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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



DEC. 15, 1841. 



MISCELLltNEOUS 



DEATH OF THE FLOWERS. 



BV BRYANT. 



The melancholy days are come, 



The saddest of the year, 

 Of vailing winds, and naked voods. 



And meadows hrown and sere, 

 Heap'(f in the hollows of the grore, 



The wilher'd leaves lie dead ; 

 They riisile to the eddying gusi, 



And to the rabliil's tread ; 

 The roiiin and the wren are flown, 



And from theshruh the jay, 

 And from the wood-top calls the crow, 



Through all the gloomy day. 



Where are the flowers, the fair young flowers, 



That lately sprung and stood 

 In brighter light and softer airs, 



A beauteous sisterhood ? 

 Alas ! they all are in their graTes, 



The gentle race of flowers, 

 And lyi.-ig in their luwly bed, 



With the ftir and good of ours, 

 The rain is fai'.'ea where they lie, 



But cold November rain 

 Calls r.ot, from out the gloomy^earth, 

 T'' e lovely ones again. 



"^.he wind flower and the violet, 



They perished long ago, 

 And the wild rose and the orchis died 



Amid the summer glow : 

 But on the hill the golden-rod, 



And the aster in the wood, 

 And the yellow sun-flower by th» brook 



In Autumn beauty stood, 

 Till fell the frost from the clear, cold heaven, 



As falls the plague on men, 

 And the brightness of their smile was gone, 



From upland, glade and glen. 



And now, when comes the calm, mild day, 



As still such days will come. 

 To call the squirrel and the bee 



From out their winter home. 

 When the sound of dropping nuts is heard, 



Though all the trees are still. 

 And twinkle in the smoky light 



The waters of the rill. 

 The south wind searches for the flowers 



Whose fragrance late he bore. 



And sighs to find them in the wood 



And by the stream no more. 



And then I think of one who in 



Her youthful beauty died, 

 The fair, meek blossom that grew up 



And faded by my side : 

 In the cold moist earth we laid her, 



When the forest cast the leaf. 

 And we wept that one so lovely, 



Should have a life so brief; 

 Yet not unmeet it was, that one, 



Like that young friend of ours, 

 So gentle and so beautiful. 



Should perish with the flowers. 



THE POOR OF ENGLAND. 



The following extracts arc from the journal of 

 an agent of a benevolent society in Birmingham: 



JrNE. — " The reiterateii complaint of want of 

 employment is truly distressing, and the melan- 

 choly conscfiuences are visible in the cheerless 

 abodes of the poor : furniture and clothes gradual- 

 ly consigned to the pawnbrokers' shops ; — these 

 things often deaden the energies, and lead to neg- 

 lect, recklessness and despair, and too often pre- 

 vent access to the heart. I saw, a few days since, 

 a poor child ' dying by inches,' from want of pro- 

 per nourishment, and lying in an old deal box. An 

 evening or two since, I called at a house having 

 scarcely an article of furniture, no fuel, nor bread ; 

 the poor woman with her children, pale and emaci- 

 ated ; the man had been out of work for several 

 months : want was here like an armed man, and 



CRKEN'S PATEKT STRA'W CUTTKR. 



JOSEPH BRECK &■ CO. at the New England Agri 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store No». 61 and 62 North V 1 

 kct Street, have lor sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hav l 

 Stalk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not bw , ' 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most pr k 

 ineut eflecls of this application, and some of the conscqi )f 

 peculiarities of the machine arc : 



I. So great a reduction of the quantum of power requ: 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grown boy is suffic 

 to work it efliciently. 



With even this moderate power, it easily cuts two bi 

 would that I could say that this is a solitary case !" j els ammule, which is full twice as fast as has been clai 



JpLY. — " My labors increase daily, and my 

 work literally grows on my hands ; and unless my 

 heart greatly deceives mo, I fcol, notwithstanding 

 the difficulties and sometimes the discouragements 

 of my office, an increasing desire to go on, — to 

 spare not myself, so that good may bo effected by 

 my exertions. I have now called on nearly four 

 hundred families ; many of these calls give me 

 real pleasure, as in many instances I discover a 

 stronger desire to see me at each repeated visit ; 

 although this feeling chiefly manifests itself among 

 the sick, the aged, and the very miserable, it is by 

 no means conjined to them. I have not received a 

 rude answer, and scarcely a cold reception, during 

 the last four weeks, and very rarely before ; and 

 considering that I have called on persons of differ- 

 ent classes and dispositions, and without the slight- 

 est previous knowledge of each other, this I think 

 speaks well for the poorer inhabitants of Birming- 

 ham, — indeed for the age, and for human nature. 

