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NEW ENGLAND FARMETl. 



From the London Literary Gazette. 



SIGNS OF RAIN; 



An excuse for not accepting the Invitatiou of a Friend 



to make an Excursion with him. 



An Original Poem, by the laic Dr. Jenner. 



1. The hollow -winds beg;in to blow, 



2. The clouds look black, the grass is low ; 

 ". The soot falls down, the spaniels sleep, 

 4. And spiders from their cobwebs peep. 



■"). Last night the sun went pale to bed, 



6. The moon in halos hid her head ; 



7. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, 



8. For, see a rainbow spans the sky. 



9. The walls are damp, the ditches smell, 

 10. Clos'd is the pink-ey'd pinipernell. 



tl. Hark! how the chairs and tables crack, 



12. Old Betty's joints are on the rack ; 



13. Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry; 



14. The distant hills are looking nigh. 



15. How restless are the snorting swine, 



16. The busy flics disturb the kine ; 



17. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings ; 



18. The cricket, too, how sharp he sings ; 



19. Puss on the hearth with velvet paws, 



20. Sits, wiping o'er her whisker'd jaws. 



- 21. Through the clear stream the fishes rise, 

 2'2. And nimbly catch th" incautious flies ; 



23. The glow-worms, numerous and bright 



24. Illum'd the dewy dell last night. 

 2j. At dusk the squalid toad was seen, 



26. Hopping and crawling o'er the green ; 



27. The whirling wind the dust obeys, 

 2C. And in the rapid eddy plays ; 



20. The frog has chang'd his yellow vest, 



30i .ind in a rnsset coat is drest. 



31. Though June, the air is cold and still ; 



32. The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill. 



33. My dog, so altcr'd in his taste, 



34. Quits mutton-bones, on grass to feast ; 



35. And see, yon rooks, how odd their flight, 

 .3t5. They imitate the gliding kite, 



37. And seem precipitate to lall — 



38. As if they felt the piercing liall. 



39. 'Twill surely rain, I see with sorrow ; 

 •10. Our jaunt must be put oil' to-morrow. 



MISCELLANY. 



my, a princely fortune serves merely to give a 

 sort of notoriety and splendor to want and em- 

 barrassment, which make them the more con- 

 spicuous and lamentable. 



Bad Men their orvn Enemies. — A wise and good 

 man is not an enemy to the foolish and vicious, 

 but merely wishes to persuade them not to ru- 

 in themselves. He looks on bad men as a phy- 

 sician does on his patients, and prescribes for 

 moral diseases, as the medical man gives direc- 

 tions for the cure of corporeal complaints. 



Pursuits of Pleasure.— A life of dissipation is 

 a hard life, and the votaries of pleasure 'lose 

 all enjoyment in the pains t^ey take to obtain 

 the means of gratification. ^ 



Anecdote.— As the passengers of a stage were 

 about to dine at the stage House, one of the 

 guests took up the pepper-box from a castor and 

 nicely sifted it over a fine piece of roasted beef. 

 A French gentleman observing it, deliberately 

 took his snuff-box from his pocket, and besprink- 

 led its contents likwise over the same piece of 

 beef. " Sir," said the first party, " what did you 

 mean ?" Why, sar, 1 suppose sar, you love de 

 pepper. 1 sar, love de snuff."' The table were 

 thrown into a roar, and willingly consented to 

 commute their roasted beef for the amusement 

 the manner of its loss occasioned. 



FKUIT& ORNAMENTAL TREJ: 



FOR sale, as usual, at the Kenrick place, li 

 Brighton. The nurseries have been much, 

 largcd, and contain a variety of Pears, Apples, CI'. 

 rits, I'lums, Apricots, &c.— Also, the finest Nurser; 

 buddi d Peach-Trees known in America ; consistini 

 a choice collection of about 30 of the most appro-i 

 kinds in our best gardens, or seen in the markets. 1 

 trees arc from 5 to 8 feet high, and sold at the >"urs 

 at the moderate price of 33 1-3 cents each. 



