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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



[xMarch 31, 



»ZZSCELI.ANZZ:S. 



Frotn the Rockingham Gazelle. 



HYMN OF NATURE. 

 God of the earth's pstended plains ! 

 The dark gfreen fields contented lie : 

 The mountains rise like holy towers 

 Where man might commnne with the sky ■ 

 The tall cliff challenges the storm 

 That lowers npon the vale below. 

 Where shaded fonntains send their streams 

 With joyous musick in their flow. 



God of the dark and heaving deep ! 

 Whose waves lie sleeping on the sands, 

 Till the fierce trumpet of the storm 

 Hath summoned up their thundering bands ; 

 Then the white sails are dashed like foam, 

 Or hurry trembling o'er the seas, 

 Till calmed by thee, the sinking gale 

 Serenely breathes — depart in peace. 



God of the forest's solemn shade ! 

 The grandeur of the lonely tree 

 That wrestles singly with the gale, 

 Lifts up admiring eyes to thee ; 

 But more maji'stick far tht-y stand 

 ■When, side by side. Ihtii ranks they form. 

 To wave on high their plumes of green, 

 And fight their battles with the storm. 



God of the light and viewless air! 

 Where sumnjer breezes sweetly flow, 

 Or gathering in their angry might, 

 The fierce and wintry tempests blow ; 

 All — from the evening's plaintive sigh 

 That hardly lifts the drooping fiower. 

 To the wild whirlwind's miilnight cry — 

 Breathe forth the language of thy power. 



God of the fair and open sky ! 

 How glorious'y above ns springs 

 The tented robe of heavenly blue 

 Suspended on the rainbow's rings ; 

 Each brillia!it star that sparkles through, 

 Each gilded cloud that w^milers free 

 In evening's purple radiance — gives 

 The beauty of its praise to thee. 



God of the rolling orbs above '. 

 Thy name is written clearly bright 

 In the warm day's unvarying bla?.*-, 

 Or evenin<^'s goiden siiower of light, 

 For every fire that fronts tl»e sun. 

 And every spark that walks alone 

 Around the nlmosL verge of heaven, 

 Were, kindled at thy burning thr.'ne. 



God of the world 1 the hour must come ! 

 And nature's self to dust return ; 

 Her crumbling altars must decay. 

 Her incense fires shall c^ase to burn : 

 B".t still her grand and lovely scenes 

 Have made man's war.mest praises flow. 

 For hearts grew holier as they traced 

 The beauty of tiie world below. 



gives himself no further trouble about them. It 

 is sometimes 3 or 4 years before Ihey arrive at 

 the phtce of shipping. Here barriers of timber 

 are matlo in the river to slo[i the floating firs, 

 but llie\' sometimes break through, and are lost 

 to the merchnnlP. 



Only one eightieth part ol Norway is suscep- 

 tible of cultivation; one fourth of the inhabitants 

 live by fi«!iing. In 1 C'2 I the fisheries occupied 

 l.j.OOO men at the Loffoden Islands; and the 

 produce was 600,000 codfish. 40,000 tons of 

 whale oil and 20,000 tons of spermaceti. — lb. 



Af^ricxdture of ill c South. — While our agricul- 

 turists are making laudable enquiries, and sug- 

 gesting beneficial improvements as to the modes 

 of culture of the prevailing articles of produce 

 among us, is it not important (o ascertain, wheth- 

 er a partial change or a diminished culture of 

 some of those articles might not very advantage- 

 ously lake place ? Whether, for instance, the 

 cultivation of Cotton should be pursued with the 

 same, and with increasing ardour, notwithstand- 

 ing the gieat and growing increase of competi- 

 tion at home and abroad, and (he consetiuent 

 diminution of demand for the Cotton of the 

 Southern Slates. Do we not rely too much on 

 the golden harvests of long past years? Does 

 not (he illusive meteor of the last year still ex- 

 ercise a bewildering influence over the imagina-j 

 tion ? Our Cotton crops too, are becoming more 

 and more precarious, and if, as has recently 

 been asserted, the ruinous caterpillar has learnt 

 the art of surviving our winters, the culture of 

 Cotton must cease among us as it did in New- 

 Providence and Dermuda. — Charlst. Cour. 



JA.^;ES BLOODGOOD & CO. have for 

 sale at their nursery, at Flushing, on 

 Long Island, near New York, 

 !• RUIT and FOREST TREES, 

 FLOWERING SflRUBS and PLANTS, 

 of the most approved sorts. 

 The proprietors of this Nursery attend ftreovalhi to 

 the inoculation and engrafting oi all their Fruit Trees, 

 and purchasers may rely with confidence, that the 

 Trees they order will prove genuine. 



T he subscriber, agent of the above nursery, will re- 

 ceive orders for any quantity of trees, plants and shrub? 

 and transmit the same, and the bills may be paid to 

 him on the delivery of the trees in this city, the freight 

 &c. to be paid by the purchaser. 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis, and any inform- 

 ation respecting the condition of the trees. Sic. impart- 

 ed on application to him. Z. iCOOK. jr. 

 Boston, Feb. 10, lS'-\"i. epTOt 44 State street. 



