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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



subject to the farmers throughout the country, 

 and of obtaining their .<;ignatures to a memorial to 

 Congress. Yours &c., 



Joseph Reynolds. 

 Concord, Sept. 12, 1854. 



"LET ME IN." 



BY FLORENCE PERCV. 



When the summer evening's shadows 



Veiled the earth's calm bosom o'er, 

 Came a young ehilJ, faint and weary, 



Tapping at a cott.ige door ; 

 " Wandering through the winding wood-paths. 



My worn feet too long have been, 

 Let me in, 0, gentle mother. 

 Let me in ! " 



Years passed on, — his eager spirft 



Gladly watched the flying hours ; 

 " I will be a child no longer. 



Finding bliss in birds and flowers ; 

 I will seek the bands of pleasure, 



I will join their merry din ; 

 Let me in to joy and gladness, 

 Let me in ! " 



Years sped on — yet vainly yearning. 



Murmuring still the restless heart — 

 " I am tired of heartless folly, 



Let the glittermg cheat depart ; 

 I have found in worldly i^leasure 



Nought to happiness akin, 

 Let me in to lore's warm presence, 

 Let me in ! " 



Years flew on ; a youth no longer, 



Still he owned the restless heart ; 

 " I am tired of love's soft durance. 



Sweet-voiced syren, we must part > 

 I will gain a laurel chaplet, 



And a world's applause will win j 

 Let me in to fame and glory. 

 Let me in ! " 



Years fled on ;— the restless spirit 



Never found the bliss it sought ; 

 Aoswered hopes and granted blessings 



Only new aspirings brought ; 

 " I am tu-ed of earth's vain glory, 



I am tired of grief and sin, 

 Let me in to rest eternal, 



Let me in ! " 



Thus the unquiet, yearning spirit, 



Taunted by a vague unrest, 

 Knocks and calls at every gateway, 



In a vain and fruitless Ciuest ; 

 Ever striving some new blessing. 

 Some new happiness to win, — 

 At some portal ever saying, 

 ''Let me in ! '' 



Portland Transcript. 



1^" Sulphur will not mix with water at all, — 

 Sugar mixes with it very readily. If the earth 

 had been in this respect fike sulphur, rain water 

 w^ould have run off as soon as it fell ; there could 

 have been no vegetation, and creeks and rivers 

 would have overflowed many farms at every show- 

 er. Had the earth al)sorbc'd water as sugar does, 

 we should have sank over our heads into the mud 

 after every copious rain, buildings could only have 

 been erected upon immense rocks, but without 

 timber, for large vegetables could not have with- 

 stood the slightest wind. Indeed the earth would 

 not have been habitable. But sulphur and sugar, 

 yea, all things, are moat wisely and exactly adapt- 

 ed to their respective uses. By whom? 



SUBURBAN VISITS. 



Eesidexcb of Mr. B. W. Bull, Concord, Mass., Aug. 8th. 



On the descending slope of a rather steep hill, 

 on the southerly side of the old Concord road 

 from Boston, and but little distant from the bat- 

 tle ground which has made this town so promi- 

 nent in the annals of our country, is situated the 

 residence of Mr. Bull, whose name has recently 

 become familiar to cultivators as the originator of 

 the Concord grape. His grounds occupy eight or 

 ten acres, mostly a vci-y thin sandy soil, and lay 

 open to the south, with a fine prospect over many 

 hundred acres of what M'as some years since a neg- 

 lected meadow, — but now a fertile plain, covered 

 with luxuriant grasses, waving grain, growing 

 crops, and orchards of the finest fruit ; beyond, 

 from east to west, a finely wooded range of hills 

 bound, the view. All this improvement has been 

 effected by the good judgment and industry of the 

 owners of tliis land; among whom may be named, 

 as setting the example to others, the late Capt. 

 Moore, one of the best practical farmers in the 

 country. His place, which nearly adjoins Mr. 

 Bull's, is now carried on with the same zeal and 

 energy by his son, Capt. J. B. Moore, who is a 

 most successful fruit grower, a nurseryman to 

 some extent, and, withal, a most thorough practi- 

 cal fiirmer. 



Mr. Bull removed from Boston some fifteen or 

 more years since, for the benefit of his health, and 

 naturally extremely fond of horticultural pusuits, 

 in which he had been an amateur participator 

 even in the precincts of a small city garden ; he 

 carried with him some of the best kinds of our va- 

 rious fruits, and particularly the Isabella and Ca- 

 tawba grapes, then more rare than at present. 

 These seemed to flourish on his warm sandy soil 

 better than anything else, and to their culture he 

 gave considerable attention ; adding, from time to 

 time, all the rare sorts which were offered for sale, 

 with a view to test their qualities, and among 

 them the Diana. 



But, unfortunately, neither the Isabella or Ca- 

 tawba could be relied upon for a crop, even in the 

 most favorable seasons, and, disappointed in find- 

 ing a really eatable fruit among the new kinds 

 which he obtained from various sources, except 

 the Diana, he thought the only way to procure 

 what he most wanted — a hardy, early, and choice 

 grape — was to attempt it through the seed ; and 

 this he set about at once. In a distant part of 

 his gai'den a wild vine had sprung up, from some 

 accidental seed thrown into the ground or dropped 

 by birds, which, though similar to the common 

 wild type in nearly every chai*acteristic, produced 

 a very sweet grape, ripening the last part of Au- 

 gust. This struck him as a very favorable com- 

 mencement, as earliness was the main thing to be 

 gained. He moved it to the trellis near his Ca- 

 tawba and other vines, gave it good cultivation, 

 gathered the crop, and planted the seeds ; and it 

 was the produce of these seeds that gave him, 

 most fortunately, the Concord Grape. Such is 

 the history of this seedling, which has already 

 briefly been given by Mr. Bull himself, in his 

 communication in our February number of the 

 present volume, (p. 65.) 



Our own account of this grape, with an engra-' 

 ving representing the size, form, and general ap- 

 pearance of the fruit, accompanied Mr. Bull's 

 communication. We had been supplied, the last 



