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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



From the New Monthly Magazine. 



BEAUTIFUL BALLAD. 

 Oh! lady, buy these budding fiow'rs, 



For I am sad, and wet and weary : — 

 I gather'd them ere break of day, 



When all was lonely, still and dreary ; 

 And long I've sought to sell them here, 



To purchase clothes and dwelling, 

 For Valor's wretched orphan girls — 

 ■ Poor me and my young sister Ellen. 



J[h ! those who tread life's thornless way. 



In fortune's golden sunshine basking, 

 May deem my wants require no aid, 



Because my lips are mute, iinasking ; 

 They have no heart for woes like mine. 



Each word, each look, is cold — repelling. 

 Yet once a crowd offlatt'rers fawn'd, 



And fortune smil'd on me and Ellen ! 



Oh ! buy my flow'rs, they're fair and fresh 



As mine and morning's tears could keep them ; 

 To morrow's sun shall see them dead, 



And I shall scarcely live to weep them ! 

 Yet this sweet bud, if nurs'd with care, 



Soon into fullness would be swelling. 

 And nurtur'd by some gen'rous hand, 



So might my little sister Ellen. 



She's sleeping in the hollow tree. 



Her only home — its leaves her bedding ; 

 And I've no food to carry there. 



To soothe the tears she will be shedding. 

 O .' that those mourners' tears which fall ; 



That bell which heavily is knelling, 

 And that deep grave were meant for me, 



And my poor little sister Ellen ! 

 When we in silence are laid down, 



In lifn's last fearless, blessed sleeping. 

 No tears will fall upon our grave, 



Save those of pitying Heaven's own weeping. 

 Untnown wev'e liv'd, unknown must die, 



No tongue the mournful tale be telling, 

 Of two young, broken-hearted girls — 



Poor Mary and her sister Ellen. 



No one has bought of me to-day, 



And night is now the town o'ershadifig. 

 And I like these poor drooping flowers, 



Unnoticed and unwept am fading ; 

 My soul is struggling to be free — 



It loathes its wretched earthly dwelling ! 

 My limbs refuse to bear their load — 



Oh God ! protect lone orphan Ellon. 



ANECDOTES. 



Lord, whose wife lay extremely ill, was dis- 

 turbed in his studies by the entrance of her 

 maid, who informed him her mistress was dy- 

 ing-, and desired to see him. " Chihl, said he, 

 tell your mistress I took formal leave of her 

 yesterdny." 



On the day of the Eclipse, when all the in- 

 liabitanls of Paris were without doors, provided 

 wilh telescopes, and pieces of smoked glass, 

 an Englishman was seen driving furiously in a 

 liar.re, along one of the principal streets. — 

 "■ Where does my lord wish to go," said the 

 driver; " to see the Eclipse," said the Eng- 

 lishman, thrusting his head out of the window, 

 •• only drive up to it as near as possible, for 1 

 am short sighted."' 



Dr. Wade, Agricultural Professor to the Dub- 

 lin Society, sometimes lectures his class in the 

 fields, among the productions on which he is 

 lecturing. As he was thus employed, one day 

 treating on potatoes in the beds themselves, he 

 look occasion to speak of this practice. " VVhy, 

 Doctor," said one of his auditors, " I think you 

 are very right to lecture here on the side of 

 the beds ; for you know the fuculty always re- 

 commend students to attend clinical lectures." 



■Maritime Enterprises of the Russians. — It ap- 

 pears from the last number of the Annales des 

 Voyages, that M. Simonof, Professor at the 

 University of Kassan, has given a sketch of the 

 voyages of the Russians to the South Pole, 

 which is full of interest. In Europe, it is not 

 generally known that the circumnavigators, sent 

 by the powerful Emperor of the North, have 

 made, between the parallels of sixty and seventy 

 degrees, a voyage round the Pole, much more 

 complete and instructive than that made by the 

 celebrated captain Cook. The island situated 

 farthest south, which is at presentknown, bears 

 the name of Alexander the first. — Journal des 

 Debats. == 



A new gold coinage for Greece has been exe- 

 cuted at Paris, under the direction of Denon, 

 the traveller. The piece rather exceeds a 

 sovereign in size. On one side is the archan- 

 gel Michael, with the flaming Sword, and the 

 Dove, the latter the symbol of Peace. On the 

 reverse, a Lion, the emblem of strength, en- 

 circled by a Serpent, meaning to pourtray eler 

 nity ; and around, the word " Resurrection." 



GARDEN AND FIELD SEEDS. 



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

 received per London Packet, and for sale, an ex 

 tensive variety of Agricultural ai d Horticultural Seeds 

 which added to his former collection makes the great 

 est assortment m New England — among them are 5( 

 bushels early and late Peas, of vaiious sorts; 15011" 

 Tnrnip, 100 lbs. RUTA BAG A, 200 lbs. Carrot 100 

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

 Cabbages of sorts, Cauliflowers, 100 lbs. Radish of sorts 

 Lettuce of sorts, Endive, Kail, Celery, SALSaFIE, 

 SCORZENERA, Onion, Leek, Sweet Marjoram, 

 Thyme, Sage, summer and whiter Savory, Lavender, 

 sweet Bazil, Chervil, Fennell, Burnet, Grass Seeds, 

 viz : — Herds, red and white Clover, Foul Meadow, Red 

 Top — with a large collection of ORNA?4ENTAL 

 SEEDS. 



Garden Tools, viz :— Pruning and Budding Knives. 

 Pruning Saws, Pruning Shears, Ciarden Reels and Lines^ 

 transplanting Trowels, Piakes, Dutch or Pushing HoesJ 

 Edging Irons. 



