DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE AND ITS KINDRED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. VI. 



BOSTON, JUNE, 1854. 



NO. 6. 



KA.yNOLDS & NOURSE, PROPniETOns. 

 Office.. ..QuiNCY Hall. 



SIMON BROWN, Editor. 



FRED'K nOLBUOOK,, ; 

 HENRY F. FRENCH 



Associate 

 Editors. 



CALENDAR FOE JUNE. 



"A thousand beauties lost to vulgar eyes, 

 Now to tlie scrutinizing search are spread." 



HE " leafy month of June," as 

 the poet Coleridge calls it, 

 never looked lovelier — never 

 ^was more lovely — than it is 

 this year. April was a montli 

 of contradiction ; instead of 

 shedding gentle tears, it blew 

 fierce storms, and froze the va- 

 por upon the trees -which had 

 been driven from the "vexed Bermoothes," or the 

 angry Atlantic waves. Buds and flowers refused 

 to coma, and the birds fled to the shelter of forests, 

 or were liuricd witli snows and perished in the 

 fields. Bat Nature will have her ways, and she 

 has fast made up in the richness and luxuriance of 

 the latter Slay, her sad deficiencies in April. 

 Sufishine and showers have been frequent m May, 

 and rapid and rich has been the growth of vege- 

 tation, under their genial influences. 



"The quicken is tufted witli blossom of snow, 



And is throwing its perfume around it ; 

 The wryneck replies to the cuckoo's halloo, 



For joy tliat again she has found it ; 

 Tlie robin's red breast 

 I'eeps over her nest, 

 In th-; midst of th'j crab-blossoms blushing' ; 



And the call of the pheasant 



Is frequent and pleasant. 

 When all other calls are hushing." 



If all were as observing of the l>eauties of na- 

 ture as was lIowiTT, the writer of Uiesc charming 

 descriptive lines, a thousand instructive books 

 would soon take the place of those of the imagin- 

 ation, and a poor sickly imagination at that. 



June, this year, is luxuriant almost beyond pre- 

 cedent ; t!ie abundant May rains have been 

 warmed by the sun, and have given the grass a 

 growth and a color which jirouiise well for the 

 hay harvest. 



Tlie apple trees, now, this 18th day of May, are 



in full blossom, and out of ^/y-^jfo years, from 

 IT'JS to 1840, we find but some half dozen years 

 when they bloomed earlier. Indeed, vegetation 

 has come forward with a Canadian puce during 

 the last sis or seven days. 



Frost remained in the ground unusually late, 

 so that the redundant water could not pass freely 

 ofi", and tlie frequent and heavy rains in May have 

 prevented the plowing and preparation of many 

 acres of rather low and springy lands. Grass and 

 grain look well ; for tl'em the cool weather ha? 

 been favorable, so that, altogether, there is no 

 cause for despondency ; all will be right to those 

 who unite cheerful hearts with a proper degree of 

 skill. By the 5th of June, a wider breadth of 

 land will be devoted to corn than was, probably, 

 ever given to the corn crop in New England before. 

 People have also made liberal preparation for the 

 root crops, so that we trust a. larger portion of 

 corn than ever may be spared for the hungry 

 across the seas. 



June is the most active month for vegetation ; 

 whatever gets a good start in this month will be 

 pretty likely to come to perfection ; "the farmer 

 must therefore be stirring Avith the lark, and 

 watch the whole circle of his fields." Great loss 

 and vexation are occasioned by seemingly slight 

 neglects now. If weeds, for instance, once get 

 above the plants you are cultivating, the injury 

 these occasion by retarding their growth is not 

 the only one, for in extracting them they disturb 

 and often break their roots, and thus destroy them. 



Millet. — Wo still advise the gromng this crop, 

 !>oth for seeminer and winter fodder. Sow by the 

 middle of the month, cigiit to twelve quarts of seed 

 per acre. 



The Gauden will require daily care. 



IIoEiNc; iiuist not be neglected, in the hot, sunny 

 days. 



Cateri'illaks. — These insectg have appeared ia 



