NEW ENGLAND FARTHER. 



Miscellany 



EPITHALAMIUM. 



BY BRAINARD. 



I saw two r.louds at morning, 



Tinged with the rising sun; 

 And in the dawn Ihey floated on, 



And mixed into one; 

 I thought that morning cloud was blest, 

 It moved so sweetly to the west. 



I saw two summer currents, 



Flow smoothly to their meeting. 

 And join their course with silent lorce, 



In peace each other greeting ; 

 Calm was their course through banks of green. 

 While dimpling eddies play'd between. 



Such be your gentle motion. 



Till life's last pulse shall beat; 

 Like summer's beam, and summer's stream, 



Float on in joy, to meet 

 A calmer sea, where storms shall cease — 

 A purer sky, where all is peace. 



respoiulence. " You kindly inquired after be rr'urned.^^ 

 iltli," suys he to his favorite neice, " I have jjj^H.'^.'e gij U; 



VEGETABLE CURIOSITIES IN CUBA. 



Nothing is more common than to see bahouca, 

 (bejuco,) or vines of many species, running with 

 lu.xuriance over the trees, groat and small, of the 

 forest. Many of them commence their growth, 

 and fasten their roots in the toj) of a tree, and 

 thence run downwards and fasten tlieinselves 

 attain in the ground. They are sometimes seen 

 hanging above, and waving in the air below, with- 

 out any 6xture to the ground. I have seen a vine 

 as big as my finger, fastened above, and, two yards 

 before it came to the ground, sending out a dozen 

 filaments, evidently intended to fix in the ground 

 as roots, though they liad not yet been able to 

 reach it. These vines are everywhere seen in 

 the woods, and often symmetrical arbors, circular 

 or oval, that would be beautiful in the most taste- I 

 ful gardens. But of all sights, the most amusing, 

 and that continually to be seen, is IVie Scotchman \ 

 hugging the Creole, as it is very significantly called. 

 This often takes jilace on the loftiest trees of the 

 the forest, — especially the ceyba. The bahouca, 

 (bejuco) descends from the top, and rises from 

 the ground, and winds rotuid the trunk of the 

 tree, and by its many convolutions literally wehs 

 over the trunk, grows into itself, branch with 

 branch, and looks like an inunense serpent 

 wreathing about its victim. The effect is ever the 

 same. The Creole, the original tree, is smothered 

 in the hostile embrace. It commences a prema- 

 ture decay, rots, falls by piecemeal, becomes a 

 mere skeleton, and finally disappears, leaving the 

 parasitical bahouca, changed in its very uatiue 

 from vine to tree, in prosperous possession of the 

 ground. The trunk of the nuuilerous tree near 

 the ground is irregular, openworked, but vigorous 

 and healthy, with a top running high, and some- 

 times with branches from two fett to three and a 

 half in diameter. At the ground, I have meas- 

 ured a space of from six to seven feet between 

 the thrifty parts of the upstart tree. These parts 

 become imited twenty or thirty feet from the 

 gi-ound, in a solid trunk, and send out branches 

 two feet in diameter. The leaf of the new tree is 

 not always the same, but the limb when cut, 

 always sends out a milky sap. — Mboi's Letters 

 from Cuba. 



From Saoder; 



DR FRANKLIN. 



For the manner in which he bore his sufferings 

 and the aspect in which he viewed his approach- 

 ing dissolution, we shall refer to Ins interest- 

 ing corr 

 my healtl . 



not much reason to boast of it. People that will 

 live a long life and drink to the bottom of the cup, 

 nuist expect to meet with some of the dregs. 

 However, whenever I consider how many terrible 

 diseases the human body is liable to, I think my- 

 self well off that I have only three incurable ones, 

 the gout, the stone, and old age. And these, not- 

 withstanding I enjoy many comfortable intervals, 

 in which I forget all my ills and aiuuse myself in 

 reading and writing and telling many stories, as 

 when you first knew me, a young man about fifty. 

 I have not yet grown so old as to have buried 

 most of the friends of my youth. By living twelve 

 years beyond David's period, I seem to have in- 

 troduced myself into the company of posterity ; 

 yet had I gone at seventy, it would have cut off 

 twel ve of the most active years of my life, employ, 

 ed too, in matters of the greatest importance; but 

 whether I have been doing good or mischief is for 

 time to discover." 



When he had approached to the very close of 

 life, he reasoned thus coolly with a friend: — 

 " Death is as necessary to the constitution as 

 sleep ; we shall rise refreshed in the morning. 

 The course of nature must soon put a period to 

 mv present mode of existence. This 1 sha0 sub- 

 mit to with the less regret, as having seen, duringa 

 long life, a good deal of this world, I feel a grow- 

 ing curiosity to become acquainted with some oth- 

 er; and can cheerfully with filial confidence, re- 

 sign my spirit to the conduct of that great and 

 sood Parent of mankind, who created it, and 

 who has so graciously protected and preserved 

 me from my birth to the present hour." 



September 12, 1832. 



Horse Quicksilver. 



QUICKSILVER will stnnd this season at the stable of 

 the subscriber, in Brighton, a few rods sovjth of the meet- 

 ing-house, and will cover only twenty mares the present 

 season, at $15 each, and .$1 in addition, to the groom. 