Gooseberry and Currant Bushes, Honeysuckles, Gar- 

 den Roses, &c. 1200 Flower Pots with stands. 



GREEN HOUSE PLANTS, a large variety, con- 

 stantly for sale, such as Roses, Myrtles, Geraniums, 

 Agapanthus, Orange Trees in fruit and blossom, Rosa 

 Mulfifldra or Garland Rose, Mountain Daisies, Lauriis- 

 tines, &c. 50,000 THORNS or QUICKS for live 

 fences. 



ENGLISH CHEESE, and fine ENGLISH SPLIT I "V '''''^" '"i""'^"'' 



AGRICULTURAL SEMINAR\ 



JOSI AH HOLBROOK & TRUMAN COE, will on 

 in Derby, Con. on the 2d Wednesday of May nt 

 a LITFJIARY, SCIENTIFIC, and PRACTICAL 

 STITUTION. 



The exercises they design to introduce, are the sti 

 of the Latin, Greek, French, and English Languag 

 Rhetoric, Elocution, Geography, and History, "t 

 Mathematics — as Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, P) 

 and Spherical Trigonometry, Mensuration and ¥\ 

 ions. Natural Philosophy in its various branches.— 

 tronomy. Chemistry, Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoolo 

 No efl'orts will be spared, to render these sciences ft 

 tical and fitted to Common Life. — With that view, j 

 tieular attention will be given to Composition, I>ei 

 mation, written and extemporaneous Debates, the I' 

 of Arithmetic, and (he higher branches of Mathems' jc 

 in common business, Practical Surveying, the appi 

 tion of Natural Philosophy to various kinds of Machi 

 ry. Agricultural Instruments, &c. testing the princy 

 of Chemical Science in mixing and preparing 5). 

 forming Manures, making Cider, Beer,tpirils, and ' 

 ous other articles of Agriculture apd Domestic Ei 

 my — Agricultural, Geological and Botanical excurj: 

 into various parts of the country, examining and : 

 lizing soils, — and Practical J}gncvllure. 



Upon most of the sciences abovementioned, Lect 

 win be given, attended with familiar illustrations, 

 rithmetic and the higher branches of Mathemalics, 

 be conducted by a course of demonstrations, intew '0 

 to show their nature and uses. 



There will be given annually, in the winter, a COK 

 of Lectures on Agriculture, bringing to view tK 

 modes of Farming, which Erpcriivcf has proved to^ 

 best tilted to diflerent soils, climates, exposures, Slf 

 the same time, explaining, as far as may be, the pri 

 pies of science on which such practice is founded. ' 

 course will be designed as well for those farmers, wl 

 leisure, in that season of the year will permit thw 

 attf nd, as the regular members of the Seminary. . 



It cannot be doubted that if the course here proM 

 should be exiensively adopted, it would effect aj 

 desideratum in the Education of this conntry^viz,' 

 ing Theory and Practice, and thus training up yi( 

 to be both practical and scientific men, and by", 

 mrans prepare the way for the advancement of the 

 ful Arts, particularly Agriculture ; and, by inslilc 

 an agreeable variety in their exercises, it is bejii 

 they may be kept almcst constantly engaged, in asi 

 ner which will be both interesting and useful, and/ W 

 culated to give them firm and healthy constitufjl 

 and habits of systematic industry and morality. 



The Institution is provided with Land, nec< 

 Buildings, Philosophical and Chemical Apparatu: 

 a Cabinet of Minerals, and it is intended, as si 

 pracficr.ble, to furnish an opportunity for youths 

 fray or lessen the expenses of their education, byH itii 

 own industry. V/, 



Active measures hare been taken to collect 

 improved methods of Education, both in this co] 

 and Europe and every endeavor will be used to 

 such a System of Instruction and Government 

 recommend itself, in a particular manner, to thci 

 design to be teachers. 



There will be two terms in the year, one comi 

 ing on the 2d Wednesday in May, the other tlii 

 Wednesday in November. Students not taken ( 

 less terra than six months — they will not all be n 

 ed, however, to go through the same course, but 

 be under the instruction of such teachers, and aj 

 to such studies, as will fit them for the cou: 



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PEAS. 



March 27. 



LEAD PIPE FOR AQUEDUCTS, &c. 



THE subscribers being appointed Agents for vending 

 LORING'S IMPROVED LEAD PIPE, have con- 

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

 a s:ipply of different sizes and thickness. The manner 

 in which their Pipe is manufactured renders it superior 

 to the English or any other manufacture, and comes at 

 a less price. Orders for any quantity or size will be 

 executed at the shortest notice. 



LINCOLN FEARING & CO. 



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TO PRINTERS. 

 OR sale at this Oflicc BALL SKINS, at the usual 

 prices. 



Board from $1, 50 to $2 per week. 



Tuition Thirty Dollars a year. Courses of Le 

 on Chemistry, Natural Philosophy, Mineralogy 

 Botany, Three Dollars each — which courses will 

 mence at the opening of the Seminary. 



.Specimens in Mineralogy, Botany, or Zoology,! 

 Communications, particularly from Farmers 

 chanics, directed to the Agricultural Seminary, a{ 

 by. Conn, will be gratefully received. 



Derby, Conn. March 24 1824. 



TERMS OF THE FABMER. 

 (^ Published every Saturday, at Thrke V)oiA 

 per annum, payable at the end of the year — but] 

 who pay within sixty days from the time of subs 

 will be entitled to a deduction of Fiiti CxistsJ 



