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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



SEPTEMBER IS, 1S33. 



MISCELLANY. 



From Blackwood's Magazine for August. 

 THE WATER-LILY. 

 BV MRS. HEMAHS. 



The Water-Lilics, that are serene in Ihe calm 



clear water, but no less serene and black among the scowline 

 waves. — LiglUs unci Shadows of Scottish Life. 



Oh ! beautiful thou art. 

 Thou sculpture like and stately River-Queen ! 

 Crowning the depths, as with the light serene 



Of a pure heart. 



Bright Lily ol'lhe wave ! 

 Rising in fearleis grace with every swell, 

 Thou seem'st as if a spirit meekly brave 



Dwelt in thy cell; 



Lifting alike thy head 

 Of placid beauty, feminine yet free, 

 Whether w ith foam or pictured azure spread 



The waters be. 



What is like thee, fair flower, 

 The gentle and the firm ? thus bearing up 

 To the blue sky that alabaster cup, 



As to the shower ? 



Oh ! Love is most like thee, 

 The Love of Woman ; quivering to the blast 

 Through every nerve, jet rooted deep and fast, 



'Midst Life's dark sea. 



And Faith — oh ! is not Faith 

 Like thee, too, Lily ? springing into light, 

 Still buoyantly above the billows' might, 



Through the storm's breath ? 



Yes, link'd with such high thoughts, 

 Flower, let thine image in my bosom lie ! 

 Till something there of its own purity 



And peace be wrought : 



Something yet more divine 

 Than the clear, pearly, virgin lustre sited, 

 Forth from thy breast upon the river's bed, 



As a pure shrine. 



IRRITABILITY, &c. OP LITERARY MEN AC- 

 COUNTED FOR. 



Mr. Madden, in his book, the hifinnities of 

 Genius Illustrated, sets out with a very acute ex- 

 amination of the causes why it is that literary men 

 should have been so generally distinguished as an 

 irritable race, subject to numerous infirmities of 

 mind as well as body, and seldom blessed with the 

 advantages of prosperity and happiness as the re- 

 sult of their labors. He says, that in general the 

 knowledge of the world found in the minds of 

 literary men is very limited indeed, because more 

 of their time lias been spent in the closet than in 

 mixing with the business of life. Hence they bring 

 with them, on their occasional visits to society, a 

 spirit of uncompromising independence ; a sense 

 of self-superiority, which must necessarily influ- 

 ence their behavior in such a way as to offend the 

 pride and excite the aversion of those with whom 

 they associate. But even this misfortune is tri- 

 fling, compared with those calamities which more 

 particularly affect the physical and moral faculties 

 of the literary man, and which are to be attributed 

 entirely to excessive mental application. These 

 effects too often consist of waywardness of temper, 

 testiness of humor, and capriciousness of conduct, 

 which operate in rendering the man of genius ob- 

 noxious to strangers, and at last very fatiguing to 

 Ins friends. But the misfortunes to which the 

 studious man is liable do not end here ; his enthu- 

 siasm in somo particular pursuit will induce him, 



sooner or later, to lessen the interval appointed for 

 his repose ; this he does by degrees, until at last 

 the whole night is habitually sacrificed. The ne- 

 cessary consequence of the repeated privation of 

 sleep is great exhaustion of the vital powers, which, 

 in too many instances, are sought to be restored to 

 their natural tone by stimulants ; and thus between 

 the depression on the one hand, and the artificial 

 excitement on the other, life degenerates into an 

 eccentric principle as it were — a comet, whose 

 movements are governed by no certain laws. The 

 process whereby excessive mental labor produces 

 a considerable derangement of the regular physical 

 state of the body may be shortly explained in the 

 language of Tissot : the brain is in action when 

 the mind is thinking; the prolongation of the em- 

 ployment of the mind tends to fatigue it, and as no 

 organ which is weakened, by whatever cause, can 

 perform its functions with the same success as it 

 did in the healthy state, so is there a derangement 

 of the conditions of all those parts over which the 

 brain has an influence. But the brain is the cen- 

 tre from which the nerves of the body proceed, 

 and, therefore, a disturbance of the function of the 

 the brain is followed by a corresponding change 

 throughout the whole extent of the living system. 



EMINENCE ATTAINED BY MEN OP OB- 

 SCURE ORIGIN. 



Many of the most eminent men in literature, 



science and art, have sprung up in obscurity. 



Some will instantly occur to ihe mind from among 

 the living as well as the dead who have laid socie- 

 ty under the deepest obligation ; but there are oth- 

 ers whose claims are not so commonly remember- 

 ed. It is calculated, for instance, that above a 

 million and a half chaldrons of coals are annually 

 consumed in London ; and the amazing extension 

 of the coal trade to meet such demands is to be 

 traced to men called " viewers," who have gener- 

 ally raised themselves from lower situations. Ma- 

 chinery was absolutely necessary to obtain so ma- 

 ny millions of tons of the first necessaries of life, 

 and that at a rate exceedingly low, and this pro- 

 vided by Newcomen, the plumber, and Stnea and 

 Watt the watchmakers. The cheap and elegant 

 garments, which give bread to about two millions 

 of people, instead of fifty thousand, which raised 

 the importation of cotton wool from less than 2, 

 000,000, to 200,000,000 pouuds per annum, and 

 which increased the annual produce of the manu- 

 facture from 200,000Z. to 36,000,000/., are to be 

 traced through subsequent improvements to Ark- 

 wright and Crompton the barbers. A rude and 

 inconsiderable manufacture was changed into an 

 elegant art, and an important branch of national 

 commerce, by Wedgewood the potter. Inland 

 navigation, which enabled manufactures to import 

 the raw materials and export the finished goods, 

 was devised and executed by Brindley the mill- 

 wright ; and it would he easy to accumulate a great 

 number of instances in which persons of humble 

 birth have greatly promoted the general good. — 

 If'UJcrspin's Early Discipline. 



tion 



FRUIT TREES. 



