NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



October 10, 1S32. 



Miscellany. 



ODE, 



JVrUlen for the Anniversary Dinner of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, Jl'ednesday, 



October 3, 1832. j 



BY MISS H. F. GOULD. 



From him who was lord of the fruits and the flowers 

 That io Paradise grew, ere he lost its possession — 

 Who breathed in the balm and reposed in the bowers 

 Of our garden ancestral, we claim our profession ; 

 While fruits sweet and bright. 

 Bless our taste and our sight, 

 As e'er o-ave our father, in Eden, delight. 

 And fountains as pure in their crystal, still gush 

 By the Vine in her verdure, the Rose in her blush. 

 While others in clouds sit to murmur and grieve, 

 That Earth has her wormwood, her pit-falls and bram- 

 bles, 

 We, smiling, go on her rich gifts to receive 

 Where the boughs drop their purple and gold on our 

 rambles. 

 Untiring and free, 

 While we work like the bee. 

 We bear off a sweet from each plant, shrub and tree. 

 Where some will find thorns but to torture the flesh. 

 We pluck the ripe clusters our souls to refresh. 



Yet, not for ourselves would we draw from the soil 

 The beauty that Heaven in its vitale has hidden ; 

 For, thus to lock tip the fair fruits of our toil. 



Were bUss half-possessed, and a sin all-fqfbiddcn. 

 Like morning's first ray, 

 When it spreads into day. 

 Our hearts must flow out, until self ftdes away. 

 Our joys in the bosoms around us, whui sown. 

 Like seeds, will spring up, and bloom aal for our own. 



And this makes the world but a garden, to us. 



Where He, who has walled it, his glory is shedding. 

 His smile lays the tints ; and, beholding it thus, 

 We gratefully feast while his bounty is spreading. 

 Our spirits grow bright. 

 As they bathe in the light 

 That pours round the board, where, in joy, we unite. 

 While the sparks that we take to enkindle our mirth 

 Are the gems which the skies sprinkle down o'er tlie 

 earth ! 



And, now, that we meet, and the chain is ofjiouiers. 

 Which bind us together, may sadness ne'er blight 

 them. 



Till those who must break from a compact hke ours. 

 Ascend, and the ties of the blest reunite them ! 

 May each who is here. 

 At the banquet appear, 



Where Life fills the wine-cup and Love makes it clear. 



Then Gilead's halm in its freshness will flow. 



O'er the wounds which the prvning-hiife gave us be- 

 low ! 



tioD, (an Association, whpse members abstain en- 

 tirely from all fermented or distilled liquors Ujat 

 tend in the least degree to cause intoxication,) 

 vifhich will go far to shake the common assertkin, 

 that the cholera attacks indiscriminately tlie tt ji- 

 perate and intemperate. "I have examined he 

 list of members of the St James Street Tenif r- 

 anee Association, or Total Abstinence Socic y, 

 coinprjsing seventy individuals, and am happy to 

 state that not one has experienced an attack fr 

 the prevailing disease," This certainly is a 

 worthy of notice. From the registers of the 

 torments kept at the burial grounds, there is rA- 

 sou to say, tliat since the 9th day of June last, o r 

 city has been nearly decimated by death ; a d 

 from the mimher of cases that have recover* 1, 

 we are inclined to think, that more tlian three oit 

 of ten of tlie population have been attacked, 

 the midst of this sickness and mortality, we fid 

 a little band, seventy in number, who abstain 

 lirely from all alcoholic drinks, not tasting ev 

 beer or cider, and of this seventy not one of the^ 

 has experienced an attack of cholera. 



A Delicate Appetite. — A Jesuit one day found! 

 Brazilian woman, in extreme old age, and aim 

 at the point of death. Having catechised her, ii • 

 striicted her, as be conceived, into the nature T 

 Christianity, and coinpletcly taken care of h r 

 soul, he began to inquire whether there was ai f 

 kind of food which she could eat. " Grandani ' 

 said he, (tliat beincr the word of courtesy by wliit i 

 it was usual to address old women,) " if I were i 

 get you a little sugar now, or a mouthful of son 

 of our nice things which we get from beyond th> 

 sea, do yon think you could eat it ?' "Ah 



•Splendid Bulbous Roots. 



JUST received at tlie Aijricullural Warehouse ami 

 Seed Store, No. 50J North Market t>treet, a lurse assort- 

 ment of Bulbous Flower Roots, comprising the finest va- 

 rieties of 



IIVACINTHS: (Double and single,) dark blue, 

 poicid.iin blue, red, rosy coloisd, pure while with yellow 

 eye, white with rosy eye, and yellow with various eyes; 

 from 12.i 10,^1 each. 



TULIPS : Splendid variegateil ,red, yellow, and mixed ; 

 Ilk cents each, $1 per doien: assorted, wiih the colors 

 marked on each ; (our assortment of fine tulips is very 

 large, and we are enabled to put many sorts ns low as 

 .ft) per bundled; an object to those who wish to form a 

 supeib tulip bed.) 



