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New ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 13, IhJt;, 



nXISC£;i.Z.A29'£ES. 



would appear in the east ami call the dead to jiid^r- 



ment. The posture they deemed the most con- 



Inhabitanfs and Libraries. — Boston, with a pop- venient for rising ; and by having their faces 

 ulation of 60,000, possesses 13 public libraries con- directed to that particular quarter of the heavens, 

 taining 50,000 vols; Baltimore, 70,000 inhabitants, it was intended that they should see the great 

 4 public libraries, 30,000 volumes ; Philadelphia, man as soon as he should appear. A suicide was 

 l.'iOjOOO inhabitants,ly public librarieo, 70,000 vols; buried with his head downwards and his face to- 

 New York, 180,000 inhabitants, 10 public libra- 1 wards the west. The reason of this being request- 

 44,000 vols ; Harvard University, at Cambridge, ed, they answered that it was to remind him when 

 contains 30,000 volumes. j called to judgment, that he had been the murderer 



1 of himself. 



J^orth Carolina. — The Editor of the Salisbury 

 Carolinian has lately been presented with three ! Hot Coffee. — We observe persons about the 

 skeins of sewing silk, made by the Misses Harris' markets early in the morning, selling hot coffee 

 of Surry County, which was the produce of worms and buttered rolls. A sufficient quantity of each, 

 of their own rearing the present season. The silk costs a trifle more than a dram. How much more 

 is pronounced by those who have examined it to be . refreshing, healthy, and preferable, is this cheap 

 of superior quality. These youno- ladies have for breakfast, than a meagre glass of "blue ruin." 



[N.Y.Enq.] 



:5u..ie men, like l^ucian in religion, seek, by the 

 wit, to traduce and expose useful things, becad 

 to arrive at them, they converse with meanexpl 

 iments ; but those who despise to be employed i 

 ordinary and common matters, never arrive at sd 

 perfection in experimental knowledge. 



Lord Vernlana 



A If'ife. — No sensible man ever thought a heal 

 tiful wife was worth as much as one who coS 

 make a good pudding. I -wish the girls all kn^ 

 this, for I feel a great interest in their welfare.-. 

 Trenton Emporivm 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & Co's 



scry at Flushing, on Long Island, near .^fti 



York. * 



TX behalf of th<; proprietors of the abov 



nursery, the subscribt-r solicits the orderjt 



horticulturists who may be desirous of >to«:l 



ardens and fields with fruit trees of thn fiije 



nost healthy aid vigorous storks the prejei 



three years past, been employed in the business of 

 rearing worms and fabricating sewing silk ; they 



have now become so expert in their laudable vo- ^'""'f'" Po'^f"' Rooms.— Ai a late meeUng of ^ 



cation, as to derive a very handsome profit on their the Horticultural Society, on the 0th instant, a , ^„,„„„ 

 labours j paper was read upon the manner ot cultivating! Blooj 



The'atarm which prevailed in this state on the !pl=^"t^ '" P"'^ fi'l*^'' ^^''^h moss only and ncit mould. [ an 

 subject of scarcity has subsided. The crops have | It appeared that the mechodto be pursued was to '^^^^^^ ^^^^_^^^ 

 turned out well, and it is said that from 15,000 to fi" ^ POt with coarse moss ot any kind, in the same , t .r,,^%„b,criher, a^, nt of the above nursery, willr 

 20,000 barrels of surplus corn could be e.xported i ma^er as it would be filled with earth and to ^ ^^^^^ ^..^.^ for any quantity of 



DGooD & Co attend personally to the inocu'.atb 

 i rnjirnftmg nf all their fruit Irefs, and purchase 

 y rely with confidence that the trees they order « 



from Edgecombe county, 

 at 90 cents per pushel. 



Old corn was sellins 



FllUlT AND FOREST TRF.ES, 

 FLOWFRiNG SHRUBS. 



PLANTS. 

 \nd the trees will be delivered in this city at thej 



I place a cutting or a seed in this moss. The secre- 

 tary was understood to say, that he was well ac- j 

 quainted vvith the practice, and that it succeeded 



According to the venerable Bede, artificers in 1 admirably, especially with plants destined to or- 1 ^^^^ ^^^^ „,^, „... „„ .^„ ^ , „„ 



glass came into England in tJ74 — according tojnament a drawing room. In such a situation j|',^,,\,^'pp^jg ^C jl,g p"„r(,^j,gg, . fl,g biils'may 

 others, in 72(). But glass windows were a rarity, 

 and a mark of great luxury and magnificence un- 

 til 1180, at which time they were introduced from 

 France, which country had received the boon from 

 the Venetians. 



plants grown in moss, were stated to thrive better I [„ him. 



be p 

 pputation of this nursery is so extensively kn«i 



than if they were in garden mould, and to possess 



the very oreat advantage of not causing dirt, by [and has iieeu so well sustained that 1 take I 

 the earlh^s washing out" of them when watered.— ! ['■'•'hose in want of trees to any of the [lo (icult, 

