1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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LOVE'S FAIRY RING. 



BY GERALD MASSEY. 



While Titans war with social Jove, 



My own sweet wife and I 

 We make Elysium in our love, 



And let the world go by ! 

 Oh, never hearts beat half so light 



With crowned ciueen or king ! 

 Oh, never world was half so bright 



As in our fairy ring, 

 Dear love ! 



Our hallowed fairy ring. 



Our world of empire is not large. 



But priceless wealth it holds ; 

 • A little heaven links marge to marge. 



But what rich realms it folds ! 

 And 'scaping from all other strife. 



Sits love with folded wing, 

 A brood o'er dearer life in life, 

 " Within our fairy ring, 

 Dear love ! 



Our hallowed fairy ring. 



Thou leanest thy true heart on mine, 



And bravely bearest up ! 

 By mingling Love's most precious wine 



In life's most bitter cup ! 

 And evermore the circling hours 



New gifts of glory bring ; 

 We live and love like happy flowers 



All in our fairy ring, 

 Dear love ! 



Our hallowed fairy ring. 



We've known a many sorrows, sweet ! 



We've wept a many tears. 

 And often trod with trembling feet 



Our pilgrimage of years. 

 But when our sky grew dark and wild. 



All closer did we cling ; 

 Clouds broke to beauty as you smiled, 



Peace crowned our fairy ring. 

 Dear love ! 



Our hallowed fairy ring. 



Away grim lords of murderdom ; 



Away, oh Hate and Strife '. 

 Ilence revelers, reeling drunken from 



Yom- feast of human life I 

 Heaven shield our little Goshen round 



From ills that with them spring. 

 And never be their footprints found 



Within our fairy ring, 

 Dear love ! 



Our hallowed fairy ring. 



For the iVeio England Farmer. 



THE CONCORD GRAPE. 



At a meeting of the Concord Farmers' Club, 

 Oct. 5th, the following gentlemen wore appointed 

 a Committee, to examine and test the Concord 

 Grape and make report to the Club. Joseph Rey- 

 nolds, W. ^V. Wheildon, S. G. Wheeler, Wm. 

 D. Brown, James P. BroAvn. Ihe Committee 

 made the report which 1 now send you. 



The Committee upon the Concord Grape report 

 that they have attended to the agreeable duty as 

 signed to them, and that in tlieir opinion the 

 Concord grape possesses, in a high degree, the es- 

 sential properties of a perfect grape, beauty of 

 form and color, richness of fragrance and flavor, 

 and abundant juiciness. Its skin is thin and r 

 markably free from astringency. The vine is a 

 free grower, an abundant bearer, and very hardy 

 in its habits, and what renders it peculiarly valu- 



able, in our New England climate, is the fact 

 that it ripens two or three weeks earlier than any 

 other good variety with which they are acquainted. 

 They congratulate Mr. Bull, the producer of this 

 seedling grape, upon the success which has re- 

 sulted from his patience, perseverance and skill, 

 and they congratulate the liorticulturists of the 

 country upon the addition of so fine a variety to 

 our native grapes. Your Committee have par- 

 taken of more than one bottle of wine made from 

 this grape, but they assure the mem1:)ers of the 

 Club that they do not speak under tlie iiiflueffbe 

 of wine when they say that they know of no other 

 grape in this country, so well adapted to the pro- 

 duction of wine, as the Concord grape. 

 In behalf of the Committee, 



Joseph Reynolds, Chairman. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



FINE PEARS. 



Friend Brown : — I send you a few specimens 

 of pears, among which you will find the Lawrence. 

 I have cultivated and paid considerable attention 

 to this variety for years, and fully concur with 

 Mr. Walker and other gentlemen of the Pomolog- 

 ical Congress, who spoke so highly of its merits. 

 Too much cannot be said in its praise. It never 

 shrivels like most late pears, but may be picked 

 and put away with as little care as a Baldwin ap- 

 ple — besides it is a good grower, an excellent 

 bearer, and ripens its wood early, which guards 

 it from the sap blight to which many of our finest 

 varieties are often subject. Nouveau Poileau, a 

 variety admirably adapted to the quince, on 

 which it grows with great vigor, forming one of 

 the finest pyramids and equalling in growth and 

 beauty the Glout Morceau. Size large, quality 

 uniformly excellent. One of the greatest acqui- 

 sitions for the amateur, if not for the orchard, 

 which has been introduced for years. You will 

 also find a specimen of the Beurre CIairgeau,grown 

 on a dwarf tree, which was planted in April. 

 This fruit gives great promise. Its precocity and 

 great productiveness, together with its splendid 

 appearance, will, I think, make it a general favor- 

 ite. Andrew Lackey. 



Marblehead, Oct. 4, 1854. 



Remarks. — The pears mentioned above are beau- 

 tiful specimens. The Beurre Clairgeau, in par- 

 ticular, is one of the finest appearing pears we 

 liave ever seen. Their flavor lias not been tested, 

 as they are not yet in eating condition. We re- 

 gard friend Lacicev's recommendation of pears as 

 worthy of full confidence. 



removing large trees. 

 Mr. Editor : — The writer is desirous of obtain- 

 ing some knowledge of tlic pi-esent moil ^ of trans- 

 planting or moving cveigrein or otiicr ornamen- 

 tal trees, say size 20 or 30 foot high audjroju 8 to 

 10 inches diameter. Th(; oliject of i"nquiry is how 

 tlicy are lifted from their Ijcds, the distance from 

 the trunk for a given diameter, and height of the 

 tree they should bo dug round and the thickness 

 of earth that would l)c noces.sary to pr.'serve life. 

 Also can they be taken up with safety in the fall, 

 and if so, how late. Should you have had no 

 practical experience in the above ojicrations, per- 