\VM. PRLNXE, Vrorrietor of 

 the Linaajan Garden, near 

 New York, offers to the public 

 his very estensire collerticn of 

 the choicest Fri.its, which have 

 been selected with the greatest 

 care from the most ce'e' rated 

 establishments throughout the' 

 world, and to which very large 

 additions have recently btea 



" RRTi H r^ ib/t^'"^'^^' "^'^^ assortment of Or- 

 .»«r'lfe-'-^™;-'«te;i^^^namcntal Trees, Shrubs, and 

 Plants, is very extensive. Above 1900 species of Gr-en 

 House Plants, comprising the most rare and splendid 

 kinds. In the collection are above 500 varieties of 

 Roses, including 54 varieties of China Tlosts, and 9 of 

 Moss Roses. Also, about 10,000 thrifty Grape Vines, 

 of the finest European kinds. The new catalrgues for 

 ]r,-.'."> may be obtained of JoSErn Bridge, No. 25 Court 

 Street, Boston, and orders thro' him will meet prompt 

 attention. 3t March 17. 



£0% 



C'Jt;; pox. — The Quarterly Review says that 

 vaccine matter fresh from the cow produces a 



OlJen lime. — "The court in September of this 

 year [16."4] made a law, that tobacco should 

 not be taken in company, or before strangers, 

 and condemned to disuse a great variety ot ar- 

 ticles of dress. Gold or silver laces, girdlos, or 

 hat-bands, embroidered caps, immoderate great 

 veils and immoderale great sleeves incurred 

 special disapprobation. Such things were all j 

 subject to tbrleiture, with an exception that' 

 some of the articles already in use might be [ 

 worn out. But a sermon ol Mr. Cotton's at I 

 Salem had as powerful an etTect as the fear of 

 the law. He taught the women there, that ' 

 they had no occasion to wear Ibe veil, in com- 

 pliance vvith any scriptural direction, and they 

 were so enlightened and convinced by his dis- 

 course, that every woman in the afternoon ap- 

 peared wilhout her veil, and ever after consider- 

 ed it a ohame to wear one. Mr Cotton had bc- 

 (bre urged the same doctrine at Boston ; we 

 may safely add, with like success. 



"The appetite, as well as the fondness for 



more painlul disorder than alter it has Passed , j^^^^ ^^^^ under restraint. Colony record," 



for =ome lime through the human sufcject h:\Noy,. 1G37 : No person shall sell any cakes oi 

 jnoculalion; and il vacr.mation be now le« et- j,,,^^ ^j,^p^ ^^ ^^^^ ^^,^,.^, or victualling houses 

 icctual than formerly as a prevntive ol the 

 small pox, it mav be because we h ive-neglected 

 too long to vaccinate with matter taken imme- 

 diately from the animal. — Hampshire Gaz. 



JV'irwajf. — The fir tree forms an important 

 brancli of the commerce of this country. The 

 tree? belong to the peasants, who cut them 

 down and ran?e tbem. The nuTchant accom- 

 jmnied by a mea«urer. proceeds into the interi- 

 or l.^'O or 200 miles, where the bargain is cun- 



j or elsewhere, upon pain of ten shillings fine, 

 provided, that this order shall not extend to such 

 cakes as shall be tnade lor any burial, or mar- 



I riage, or such like special occasion. 



'■'■March 4 — A man that luul often been pun- 

 ished for drunkenness, is now ordered to wear 

 a red D about his neck lor a year." 



Upwards of Eight Thousand hogs have been 

 lately slaughtered at Cleaveiand, Ohio. The 

 ,,,,,, , , , , I \'<-'i'^ is destined for the New-York market, and 



eluded and the trees measured and marked.-] ,-„^ ,1^^ supply of the U. States troops on the 

 Thfi peasant then rolls them into the river, atrdiy lakes 



MEARs' improved SPRING STAPLI.^, lor fastening 

 horses, which are sure to pfevtnt the.ir being cast. 



100 dozen of Goodyear's improved stei 1 spring tem- 

 p<.red 3, 4, and 6 tine MANURE FORKS. 



too of 2 and 3 tine HAY do. 



50 doz. of SOCKET do. 



6 doz. very superior cast steel PRUNING K.NIVES, 

 made from a pattern given by S. W. Po.mekoV, Esq. 

 and is considered a great improvement. 



BUDDING KNIVES do. some with superior ivory 

 handleii 



PRUNING BOW SAW, recommended by Lewis 

 Hunt, Esq. 



Common do. 

 PRUNING CHISELS and AXES. 

 PRUNING Shi:ARS. 



Leavitt's hand SEED SOWER— well calculated for 

 all kind of small seed. 



Mear"s improved YOKE. 



A very ^tensive assortment of all kinds of Garden 

 Tools. 



For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, 



March 24 No. 100 State-street. 



05-FRES(l SEEDS.— For sale at this OfEce, Sugar 

 Beet seed, raised this season, by .tohn Prince, Esq. Rox- 

 bury. And a few bushels of genuine Orchard Grass 

 seed, likewise raised by Mr. Prince. — Also Mangel 

 Wurtzel seed, by John Kenrick, Esq. iNtwtoii. 



i_;;5= Published every Friday, at Thrf.k Dollars,*; 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but those 

 who pay within sirti/ /fai^s t\om tlu-time of subsciibing 

 will be entitled to a deduction of Fii-TV C'Ksrs. 



Gentlemen who procure ./iit responsible subscribers, 

 are entitled to a si.rth volume gratis. 



New subscribers can be furnished wi'h the preced- 

 ing numbers of the current volume. 



