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NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



March 20, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



SONNET TO THE CAMELLIA JAPONICA. 



BT W. ROSCOE, ES(i. 



Say, what impels me, pure and spotless flo%\cr, 



To view llice wiiii a aecrel syinpalliy ? 



Is lliere some living spirit slirined in Iliee ? 

 That, as tliou bloom'st witliin my hunilile bower, 

 Endows tlice witli some strange, mysterious power, 



Waking liigli tliouglils 7 As tliere percliance might be 



Some angel-form of truth aiid jiurity. 

 Whose hallowed presence shared my lonely hour ? 



Yes, lovely flower, 't is not thy virgin glow, 



Tliy petals whiter than descending snow, 

 Nor all tlie charms thy velvet folds display j 



'T is the soft image of some beaming mind, 



By grace adorn'd, by elegance refined, 

 That o'er my heart thus holds its silent sway. 



Wonders of a cup of Tea. — A cup of tea, though 

 a small article and a cheap one, is capable of per- 

 foimmg wontleis. As a mine, beneath the wall 

 of a beleaguereti city, oiily requires the match to 

 blow the iuliabitants of earth to the moon, so a 

 cup of tea wants nothing but opportunity to pro- 

 duce the most signal effects ; and many a matcli 

 is begun, advanced, or concluded, under its in- 

 spiring uifluence. When the " hissing urn throws 

 up a steamy colunm," fragrant with hyson, pow- 

 erful with imperial, strong with gunpowder, or 

 block with bohea, it may be considered as a warn- 

 ing of the consequences to be expected from the 

 wonderworking beverago within. But when the 

 cups have received it, when the sugar and cream 

 have softened it ; in fine, when rosy lips begin to 

 imbibe the delicious draught, then look for conse- 

 quences. Father of Ho Whanghi ! -how does a 

 cup of tea unloose, invigorate, nay, almost create, 

 the faculty of speech ! Beliold a spiritless, silent, 

 solemn company, sitting in a semicircle, staring at 

 one another, having thrice exhausted that most in- 

 exhaustible topic, the weather, and despairing in 

 what manner to introduce it a fourth time — in this 

 sad, this most uncomfortable dilemma, the siglit of 

 the tea tray is better than a plank to a drowning 

 man, or the voice of pardon to acoudctnned crim- 

 inal. Glance your eye over the company, and 

 see how other eyes begin to sparkle ; the solemn 

 gloom disperses like mists before the morning sun. 

 But no sooner have pretty noses began to inhale 

 the fragrance, no sooner have pretty lips began to 

 sip the delicious, tongue-inspiring beverage, than 

 silence is thrust aside, the weather banislied iVom 

 " good society," and tongues (as Virgil gays about 

 elm trees that bear ajjples) begin to be astonished 

 at fruits not their own. — Berk. Am. 



History, antiquities — in cities, towns, cliurclies, 

 castles, ruins, &c. 



Natural history — in plants, earths, stones, min- 

 erals, animals, &c. 



Picturesque taste — in landscape scenery in all 

 ifs boundless combinations. 



Cultivate good humored contentment in all the 

 little inconveniences incident to inns, roads, weath- 

 er, &c. 



Cultivate a deep and grateful sense of the pow- 

 er, wisdom, and goodness of God, in creation and 

 providence, as sitccessively presented to your no- 

 tice from place to place. 



Keep diaries and memoranda of daily events, 

 places, persons, objects, conversations, sermons, 

 public meetings, beauties, wonders, and mercies, 

 as you travel. Be minute and faithful. 



Ask many questions of such as can afford use- 

 ful information as to what you ese. 



Write your diary daily ; — delays are very preju- 

 dicial. You owe a diary to yourself, to your 

 friends left at home, and to your father, who gives 

 you the pleasure and profit of the journey. 



