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NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



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Is this owin": to a want of eiicourasTPnii'nt in 

 our country? No. There are no people in the 

 woriil more extravagant in the purchase ot their 

 luxuries than the Americans. Let one man set 

 the example of bringing hi* fruit in better or- 

 der, and he will receive a hundred per cent 

 more, beyond the extra expense. Is there any 

 thing in cur country, which renders it impossi- 

 ble or unpriifitahle to our farmers to carry their 

 produce to market neatly and in good order ?- 

 We know of nothing. But we do know that 

 fruits of the tenderest sorts are transported in: 

 England and France great distance.?, and exhib- j 

 iled for sale in the most perfect condition.— ; 

 Every fruit has its own peculiar mode of pack-' 

 ino- and conveyance. The strawberry and the 

 cherry are carried in baskets of a conical form, 

 so that there is no pressure, which would ruin 

 these delicate fruits. We do hope to see our; 

 farmers not so sparing of a little straw or hay,j 

 and good baskets, and a lillle labour of packing, ; 

 instead of turning peaches, and pears, and ap- 1 

 pies into a cart in one mass, a certain loss to I 

 themselves, and as great an injury to the pur- i 

 chasers. 



The sorts of pears for common use, wiii\;B 

 may be recommended, are 



The Little Muscat, a small summer pear, ripe; 

 in August. 



The several varieties of Catherine Pear. — 

 Tliey have all of them a general resemblance 

 — summer pears. 



The Jargonelle, a tine summer pear, and a 

 general bearer. ', 



The Summer Bergamot, a green fine pear of 

 an apple shajie ; ripens in September. 



The Brocklwlst Bergamot, a delicious pear, 

 lipe eaily in October. 



The Bro-jsn Bturre ; the best pear which is 

 known but short lived, ripens in October. \ 



The St Michaels. It has a great variety of 

 names, but is most commonly known under the; 

 aliove. It is a great bearer, hardy, will grow in j 

 any soil, is in eating from Oclober to Christmas j 

 if taken good care of, and is among tlio most j 

 valuable pears which grow. j 



The J\!ons. Jean is another valuable pear. It, 

 is ripe about the tirst of November, and will 

 last till the middle of December. 



The Roussclinc is also a l;ue fall pear, and 

 will sell well. 



The I'Vinler Good Chri.^tian is a poar, which 

 keeps well and may be trans[)orted a great dis- 

 tance, being very hard when gathered. 



The Virgodlovse and r'o/j.-jnr resemble each 

 other, and are very line. They are December 

 pears, and will sell well at market. 



The Chaiunonlelle is also a fine, late fall pear, 

 and a great bearer. 



But the pear which may be cultivated to the 

 greatest profit ; the mo^l uniformly good, the 

 best of (he excellent pears for keeping, is the 

 ,S'r. Germain. It is a hardy tree, and will en- 

 dure a century. The pears barrelled up might 

 be transported a hundred mile? in December or 

 January, and will always command a good price. 

 Ferhaps, hoivever, they could no! profitably be 

 transported more than ibity miles 



This very imperfect list of fruits has not been 

 made out with a view so much to increase the 

 profits of the farmer, as to show to him that 

 with a little pains, less than he often bestows in 

 procuring a thing injurious to him, he might al- 

 ways regale his family and friends with what 



the richest and greatest men consider the most 

 acceptable thing they can offer to their guests, 

 most excellent fruits. 



From LilleWs Museum of Science, ice. 



HISTORY OF COFFEE IN EUROPE. 



Hitherto, coffeehouses were confined to the 

 east, and it is not easy to determine, exactly, 

 when its use was introduced into Europe. — 

 Pielro de la Veile, writing tVom Constantinople 

 in ICly, says, that when he returns to Italy, he 

 will bring some coffee with him ; whether he. 

 did or not, cannot be ascertained; but in IClt. 

 it (vas certainly introduced into Marseilles; in 

 1660, a considerable quantity was imported trom 

 Egypt into that city ; and in 1671, a coffee-house 

 was opened in it. In 1657, Thevenot brought; 

 a small quantity to Paris; its use, however, was 

 confined to those persons who had been in the ; 

 Levant, and their friends. I 



Its general introduction and firm establishment I 

 in France, were brought about in a manner truly 

 characteristic of the inhabitants of that country. 

 In 1669, »n ambassador from the Porte, arrived 

 at Paris, who rendeicd himself very fashionable, 

 as well as a great favourite by liis politeness, 

 gallantry, and wit ; persons of rank, especially 

 ladies, visited him ; to them he gave coffee :- 

 and thus a hitler and black beverage, which 

 prescribed by a Frenchman, would have been 

 rejected with disgust, because a favourite and 

 fashionable liquor, simply from the circumstance 

 that it was presented by a Turk of wit and gal- 

 lantry. The I age for coffee having been thus 

 spread, an Armenian of the name of Pascal, look 

 advantage of it, and in 1672, ofiened a coffee 

 house in Paris; but in consequence of the very, 

 interior manner in which it was fitted up, and 

 the low company admitted, his scheme di(i not 

 succeed. Procopius, a Florentine, perceiving 

 tiie error, filled up a fine apartment, and hav- 

 ing already acquired a reputation amonsr the 

 epicures by the introduction of ices into Paris, 

 his cotTee-house met with great encouragement. 



