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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



brick being made of only half the usual thickness ; 

 the first five or six feet in height of the fence is 

 close, and the upper portion full of holes about two 

 inches square. These fences so break and sift the 

 winds as to deprive them of all power either of 

 straining the trees, or of con%'eying the salt vapors 

 to their foliage. At the same time the tempera- 

 ture is so changed, that several degrees of differ- 

 ence in the heat and cold may be noticed between 

 the inside and outside of the enclosure. Frost pen- 

 etrates three or four times as low into the ground 

 outside as it does inside. In a cold day, there is a 

 genial, summer-lilve atmosphere in the garden, 

 when out of it, November winds may howl along the 

 coast with icy breath. 



Under this change of temperature Mr. Tudor has 

 succeeded in clothing the surface with rich varie- 

 ties of plants, and giNing all that part of the prom- 

 ontory a most attractive appearance. Pear trees, 

 only transplanted four years, were above the highest 

 fences, and loaded with fruit. There we saw sev- 

 eral of the Northern Spy apple trees fruited in 

 perfection, tender raspberries, and nearly all fruits 

 found in our best gardens. In all, Mr. Tudor has 

 set ten thousand trees among the rocks and on the 

 handful of soil which he could come at where he 

 desired to plant ; so that now the strong currents 

 being broken and evaporation in a measure retard- 

 ed, vegetation will spring into life spontaneously, 

 and trees of a less hardy character than those he 

 commenced with will succeed. He has given a new 

 aspect to the scenery, and a new health to the place. 

 Thousands who throng there for gay dissipation or 

 for the in\'igorating breezes from the sea, are grate- 

 ful for the shade of his trees, and for the rich land- 

 scape which is so admirably contrasted Avith the ex- 

 panse of water and the rough rocks wliich line the 

 shores, or still Uft their heads in the cultivated 

 grounds. So Science and Industry have covered 

 desolation with beauty, and crowned the efforts of 

 their votary with Success! His noble example is 

 widely felt, and other cultivators take the hint from 

 his operations, and break the wind from their gar- 

 dens by means of shrubbery or of fences, and thus 

 are enabled to rear plants which it would otherwise 

 be impossible to do, and this will be the means of 

 introducing earher and a greater variety of fruits, 

 throughout New England. 



Mr. Tudor has distinguished himself no less in 

 another branch of industry, than by his horticultu- 

 ral sldll. He was the first person to introduce a 

 Imsiness which now employs some seven or eight 

 million dollars of capital, and for which he was 

 laughed at by all the doubters in the land. He 

 shipped the first cargo of ice ever exported from 

 this country, in the year 1805. It was shipped to 

 the West Indies, and he went with it. The enter- 

 prise was not a profitable one, there being no suit- 

 able places to store it, and its eflficacy in sickness, or 



its value as a luxury, not being appreciated. In 

 1834, Mr. Tudor commenced realizing a profit 

 from the business, but two years earher he shipped 

 from Boston 4,352 tons. 



Mr. Tudor's efforts are a practical illustration of 

 what industry and perseverance may accomplish, es- 

 pecially when aided by the appHcation of science. 

 The pleasure of our visit was increased by the pres- 

 ence of His Excellency the Governor of the Com- 

 monwealth, whose own grounds we had previously 

 \isited, and found stocked with some nine or ten 

 hundred fruit trees, and embracing most of the best 

 fruits produced in our climate. The day, thus spent, 

 was a most agreeable and profitable one. Mr. Tu- 

 dor has proved a public beneflictor in several ways, 

 and while he has our hearty commendations, we are 

 confident he has those of the public at large. 



WAKEFULNESS-CAUSE AND REM- 

 EDY. 



Editor of the Rural : — Many persons of ner- 

 vous temperament, — hypochondriacs Avith uneasy 

 stomachs, from the use of too much rich and high- 

 ly-seasoned food, knick-nacks, or tea and coffee, — 

 the thinkers, inventors, authors, and those who have 

 domestic or other troubles pressing on the brain ; 

 in fact all who are not of mere animal construction 

 and of redundant health, are subject more or less to 

 ivakefulness, and a difficulty of obtainmg that re- 

 pose necessary to reinvigorate the system, after 

 the labor and cares of the day. It becomes a dis- 

 ease, and sometimes as distressing as "the snakes 

 in the boots" of the inebriate. 



AVhat is more tedious and enervating than the 

 difficulty of procuring sleep, or of waking and wait- 

 ing for the sonorous bell of the clerk of time, and 

 after hopelessly trusting it will proclaim the ap- 

 proach of day, hearing him bluntly tell all he knows 

 by strilting twelve'? Then, the melancholy hours 

 passed in solitude and thick-coming thoughts of 

 real or anticipated troubles and cares, are painful is 

 the extreme, and disorder the whole \itality of the 

 animal machine. 



Many devices have been suggested to bewilder the 

 mind and induce the lethean forgetfulness of sleep. 

 Counting up to hundreds — muUplying two or more 

 numbers in the mind and obtaining the result — 

 calling over the names of acquaintances, or the coun- 

 ties in the State, &c. The most effective course is 

 to jumj) out of bed and commence walking in the 

 dark, exercising your judgment in avoiding and in 

 finding objects about the room, taking no heed what 

 the matter is ; its effect is to break the chain of 

 thought — dis]3el vapors • — equalize the circulation 

 and difiperse the electricity of the body, which the 

 bed, Ijeing a non-conductor, cannot do. The antag- 

 onism of the warm bed and cold air gives a shock 

 to the nervous system, acting like a cold bath, which 

 it is, only air instead of water. On getting into bed 

 a pleasant glow is felt, and in nine cases out of ten 

 the brooding nightmare of wakefulness is driven to 

 the land of Nod, and forgetfulness and refresliing 

 sleep ensue. 



No one can take cold when every part is equal- 

 ly exposed; the most delicate constitution may run 

 naked a mile in the greatest rain or snow storm 