Of good sized ornamental trees r the Flowei 

 Horse-Chesnut; Flowering Catalpa ; European Mo 

 tain-Ash; Weeping Willow ; the evergreen Silver . 

 and the Larch. English Walnuts and Butternuts,!: 

 of which are justly admired for their fruit. The la. 

 is a hardy, handsome tree, and its bark valuable in < 

 and medicine. , , . , ', , 



Currant bushes of the large prolific red kmd,.^ F 

 sizes by the dozen, hundred, or thousand, on nif ^i 

 rate 'terms: Also the Black, White, and Cham{|i 

 do. Red and White Roses ; Lilacs ; English Gtai 

 Gooseberries, Sic. &c. 



Orders addressed to John, or Wininm Kenrick^. 

 sent to the Brighton Post-Office, or the Office of 

 Samuel Dana, Broker, in State-street, Boston, wi: 

 duly attended to. 



N. 11. Trees will be packed in clay and mats 

 shipping, and conveyed to Boston when ordered: 

 o-entlcnien at a distance should employ some agei 

 receive and pay tbr them. March 2)1 



nlK. THE NKW F,JfC.!..4i\D FAR.IIER. 



APHORISMS. 



Plan of Life. — There are some persons who 

 lose all their "days without any design, or partic- 

 ular object in view, and wear away existence 

 with no aim, and of consequence with no good 

 effect. Such people have been ai-.;ly compar- 

 ed with straws on a current of water, which do 

 not go, but are carried. They pass their prime 

 in fluctuating from one bubble to another, and 

 at length having been watlcd through the 

 straifs'of indigence, sink in the gulph of ob- 

 livion. 



Idleness a hard Master.— l^o men have so lit- 

 tle leisure, or so little enjoyment as those who 

 have nothing to do but to enjoy themselves. — 

 Vcrsons of this description have been known to 

 kill themselves, in order to kill time. 



Economy. — With proper economy a few of 

 the wood things of life wre sufficient for every 

 jjurpose of real enjoyment; but without econo- 



GAROFN AND FIELD SEED.S." 



JOSEPH BRIDGE, No. 25, Court -street, lias just 

 received per London Packet, and for sale, an ex- 

 tensive variety of Agricultural and Horticultural Seeds, 

 which added to his Ibrnier collection makes the great- 

 est assortment m New England— among tliem are 50 

 bushels earlv and late Peas, of various sorts; 150 lbs. 

 Turnip lOOlbs. RUTA BAGA, 200 lbs. Carrot, 100 

 lbs. Beet, 100 lbs. MANGEL WURTZEL, 50 lbs. 

 Cabba<'es'of sorts. Cauliflowers, 100 lbs. Radish of sorts, 

 Leituc; of sorts. Endive, Kail, Celery, SALSAFIE, 

 SCORZFNERA, Onion, Leek, Sweet Marjoram, 

 Thyme. Sage, summer and winter Savory, Lavender, 

 sweet Kazil^ Chervil, Fenncll, Burnet, Grass Seeds, 

 viz :_ncrd5, rod anri white Clover, Foul Meadow. Red 

 Tnp -vvith a large collection of ORNAMENTAL 



SEEDS. „,,.„. 



Garden Tools, viz r— Pruning and Buddmg Knives, 

 Prunin" Saws, Pruning Shears, Garden Reels and Lines, 

 transplanting Trowels, Rakes, Dutch or Pilshing Hoes, 

 Edging Irons. , , „ 



Gooseberry and Currant Bushes, HoriPysuckles, Gar 

 dtn T!oses, kc. ViOO Flower Pots with stands. 