One veiy beneficial consequence resulted from 

 the general and fashionable use of coffee in 

 Paris; in the seventeenth century, habits of in- 

 toxication prevailed, even among the highest 

 classes, who were not ashamed to frequent the 

 cabarets in parties, for the purpose of this de- 

 grading debauch. Louis XIV. in vain had ex- 

 erted his influence, directed his indignation, and 

 ap[)ealed to ihe love and respect of his subjects 

 lor their grand monarch, to put down this prac- 

 tice ; what he could not do Procopius anil Ihe 

 other cofiee-house kee[iers accomplished. The 

 cabarets were deserted by men of rank and of 

 letters; the coffee-houses became the places ol 

 their resort, and at this period, Saurin, La Molhe, 

 Dauchet, Boindin, J. B. Rousseau, &lc. met 

 there, and planned or composed their most cel- 

 ebrated pieces. 



uIIpI of lalitudo to the Norlh-pa*tern-inost branch 

 of Ihe Columbia, and thence down along the 

 middle of that river to ibe I'acilic Ocean, and 

 intimalo that Ibey will never recede from that 

 line. As Ihe Columbia river einpiies into the 

 Pacific in lal. 40 deg. l.'j mm. N. the terrilory 

 in dispute is 2 (leg. 15 tnin. or 165 geographi- 

 cal miles lYoin nnrlh to •;oul!i. 



HOPS. 

 From the annual report of Orrin Fuller, in- 

 spector of bops for the city of Albany, in New 

 York, it appears that IC02 bales had been in- 

 spected in Ihe season of 1825; of which 1079 

 were first soi I, 51 second sort, and 69 were re- 

 fuse ; weighing -15U,5t->0 lbs. and all of the 

 growth of lGi.'5, and the amount received lor 

 inspection was f,bti3 12. The hops raised in 

 Ihe Western part of Ihe Stale of New York, 

 have all been of a superior quality, and have 

 been sold at an advance of 3 els. per lb. in for- 

 eign ports, over any other hops that have been 

 raised in the Union. 



CABBAGES. 



They should be transplanted into the hed.^ 

 where they are to grow about the 20lh of May, 

 ihey having been sowed in a small bed for 

 plants about a month |>revioiis. The ground 

 ought to be well mellowed and manured, before 

 they are transplanted. 



They shnulil be hoed in the morning, when 

 Ihe dew io on, once each week, until they begin 

 lo head. 



They must not be pulled up until there is 

 danger of their freezing too fast in the ground 

 to be got up. If there hap]iens an early snow, 

 it will not injure them. When they are remov- 

 ed from the garden, they .should be set out a- 

 gain, in a trench dug in the bollom of a cellar, 

 if the cellar is pretty cool, it will be the better. 

 Burtinstori Gazette. 



NORTH WEST COAST. 



Difficulties have arisen between the govern- 

 ment of the United States and that of Great 

 Britain, with respect to the boundary between 

 Ihe two nations west of the Rocky Mountains. 

 The United States claim all south of the 49th 

 parallel of latitude, and propose to make that 

 parallel the boundary. The British propose 

 a boundary line to he drawn along the 46th par- 



RAIL ROADS. 

 A pclilion will be prcsenled lo the Legisla- 

 ture of this slate, at its nc.\t May session, lor an 

 act of incorporation for a Rail Road from the 

 Western [lart of this slate to Boston, taking the 

 Housatonic River 'Purnpike for its western be- 

 ginning — through Ihe lown of Slockbridgp, to 

 Springfield and Worcester ; logelher with such 

 Banking privileges as will be honorable to the 

 Stale, and encouraging lo individuals who feel 

 an intere-1 in the improvement of it. — Stock- 

 bridge, Feb. 2S, 1826.— Berkshire Star. 



Ohio. — The grand total of property now sub 

 jccted to and returned lor taxation is ^58.924,- 

 770. The whole number of acres of land is 15,- 

 174,106, which is valued at g37, 244,495— the 

 general average is ^^245 4. — Value of Houses 

 <; 1.549,889. Value of Towns' property g7, 188,- 

 198. Number of horses 138,074 — value g5,- 

 517,810. Number of cattle 274,689— value 

 jj;2.501,095, Merchant-' capitals 5,202,400.— 

 Value of carriages g20,885. 



An old house in Hadley, three tons of broom 

 corn, and 3 or 4000 handles, were consumed by 

 fire, two or three weeks since. Broom manu- 

 factories are peculiarly exposed to the devour- 

 ing element, from the large quantities of light, 

 combustible matters they contain, 



