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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 17, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



Marriage.— There is an excellent book by De- 

 foe,theixiithor of "Robinson Crusoe," called " Hie 

 Coniiilete E.iglisli Tradesman ;" and ni it, an ad- 

 uiiraljle chapter, entitled "Of the Tradesman s 

 marrying too soon." In this he says " It was a 

 in-udent provision wliioh our ancestors made in 

 the indentures of tradesmen's apprentices, tliat 

 they should not contract matrimony durinj^ their 

 apprenticeship. Doubtless our forel\ithers were 

 better acquainted with the advantages of frugality 

 than we are. Hence we find them tery careful 

 to prescribe to their youth such rules and meth- 

 ods of frugality and good husbandry, as they 

 thought would best conduce to their prosperity— 

 Among these rules, this was one of the chief, viz : 

 ' that they should not wed, before they had sped.' " 

 When a young tradesman, says the same author, 

 in Holland or Germany, goes a courting, the first 

 question the young woman asks of him is, " Are 

 you able to pay the charges ?" That is to say, in 

 English, are you able to keep a wife when you 

 hav°e got her ? What a world of misery it would 

 prevent if the young women in all countries would 

 stick to the wisdomof that question ! " Marriage 

 is not made of mushrooms, but of good round 

 cakes," is another of the pithy sayings by which 

 our ancestors conveyed the same great rule of pru- 

 dence. 



The sufferings of the reputable poor.— At the 

 meeting on Saturday afternoon, the following in- 

 teresting cases were most respectably vouched. 



A woman of very tender frame, and whose 

 modest countenance wore the mark of extreme 

 suffering, was seen to steal a moment, when she 

 supposed the eye of her Creator alone was near 

 her, to pick up and greedily devour some boiled 

 potatoes, which had been thrown into the street, 

 with the slops of a kitchen. Her feelings would 

 not allow her to beg, but starvation drove her to 

 purloin from the dogs. 



A respectable washerwoman, voluntarily con- 

 fessed to one of her employers that she had been 

 driven by cold and hunger, to the terrible resort of 

 pawning a part of the clothing entrusted to her. 

 A lady went to visit an old acquaintance, and 

 with some difficulty was admitted into the house. 

 The friend, who with her in her youth, had en- 

 joyed every affluence, was wrapped in a thin cov- 

 erlet, surrounded by three little children begging 

 their mother for something to eat. There had 

 been no fire in the house for four days, and they 

 had not a particle of food— the children blue with 

 the cold, and the mother too weak to walk. 



Another case was mentioned, of not so recent 

 existence, where a father was helpless, his wife 

 sick, one child dead, and another dying, without 

 food, or clothing, save a few tattered rags, and 

 some straw. — Penn. Gaz. 



Talkative Laborers. — And, let me here step 

 aside for a moment to observe, that a man can 

 hardly have a worse ([uality than that of being 

 talkative while at work ; or as the country people 

 call it, moulh}/, which is the proper word to desig- 

 nate the quality. A man may be strong ; he may 

 be willing ; he may be handy ; but if he be mouthy, 

 he is a drsturber of the peace of tlie farm house, 

 and you never can employ him with other men. 

 His sonorous voice is sure to make all the rest 

 prick up their cars : they talk too, if not in the 

 ■way of emulation, in the way of reply or observa- 

 tion ; and if you let them alone, you have a col- 

 loquial assembly rivalling in their way the Catho- 

 lic association in Ireland. Up go the backs of 

 them all : not that they want to rest themselves, 

 or to slight your work ; but they want to reply or 

 observe upon the interesting points mooted by the 

 oratoi-. I know a gentleman who says that there 

 is btit one thing worse than writing, and that is 

 talking. On a farm, I would certainly prefer a 

 writer to a talker ; for then he would indulge his 

 propensity at times when it would be no detriment 

 to me. — Cobbftt. 