Ornamental TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &c. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton, 5A miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 



his Nursery now comprises a rare and extraordinary eolleo- 

 ol fruit trees, Trees and Shrubs of Ornament. Roses, &c. 

 and covers the most of 18 acres. Of ?iew celebrated Pears a/our, 

 150 kinds, a part of which, having already been proved in our 



climate, are specially recommended.— Ol Apples 200 kinds 



Peaches 115 kinds — Cherries. 55 kinds — Plums, Neclarines 

 Almonds. Apricots, Quinces. Grape Vines, Currants, Raspber- 

 ries, Gooseberries, Straw berries, Figs, &c. &c— selections 

 from the best varieties known— a collection in unequal propor- 

 tions ol 800 varieties ol fruit. 



White mulberries lor sjlk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 



Morus Multicaulis « New Chinese Mulberry, a beauti- 

 ful fruit Iree, so superior for silk worms to all others. 



Of ROSES. A superb collection of from 300 to 400 hardy 

 and China varieties ; selections from numerous importations-, 



and first r.ite sources. Horse Chesnuts as hardy as oaks 



Weeping Willows, Catalpas, Mountain Ash. Silver Firs, Ve- 

 netian Sumach, Altheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. \lc. 



in all, of Ornamental trees, and shrubs, 650 varieties. Of 

 Herbaceous (lowering plants, a choice selection of 280 varieties, 

 including the Paeonies, Moutan ami Papaveracea—aaA 24 other 

 kinds — and 83 splendid varieties of double Dahlias. 



Gentlemen are invited to forward their orders early early in 



Autumn being an excellent season for transplanting. Address to 

 WILLIAM KENRICK, Newton. Trees, ccc. delivered in 

 Boston free of charge for transportation, and suitably packed, 

 and from (hence when ordered duly forwarded, by land or sea.. 

 Or orders will receive the same attention if left with Geo. C. 

 Barrett, who is agent, at his seed store and New England 

 Farmer Office, Nos. 51 & 52, North Market Street, Boston. 

 Catalogues gratis on application. Jy 17 



IMPROVED DURHAM SHORT HORNED 

 CATTLE. 



FOR sale, one three year old bull of a brown color, 2 year- 

 ling bulls both red, 3 bull calves 1 red, 1 red and white, and 1 

 wholly white, also 3 two year old heifers, 2 roan and 1 brown 

 and white, 3 yearling heilers, 1 roan, 1 red and w4me, and one 

 flecked. The dams of the above have giveu more than 20 

 qurrts of milk a day on grass only. 



Also, 2 bull calves, one bright-red, and one red and white. 



They are all descended from the famous imported Bulls, 

 Bolivar and Ccelebs, and from cows of imported stocks. 



For milkers, working oxen or Beef, this stock is considered 

 2d lo none in New England. Inquire of Mr. Geo. C. Barrett, 

 Office of the N. E. Farmer. p(f 



BROOKS' PATENT SILK SPINNER. 



THE public attention is invited to this machine. It is adapt- 

 ed lo domestic use, is simple in its construction, occupies a 

 small space, and may be used to advantage by women and 

 children. This machine may be obtained by applying to T. 

 R. NEWELL, at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 52 North 

 Market street, Boston; or lo the Patentee, ADAM BROOKS. 



Scituate, July 22, 1833. 



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July n 



A gentleman who married a lackadaisical young 

 lady, was visited by an old friend. The lady, 

 after enlarging in an animated strain upon the 

 pleasures of London, had retired for the night, and 

 the friend exclaimed — " Why, Jack, your wife is 

 not so pensive as she used to be" — to which the 

 other replied with a shrug, " No, she has left that 

 off; she is now ex-pensive." 



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AGENTS. 



New York — G. Thorburn & Sons,C7 Liberty-street. 

 Albany — Wn. Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia — D. & C. Landreth, So Chesnut-street. 

 Baltimore — 1. I. Hitchcock, Publisher of American Farmer. 

 Cincinnati — S. C. Parkhurst, 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince & Sons. Prop. Lin. But. Cat. 

 Middlebury, Yt. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. Rooksellers. 

 Springfield, Ms. — E. Edwards, Merchant. 

 A', i' ban/port — Ebene/.er Stedman, Bookseller. 

 Portsmouth, N. H. — J. W. Foster, Bookseller. 

 Portland, Me. — Colman, Holden & Co. Booksellers. 

 Augusta, Me. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, N. S.— P. J. Holland, Esq. Editor of Recorder. 

 Montreal, L. C. — Geo. Bent. 

 St- Louis — Geo. Holton. 



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