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prompts physical and intellectual exertion and improvement is that feeling which 

 arises between the satisfaction and the renewal of hunger — and where the animal 

 wants are so easily satiated as in Ireland, by digging and throwing into the pot a 

 small measure of roots, there will be, among agriculturists, comparatively no in- 

 tellectual progress. Variety and refinements in the processes and variety in the 

 staples of Agriculture, and Horticulture, and cookery, and progressive civiliza- 

 tion rparch on together. Leave a nation with redundant crops of Irish potatoes 

 as the great element of subsistence, and cut them off from intercourse with more 

 refined people, and they would sink into barbarism and go naked, if the climate 

 would allow. There are, says a writer m a late magazme, thousands of Irish 

 families in whose cabins now the only furniture is, a pot to boil the potatoes, and 

 the door taken off the hinges and laid across the bottom of an inverted wicker- 

 basket for a table. Long, then, may we have the murphies as a luxury, butnever 

 as a necessary of life. We would sooner see them become extinct. 



Ed. Farm. Lib.] 



HOUSEWIFE'S DEPARTMENT. 



GARDENER'S CALENDAR FOR MARCH. 



We copy, by permission, the following from " Landreth's Rural Register and 

 Almanac," published by Lea & Blanchard. David Landreth has, it seems, suc- 

 ceeded to the management of the old establishment, founded by his predeces- 

 sors, (of whom his father was the principal,) more than half a century ago, and, 

 as is stated, " with the determination to sell nothing but what they fully be- 

 lieved was worthy of credit ; and that they might the more certainly accomplish 

 their object, determined to produce, as far as possible, the seeds which they 

 should vend ; experience having shown them that most imported seeds could 

 not be relied on, and much less those casually collected, and sold to dealers. — 

 The result Avas as they had foreseen: — unlimited public confidence. The con- 

 cern thus conducted, has been gradually enlarged, and is now, as it has been for 

 many years, the most extensive of its kind in America ; supplying not only much 

 of the demand in the Middle, Western and Southern States, but exporting to the 

 West Indies, South America, and the British Possessions in Asia." 



Personal acquaintance with the proprietors, successively, justifies the expres- 

 sion of our highest confidence in the practical experience and sound integrity 

 with which this respectable concern is conducted ; and it needs no argument to 

 show that the public interest is always to be promoted by the continued sup- 

 port of such establishments, (got up at great expense and many years of labor,) 

 when they are found to be managed with skill, integrity, and fairness as to prices. 

 On the other hand, dishonest seedsmen are to be accounted and stigmatized as 

 among the most mischievous of all impostors. 



Some readers may be surprised to see this subject introduced under the House- 

 wifeh Departmejit ; thinking it more properly belongs to the husband's ; but 

 those who are familiar, as we profess to be, somewhat, with rural life, and the 

 habits that characterize it, must know that, were it not for the wife, the garden, 

 no less than the poultry-yard and the dairy, would, in most cases, be most sadly 

 neglected. Nor, in fact, while we yield to none in reverence for the character 



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