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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 10, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



The IVinttrs of Mw England.— 1141. The 

 winter of this year was bitter, and its severity 

 widely felt. The follovTing paragrajjhs from the 

 Pennsylvania Gazette, will show the distress which 

 was exijerienced even in the regions now visited 

 gently by the winter's cold. " Pliiladclphia, 

 March, 1741. Our accounts from all jiarts of the 

 country are filled with complaints of the severity 

 of the winter, no one remembering the like. The 

 cattle are dying daily for want of fodder : many 

 deer are found dead in the woods, and some come 

 tamely to the plantations and feed on hay with 

 Other creatures." " New York, Feb. 3, 1741. By 

 our accounts from the country, the people here 

 are in so great want of fodder for their cattle, in 

 eeveral places, that four cows are given to have 

 one delivered in May, and that the cold has been 

 so severe, that even deer, squirrels, and birds have 

 been frozen to death, and great quantities of sheep 

 have perished, and this day wood has been sold 

 for 40 shillings per cord." 



1764. The snow fell in great quantities during 

 February and March. It is within the recollec- 

 tion of some of our ancient inhabitants that during 

 the month of April, oxen and sleds heavily loaded 

 with the materials for the Old Soulh Meeting 

 House, in this town, passed upon the surface of 

 the snow, frozen into a thick crust, over the places 

 ■where fences were buried in the drifts, without ob- 

 Btruction. 



1772. The Boston Gazette states, that the 

 winter had been more severe than had been known 

 for many years. Great storms of wind and snow 

 came until April. 



1780. The snows of this inemoralile winter 

 commenced in November, and continued storms 

 accompanied with violent winds frnni the N. East, 

 occurred during December. About the first of 

 January, a period of steady and severe cold com- 

 menced. During forty days even on the south 

 and sunny side of buildings in warm situations 

 there were no indications of thaw. The light and 

 dry snow drifted and eddied with incessant mo- 

 tion on the wind. P;iths, if opened, were imme- 

 diately filled, and communication v/as almost en- 

 tirely interrupted. The Spy, then published in 

 this town, contains the following notice " Worces- 

 ter, Jan. 6. For twenty years ]iast the travelling 

 lias not been known to be worse than at present. 

 The mails due last week have not yet arrived. We 

 therefore give our readers but half a sheet this 

 week." " Jan. 13. A gentleman who arrived 

 here yesterday from Boston, which place he left 

 Friday last, (Jan. 7,) informs us that the storm 

 was very severe there, and that between this and 

 the capital, not less than 80 teams were stop- 

 ped." "Jan. 20. Travelling has not been so 

 much obstructed by the snow for forty years past. 

 Except the great post road from Boston to Hart- 

 ford, all are filled, and no passing without snow- 

 shoes." " Jan. 27. Wood is now sold in this 

 town at the rate of sixty dollais the conl, owing to 

 the roads being filled with snow. A poor man be- 

 longing to a town near Providence, began to re- 

 move his family, consisting of his v/ife and nine 

 children, to a place called New Providence, about 

 a hundred miles from this place, the day before 

 the beginning of the late storm ; he had got only 

 as far as Mendon, where he was obliged to re- 

 main three weeks, and having expoudcd all his 

 money, was drove to great necessity. The road 



from Mendon to this place remaining impassable 

 for cattle, a number of men on snow shoes assem- 

 bled and dragged his sled, on which were his wife 

 and family, and the few eflects he was possessed 

 of, as far as Grafton ; from that place sixty-one 

 men belonging there, brought them in the same 

 manner to this town ; some of the charitable in- 

 habitants set on foot a subscription for tlieir relief, 

 and in about two hours collected £150, and hav- 

 ing procured a team, on Monday last, they con- 

 tinued their journey. So singular a circumstance 

 is not remembered in this part of the country." 



On the 27th of February, Mr Thomas, the 

 printer of the Spy, " returns his sincere thanks to 

 those gentlemen in this, and a few of the neigh- 

 boring towns, who have continued to take his pa- 

 pers during the late tedious weather ; as the roads 

 in many parts of the county, still remain impassa- 

 ble on horseback, and too many of his customers 

 think it tedious to come for them, unless they could 

 ride, it has reduced the late impressions of this pa- 

 per to such small numbers, that the cost of print- 

 ing them has been three or four times as much as 

 the printer has asked for them when printed. — 

 This only, and not a want of interesting intelli- 

 gence occasions the appearance of half a sheet, 

 and obliges the printer to suspend the publication 

 of this paper until Thursday, the week aftfer 

 next." 



In the MSS of Mr French, cited in Abbot's His- 

 tory of Andover, it is stated the snow was four 

 and a half feet deep, in the woods, on a level — 

 The roads were so filled as to be impassable fur a 

 long time, except with the aid of snow shoes. — 

 Fences, and low buildings were buried beneath 

 deep drifts, and the inhabitants of contiguous 

 houses conmiunicated with each other through 



Scions of J)pple and Pear Trees. 

 For sale, at the New Knglaiid Farmer Seed Store, No» 

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

 pie aad Pear Scions, — among which are the following:—' 



Apples. 