GREEN HOUSE PLANTS, a large variety, con 

 =tantly for sale, such as Roses, Myrtles, Geraniums 

 A'^apanthus, Orange Trees in fruit and blossoin, Kosa 

 M^iKiflora or Garland Ro>e-, Mountain Daisies, Laurus- 

 tines, kc. 50,000 THORNS or QUICKS for live 



"eNGLISH CHEESE, and fine ENGLISH SPLIT 

 P£:^f; . March 27. 



LTA\> PIPE FOR AQUEDUCTS, kc. 



THE snb^nibfvs being appointed Agents for vendini 

 LORING'S IMPROVED LEAD PIPE, have con 

 ft.uitlv on hand, at their Store, No. 20, Merchants' Row, 

 a sLipiily of different sizes and tluckness. The manner 

 in which their Pipe is manufactured renders it superior 

 to the English or any other manufacture, and comes at 

 a less pric'e. Order.* for any quantity or size will.be 

 executed at the shortest notice. „.„,„„, ^^ 

 LINCOLN FEARING k CO. 



March 27. 



NEW TOWN OFFICER. 



JIIST published by DoRR & Howr.A.'JD, A new Toim 

 Olficcr, Containing the General Laws of Massaclw- 

 setts relating to the Choice, Powers, and Duties ofTown 

 Officers arranged under their respective titles.— For sale 

 at their Bookstore in Worcester, and by RrcHARDSon & 

 Lord, Boston. trorcesler, Marck 1, 1824 



BELLFOUNDER, 



The Wonderful Korfolk Trotler, imporled July 1 

 from England, 

 WILL STAND THIS SEASON, 1824. 

 At Twenty Dollars, and One Dollar the Groom, 

 money to be paid to the Groom at Covering. 



THIS celebrated Horse is a bright bay, with X 

 Ifgs, standing 15 hands high; his superiorb" 

 symmetry and action excel those of every other tisc- 

 Stallion. He is allowed by the best judges m K« 

 to be the fastest and best bred Horse ever sent< 

 that County. He has proved himself a sure foal g 

 and his Stock for size and substance are not tola 

 passpd ; they are selling at the highest prices IH 

 Horses in Norfolk. _ _ 



BELLFOUNDER was got by that well know* 

 and highlbrmed Trotter, Oi.D Beixioikber, 0^ 

 \"elocity, which trotted on the Norwich road, il^ 

 Sixteen miles in one hour, and though she brok:^ 

 limes into a gallop, and as often turved round, iM 

 match. In 1808 she trotted TiffTi/i^-ng/i/ mt/e*. 

 hour and forty seven minutes, and has also dcn< 

 other great performances against time. 



BELLFOUNDER, at five years old, t™"^_;_. 

 miles in six minutes, and in the following yelil " 

 matched for 200 guineas, to trot JWne miles i^"f\\i 

 minutes, and he won easily by thirty-two secon 

 owner shortly after challrvgfd to perloim with hi 

 mtetnmile.i and a half in one hcnr, hnl if teas 

 ctpled. He has since never been saddled 



Oi.D Bellfovnukr was a true descendant fi 

 original blood of the Fireau-ays, which breed ^fj 

 itahdunriva'.led. riibrr in this or any otlicr rNtif 



BELLFOUNDER is strongly recommended 

 public by the subscriber, as combining more* 

 properties than any other Horse in America, a 

 fiand, during the season, at his stable in Charl- 

 where all inquiries, post paid, will be alterided , 

 SAMUEL JAQULS.r 



Charlestown, Mass. March £0, 1824, 



F 



MANGEL WURTZEL SEFD. 

 lOR sale at this office a few pounds 

 Wurlsel Seed, raised by John Kenriclr, ' 





TERMS OF THE FARMER. 



Q^ Published every Saturday, at Teet.eI 

 per annum, payable at the end of the yiar- 

 who pay within sirly days from the time of sul 

 will he entitled to a d( duttion of FiFTI Cs.lil 



Q:^ No paper will be discontinued (unlesi 

 discretion of the publisher,) until arrearages t 



