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NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



NOVEMBER 87, !*&}. 



MISCELLANY. 



SUMMER'S GONE. 



BY MRS. MORTON. 



s, 



Hark, through the dim woods dy 



With a moan, 

 Faintly the winds are sighing-** 



Summer's gone ; 

 There, when my bruised heart feelcth, 

 And the pale moon her face revcaleth, 

 Darkly my footstep stealeth 



To weep alone. 

 Hour after hour I wander, 



By men unseen — 

 And sadly my wrung thoughts ponder. 



On what hath been. 

 Summer's gone '. 



There is our own green bowers, 



Long ago, 

 Our path through the tangled 0owcrs 



Treading slow; 

 Oft hand in hand entwining, 

 Oft side by side reclining — 

 We've watched in its crimson shining 



The sunset glow. 

 Dnnly the sun now burneth 



For me alone — 

 Spring after spring returneth. 



Thou art gone, 

 Summer's gone. 



Slill on my warm cheek playetb 



The restless breeze : 

 Slill in its freshness strayelh 



Between the trees. 

 Still the blue streamlet gushelh — 

 Still the broad river rusheth— 

 Still the calm silence husheth 



Tke heart's disease : 

 But who shall bring our meetings 



Back again f 

 What shall recal thy greetings — 



Love in vain 1 

 Summer's gone! 



DESCRIPTION OP AN AMIABLE WIPE. 



Dodsley iu his Economy of Human Life, lias 

 finely depicted a valuable woman, pronouncing her 

 with the wise man of old, the first and noblest of 

 human benedictions, winding up his eulogiums 

 with those remarkable lines: 



" Happy the man that shall call her wife, 

 Happy the child that calls her mother." 



Among other merits which he celebrates are the 

 following : 



" She presides in her house, and there is peace; 

 she commands with judgment, and is obeyed ; the 

 law of love is in her servants' hearts ; her children 

 reverence her precepts, and her husband with rap- 

 ture hears her praise in the gate — she is the best 

 counsellor, example, friend." What higher felicity 

 can be imagined than a union with so amiable a 

 creature! and notwithstanding the degeneracy of 

 the times, many, very many are to be found by 

 those who seek them worthily. — Casket. 



SKI.KCT PROVERBS OP ALL NATIONS. 



The first chapter of fools, is to esteem them- 

 selves wise. 



The longest life is but a parcel of moments. 



Truth hath always a fat bottom Cutlic. 



Vain glory blossoms but never bears. 



We have all forgotten more than we can re- 

 member. 



Vice is its own punishment, and sometimes its 

 own cure. 



The greatest learning is to bo seen in the great- 

 est plainness. 



The, first degree of folly is to think one's self 

 wise ; the next to tell others so ; the third to des- 

 pise all counsel. 



The example of good men is visible philosophy. 



NEW ENGLAND SEED STORE, 

 AND HORTICULTURAL REPOSITORY. 



LONGEVITY OP THE SWAN. 



The other day, a male swan which had seen 

 many generations come and go, aud witnessed the 

 other mutations incident to the lapse of 200 years, 

 died at Rosemount. He was brought to Dunn 

 when the late John Erskine, Esq. was in infancy, 

 anil was then said to be 100 years old. About 

 two years ago he was purchased by the late David 

 Duncan, Esq. of Rosemount ; and within that pe- 

 riod his mate brought forth four young ones, 

 which he destroyed as soon as they took the water. 

 Mr. Molleson, Rridge-street, in whose museum the 

 bird is now to be seen, thinks he might have lived 

 much longer but for a lump or excrescence at the 

 top of the windpipe, which, on dissecting him, he 

 found to be composed of grass and tow. This is 

 the same bird that was known and recognized, in 

 the early years of octogenarians in this and the 

 neighboring parishes, by the name of " the old 

 swan of Dunn." — Montrose Review. 



THE Subscriber having made enlargements in the business 

 of the above Establishment, is now enabled to furnish Traders 

 and others with 



GARDEN, GRASS AND FLOWER SEEDS, 

 upon very favorable terms, and of the growth ol 18J3 ; ai-.d the 

 Garden Seeds warranted of the best quality. 



The greatest care and attention has been bestowed upon the 

 growing and saving of Seeds, and none will be sold at this 

 establishment excepting those raised expressly lor it, ami by 

 experienced seedsmen ; and those kinds imported which cahnbi 

 be raised to perfection in this country : these are from the Best 

 houses in Europe, and may be relied upon as genuine. 



It is earnestly requested whenever there are anv failures 

 hereafter, they should be represented to the Subscriber ; not 

 that it is possible to obviate unfavorable seasons and eirctmv? 

 stances, but that satisfaction may be rendered aud pvrlectn n 

 approximated. 



Boxes of Garden Seeds, neaily papered up in packages for 

 re. ailing ; and dealers supplied at a large discoui t. 



