DEVOTED TO AGEICULTUEE AND ITS KINDLED ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



VOL. HI. 



BOSTON, SATURDAY, NOV. 8, 1851. 



NO. 23. 



RAYNOLUS & NOURSE, Proprieto .s. 

 Office Q,iii!«cy FIai.l. 



S.W.COLE, 1 FRED'K IIOLBROOK. 1 A^ssociATE 



SIMON BROWnJ'^'*'''""^- henry V. FRENCH, 5 Ediiors. 



TO OUR READERS. 



In consequence ot an iinjiaired state of health, I 

 ha\e found it neoessaiy to lelinquish some portion 

 of the care and responsibilities of the editorial de- 

 partment of the Farmer, but shall still continue to 

 give 1 articular attention to the examination and de- 

 scription of such fruits as shall be forwarded to this 

 office, and to such notices and discussions of fruit, 

 management of nurseries, &c., as may be consid- 

 ered interesting and profitable to the readers of the 

 Farmer. S. W. Cole. 



Chelsea, Nov. 1, 1851. 



INTRODOCTION OF OUR NEW EDITO- 

 RIAL CORPS. 

 B Y T II E P U 1) L I S il E R S . 



There is said to be a plant called the Century 

 Plant, which blossoms but unce in a iiundred years. 

 If it were to bloom in our day, every one would 

 run to visit il, for its rarity merely. It is only 

 once in a generation that the PiibUshers, without 

 the aid of Editors, write an article, and the occa- 

 sion being rare, must secure to their production 

 corresponding attention. The Publishers are pre- 

 sumed to be modest, diffident men, who, distrust- 

 ing their own powers, are obliged to invite in the 

 abilities of others to their assistance. But al- 

 though, like the boy who blows the organ, they 

 are usually out of sight, they have an iinpoitant 

 part to play, and indeed without them there would 

 be very little music. 



The olil dramatis s intrndui-ed into their jdays, 

 between the acts, a chorus, by mean« of uliich the 

 audi 'i!Ci^ were let somewhat into the secrets of the 

 plan, and facts were announced which could not 

 with a good grace come f.-oin the mouth of the reg- 

 ular actors. 



In a similar capacity, do the Publishers appear 



on this occasion, to present to our readers, our 

 new Editors, whose names to-day, for tire first 

 time, appear at the head of our columns, and by 

 whose aid we hope to make the New FiUgland 

 Farmer the best agricultural paper in the country. 



As will be perceived from the card at the head 

 of this column, Mr. Coli^, — the state of whose 

 health has been such for several months past, that 

 it has been difficult for him to attend to his edito- 

 rial duties, — will hereafter confine his attention to 

 a more limited department of the paper. Not only on 

 this account, but believing that the time has come 

 when the farmers of New England demand a pa- 

 per W'hich shall combine a greater variety of ta- 

 lent and learning than we have heretofore been 

 able to offer, we have been induced to make the 

 change now to be annonnced. 



Mr. Simon Brown, whose services are secured as 

 principal editor with Mr. Cole, resides on his own 

 farin in sight of the Battle Monument, in Concord, 

 in this State, iiaving his editorial office in this city. 

 From his early childhood, first, as a matter of 

 necessity, and ever since as a matter of taste, and 

 of late as an exclusive business, he has given his 

 attention to agriculture. The many occasions 

 which have induced him to labor in the cause, 

 with his pen and voice, have also taught him hab- 

 its of close and accurate observation, and years of 

 experience as editor of papers devoted as well to 

 agricultural as literary and political objects, has 

 given him facility and ease in communicating his 

 ideas to the general reader. A residence of ten 

 years in Washington, after a tour of observation 

 through most of the States of the Union, gave him 

 oppiiriunitiesnf leiirning, through conversation with 

 persons from all |,arts of the country, the different 

 ideas of ihoss engaged in liis favorite pursuit of 

 cultivating the earth. To thosy wlm have attended 

 the Agricultur.il Fairs in this and the adjoining 

 States, the present and last seasons, Mr. Brown 

 has no need of a new introduction. 



As Associate Editors, we are hai>py to an- 

 nounce the names of FuiiDiORicK lioLnuooK and 

 1Ii.:ni{Y F. FiiENfii, who will furnish regular con- 

 tributions to our columns, under their own signa- 

 tures, having no further responsibility than their 

 own names warrant, for what we inay publish. 