 The poor, generally speaking, properly appreciate 

 kind treatment and a regard for their feelings ; and 

 I am persuaded that if the wealthier classes would 

 mix more with them — not with tlie haughty parade 

 of condescension, but in the feeling manifested by 

 the words of Peter to Cornelius, ' Stand up, for I 

 also am a man,' — great mutual -good would bo the 

 result, and much of that sullen feeling of distrust, 

 displayed by the laboring classes against their 

 employers, would cease. It is astonishing the good 

 done by a few words of cordial sympathy on the 

 minds of tlie most destitute and miserable." 



July 113th. — I saw a poor creature, Elizabeth 



, lately residing in Court, Bristol Street, 



a married woman with two children, — her husband 

 travelling in search of employment ; — the poor 

 woman is in a most deplorable state, having this 

 morning been turned out of her house for arrears 

 of rent, and having no means of procuring another 

 lodging. I saw and relieved her some time ago, 



by any other machine even when worked by horse or st 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in which 

 cut, require sharpening less often than those of any o 

 straw cutler. 



4. The machine is simple in its construction, mode and 

 toijether very strongly. It is therefore not so liable at 

 complicated machines in general use to get out of ord*. 



APPIiB PAREHIg. 



Just received at the New England Agricultural W' 

 house, No 6t and 62 North Market Street, a good suppl 

 Slanlry's Superior Apple I'arcrs, a very useful article. V" 

 one of these machines a bushel of apples may be parei> 

 a very short lime in the best possible manner, and wilb^ 

 saving nfihe apple, as the outsides may be taken otfal 

 required thickness. The above is also for sale at N. P' 

 WILLIS', No. 45 North Market Street, SCUDDER, C 

 DIS 6^ CO., and HOSMER& TAPPAN, Milk Street.^ 



Sept. 1 6w " 



Oi. 1 Al'fAlx, HiilK &ireei. 

 JOSEPH BRECK & CH 



VUII«USTU!«E8, ON FRICTION ROL.1.E 



Grindstones of different sizes hung on friction rol lei 

 moved with a fool ircader, is found to be a great im 

 ment on (he present mode of hanging grindslnnrs. 

 ease with which they move upon the rollers, reiuiors I 

 very easy to turn with the fool, by which I lie l.ilwir of 

 man is saved, and the person in the aci nf grinding, 

 govern the stone more to his mind by having iho com] 

 control of his vi'ork. Stones hung in this mniinor an 

 coming daily more in use, and wherever used, give ugi 

 sal sailsfnction. The rollers can be attached to iioncs I 

 in the common way. 

 r . - , . ,, .1 . u . f .1 <• . r r! Porsale by JOSEPH BRECK & CO., Nos. r.l an 



and she has since told mo, tliat but for tlio first loaf jj^f,], Market Boston. July 



of bread I gave her, her children and herself must i^^-^—^— — — »i^^-«— i ^— — — i» 



have perished of hunger." 



Sf.ptf.mbkr. — " Never, perhaps, was the hand 



of liberal, yet judicious and discriminating charity, 



Bbightor, hx&r Bostok, 



Situated on the line of the Boston and Worcester i 

 Road,--S miles from the city. 

 The Proprietors of ibis extensive nursei^ 

 i leave to inform their friends and the public, 

 ^ they are ready to furnish orders to anv .i 

 for Forest Trees, indigenuous and exotic. 

 ^^^iSiCs^ Fruit Trees, including all the varielie* 

 Pears, Peaches, Plums, Nectarines, Cherries, &c. &c. 

 Vines— Shrubs, Green House Plants, &c 

 Catalogues may ba obtained by applying at the N 

 Trees carefully packed, to ensure safely in long vo; 

 Orders left at the New England Seed Store of J. Bb_ 

 Co. Nos. 51 and 62, North Jlarkel street, will lie del^ 

 the day following. 

 Letters containing orders, addressed to the Bubs( 



Brighton Nurseries, Oct. 27, 1841. 



J. & F. WINSt 



needed more than at this time ; for never was dis 

 He that has energy enough in his constitution iress — nay, appalling destitution — more prevalent 

 to root out a vice, should go a little farther, and than now. A cabinet-maker, on whom I havecall- 

 try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will ed, is forced to break atones ; earning, in one 

 have his labor to renew: a strong soil that has 1 week, only two shillings, for the support of him- 

 produced weeds, may be made to produce wheat I self, his wife, and five children. The family, one 

 with far less difficulty than it would cost to make 1 day last week (as I was assured by a neighbor), had 

 it produce nothing Lacon. \ nut tasted food until a late hour in the afternoon." 



NEW E N O L A N I) FARMER. 



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