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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 27, IS'JG. 



XK[iscx:i.i.ANxi:s. 



The following Hymn loas composed for, and sung^ 



at the last anniversary of the Hartford 



JigricuUural Sociity. 



To Tlipe, O God, the Shepherd Kings 



Their earliest homage paid, 

 And, wafted upon angel wings. 



Their worship was conveyed. 

 And they who " watched Iheir flocks by night" 



Were first to learn Thy grace — 

 Were first to seek, by dawning light, 



Their Saviour's dwelling place. 

 The hills and vales, the woods and streams, 



The fruits and flowers are thine ; 

 Where'er the sun can send its beams 



Or the mild moon can shine. 



By Thee, the spring puts forth its leaves, 



By Thee, comes down the rain. 

 By Thee, the yellow harvest sheaves 



Stand ripening on the plain. 

 When Winter comes in storm, and wrath, 



The soothing voice is heard ; 

 As round the Farmer's peaceful hearth 



Is read Thy holy word. 



Thus we foster'd by Thy care 



Supported by Thy hand ; 

 Our heritage is rith and fair, 



And this thy chosen land. 



Be Joseph yet a fruitful vine 



Whose branches hap the wall 

 Make Thou its clusters ever thine 



Jehovah God of all. 



one's time one's own ; or if not, usefully, innocent- 

 ly and moderately employed by others — a freedom 

 from inordinate passions of all kinds — a habit of 

 living within one's income, and of saving some- 

 thing for extraordinary occasions — an ability aris- 

 ing from rational economy to defray all necessary 

 and expedient expenses — a habit of good humour, 

 and aptitude to be pleased rather than oifemled — 

 a preparation for adversity — love of one's family — 

 sincerity to friends — benevolence to mankind — 

 and piety to God. 



MATRIMONY. 



JAMES BLOODGOOD & Go's 

 ■siry at Flushing, on Long Island, near jVeii 

 York. 

 IN behalf of the proprietors of the abcrt "^ 

 nursery, the subscriber solicits the orders-* 

 horticulturists who may be desirous of ^toc! 

 fardens and fields with fruit trees of the finei 

 sorts and most healthy ai.d vigorous storks the presei 

 autumn. 



Bi.ooDCiOOi) i- Co. allend personally to Ike inoni!iitin 

 and engrafling of lilt Ihen/ruil trees, and purchas^ 

 may rely with confidence that the trees they order wl 

 pro 



The subscriber, agent of the above nursery, will i) 

 Experience has lone pronounced those marriages ! ceive orders for any quantity of 

 „ ,,.„„;„„. ; .,;m,\..„ „„„*...tl„^ nnr.ipc »r» FFIUIT ANIJ FURKST TRF.ES, 



the happiest, in which tlie contractnig parties are 

 of a condition nearly equal ; so that, when the first 

 ardours of love are abated by time, neither can as- 

 sume a superiority, or think it a condescension to 

 liave acceded to the nuptial alliance. 



Two friends, when on a visit to one of the east- 

 ern states, rode out in a gig to take a view of the 

 ocean. It was a magnificent, and to one of them 

 a novel sight. As the flood was ebbing, they drove 



FLOWERING SHRUBS, 



AND 



PLANTS. 



And the trees will be delivered in this city at the rii 

 and expense of the Purchaser ; the hills may be p^ 

 to him. 



The reputation of this nursery is so extensively knoti 

 and has been so well sustained that 1 take 1 

 fer those in want of trees to any of the Ho' tirulturis 

 in this city and its vicinity, and if ocular denionsiratii 

 d, I invite those %vho wi'h to be thus satisfie 



out some distance from the main land, and lingered j to examine the trees in my garden at Dorchester pr 

 so long, that the tide was returning before they cured from this nursery for three or four years yiai 



FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 

 DETRACTION. 



The lies of an angry detractor are more various 

 than the colours of the prismatic glass, more fan- 

 tastic in shape than the creation of a poet's eye, 

 which gives to airy nothing- a local habitation and 

 a name. To combat tliem is to heat the air. Tlio' 

 the phantoms rise like the heads of the hydra, 

 time usually destroys them. 



WINTER. 



The length of the evenings in winter, which 

 renders it necessary to find some sedentary and 

 domestic diversion, may also contribute to render 

 reading a more favourite amusement in winter than 

 in summer. Books enable the imagination to cre- 

 ate a summer in the midst of frost and snow ; and 

 with the assistance of a cheerful fire, whose com- 

 fortable warmth supplies, the absence of the sun, 

 the winter may be made as pleasant as the season 

 of vernal breezes or solar effulgence. 



DEFINITION OF A LADt's ALBUM. 



An instrument of /ordure invented by some cruel 

 fair one to rack the brains of her male acquaintance. 



HEAD DRESSES. 