GRASS SEEDS, wholesale and retail, at as low prices as 

 can be bought in Boston, as arrangements have now been made 

 to obtain the best and purest seed. 



[LfCatalogues sent gratis to applicants, and Orders solicited 

 early, as belter justice can be done in the execution. 



JV. E. Seed Store, connected with the N- E. Fanner Office, 

 Ns.5\% 52 North Market-sir. GEORGE C. BARRETT. 



LARGE TURNIP. 



This is the age of large Turnips, Mammoth 

 Beets and Rig Apples. Mr. T. Curtis of Mon- 

 mouth, has left in our office a turnip, of the white 

 Norfolk variety, which weighs twelve pounds, and 

 measures two feet six inches in circumference ; 

 This is only a fair sample of his crop; he states 

 that he had one which measured three feet in cir- 

 cumference ; but it absconded one day from the 

 yard. Probably it felt too large to stay any longer 

 with turnips of smaller dimensions. — Maine Farm. 



DEFINITION. 



The editor of the Lancaster Journal says, " in- 

 temperance is the consumption of the soul." We 

 mean no kind of pun when we say it is a con- 

 sumption of the spirit. Mind aud matter all go, 

 and he who embraces the bottle is like the Spar- 

 tan boy with the stolen ' fox' — hugging close that 

 which will eat out his vitals. — U. S. Caz. 



A HUMAN TEAM. 



A novel spectacle — and, we may add a moving 

 one — was witnessed in this place ten or twelve 

 days since — exemplifying in one of the strongest 

 points of view a state of bodily degradation most 

 painful and revolting to the feelings of human na- 

 ture. It consisted of a wagon, filled with such 

 articles of furniture, &c. as usually belongs to an 

 emigrating establishment bound for the far West, 

 drawn by two men and a boy, all duly harnessed, 

 acting in the capacity and doiug the work of a 

 team of horses ! The individuals thus engaged 

 appeared cheerful and patient in the exercise of 

 their laborious employment. They were ascer- 

 tained to be emigrants from Germany, on their 

 way to the distant regions of the West. — Guernsey 

 Times. 



From a Poem of Enoch Lincoln, late governor of Maine 

 " New England's fruitful soil 

 Requires no culture from' a servile toil ; 

 No master's torturing" lash offends the ear, 

 No slave is now or ever shall be here : 

 Where'er he treads upon our sacred fields 

 Their Guardian Genius an asylum yields; 

 His chains drop from him : and on Reason's plan 

 He claims the gift of God — the rights of man." 



FRUIT TREES. 



Ornamental TREES, ROSES, FLOWER- 

 ING PLANTS, &c. Nursery of WILLIAM 

 KENRICK in Newton, 5h miles from Boston, 

 by the City Mills. 

 This Nursery now comprises a rare and extraordinary collec- 

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

 and covers the most of 13 acres. Of new celebrated Pears alone, 

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

 climate, are specially recommended. — Of Apples 200 kinds — 

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

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

 ries, Gooseberries, Strawberries, Figs, ice. &.C.— selections- 

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

 tions of 800 varieties of fruit. 



White mulberries for silk worms — the fruit poor. Also the 

 Morus Multicaulis or New Chinese MiUbernj, a beauti- 

 ful fruit tree, so superior for siik worms to all others. 



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

 and China varieties ; selections from numerous importations, 

 and first rate sources. Horse Chcsnuts as liardy as oaks — 

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

 netian Sumach, Allheas, Honeysuckles, Azaleas, &c. &c. — 

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

 Herbaceous flowering plants, a choice selection of 280 varieties, 

 including the Pseonies, Monlan and Papaveracea — aud 2-1 other 

 kinds — and S3 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, &c. delivered iu 

 Boston free o( charge for transportation, and suitably packed, 

 and from thence when ordered duly forwarded, by laud 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 



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AGENTS. 

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 Albany — Wm, Thorburn, 347 Market-street. 

 Philadelphia — D. & C. Landreth, 85 Chesnut-street. 

 B >llim">> — I. 1. Hitchcock, Publisher of American Rvnier. 

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

 Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince & Sons, Prop. Lin. Bot. Go*. 

 MiJdlcbury, IV. — Wight Chapman, Merchant. 

 Hartford— Goodwin & Co. Booksellers. 

 Nnrburi/port — Ebene/er Stedman, Bookseller. 

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

 Portland, Ml. — CoLMAN, Holden &. Co. Booksellers. 

 Bangor, Me. — Wm. Mann, Druggist. 



Halifax, JV. S. — P.J. Holland, Esq. Editor of lUxionler. 

 Montreal, L. C. — Geo. Bent. 

 St. Louis — Gku. Holton. 



Printed for Geo. C. Barrett by Ford & DiMREti. 

 who execute every description of Book and Fauci/ Print- 

 ing in good style, and with promptness. Orders for prirx. 

 ing may be left with Geo. C. Barrett, at the Agrievl 

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