial 

 crop ] remembering that " the earth is own 

 mother to the weeds, while she is only 

 mother-in-law to the crops that are planted 

 in her bosom." 



3d. Manuring and top-dressing. Ougrht 

 any one to " reap where he has not strawed 1" 

 It is but natural to expect that if a return is 

 not made to the soil for the crops which it 

 yields, its strength will soon be exhausted ; 

 according to another old adage, "always 

 taking out of the meal tub, and never putting 

 in, soon finds the bottom." 



4th. Draining, where necessary, is of the 

 first necessity ,- and this will be found of 

 equal importance in every country under 

 heaven ; for, if the crop of natural herbage, 

 growing on a wet or weepy sub-soil be ex- 

 amined, it will be found to be of a perfectly 

 distinct species to that which is indigenous 