Gardener's Sweeting; 

 Non.iiich, 

 Grand Sachem, 

 Cjt-hc!>d, or Large Sum- ) 

 nici- Kusset, ) 



Rhode Island Greening, 



Healhcot, 



St Germain, 



Rushiiiore's Bon Cretien, 



Spice F.ousselet, 



Red Bergamot, 



Mooi- Fowl Egg, 



Jargonelle, 



arched passages, hollowed under the drifts. After 

 the surface was frozen, instances are stated where 

 the dead were taken from the chand)er windows 

 to be carried to the grave. The sufferings of the 

 inhabitants were great. The scanty supply of 

 fiicl for many days could only be brought on hand 

 sleds, and the stumps of trees which were cut even 

 with the surface of the snows, on their dissolution 

 stood many feet above the earth. A row of shade 

 trees which ornamented the north end of the 

 street in this town, were destroyed to supply the 

 necessities of the people. The streams were so 

 much choked as not to flow in their usual chan- 

 nels, the rivulets disappeared under the drifts, and 

 great distress was felt for water. All travelling 

 was for a long time on snow shoes, and burthens 

 were carried on small sleds. — J^ational JEgis. 



Koxbury Russet, 

 New York Pippin, 

 Baldwin, 

 GilliBower, 



White Sliropsavine, or ) 

 Eaily Harvest, ) 



&c, &c. 

 Pears. 



Large Iron, or Pound,. 

 Gansel's Eergamot, 

 Brown Buerre, 

 Eaily Juneting, 

 St Michael's, 

 Broca's Bergamot, 

 Bartlett, 

 &c, &c. 



In addition to the above, we are daily procuring fin» 

 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 fro m bearing trees. eplf 



Frnil Trees. 

 Messrs WINSHIPS respectfully request 

 those of the public who may incline to lavor 

 them with their orders the ensuing season, for 

 fiuit and ornamental trees, fancy shrubbery, 

 herbaceous plants, whether indigenous or ex- 

 otic, to forward their orders immediately, and they will 

 be executed with every possible despatch. They alsp 

 have several hundred genuine Isabella Grape Vines, by 

 the hundred or single plant, with the superior European 

 liinds in cultivation in this country. Letters directed to 

 F. & I. Winship, Brighton. 



I'. S. Asparagus roots from one to four years old. 

 8C?- All ordei'a left with J. B. Russell, at the New 

 England Farmer Seed Store, 52 North Market street, will 

 be executed at the Nursery prices, and the trees delivered 

 in Boston, free of expense for transportauon. 



Brighton, March 11, 1S29. 



^issorted Seeds for Families. 



For sale at lire New England Farmer Seed Store small bnires 

 of assorted Seeds r'cir Kilrhen Gardens. Each box colitaias a 

 package of llie following .Seeds : 

 Early Washington Peas iLong Dutch Parsnip 



Dwarf Blue Imperial Peas Large Cabbage Lettuce 

 Late Marrowial Peas 'Long Green 1 urkey Cucumber 



Early Blohawk Dwarf siring 



Beans 

 China Dwarf string and shell 



Beans 

 Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 

 Long Blood Beet 

 f'arly Turnip-rooted Beet 

 Early York Cabbage 

 Large late Drumhead Cabbage 

 Cape Savoy Cabbage 



Pine-apple IVlelon 



Long, or Round Watermcloa 



Nasturtium 



Large \Vhite Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Paisley 



Flat Squash Pepper 



Early Scarlet Short-lop Radish 



White Turnip Radish 



Salsafy 



Red Dutch Cabbage </or pjci- Early Bush Sqiiash 



Dr Herschell. — In order to show the steady jier- 

 sevcrance which enabled Herschell to attain the 

 celebrity he enjoyed, Mr Davies, the lecturer at 

 tiie ^Manchester Mechanical Institution, related an 

 anecdote which he said had been communicated 

 to liim by a gentleman who was acquainted with 

 the distinguished astronomer : in the early part of 

 his astronomical career, he had been engaged for 

 several weeks in grinding a glass lens for one of 

 his telescopes, and was so unfortunate as to break 

 it when it was nearly completed ; but, instead of 

 being irritated or disheartened by the accident, he 

 merely observed, in his broken English, " Veil, I 

 must make atioder,"to which task be applied liiui- 

 self without delav. 



Early While Dutch Turnip 

 While Flat Turnip 

 Yellow Stone Turnip 

 Winter Crook-neck Squash. 



POT HERB SEEDS. 



Thyme— Sage — Slaijorum. 



ling) 

 Early Horn Carrot 

 Long Orange Carrol 

 White Solid Celery 

 Curled Cress 

 Early Cucumber 

 Early Silesia Lettuce 



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

 gelables, besides several new varieties of recent iiurodurtion. 

 and uncommon excellence. Every kind is warranted of the 

 very first qualily, as to freshness and purity. Each bo.x contauvs 

 directions lor the management of the diflercnt sorts. Price g3 

 per box. ^ _____^ 



Pressed Culinary Herbs. 



For sale at the New England Farmer Seed Store, No. 3!, 

 North Market street. Culinary Herbs, dried, pressed, and neatly 

 packed, in parcels, nl the fc.llowing prices :— Sweet Marjoram, 

 bi) ets— Summer Savory, 2,") els— Thyme, 33 cts— Sage, 17 eB 

 —Celery, (in bottles lor soups, c&c,) '2b cts— Balm, 33 cl»— 

 Rose Flowers, SI, 00. eptf 



The council of the Albany Horticultural Society 

 have offered premiimis to the members, for the 

 best and earliest fruits, vegetables, and flowers. 



Published every Friday, at 53 per annum, payable at ite 

 end of the year— but those who pay within sixty (lays from ihe 

 time of subscribing, are ecititled to a deduction of fifty ccnis. 



Printed lor J. 15. Russell, by I. R- Butts— by whom 

 all descriptions of Printing can be executed to meet the wishes 

 ol cusiomers. Orders for |)riijting received by J. B. Russell, 

 at the Agricultural Warehouse No 52 North Market Street 



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