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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



M;iy 22, 1829. 



MISCELLANIES. 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMET. 



MILTON HILL— SUNDAY. 



My soul, look abroad oji il^is pure, hr.ivenly nioruing ; 

 Lei ihe cares and conlenlioris cl' vvorldiiiiess flee : 

 See its calm, holy peace, every object adoruiug ! — 

 Beueficenl auihor, O, shed ii on me ! 



How I love lo repose ou the prospect around ; 

 On tlie wide water's blue, and the rude mountain's green : 

 On the trees, and the flowers — the valley, and mound. 

 And the hills, aud the fields, with the sli'eaniiet between. 



Yonder isle in the ocean, iliuni'd iVoin the sky. 

 Seems it not I.ke the place of the dying man' prayer ? 

 Oh yes, there is one lie hath hopeti for on high. 

 The home ol the blest — where the beautilul are ! 



Then submit, anxious heart, ^m} doubt not the Power 

 That sends the affliction, doth order it right ; 

 And will fit thee to welcome that trembling hour. 

 When the soul, disencumbered, soani fiee into light. 



Go kneel at the altar in thankful devotion. 

 Be at peace, troubled bosom — resigned to Ilis will — 

 Let the murmur of cares there be calm as that ocean. 

 Which has listened to Him who commanded — be still! 



Look abroad then, my soul, on this pure, heav'nly morning, 

 Bid the struggles and sorrows of vvorldliness fiee, 

 And that calm, holy peace, every object adorning, 

 lo mercy, and bounty, will come upon thee. 



ESBF.ES. 



THE RETURN OF SPRING. 



BY J. MALCOMB, ESq. 



Dear as the dove, whose wafting wing 



The green leaf ransom'd from the main, 

 Thy gemal glow, returning Spriiig, 



Comes to our shores again ; 

 For tl.ou hast been a u.utu. ror long, 



On many a fair and foreign strand, 

 In balm ajd beauty, sun and song, 



Passing from land lo land. 



O'er vine clad hills, and classic plains ; 



Of glowing climes beyond the deep j 

 And by the dim and mouldering fattes 



Where the dead Ciesars sleep ; 

 And o'er Sierra's brigh:ly blue, 



Where rests our country's fallen brave. 

 Smiling through thy sweet tears, to strew 



Flower ofl'erings o'er each grave. 



Thou bring'st the blossom to the bee. 



To earth a robe of emerald d^e) 

 The leaflet to the naked tree ; 



And rainbow in th'j sky ; 

 1 feel 1 1^ b'esi, bengn control 



The pulses of my youth rt;slore ; 

 Opi^ning the spring of sense and soul 



'I'o love and joy once more. 



I will not people thy green bowers. 



With sorrow's pale and spectre band ; 

 Or blend with ihijie the faded flowers 



Of memory's distant land : 

 For thou wert surely never given 



To wake regret from pleasures gone ; 

 But like an angel sent troin heaven, 



To soothe creation's groan. 



Then, while the groves lliy garlands twine. 

 Thy spirit breathes in flower and tree, 



Bly heart shall kindle at thy shrine. 

 And worship God in ihee ; 



And in some calm sequestered spot. 



While listening to thy choral strain, 

 Past griifs shall be awhile forgot, 



And pleasures bloom again. 



Musk of Sabbath Bells.— There is something 

 exceedingly impressive in the breaking in of 

 elmrcli bells on the stilhiess of the Sahbatli. 1 

 doubt whether it is not inore so in the heart of a 

 popiildiis city than anywiiere else. The presence 

 of any single, strong feeling in the midst of a great 

 [leople, has something of awftihiess in it, which 

 exceeds even the iin|iressiveness of nature's breath- 

 less Sabbath. I know few tilings more iiiijtosing 

 than to walk the streets of a city when the peal of 

 early hells is jii?t beginnitig. The deserted pttve- 

 ments, the closed windows of the |)laces of busi- 

 ness, the decent gravity of the solitary passenger, 

 and, over alL the feeling in your own bosoms, that 

 God is brooiling like a great shadow over the 

 thousand hnman beings who are sitting still in 



their dwellings aroinid vou, were enotig 



if ther 



were no other circumstitnce, to hush the heart 

 into a religions fear. But when the bells jieal out 

 suddenly with a sttmmons to the temple of God, 

 and their echoes roll on through the desolate 

 streets, and are unanswered by the sound of any 

 human voice, or the din of any human occupation, 

 the effect has sometiincs seemed to me more sol- 

 emn than the near thunder. 