 ,' . " , ,. .,' m t' IS city and its vicinity, and if ocular demonsti 



For transportation, plants rooted m moss were said , ., ^i^i^.^, ] invite those who wi^h to be thus sati 

 to be better adapted, on account of their lightness, j [q examine the trees in my garden at Dorchesti 

 Courteous reader ! if you have lived to be one- i In short, the method was declared to be in all ways cured from this nursery for three or four years 

 and-twenty without having learned that time is | excellent. The explanation of the practice seems I some of which are now in bearing, all in a healtl 



nioncM, more emphatically ?no«ev llian dollars or | to be this: that moss rammed into a pot, and sub- 

 cents ; you had better begin your A. B. a-b-s again' jected to continual watering is soon brought into 

 If you have made your own fortune, beware of rob- a state of decomposition, when it becomes a pure 

 bing your friends of their time, whose fortunes are j vegetable mould ; and it is well known tliat pure 

 yet to be achieved by their industry. Never enter ' vegetable mould is the most proper of all materials, 

 a merchant's store, a mechanic's shop, or a law- ! for the growth of almost all kinds of plants. The 

 yer's office for the purpose of mere conversation. ' moss would also not retain more moisture, than 

 If you have business with either of the three, de- precisely the quantity best adapted to the absorb- 

 spatch it as soon as you can. Take it for granted : ent powers of the root — a condition which can 

 that every man of sense knows "the present value i scarcely be obtained with any certainty, by the 

 of single minutes, and endeavours to let no parti- use of earth. [London News of Literature.] 

 cle of time fall useless to the ground." 



S^orous state 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis on applij 



. ZF.B. COOkI 



Rogers' Building — Congress Strn 



Boslan, ^iugustiblli. 1820. eotf. 



Frvit and Ornamental Tn 

 Shrubs, ^c. 

 STEPHEN F. MILLS in 

 (lale Pri-.rc & Mills) prop) 

 o' tlie extensive Nursery at 

 -^^ in.=r, l-nng Island, near New' 



" ^^^1?^#!i^rSgi6„ oiTirlhiir very choice and 



_ , . , „, . i-v T. 1 1 rx ro;/ff^!07iof Fruit Trees ol all the various kind? 1» 



_ I Eccentnck Character.— Dr. Robert Honyman, a | ,^^y ^^^ ^^^^ ^^ ,, i,,,.;^ ,,cr.wnnl atienlw-n. hut 



A stranger was conversing with Lord North in i native of Scotland, once a surgeon in the British : j,j,yg the still greater adrantage of being ingiafli 



I: 



a public room, and opposite to them was a party of 

 ladies. "Pray, my lord," said the gentleman, who 

 is that large ugly woman I see yonder ?" " That," 

 said his lordship, " is lady North" " My dear lord," 

 said the gentleman, confused at liis unfortunate 

 observation, and making an effort to correct it, " I 

 mean the lady who stands next her" "That lady," 

 said his lordship, " is my daughter," The gentle- 

 man was now speechless. "Come, come," said 

 Lord North, smiling with his usual good nature, 

 when he observed his confusion, " you have made; 



navy, and afterwards holding the same rank in the , bearing Trees whose acciiiary has been lestid, U 

 American navy, died on the 31st ult. in Virginia, I therefore solicit with the fullest confidence the pab> 

 ap-ed 77 years. The doctor had a large estate to '; age "I'the public. 



,? -L , • . ■ -11 -1 r J 1 The frees, Shrubs, &c. are m the most thrifty J 



dispose of, and on opening his will, it was found to ^^^^^^^ ^,^j^^ j^^ ^„^^g, ,„g^^ „f ^^^^y 3^,^ j,^ ^^ 



contain the following bequest : guaranteed, and Ihe same attention observed iu the 



"I also given and bequeath to my son my ther- fectlon as if the purchasers were present. 



mometer, my diploma of doctor ofPhysick, also] Orders will rt-ceivc faithful and prompt alteiiti 



a human rib, which will be found in a small trunk and catalogues tumished on ap,.liration to HENRI 



, ^ •., . » .1 , I 11 1 BILLINGS, agent lor the proprietors, .No. Mi W 



in my chest, with my earnest request that ho n-ill "'';"|" ' ° ^ .> ' ' «• 



carefully keep the said rib, which is of James the 

 Fifth, kihg of Scotland, and transmit it to Iiis de- 



ept. ^. 



an ingenious but unfortunate effort to get out of a | scendants.' 

 scrape. I forgive yo\i,for I believe Lady North and 

 I are as plain a couple as any in England." 



We perceive that the Rhode Island Society for 



the Encouragement of Manufactures, offer a pre- 



/jKi'irtH Ci'sten.— It was a few years since, audi mium of '0 dollars, for the most successful ex- 

 probably now is,a custom of the Mohawk Indians, periment in breeding and fatting fish in fresh water 

 to bury their dead in a sitting posture, and with ponds for market. The exhibition of this Society 

 their faces to the east. The occasion of this was i* to be at Pawtuxet on the 9th and 10th of Octo- 

 a tradition, that at some future day, a great man ; ber. 



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