A quaint writer observes that " the most elegant 

 women, in the most classical times, adorned their 

 heads with ornaments which raised them so high, 

 as to leave it matter of doubt whether the head 

 was a part of the body, or the body a part of the 

 head. 



DEFINITION OF WOMAN. 



A wicked old Greek writer gave the following 

 very singular definition — " Woman is an animal 

 delighting in finery." 



SOLID COMFORT 



May be copiously derived from the following 

 sources : a quiet conscience — health — liberty — 



were aware of it. They immediately endeavoured 

 to urge the horse to the shore, but the animal, 

 frightened at the roar of the surge, refused to | , 

 move, but stood in trembling agitation. So much 

 time was occupied in endeavouring to enforce a 

 movement, and the tide advanced so rapidly, that 

 the foot of the gig was filled with water. At this 

 critical juncture, when tliey were about abandon- 

 ing the gig to secure their own safety, one of the 

 persons recollected he had heard, that throwing a 

 blanket over a horse's head wlien in a house on fire, 

 would immediately subdue him, and he could then 

 be led out without resistance. Immediately, and 



ome of which are now in bearing, all in a healthy ai 

 vigorous state. 



Catalogues will be delivered gratis on applicati 

 ZF.B. COOK Jr. 

 Rogers' Buililing — Congress Street. 

 Boston, August, 2oth. 1826. eptf. 



it took not more time to effect it, than will be con- 1 they not only give their jiersonnl attention, but w 

 sumedin its reading, a handkerchief was tied over bave the still greater adianlagc of being ingrafted 



Fruit and Ornamental Trei 

 Shrubs, Sfc. 

 SIKPHEN F. MILES & 

 (late Prince- & Mills) proprie] 

 of the extensive Nursery at Fli 

 ing, Long Island, near New 

 (^:fc, offV-r their very choice and a 

 dlection ol Vruit Trees of all the various kinds to wl 



the horse's eyes, so as completely to blindfold him 

 — the friends resumed their seats, and the horse 

 going at quick time, soon landed them on terra 

 firma. [Raleigh Reg.] 



JValking Slicks. — Walking sticks first began to 

 be a requisite appendage to the gentleman of fash- 

 ion about the year of 1()5.5, at which time tiiey 

 were formed with an indented head, in order to af- \ wharf, 

 ford, a more easy pressure of the hand which they 

 supported. Ingenuity, which in matters of fash- 

 ion is forever on the alert, now crowned it with 

 the addition of a round and hollow top, which some- 

 times contained nutmeg or ginger, to warm the 

 stomach of the valetudinarian, and sometimes su- 

 gar candy for asthmatic; but snuff soon after com- 

 ing into universal use among the bon ton of socie- 

 ty, the cavity was exclusively appropriated for 

 its reception ; and the meeting of two friends was 

 invariably marked, after the first salutation, by the 

 unscrewing of the tops of their walking sticks. 



We have seen a Sun Flower of the common 

 kind, says the Wilksbarre Democrat, that measur- 

 ed near twenty inches in diameter, and near five 

 feet in circumference. This perhaps is the larg- 

 est flower in this part of tlie world. 



Cattle. — Among the fashionable arrivals at 

 Cowes, we are bound to notice Mr and Mrs Coic- 

 dry. Major Bullock, Dr. and Mrs CoiD-an, the Rev. 

 Mr Or-berry, Sir T. Met-calf Mr and Mrs Bull. 

 Mr Butcher, Captain Hyde, and the Miss Skinners. 



Trees whose accuracy has been tested 

 therefore solicit with the luilest confidence Ihe pa 

 age of the public. 



The Trees, Shrubs, &c. are in the most thrifty 

 healthy state, the corre<-tness of every sale by th( 

 guaranteed, and the same attention observed in th 

 lection as if the purchasers were present. 



Orders will receive (ailhful and promp< atten 

 and catalogues furnished on application to HENR 

 BILLINGS, agent for (be proprietors. No. 18 1 

 rp4t 22, 



Hinter Keeping for Horses. 

 GENTLEMEN having valuable Horses, may 1 

 them wintered at a reasonable charge in the ' 

 whtrr- thny may be assured of good keeping, and I 

 ful attention. Inquire at this Office ; cf Mr Grove 

 Boylston Marine Ins. Office, or of Maj. S. Ja 

 Charlestown. oct. | 



JUST puhlishtd. by Wells & Lilly, the Edinbi 

 Review for June, 1826. ;: 



CONTENTS. 



1— Icon Basilike 



2 — Hamilton's Method of Teaching LanguiiJ 

 3 — Commercial Revulsions 

 4 — Litigard's History of England. MassacMi- 

 St. Bartholomew f 



5 — French OflScial Life 

 6 — Recent Discovt-ries in Africa 

 7— The Life and Remains of Dr Clarke. 



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