Far more beautiful, and perhaps quite as salu- 

 tary as a religious influence, is the sound of a dis- 

 tant Sabbath bell in the country. It comes float- 

 ing over the hills like the going abroad of a spirit, 

 and as the leaves stir with its vibrations, and the 

 drops of dew tremble in the cups of the flowers, 

 you cotild almost believe that there was a Sabbath 

 in iiattire, and that the dumb works of Gud ren- 

 dereil visible worshif) for his goodness. The ef- 

 fect of nature alone is ])urifying, and its »liotisand 

 evidences of wisdom are too eloqtient of their 

 Maker, not to act as a contintial lesson ; — but com- 

 bined with the instilled piety of childhood, and 

 the knowledge of the inviolable holiness of the 

 time, the mellow cailences of a church bell give 

 to the hush of a country Sabbath, a holiness, to 

 which only a desperate heart could be insensi- 

 ble. 



Vet, after all, whose ear was ever " filled with 

 hearing," or whose " eye with seeing ? " Full as 

 the world is of music— crowded as life is with 

 beauty which snriiasses, in its mysterioits work- 

 manship, our wildest dream of faculty and skill — 

 gorceous as is the overhung and ample sky, and 

 deep and universal as the harmonies are, wliich 

 are wandering i)erpetually in the atmosphere of 

 this spacious and beautiful world — who has ever 

 heard music, and not felt a capacity for better ; 

 or seen beauty, or gramleur, or delicate cunnittg, 

 without a feeling in his inmost soul, of unreached 

 and unsatisfied conceptions ? — Amer. Monthly Mag- 

 a-ine. 



Mangel Wurlzel, Sugar Beet, i;c. 

 For sale at the Seed Store connected ivilli the New 

 England Farnier, 5*2 North Market street, 

 200 lbs. ]\Iani;el Wurlzel. 



■200 lbs. French Sugar Beet, raised expres.sly for this 

 eslabli~binoTit, by John Prince. Esq. Roxbury. — The 

 .superiority of this seed and the excellence of the roots 

 lor cattle are too well known lo need coniineiit. 



Also, roots of the Pie Pliiit, or Tait Rhubarb, in fine 

 Older for transjihiiitins, — '25 cts per root. Double and 

 Single Dahlia', from 25 cts to one dollar each. The col- 

 ors and form of lliis llower are iiiagnilicent.aMd are of the 

 e.i'ie.-t culture, requiiiiig llic poorest >oil, in tvhii:h they 

 bloom in the highest perfection. The roots arc tuberous, 

 n ■enibling a sweet potato — can be packed for transporta- 

 tion to any part of the uiiioi^. 



Also, Double Tiibeioses, Tiger Flowers, Amaryllises, 

 Foruiossissiiua, iic, beautiful bulbs now in seasoQ to 

 plant 



Also, White Mulberry Seed, 30 cts per ounce. Lucerne, 

 or French Clover, While and Red Clover, Panloin, Tim- 

 otbv, Orchard Grass, Oat Grass, Herds (Jrass, &.C. 



Also, several varieties ol held coin, viz. the Early Gold- 

 en Sioux, Gilnian, Red, Turkey Wheat, Early JetTerson, 

 (for the table) Sweet, or Sugar (for the table.) 

 The Early Tuscarora Corn, a fine sort for the table: _ 

 The .Appaliisia Melon— a new variety from Illinois, in- 

 tioiluced by Doct. Green.— This melon was originally 

 derived from the western Indians, by E. Warren, Esq. 