Prayer. — Strive to preserve a praying mind 

 through the day ; not only at the usual and stated 

 periods, but every where, and at all times, and in 

 all companies. This is your best preservative 

 against error, weakness, and sin. - 



Always think yourselves in the miidst of tempt- 

 ations ; and never more so, than when most 

 pleased with outward objects and intercourse. 



Pray and watch, for if the spirit be willing, yet 

 the flesh is deplorably weak. 



Behaviour in Company Be cheerful, but not 



gigglerg. 



Be serious, but not dull. 



Be communicative, but not forward. 



Be kind, but not servile. 



In every company, support your own and your 

 father's principles by cautious consistency. 



Beware of silly, thoughtless speeches ; although 

 you maj^ forget them, others will not. 



Reinember God's eye is in every place, and his 

 ear in every company. 



Beware of levity and familiarity with young 

 men : a modest reserve, without afiectation, is the 

 only safe path— grace is needful here ; ask for it ; 

 you know where. 



Journeyings — Cultivate knowledge as you trav- 

 el. 



Jhnencan Freemen contrasleil uith the largest class 

 cf European population. — There do not exist in 

 America, in the same degree those eirciunstances 

 of a dense and degraded population, which occa- 

 sion in the old nations of Europe such au infinite 

 difference of knowledge and ignorance, of wealth 

 the most exuberant and indigence the most horri- 

 ble. No man in America need be poor if he has 

 ii iiatchet and arms to use it. The wilderness is 

 to him the same retreat which the world afforded 

 to our first parents. His family, if he has one, is 

 .wealth ; if he is unincumbered vrith wife or chil- 

 dren, he is the more easily provided for. An im- 

 mense proportion of the population of the United 

 States consists of agriculturists, who live upon 

 their own property, which is generally of moder- 

 r.le extent, and cultivate it by their own labor. — 

 Such a situation is peculiarly favorable to republic- 

 an habits. The man, who feels himself really in- 

 dependent, — and so must every American who 

 can use a spade or an axe, — will please himself 

 with the mere exertion of his free-will, and form a 

 strong contrast to the hollowing, bawling, bluster- 

 ing rabble of a city, where a dram of liquor or the 

 moiiey to buy a meal, is sure to purchase the ac- 

 clamation of thousands, whose situation in the 

 scale of society is too low to permit their thinking 

 of their political right as a thing more valuable 

 than to be bartered against the degree of advan- 

 tage they may procure, or of hcence which they 

 may exercise, by placing it at the disposal of one 

 candidate or anether. — ScotVs Life of J^apoleon. 



The Traveller states that during the last year, 

 in liuBton, about 400 dwelling houses and stores 

 were built, besides three meeting houses, a splen- 

 did hotel, and a number of mechanics and other 

 shops. 



SEEI?S WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. 



For sale at the Seed Establishment, connerlrd vrith the office 

 of the New Enghmd Farmer, rVo. bl North Market Street, Bos- 

 Ion, the largest variety of seeds to be found in New England— 

 of the crops of 1S28. The greatest care has been taken to have 

 them raised by our most experienced seed growers, and to have 

 the sorts perlectly genuine. They are ofi'ered for sale by the 

 bushel, pound, or paper, on favorable terms. Each package 

 for retail is accompanied with short directions on its manage- 

 merU. The following comprise some of our most prominent 

 sorts. Pamphlet catalogues gratis. 

 Artichoke, Green Globe 

 Asfura^us, Devonshire 

 Gra\'cseiid 

 Baltcrsea 

 l,arge while Reading 

 Bcitiis, {~G varieties,) including 

 the English broad beans, 

 dwarfs, pole. &,c. 

 Beds, true Long Blood 



Early blood 'I'urnip 

 Early While Scarcity 

 French Sugar, or Amber 

 Orange 



Greeu, (for soups, &-c.) 

