480 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



Oct. 



Ladies^ Pine, (P.,) medium size, perfectly round, 

 beautiful light scarlet, very sweet, highest and most 

 exquisite flavor, productive ; foliage dark-green, as 

 if varnished, vigorous growth, with large fruit 

 stems. This most estimable fruit will be deemed 

 indispensable by every amateur who once tastes it, 



Magnijicent, (P.,) very large, obtuse cone, light 

 scarlet, good flavor, very productive, very valuable. 



Diadem, (P.,) very large and showy, rounded, 

 beautiful light scarlet, pleasant flavor, a remarkably 

 fine and beautiful berry ; plant very robust, vigor- 

 ous, and hardy, with tall light green foliage, very 

 productive ; a seedling of the Iowa. 



Huntsman's Favorite, (P.,) medium size, obtuse 

 cone, bright scarlet, very handsome, sprightly, juicy, 

 sweet, and very fine, productive, highly valuable. 

 This variety was selected by Professor Huntsman 

 from a bed of my seedlings, and was named as 

 above. 



Crimson Perfumed, (P.,) large, obovate or round- 

 ed, crimson, sweet, juicy, high perfumed flavor 

 when fully ripe, very productive, valuable; foliage 

 dark-green. 



Malvina, (P.,) large, obovate, bright crimson, 

 juicy, sprightly, good flavor, very productive. This 

 variety greatly resembles Hovey's Seedling, its pa- 

 rent, both in the growth and foliage of the plant 

 and in the form of its fruit. But when contrasted it is 

 rather smaller, with the advantage that the berries 

 are of a more average size, and less unequal than 

 that variety ; the color is a brighter red, the ber 

 ries more juicy, and of a more spirited and higher 

 flavor, and it ripens fully a week or more before 

 the Ilovey, thus obviating the disadvantages of that 

 variety. It is firm and well suited for market ; fo- 

 liage dark green and luxuriant when in full growth. 

 A grower who sent a considerable quantity to mar- 

 ket the past season, contracted for the whole at 3 1 

 cents per quart. "Wm. R. Prin'CE. 



Flushing, .V. ¥. 



FRUIT STEALING. 



There is scarcely a cultivator of fine fruit in the 

 country, who has not been annoyed by fruit- steal- 

 ing, and the loss of some new and rare specimens 

 of kinds which he has procured at great pains and 

 expense, and watched over for years, is a much 

 greater loss than if money had been stolen from 

 his pocket-book. We have not seen any card on 

 the subject more to the point than the following, 

 which has just fallen into our hands, and which 

 was printed and posted up, as we are informed, 

 with decidedly beneficial results. Dr. Whippo, its 

 author, has long held several distinguished oflices 

 of tiust in Pennsylvania, and among the rest that 

 of Chief Engineer on the canals of that State : — 



"Men, women and boys — I want to say a word 

 to you. I mean you who would come into my or- 

 chard, especially on Sunday, and carry off my fruit. 

 Of what next will you rob me? There is nothing 

 I would spare more reluctantly than my fruit — 

 there is nothing that has cost me so much time, la- 

 bor and money, and nothing I have in my posses- 

 sion I value so highly. Upon what principle do you 

 rob me of it ? I do not like to be robbed at all — 

 on your account as well as my own ; but, if you rob 

 me, take something that I would more willingly 

 spare — take my money or the grain out of my barn. 

 But I would not advise you to do even that, because 

 it is wrong, and will cost you more obtained in this 



way than if you worked for it, and obtained it hon- 

 estly. 'Honesty is the best policy,' and so you will 

 find it, let me assure you. 



"The law against stealing fruit is very severe, as 

 any of you will find by inquiry : and I know of a 

 number of individuals who might be punished in a 

 way they little expect, if I would put the law in 

 force. But I abstain for the present, and she) 11 on- 

 ly resort to the law when every other means have 

 failed. If any doubt my word with regard to the 

 severity of the law let them inquire. My patience 

 is worn threadbare with these depredations, and I 

 must put a stop to them somehow. 

 — Country Gentleman. Cns. T. Whippo." 



BRITISH ENERGY. 



A proof of the energy of the British people, is 

 the highly artificial construction of the whole fab- 

 ric. The climate and geography, I said, were fac- 

 titious, as if the hands of man had arranged the 

 conditions. The same character pervades the whole 

 kingdom. Bacon said, "Rome was a State not subject 

 to paradoxes," hut England subsists by antagonisms 

 and contradictions. The foundations of its great- 

 ness are the roUing waves ; and, from first to last, 

 it is a museum of anomalies. This foggy and rainy 

 country furnishes the world with astronomical ob- 

 servations. Its short rivers do not afibrd water- 

 power, but the land shakes under the thunder of 

 the mills. There is no gold mine of any impor- 

 tance, but there is more gold in England than in 

 all other countries. It is too far north for the cul- 

 ture of the vine, but the wines of all countries are 

 in its docks. The French Comte de Lauraguais 

 said, "no fruit ripens in England but a baked aj> 

 pie ;" but oranges and pineapples are as cheap in 

 London as in the Mediterranean. The Mark Lane 

 Express, or the Custom House returns, bear out to 

 the letter the vaunt of Pope — 



"Let India boast her palms, nor envy we 



The weeping amber, nor the spicy tree, 



While by our oaks shose precious loads are borne. 



And realms commanded which those trees adorn." 



The native cattle are extinct, but the island is 

 full of artificial breeds. The agriculturist, Bake- 

 well, created sheep, and cows, and horses, to order, 

 and breeds in which everything is omitted but 

 what is economical. The cow is sacrificed to her 

 bag, the ox to his sirloin. Stall-feeding makes 

 sperm-mills of the cattle, and converts the stable to 

 a chemical factory. The rivers, lakes and ponds, 

 too much fished, or obstructed by factories, are ar- 

 tificially filled with the eggs of salmon, turbot and 

 herring. 



Chat Moss and the fens of Lincolnshire and 

 Cambridgeshire are unhealthy, and too barren to 

 pay rent. By cylindrical tiles, and gutta-percha 

 tubes, five millions of acres of bad land have been 

 drained and put on an equality with the best, for 

 rape culture, and grass. The climate, too, which 

 was already believed to have become milder and 

 drier by the enormous consumption of coal, is so 

 far reached by this new action, that fogs and storms 

 are said to disappear. lu due course, all England 

 will be drained, and rise a second time out of the 

 waters. The latest step was to call in the aid of 

 steam to agriculture. Steam is almost an English- 

 man. I do not know but they will send him to 

 Parliament next, to make laws. — Emerson's Eng 

 lish Traits. 