Rail Roads. — A second edition of Jackson's 

 Lecture on Rail Roads, was published a few days 

 since, by Mr Henry Bowen, and we understand 

 that the whole edition of 4,000 copies is nearly 

 exhausted. This edition is in a small neat form, 

 and afforded at a very moderate price. The 

 friends of internal improvement in the city could 

 in no way ])robably advance the project of the 

 contemplated rail roads in this Commonwealth, so 

 cheaply and effectually, as by giving a general cir- 

 culation to this pamphlet. It embodies a mass of 

 facts and exiieriments, incontestible and convinc- 

 ing ; and throws mftch hgbt on a subject, which 

 is, hereafter, to occupy no small share of tlie pub- 

 lie attention. Booksellers in the country and the 

 friends of rail roads, generally, would do well to 

 send in their orders immediately. 



Prognostics of the Weather.— ReA clouds in the 

 west, at sunset, especially when they have a tint 

 of purple, portend fine weather. The reason of 

 which is, that the air when dry, refracts more red 

 or heat-making rays ; and as dry air is not per- 

 fectly transiiarent, they are again reflected in the 

 horizon. A copper or yellow sunset generally 

 foretels rain ; but as an indication of wet weather 

 approaching, nothing is more certain than the halo 

 round the moon, which is proiluced by the precip- 

 itated water ; and the larger the circle the nearer 

 the clouds, and consequently the more ready to 

 fidl. The old proverb is often correct : 



A rainbow in the mornuig is ihe sliepherd's warning : 

 A rainbow at night is the sheplierd's ilelighl. 

 A rainbow can only occur when the clouds, 

 containing or depositing the rain, are opposite to 

 the sun ; and in the evening the rainbow is in the 

 east, and in the morning in the west ; and as our 

 heavy raitis in this climate are usually brought by 

 the westerly wind, a rainbow in the west indicates 

 that the bad weather is on the road, by the wind 

 to us, whereas the rainbow in the east, proves that 

 the rain in these clouds is passing from us. When 

 the swallows fly high, fine weather is to be ex- 

 pected or continued ; but when they fly low and 

 close to the ground, rain is almost sure approach- 

 ing. This is explained as follows: Swallows 

 pin-sue the flies and gnats, and flies and gnats 

 usually delight in warm strata of air ; and as warm 

 air is lighter, and usually moistcr, than cold air, 

 when the warm strata of our air are high, there is 

 less chance of moisture being thrown down from 

 them by the mixture with cold air; but when the 

 warm and moist air is close to the surface, it is 

 almost certain that, as the cold air flows down into 

 it, a deposition of water will take place — Edin, 

 Mew Phil. Joum. 



Fruit Trees, Grape Vines, Sfc. 

 ANDREW PARMENTIER, Proprietor of the Horti- 

 cultural and Botanical Garden, Brooklyn, New York, kt 

 tlie junction of Flatbush and Jamaica Turnpike, two mil«» 

 fVom Ihe ferries, offers 12 of the most select Table Grapes, 

 Tory hardy, of the north of France, at $(> the dozen, with 

 directions lor planting, &c, or at 75 cents a piece, sepa- 

 rately — such as they are described in his catalof;uc. He 

 also offers for sale Vines at 2-5 cents each, for vineyards, 

 warranted to grow. They can be had from the 1.5lh Oe- 

 lolier to the 15th December, and from the 15lh March to 

 Ihe ISthMay — a great many have borne iVuit this summer. 

 He has a choice assortment of 242 kinds of apples, 190 

 kinds of superior pears, 71 cherries, 61 peaches, 15 nect»- 

 riiies, 85 plums, 18 apricots, 20 gooseberries, &c, some of 

 very large size and in a tine bearing state. Also, apple 

 trees paradise stock, full of fruit. His collection of orna- 

 mental and forest trees, and of ornamental shrubs, is of 

 3:56 kinds, and more than 200 rose plants, and a fine coU 

 lection of green house plants. 