 —is in eating from the 1st of September to the 1st of No- 

 veaiber— melons small, remarkably sweet, with red flesh, 

 and a very thin rind— 25 cts per ounce. 



ANo, the Apple Seeded Melon, a very early variety. 

 The Star Melon, a very late variety, of the Nutmeg 

 species. 



Agricultural Boolcs. 

 The third edition of Fcssenden's JVei/i Jtmerican Gar- 

 ilcner ; this work has been pronounced by the most ju- 

 dicious horticultuiisls in New England and the middle 

 st.ites, to be the best treatise on Fruit Trees, Vegetables, 

 Grape Vines, &c., to be found in this country— price 

 •ft 1,25. 



^ The Vine Dresser's Theoretical and Practical Manual, 

 on the Culture of the Vine ; and Making Wine, Brandy, 

 and Vinegar. By Thiebaut de Berneaud. 



The Young Gardener's Assistant, containing Directions 

 for the ouhivalion of Culinary Vegetables, and Ornament- 

 al Flowers. By T. Bridgeman, gardener, New York- 

 price 37 1-2 cts. 



A practical Treatise on the Manageirient of Bees ; antj 

 the Management of Apiaries, with the best method of des- 

 troying and preventing the depredations of the Bee Moth. 

 By' James Thacher, M. D.— price 75 cts. 



Also, one copy of each of the following rare works: — 

 Phytologia, or the Philosophy of Agriculture and Gar- 

 dening: with the theory of Draining Morasses, and with 

 an improved construction of the drill plough. By Dr Dar-.uJ 

 win, (Dublin edition, price three dollars and filty cts.) 'M 



D.trwin's Botanic Gardeu— (price three dollars, a fine, 

 correct copy. 



The Horticultural Repository, containing Delineations 

 of the best varieties of the dilTercnt species of English 

 Fruits ; with delineations of its blossoms and leaves, in 

 those instances in which they are considered necessary, 

 with descriptions and coloicd drawings of all the promi- 

 nent Apples, Apricots. Cherries, Currants, Figs. Filberts, 

 Gooseberries, Grapes, Melons, Nectarines, Peaches, 

 Pears, Pines, Plums, Raspberries, Strawberries, Nuts, &c. 

 By George Brackshaw, author of the " Pomona Britlanni- 

 ca."— In''2 octavo volumes, with 104 large colored engrav- 

 ings— price $1 per volume. The original cost of the 

 work was 932,00. 



Rait Road Carriage.— Henry Chew, of Baiti 

 more, has obtained a patent for another appli- 

 cation of friction rollers, to facilitate the opera- 

 tion, and to diminish the resistance of rail road 

 carriages. . ■ .■ : .;. 



J;*.. ..i.liiMT a'-3i:' 



There is a pine tree in Gore, Upper Canada, 

 which is 200 feet high, and measures at the base 

 20^ feet, and appears but little less at the height 

 of sixty feet. — Keeiie Sentinel. 



Tall Meadow Oat Grass Seed. 



This dav received at the New England Farmer Seed Store, 

 52 North Market street, 20 bushels of lall Meadow Oat Grass 



See d, at .^-.50 per hushel. 



Asparagus Roots, ifc. 



Aspara=-us Roots. 2 n 4 years old, 75 cents lo one dollar per 

 huntiied. "Rhubarb Roots— the large Dutch Currant Bushes, 

 one dollar per dozen. Grape Vines, Hawlhoilis, &,c. &,c. Any 

 of the above roots, that may require it, will be well packed in 

 moss, lo ensure safely in their transpoilation. " 



"Publi.shcd every Friday, al 53 per annum, payable ai the 

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

 time of subscribing, are eiUitled to a deduction of hfiy cents. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by I. R. Butts— by wbiMn 

 all descriptions of Priming can be executed lo meet the wishes 

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

 at Ihe Agricultural Warehouse No. .52 North Market Streel. 



Xr No paper nill be sent lo a distance without payment tw- 

 ing made in advance. 



