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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 6, 18-29. 



MISCELLANIES. 



ON THE AMERICAN CONVOLVULUS. 



At noon I »aw thco, boaulcouB flowi>r, 



And liailid thco fairest in my bower; 



Anil as I bound thy nlojidor iitoins, 



All radiant witli their dewy -{eniB, 



Kacli varied tint of Iris' bow 



Was lent, to grace thy modest brow ; 



I would not cull thco, tlowrct fair, 



But left thee in the gay parterre, 



To vie with each proud Lcauty there ; 



Alas I how little did 1 ween 



When next I saw thee there, at e'en 



To Snd thee wither'd, loTcly one ; 



And every bud of beauty gone ! 



And must 1, then, in one short day, 



Behold thoe bloom — weep thy decay ! 



"r is ever thus, with all I prize : — 



The brightest form that glads mine eyes. 



The sweetest song that charms mine ear, 



Kach joy most cherished and most dear, 



Like thee, ray favorite flowret, stay 



To cheer me but one little day ! C. A 



7 Prolific Hrted. Six fwes, owned by Duncon ]coi)tuiiis about ten ounces of water. Imnicdiatel j- 



Llovil Shiiw of Kavnlmin, enoh produced lambs uflerwiirils put into the Bamc, tliirty-five grains < 

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A parcel of ripe strawberries, with a few blo.s- 

 ^oms, was brought to our office yesterday after- 

 noon, says the Baltituore American of Saturday 

 last. They were reared without artificial means. 

 The plurits were only protected from the northwest 

 wind. Last year the same gentleman who raised 

 these, had theiu as late as the 20th November, and 

 expects to have tliem as late the present season. 



Encouragement of Silk Growers. — The Legisla- 

 ture of Delaware has enacted a law for the en- 

 couragement of silk growers, which [jrovides that 

 all lands within the limits of the state, which now 

 are, or hereafter may be, actnally employed and 

 occupied in the growth of white mulberry trees, 

 with a view to the raising of silk, shall be exempt 

 from taxation for the space of ten years, from the 

 time of planting such trees — and that to each and 

 every individual, who shall plant and bring to per- 

 fection witliiii the limits of the state, two hundred 

 such mulberry treos, within the space of five years 

 from tlie first day of May next, there shall be giv- 

 en by the state, a Silver Medal of the value of five 

 dollars. 



in DeeembiT l.ist ; and in June last, four of the 

 same sheep again had lambs, all of w hieh, at both 

 times have been raised, and are thriving. Instan- 

 ces of this animal producing twice a year may be 

 known, but are probabiy very rare. One of these 

 sheep, wo are told, has done so before. — Taunton 

 Reporter. 



There are 384,254 bushels of salt made at 

 Barnstable, Mass. yearly. 



It is estimated that New England contains about 

 500,000 spindles in their factories. 



An effort is making to provide the means of es- 

 tablishing a College in the state of Illinois. Alib- 

 eral subscription has been raised by the friends of 

 the object in that state. 



Th« amount of canal toll paid to the Collector 

 at Albany, this season, to the first of October was 

 S101,263. |_ 



" Why," said a country clergyman to one of 

 his flock, " do you always snore in your pew when 

 I am in the pulpit, while you are all attention to 

 every stranger I invite ? " " Because, Sir, when you 

 preach I am sure all is right ; but I can't trust to 

 a stranger, without keejjing a good look out." 



Interestinf!; to American Jlnlifjuaiies. — The Geo- 

 graphical Society of Paris have offered a gold me- 

 dal of the value of 2400 francs for the best disser- 

 tation upon American Antiquities. 



Col. Ilargreaves, of Lancashire, has a mare up- 

 wards of 60 years of age. 



Lincolnshire Giant. — The Taunton Courier con- 

 tains an account of the death and funeral of Ncal 

 Sewell, the Lincolnshire giant, who was born ut 

 Ilorncastic in 1805. Scwcll was seven feet four 

 inches high, anil weighed 518 pounds. — Ho re- 

 quired five yards of broad cloth for his coat, five 

 yards of cloth and lining for his vest, seven yards 

 of patent cord for his trowsers ; his shoes were 

 14J inches long, and 6J inches wide. 



tartaric acid, then cork it quickly. The acid 

 fall ought to be used in crVHtals, ag when in pon 

 dir they are apt to seize upon each other befot 

 the bottle can be well corked, and so a coni-iden 

 ble f|uantity of the carbonic acid gas ^\hich 

 evolved, is lost. — .Mechanics' Mag. 



HanleJ, 



An Apprentice, in a Book Printing Office. An intt 

 ligcnt boy from the countrv would be preferred. 



Inquire at the New England Farmer Oifice. Nn. 

 North Market Street. if Oct. Si 



Fruit Trees, Sfc. for Sale. 



The subscriber wishing to give up the cultivation 

 Fruit Trees, offers a handsome lot of .?//p/« Tr.ts 

 hist sorts. Also Cherry Trees, Peach Trees, and n 

 Plum Trcet, of screral new varieties. Horse Che>; 

 Cnt^lpas, Butternuts, White .Mulberries, and sup 

 plants of Honeysuckles AllheaK, &.c. &c. The v. , 

 would be sold at 'Xi 1 -3 per cent, discount from his ' - 

 low prices, or by the hundred, at a discount of 25 per < 

 A memorandum of sorts may be seen at Mr. Ri'.^si 

 New England Farmer Oifice. JOHN PRI.NC 



Jamaica Plain, Oct. ff, l—i9. 



I can also spare a few young Pear Trees (raised 

 seed) : and one and two years old from buds of 

 new sorts, at 75 cents each. 