A. P. will imdertake to lay out pleasure grounds and 

 gardens, and will be happy in showing his port folio to 

 "mateuis, at his establishment of nurseries, which consists 

 of 24 acres. Orders should be directed to A. Parmenter, 

 ill his establishment, or to Mr John B. Russell, New 

 England Farmer Seed Store, No. 52 North Market Street. 

 Boston, where catalogues may be had gratis, — and of hi» 

 other agents, in dilTerent cities in the Union. 



March 27 3t 



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 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 also 

 have several hundred genuine Isabella Grape Vinejs, by 

 the hundred or single plant, with Ihe supeiior European 

 kinds in cultivation In this country. Letters directed to 

 F. & I. Wiuship, Brighton. 



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

 CCI- All oideis left with J. B. P.ussf.ll, at the New 

 England Farmer Seed Store, 52 North Market street, will 

 be executed at the Nursery prices, ai.d the trees delivered 

 in Boston, free of expense for transportation. 



Brighton, March 11. 1829. 



Assorted Seeds for Families. 



For sale al the New England Farmer Seed Store small boie« 

 of assorted Seeds lor Kiuiieii Gardens. Each box contains* 

 packagi^ of ihe following Seeds; 

 Early Washington Peas 

 Dw.ni f Blue Imperial Peas 

 Lale Mariowl'al Peas 

 Early Mohawk Dwarf siring 



B.:ans 

 China Dwarf siring and shell 



Beans 

 Lima, or Saba Pole Beans 

 Long Blood Beet 

 Karly Turnip-rooted Beet 

 Early York Cabbage 

 Large late Dnimlu-ad Cabbage 

 Cape Savoy Calili.ige 

 Red Dulch Cabbage (for pick- 



li„g) 

 Early Horn Carrot 

 Long Orange (,'arrol 

 White Solid Celery 

 Curled Cress 

 Early Cucanihtir 

 Early Sdesia Leiuirc 



Long Dutch Parsnip 



Large Cabbage Lettuce * 



Long Green 'I'll rkey Cucumber 



Pine-apple Melon 



Long, or Round Watermeloa 



Naslurliurn 



Large White Onion 



Large Red Onion 



Curled Parsley 



Flai Squasli Pepper 



Early Scarlet Shorl-lop Radisk 



White Turnip Radish 



&ilsaly 



Early Bush Squash 



Early While Dutch Turnip 



While Flat Turnip 



Yellow Sloiie Turnip 



Winter Crook-neck Squash. 



POT HERB SEEDS. 



Thyme— Sage— Marjorum. 

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

 getables, besides .several new varieties of recent inlrodurbon, 

 and uncommon excellence. E»ery kind 

 very (irst qiialily, as to fieshness and piirily 

 directions lor the management of ''- ■'■""' 

 per box. ^ 



warranted ol the 



Each box contains 



the difierenl sorts. Price §3 



A gentleman in New York and his family have 

 been made very sick by eating partridges ; which 

 are found often poisonous at this season of the year. 



Pressed Culinamj Herbs. 

 For sale al the New England Farmer Seed Slore, No. Bt, 

 Norlh Market slrcel.'Culiiiarv Herbs, dried, pressed, and neatly 

 packed, in parcels, al the foliouinff prices :— Sweet Marjoram. 

 50 CIS-Summer Savory, '2b els-Thyme, 33 cls-Sage.^1 / cu 

 —Celery, (in hollies for soups, &c,) 25 cts— Ealm,3o cis— 

 Rose Fl"o« ers. .5 1 ,00. ep'f 



TuWishr^d "every Friday, al g3 per annum, payable al Ibe 

 end of ihe year— liul those who pay within sixty days from the 

 lime of subscribing, an- enlillcd to a deduction of hliy cents 



Primed for J. B. Russell, by I. R BfTTS-hy wliora 



all descriplions of Priming can be execiUed to meet the wishes 



of customers. Orders for priming received by J B. Russell, 



1 at Ihe Agricultural Warehouse No. m Norlii Market Slreal. 



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