 Bnreco/e 



Bm-oli, Early While 

 Early Purple 

 Large Cape 

 Brussels Sprouts 

 Cabbage, Early York 

 Early Dutch 

 Early Sugarloaf 

 Early Lou. Batlersea 

 Early Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large Bergen, &c. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 Large Scotch 

 Large Geeen Glazed 

 Large Late Drumhead 

 Tree, or 1000 headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Yellow Savoy 

 Turnip Rooted, &€. 

 Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 

 Cardoon 

 Carrots, Allringham 



Early Horn, (for table) 

 Blood Red 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Caulijiowei-, Early and Late 

 Celery, White solid 



Rose colored solid 

 Italian 



Celeriac.or turnip rooted 

 Cheitril 

 Chires 



Cam Salad, or Vettikost 

 Cress, Curled or X*eppergrass 

 Broad leaved or Garden 

 Water 

 Citcumher, Early Frame 



Early Green Cluster 

 Short Prickly 

 Long Prickly 

 Long Green Turkey 

 Long White Turkey 

 Long White Si)ined 

 Small Girkin, SfC. 

 Errs Plant, Purple 

 White 

 Endive, Green 



While Curled 

 Brosd ieaved Batavian 

 Garden Burnet 

 Garlic Setts 



Indian Corn, (several varieties 

 Purple curled 

 Green curled Scotch 

 Leekj London 



LarjjR Scotch 

 Lettuce, Early Curled Silesia 

 Large Green head 

 Royal Cape (fine) 

 Imperial 

 Hardv Green 

 Brown Dutch 

 Grand Admiral 

 Tfcunisball, or Rose 

 Drumhead 

 Magnum Bouum Cos 

 Bath Cos 

 Ice Cos 



M''Iiite Cos, or Loaf 

 Green Cos 

 Melon, Piue Apple 

 Green Citron 

 Persian 

 Nutnu'g 



Large Canteleupe 

 Pomegrauoie, or Musk 

 Carolina Water 

 Long Island Water 

 Apple seeded Water 

 Marjoram 



Mus'ard, White and Browa 

 Nasturtium 

 M(7is;el Wurtzel 

 Okra 



Onions, Potato 

 IVee 



White Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Large Red 

 Pars/f J/, Siberian 



Dwarl' Curled 

 Curled or Double 

 Pars7ijp, Large Dutch swelling 

 Peas, Early Washington 

 Early double blossomed 

 Early Frame 

 Early Golden Hotspur 

 Early Charlton 

 Early Slrnwberry Dwarf 

 Dwarf Blue Imperial 

 Dwarf lilue Prussian 

 Dwarf Spanish, or Fan 

 Dwarf M arrowfat 

 Dwarf Sugar 

 Matchless, or Tali Marrow 

 KnigliL's Tall Marrow 

 Tall Crooked pad Sugar 

 Pepi'ers, Long or Cayenne 



Tomato, or Squash ■ 

 Cherry, (West India^ 

 Pumpkins, Fine Family 



Conneciicut Field 

 Mammoth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short top Scarlet 

 Long Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white,or Naples 

 Cherry 

 Violet colored 

 White Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall or Spanish 

 Rhubarb Roots^ (for taits) 

 Ruta Baga 



Salsafy, or vegetable oyster 

 Sea Kale 

 Skirret 

 Saffron 



Spinach, New Zeahnd 

 Prickly, or Fall 

 Roundleaved summer 

 Sage 



Squash, Early bush eummer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow 

 Acorn &c. 

 Tomato s 



Turjnps^ early white Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 White Flat, or Globe 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long Tankard 

 Long Yellow French 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Yellow Aberdeen 

 Yellow Stone 

 Yellow Swedish 

 Dedhani 

 Th3'me — Sweet Basil— Bone* 

 set — Lavender — Rosemary — 

 Hyssop — Wormwood — Sum- 

 mer Savory — Penny royal — 

 Spikenard— Dill— Balm-Tan- 

 sy — Bene, &c. 



A Situation Wanted, 

 For a young man and his wife in a private family. 4* febST 



