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NEW ENGLAND FARMEH. 



April 3, 1829. 



M I S C E L L A'N I E S. 



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The Tempests of JVew England — In 1717 oc- 

 (JUiTed a tempest which has been distinguished in 

 histoi-y and tradition, as the great snow, by way of 

 exniuence. The winter has been mild and open 

 Qntil tho commencement of Februaiy. On the 

 18th of that month a violent storm commenced, 

 and continued, with short internals, nearly a week. 

 The north-east wind in fierce gusts drove the de- 

 scending snow into piles, obliterating the traces of 

 roads, and covering the fences, and in some 

 places, even the buildings. The Boston News 

 Letter of February 25, 1717, has the following 

 paragraphs : — " Besides several snows we had a 

 great one on Monday the 18th current, and on 

 Wednesday the 20th, it began to snow about 

 noon, and continued snowing till Friday the 22d, 

 eo that the snow lies in some parts of the streets 

 about six feet high." — " Saturday last was a clear 

 sunshine, not a cloud to be seen till towards eve- 

 ning, and the Lord's day, the 24th, a deep snow. 

 The extremity of the weather has hindered all the 

 Biree posts coming in j neither can they be expect- 

 ed till the roads, now impassable with a mighty 

 enow upon the ground, are beaten." A letter from 

 John Winthrop, in New London, to Dr Cotton 

 Mather, contains a few particulars relating to " the 

 prodigious storms of snow in the doleful winter 

 past." The sea was disturbed with unusual com- 

 motion, and shells were thrown far upon the sands. 

 Porpoises and other tenants of the deep thronged 

 to tho land, and in the quaint language of the 

 writer, " the harbor and river seemed to be full of 

 them, but none of them came on shore, but kept a 

 play day among the disturbed waves." The snow 

 flake* came in starhke spangles, having six little 

 rays. Multitudes of animals perished iu the drifts. 

 " We lost," says he, " at the island and farms, 

 above eleven hundred sheep, besides some cattle 

 nnd horses, intened in the snow, i^nd it was very 

 strange, that twenty-eight days after the storm, 

 the tenants at Fisher's island pulled out the ruins 

 of one hundred sheep, out of one snow bank in 

 a valley, where the snow had drifted over them 

 sixteen feet, found two of them alive in the drift, 

 which had lain on them all that time, and kept 

 themselves alive by eating the wool off the others, 

 that lay dead by them. As soon as they were 

 taken out of the drift, they shed their own fleeces, 

 and are now alive and fat." Tho wild animals of 

 the forest were forced from the upland parts of 

 the country to resort to the sea side for subsist- 

 ence, and came forth from their dens by night to 

 make ravages among the survivors of the flocks. 



At the period of the visitation of this memorable 

 storm, there were few idle writers to note down 

 every occurrence, and no Editors in distress for 

 paragraphs to fasten upon every circumstance, 

 and transmit records to posterity. Except the 

 brief notices from tho only Gazette of the day, no 

 printed accounts have been preserved. The tra- 

 ditions of the past generations dimmed by the 

 lapse of a century, as thoy are transmitted by those 

 aged persons who heard the descriptions given by 

 their ancestors, represent its violence as exceeding 

 all modern parallels. Separate facts have been pre- 

 served in interleaved almanacs, diaries, and pri- 

 vate coirespondenco, which confirm their rela- 

 tion. 



The funeral of Mr Brattle, minister of Cam- 

 bridge, was solemnized on the 20th of February, 

 and the principal magistrates, elders, and ministers 



of Boston and its vicinity, assombled to honor his 

 memory, were detained several days before their 

 return was possible. (His. Coll. vii. 68.) 



Mr Treat, of Eastham, a clergyman who had 

 passed nearly half a century in active ministerial 

 labors, and in the diffusion of the gospel among 

 the Indians, died soon after the storm. The snow 

 was piled to such height that it was inijiossible to 

 beat a path over it. The funeral was delayed un- 

 til a passage was dug through ; and after some 

 days the remains of the holy man were borne to 

 their resting place, through tho .'aulted arch, by 

 the natives reclaimed from the forest by his pious 

 eflbrts. 



Judge Sewall entered in his diary, quoted in 

 Holmes' Annals : " February 22. — It was terribly 

 surprising to me to see the extraordinary banks of 

 snow on the side of the way over against us." 



Several snows fell after this date. The im- 

 mense body which had accumulated, during 

 February and March, on its dissolution swelled 

 the streams with great floods. The rivers then 

 rolled through an uncultivated wilderness, where 

 the busy hand of improvement had nor yet spread 

 the structures of art to be washed by their injury. 



J^at. JEgis. 



Scions of nipple and Pear Trees. 

 For sale, at the New England Farmer Seed Store, No. 

 52 North Market street, Boston, a large collection of Ap- 

 ple and Pear Scions, — among which are the following :— 

 Apples. 



Gardener's Sweeting, 

 Nonsuch, 

 Grand Sachem, 

 Cat-head, or Large Sum- 

 mer Russet, 

 Rhode Island Greening, 



&c, 



How to he a Lady's Man. — When you call on a 

 family, should there be any children in the room, 

 be sure you get one of them on your knee — two 

 little ones would be better if procurable, because 

 you might say to the mother whilst you dandled 

 her offspring, ' Oh ! such a pair were never seen, 

 &c.' — If you can contrive to rub the child's dirty 

 shoes against your white trousers, so as to leave 

 a legible mark, it will do you much good — be- 

 cause the mother will say, ' Oh, Mr ! — the child is 

 spoiling your clothes ;' you can then easily reply 

 ' my dear madam, make no apologies, I am de- 

 votedly attached to children ;' nothing gains the 

 heart of a mother so much as attention paid to her 

 children ; therefore coax the child as much as you 

 can to play with your epaulette (if you have the 

 honor to be in the army) — fortune may so far fa- 

 vor you as to induce the young one to pull one of 

 the btMons off" ; — that circumstance alone would in- 

 sure you invitations during the winter. If the 

 child be ever so ugly, remark that it reminds you 

 (and sigh at the same time) of a ' lovely' little sis- 

 ter of your's, now alas ! no more ; after that ob- 

 servation you may ' book' yourself for a score of 

 parties. But should the ' dear little innocent' be 

 really pretty, and the mamma quite the reverse, 

 you can still do some good by saying ' good God ! 