CROWN IMPERIALS; Assorted, of the most splen- 

 did colors and showy flowers, largo roots ; 25 cents each, 

 (extra fine roots.) ' 



JONQUILLES: Sweetsccnted, finest mots 12.J cts. 

 e.H'h, $1 per dozen. 



POLYANTHUS NARCISSUS; Fragrant, whiti. 

 wiih citron cups, extra sized roots, 12^ to 25 cents each. 



DOUBLE NARCISSUS: Fragrant, of all colors, 

 12.'. cents each, $;! per dozen. 



SPRING CROCUS: Of all colors, 6.i cents each 

 50 cents per dozen. 



LARGE GLADIOLUS or SWORD LILIES,! 24 cents 

 each, gil per dozen. 



Also, a further supply of Bulbous Roots, comprising 

 Large White fragrant Lilies, lii.i cents each, I dollar per 

 dozen. Tiger (spotted) Lilies, same price ; Mai tagon, or 

 Turk's Cap Lilies, samepiice. Sept. 12. 



The above roots are of the same superior character z* 

 those sold by us the last season, and whieh gave such 

 universal satisfaction; some of tbe double Hyacinths 

 l,aving produced bells one inch and eightlenlhs in diam- 



ter. 



Purchasers are requested to notice that the above roolf 

 are 7iot purchased at auction, and are all remarkable foi 

 their size, and for the bcaufy and delicacy of tint of their 

 flowers. 



Horse Quicksilver. 



. QUICKSILVER will stand this season at the stable of 

 '^yYthe subscriber, in Brighton, a few rods south of the meet- 

 grandson," said tbe convert, " my stomach goes in.;. house, and will cover only twenty marcs (be present 



against everything. There is but one thing wl 

 I think I could touch. Tf I b.ad the little head of 

 a little tender Tapua boy, I think 1 could pick tlie 

 little bones ; but wo is me, there is nobody to j;i) 

 out and shoot one for me." — Southey^s Brazil. 

 [This story alludes to the early settlement of 

 Jesuit missionaries in South America, when tlicy 

 found the Indians with an almost incurable attach- 

 ment to cannibalism. — Permsylvania Mag.J 



TEMPERANCE AND CHOLERA. 



The Canadian (Montreal) Courant, says : "We 

 hear it repeated, almost every hour, that cholera 

 has carried off old' and young, hale and sickly, 

 temperate and intemperate, with alinost indiscrim- 

 inate mortality; and when any ojjiDions not found- 

 ed on facts, gain currency, it is the duty of the pub- 

 lic press to correct tliem. To the assertion, then, 

 that the cholera attacks the temperate and intem- 

 perate alike, we oppose the following fact, which 

 we extract from a communication from the Secre- 

 tary of the St James Street Temperance Associa- 



TTie Dutchman's Hen. — The Lowell Telegraph 

 furnishes the narrative. " Veil, Hants, you nay 

 talk so much as you pe a mind to about te Im^s 

 peingte contraicst lianimal, put te hen is so muh 

 more contrary as cood deal. Vy, no longer ai o 

 an tother day, I try to make te lien set — I poot 

 te eggs under her — I make te nest all up cood — 

 poot te hen on, put she no set — I jam her town on 

 te eggs, put she vill op aright up. Den I makes a 

 leetle po.x, 'pout so pig a von w.iy, (measuring 

 with his hands) and 'pout so big a tother way — 

 den 1 pools te hen on the nest, and jest takes and 

 poots te leetle pox aright over her. Ven I j 'si 

 raises von corner of leetle pox to see vether slie 



pe setting. I pe if I tont find te pitch 



set a standing ! 



each, and *.$! in addition, to the groom. 

 Mares warranted to be in foal, if |l20 is paid, and $1 tc 

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

 be returned. 



Quicksilver is a beautiful bright bay, three years old .; 

 his sire. Sir Isaac Coffin's horse. Barefoot, conspicuous in 

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

 the imported Cleveland bay horse Sii Isaac, and Sky 

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

 and bottom, once owned by Mr Lcavittof Salem, to whom 

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

 others in Massachusetts and Maine. Quicksilver is 

 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 sent to him, anil 

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

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

 dents. BENJAMIN W. HOBART. 



Brighton, June 13, 1S32. tt 



Asking Alms. — A man, who had lost both his 

 legs, went about the country on horseback to so- 

 licit charity. Coming to the house of an old lady, 

 who happened to be rather of a peppery disposition, 

 and knocking at the door as he sat on his rack of 

 a steed, she addressed him with — " What do you 

 want here ?" " I called," returned the beggar, 

 humbly, "to ask alms." "Arms!" exclaimed the 

 old lady, " you had better get you a pair of li 

 first." — Constel. 



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