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Tomato .Mustard and Ketchup, 

 For sale at the Agricultural Warehouse, No. 52 .N 

 Market street. Tomato Mustard, an excellent srti( '■ 

 beef steaks, roast meats, &c. made in the best niaiu 

 by a person regularly educated at the business in Euri 

 — price .'JO cents per bottle — also, Tomato Ketchup, p 

 pared by the same person, in difFerent sized bottlei 

 prices 50, or 33 eeuls per bottle. Oct. 16 



Roots of Che Pis Plant or Tart RJiubarb. 



A supply of the roots of the Rheum palmatum, 

 Tart Rhubarb, or Pie Plant, an excellent article 

 early summer use, (see N. E. Farmer, vol. vi. pa^f • 

 and Fessendcn's New American Gardener, article K 

 BARB, for its culture and uses.) The roots are II: 

 and in fine order for transplanting this fall 



For sale at the AgriculUiraT Warehouse. N' 

 North Market street — price 25 cts. per root. Oct. I 



Ever-hearing Raspberry. — Mr Noadiab Rock- 

 well, jr. brought to our office yesterday, for exhi 

 bition, several bunches of the Ever-hearing rasp 

 berry, loaded with great numbers of this delicious 

 fruit — some ripe, others just turning red, and oth- 

 ers green ; it also had a large number in bloom. 

 The fruit, when ripe, is red, of a beautiful flavor. 

 It commttnces bearing early in the sjiring, and con- 

 tinues to bear until frost comes. A gentleman 



forwarded it to Mr U. from the banks of the Mis- ^wo new species of olives have been discover- 

 sissippi. Mr II. wo believe, has the plants for cd in the southern district of the Crimea, Kuss: 



The New Hampshire Gazette states that a coal 

 mine has recently been di.scovcred at Bath, in that 

 state, near the banks of the Great Amonoosuck, 

 and only a few miles from Connecticut River. — 

 The coal has been found, on trial, to be of a good 

 quality, and resembles the Lehigh coal in its es- 

 sential properties, but contains a greater propor- 

 tion of slate. The mine is supposed to be very 

 extensive. 



Fine Table Grapes. 



For sale at the Charlcstown Vinevard, on the > 

 side of Bunker's Hill, a quantity of die finest Eur..), 

 table Grapes, raised in the open air, and now ripe, 

 ripening, on tlie vines. There are about a do7.en di) 

 ent sorts, among which the principal are the White > 

 cadine or Sweet Water, Burgundy, Black Ham'') 

 Red Chasselas, &c. For sale in anv quantities, li 

 hundredweight or otherwise. D. HAGGERSTli; 



Charlcstown Vineyard, Oct. 8, ISatl. 



sale — .Middlclown pa. 



Large Radish. — Mr Epapiiras Clark has left 

 at this oflice, a cherry radish, raited in his garden 

 this aeason, weighing nine pounds. — Ibid. 



A'cw England Fanner's Almanack for 1830. 



Just published by C.*kti;r <& Hkmh.e, roraaE< 

 School and Washington-streets, .ind by J. 11. Ri «si§ : 

 No. 52, North Market-street, the .Vtir Knalantl fans 

 Almanack for 1p30. By TiioM.vs G. Fksse.ndl.n, m 

 of the New England Farmer. 



This Almanack, it is tliought, will be fount) to bo i 

 siderably improved upon that of the preceding j 

 The Astronomical calculations have been proparea 



,,,,,, . , ... , , . i revised Willi great care bv a gentlemiui of this iiiv- 



on the Black bea, m about 4o ' north latitude, tides particularly noted— a complete Calendar of 

 The shoots, which were planted in the botanical ] Courts for each state in Now Eiipland, including 



Probate Courts of Massachusetts — the Sun's deolini 



Prolific. — \ gentloiiiaii in this town of our ac- 

 quaintance, planted three potatoes of a rare and 

 superior kind, from which he gathered lhr,:epecks. 

 — Concord (Mass.) Gaz. 



Mammoth Hog. — The Editor of the Poultnoy 

 p:iper says, that a hog, ruiseil in that town, which 

 weighs 1100 pounds, is about to depart on a visit 

 to the South. — Ibid. 



garden of iv'ikita, have livad through one of ihe 

 hardest \\ inters ever known, which would liave 

 been fatal to the French or Italian olive. 



A Froiich jiaper states that an inhabitant of 

 Lyons grafted ujum the snmo stem, red and white 

 grapes, (leachcs and a|>ricots, which all (lowered 

 at the same time, and gave ripe fruit within a few 

 davs of each other. 



Cheap and easy method of making .Suda Water. — 

 Take forty grains of carbonaio of soda, put them 

 into a common soda wutor bottle, which generally 



— a table of Roads and distances from Boston, Ac. 

 seventeen pages of miscellanoous articles, princii 

 upon .Agriculture and Gardening. 



J J Country traders and others supplied upon the I 

 liberal terms, by the thousand, groco, or dozen. 



Sept. 1^. 



Published every Friday, nt Sifrt aiiiiimi, pa ,' le i 

 end of the year— but ihosc who pay williiii !,ixt\ . .,\ . iVm 

 liinc orsiibsrribliij,', arc eiilided lo a dediicliou •! i<: v ,< st 



IT No paper n ill bo sonl lo a dijianrc witliout p,i\ inci 

 ilir inside ill adviiiiro. 



Priiiled lor J, It. Ru.<ski I.. l>y I. K. Butts— by t 

 all ilcMriplioiis of I'riiiiiiig rau be oxeruird lo meet llie » 

 of customers. Orders for priiiiing rercivrd by J. It. Itus) 

 •I Ihc AsricullurnI Waraliousc No. .'li North MaikolE 