 madam, how greatly the child resembles you ;' a 

 congrevs rocket discharged against a breast work 

 could not have more effect than this remark of 

 your's will have in the breast of the lady ; she will 

 tell her husband that you are a ' fine young man, 

 and that she is convinced you have an excellent 

 heart and disposition, by what she saw of your af- 

 fection for children ; so, although you may like 

 children as ' the devil does holy water,' a little 

 policy, and a few attentions wtU limed, will insure 

 a flattering reception in every family ; and you 

 will then gain the first step in the profession of' a 

 lady's man !' Florestan. 



Roxbury Russet, 



New York Pippin, 



Baldwin, 



Gilliflower, 



White Shropsavine, or ] 



Early Harvest, 

 &c. 



Pears. 



Large Iron, or Pound, 

 Gansel's Bergamot, 

 Brown Buerre, 

 Eady Juiieting, 

 St Michael's, 

 Bioca's Bergamot, 

 Bartlett, 

 &c, &c. 



In addition to the above, we are daily procuring 6De 

 vaiietics, from responsible sources, and hope to extend 

 the collection so as to comprise all the esteemed fruits 

 raised in the vicinity of Boston and New York. 



The scions are in fine order, and the utmost depen- 

 dence can be placed upon their genuineness, as they are 

 all cut from bearing trees. eplf 



Heatlicot, 



St Germain, 



I!u«l]niure's Bon Cretien, 



Spice Rousselet, 



Red Bergamot, 



Moor Fowl Egg, 



Jargonelle, 



Fruit Trees. 

 Messrs WINSHIPS respectfully request 

 those of the public who may incline to favor 

 them with their orders the ensuing season, for 

 fruit and ornamental frees, fancy shrubbery, 

 herbaceous plants, whether indigenous or ex- 

 otic, to forward their orders immediately, and they will 

 be executed with every possible despatch. They also 

 have several hundred genuine Isabella Grape Vines, by 

 the hundred or single plant, with the superior European 

 kinds in cultivation in this country. Letters directed to 

 F. & I. Winship, Brighton. 



P. S. Asparagus roots from one to four years old. 

 OC?- All orders left with J. B. Russell, at the New 

 England Farmer Seed Store, 62 North Market street, will 

 bo executed at the Nursery prices, and the trees delivered 

 in Boston, free of expense for transportation. 

 Brighton, March 11, 1829. 



Assorted Seeds for Families. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer Seed Store small boxes 

 of assorted Seeds for Kitchen Gardens. Each box contains* 

 package of the following Seeds : 



A pair of oxen belonging to Messrs Oliver & 

 Levi Cowls, of Amherst, were weighed a few 

 days since, and their joint weight found to be 4 171 

 pounds. They were worked until May last, and 

 were not fed with meal until the present win- 

 ter. 



Early Washington Peas 



Dwarf Blue Imperial Peas 



Late Blarrowiat Peas 



Early jViohawk Dwarf string 

 Boans 



China Dwarf strljig and shell 

 Beans 



Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 



Long Blood Beet 



Early Turnip-rooted Beet 



Early York Cabbage 



Large late Drumhead Cabbage 



Cape Savoy Cabbage 



Red Dutch Cabbage ffor pick- 

 ting) 



Early Horn Carrol 



Long Orange Carrot 



White SoIiJ Celery 



Curled Cress 



Early Cucumber 



Early Silesia Lettuce 



Long Dutch Parsnip 



Large Cabbage Lettuce 



Long Green 'I'lirkey Cucumber 



Pine-apple Melon 



Long, or Round Watermelon 



Nasturtium 



Large White Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Parsley 



Flat Squash Pepper 



Early Scarlet Short-top Radfefc 



While Turnip Radish 



Salsafy 



Early Bush Squash 



Early While Dutch Turnfp 



While Flat Turnip 



Yellow Stone Turnip 



Winter Crook-neck Squasl*. 



POT HERB SEEDS. 



Thyme— Sage — Marjoruin. 



The above list, it will be seen, comprises all the common ve- 

 getables, besides several new varieties of recent inlroduction, 

 and uncommon excellence. Erery kind is warranted of the 

 very first quality, as to freshness and purity. Each box contains 

 directions for llie management of ihe dill'erenl sorts. Price gS 

 per box. . 



Pressed Cidinary Herbs. 

 For sale at the New England Farmer Seed Store, No. SSI, 

 North Market street, Culinarv Herbs, dried, pressed, and neatly 

 packed, in parcels, at the following prices : — Sweet Marjoram, 

 50 CIS— Summer Savory, 23 cts — Thyme, 33 els— Sage, 17 CIS 

 —Celery, (in bottles for soups, &,e,) 2* els— Balm, 33 cl»— 

 Rose Flowers, gl,(X). eplf 



Published every Friday, at ^3 per annora, payable al tte 

 end of Ihe year— but those who pay within sixty days from ihe 

 time of subscribing, are entitled to a deduction of fifty cents. 



Primed for J. B. Russbll, by I. R. Butts— by whom 

 all descriptions of Priming can be executed to meet the wishes 

 of customers. Orders for printing received by J. B. Rdsseu, 

 at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 62 Nordi Market Slr«eK 