 Mares warranted to be in foal, if $20 is paid, and $1 to 

 thegioom; and in discharge of warranty, the $20 will 



is ii beautiful bright bay, three years old ; 



lac Coffin's horse, Harefuot, conspicuous in 

 the racing calendar of England ; his dam, Kcbecca, from 

 the imported Cleveland bay horse Sii Isaac, and Sky 

 Lark, a native mare, well known fur her fine form, speed. 

 anil bottom, once owned by Mr Leavittol I?'alem, to whom 

 persons are referred for her character, and will be to many 

 others in Massachusetts and Maine. Quicksilver i» 

 thought by good judges to combine with great symmetry 

 and delicacy of form, bone, muscle, and all the requisites 

 for a first rate covering horse. Mares seiU to him, and 

 if left with the subsciibe"-, will be well attended to on rea- 

 sonable terms, but he will not be responsible for acci- 

 dents. BENJAMIN W. HOBART. 

 Brighton, June 13, 1832. tl 



American Farrier. 



THIS day published, and for sale at the New England 

 Farmer oflire, Nn. 50^ North Market Street, the Amer- 

 ican Farrier, containing a minute account of the forma- 

 tion of every part of the Horse, with a desciiplion of all 

 the diseases to which each part is liable, the best reme- 

 dies 10 be applied in effecting a cure, and the most ap- 

 proved niode of treatment for preventing disorders; with 

 a copious list of medicines, describing tlieir qualities and 

 eltVcis when applied in dilferent cases ; and a complete 

 treatise on rearing and managini; the horse, from the 

 fo;d to the full grown active laborer ; illusti ated with nu- 

 merous engravings. By H. L. Barnum. Price 75£ents. 



Aug. 15. _^_ 



Strawberries. 



FOR sale at the Kenrick Nurseries in New- 

 toi^he following varieties of Strawberries 

 now ready for transplanting. 



Hudson's Bay, Chili, Downton, Roseberry, 

 Mu:iiLiry. Pine-apple, Bath-scarlet, Methvcn Castle, 

 Wiliiiot's Superb, Large WKte, Recl-woo<l, H liite-wood. 

 Red Alpine, monthly with runm-rs. Red Bush Alpine, 

 Wbile do. do Duke of Kent's Scai let, Wellington, New 

 BUck Rusk Hautbois, French Musk Hautbois, Prohfic 

 Haulbois, Large Ear'y Scarlet, Knevel's New Pine, 

 Keens' Seedling, Sonthborough Seedling, &c, &c. 



Wriltcii orders aildressed to John or William Kenrick, 

 Newton, or left with Mr Russell at his Seed Store, No. 

 50i North Market Street, will receive immediate atteo- 

 tion. 

 August IS. 3w 



POPE 



Neither time, nor distance, nor grief, nor age, 

 can ever diminish my veneration for Pope, who 

 is the great moral poet of all times, of all climates, 

 of all feelings and of all stages of existence. The 

 i\eliglit of my boyhood ; the study of my man- 

 hood ; perhaps, if allowed to me to attain it, he 

 may he the consolation of my age. His |)oetry is 

 the book of life. VVilhout canting, and yet with- 

 out rejecting religion, he has assembled all that a Published every Wednesday Evening, at «f3 per annum, 

 good and great man can gather together of moral payable at the end of the year — but those who pay within 



Sir Wil- sixty da\s from the time of subscribing, are entitled to a 



White Mulberry Seed. 



THIS day received at the New England Seed Store, 

 No. 50.J North Market Street, Boston, a lot of White 

 Mulberry Seed, saved the last month expressly for us, 

 from one of the largest white mulberry orchards in Con- 

 necticut — warranted (resh and of the very first quality. 



Aug. 15. 



from tin 

 deduction ol fifty cents. 



53" No paper will be sent to a distance without payment 

 being made in advance. 



Printed for J. B. Russell, by T. R. Butts — by whom 

 all descriptions of Printing cnn be executed to meet the 

 wishes of customers. Orders for Printing received by J. B. 

 RrssELL, at the Agricultural Warehouse, JNo. 62. North 

 Market Street. 



wisilom, clothed in consummate beauty, 

 liam Temple observes, that of all the members of 

 mankind, that live within the compass of a thou- 

 sand years, for one luan that is born capable of 

 making a great poet, there may be a thousand 

 born capable of making as great generals and min- 

 isters of state, as any in story. — Here is a slates- 

 man's opinions of poetry ; it is honoroble to him 



and the art. Such a poet of a thousand years was „, „ „,-,, , 



., , , , ^ 11 I c ..^//,an!/ — ^Vr.I.THOllBul<.v, 317 Market street. 



Pope. A thousand more may roll away 'lefore | p^j,„J^,p,„„ _ p ,sc C Lani.huh, 85 Chesm 

 such another can be hoped for in our li'erature ; " " " "'" 



but it can want them — he himself is a literature. 

 Letter of Byron. 



AGENTS. 



G. Thorburn i.".; S.ins, 67 Liberty-street. 



In Pope's time, worth made the man ; in our 

 day, the tailor makes him. But the man often 

 unmakes the tailor ! 



Absurdities, which if left alone would soon die 

 a natural death, often become eternal by opposition. 



Xtw Yc 



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 Baltimore — G B. Smith, Editorof the American Farmer. 

 Cinciimati — S. C. Parkhi'Rst. 23 Lower Market-street. 

 Flushing. N. Y. Wm. Prince & Suns, Prop, Lin.Bot.Garden 

 Middlelmry. !'(. — Wight Ch.ifman. 

 Hartford — Goodwin & Co. Booksellers. 

 Springfield. Ms. — E. Edwarus. 

 IVeuihuryport. — Ki'ENKXER STF.niwAN, Bookseller. 

 Portsmonth. N. H —3.W. Foster. Bn„kseller. 

 Portland, Me. — ShKV^I. CoLMAN, Bookseller- 

 Ai'evsla. Wc — Wm. Makn. 

 Halifa.t.n.'&. — V.y Holland, Esq, 

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