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NEW ENGLAND FARIVIER. 



March 9, 1827. 



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]M;zscsi.i.Amx:s. 



MAN AND WOMAN. 



MAN is the rug^ged lolly pine, 

 That frowns on many a wave-beat shore : 

 Woman 'a the slender graceful vine. 

 Whose curling tendrils round it twine, 

 And deck its rough bark sweetly o'tr. 



Man is the rock whose towering crest 

 Nods o'er the mountain's barren side ; 

 Woman 's the soft and mossy vest. 

 That loves to clasp its sterile breast, 

 And wreath its brow in verdant prid'" 



Man is the cloud of coming storm, 

 JJark as the raven's murky plume ; 

 Save where (he sun-beam light and wan-.i. 

 Of woman's soul, and woman's form, 

 Gleams brightly o'er the gathering gloom. 



within and without, is so gre;it that the glass is 

 covered on the inside with several inches of frost, 

 and in that situation it is less luminous than ice. 

 The timber of the houses splits and opens with 

 loud cracks — the rivers thunder and open with 

 broad fissures — all nature groans beneath the 

 rigours of winter." 



Extract from Carter's Letters from Europe. 



Agriculture of Lucca — The fields on either 

 hand are so tnauy gardens, every foot of which ia 

 manured and cultivated to the highest degree, by 

 an overstocked population. Not a tendril of the 

 vine, not a plant nor a blade of corn is suffered to 

 be out of its place, or to occupy more ground than 

 is just sufficient for its support. The peasantry of 

 both se.\es are always in the fields, sometimes ap- 

 parently only to watch the growth of plants under 

 their charge, which they feed and nurse with 

 more care than th«y do their children. They mix 

 manure with water in casks, forming a sort of 

 nutricious pap, which they ladle out daily in exact 

 proportions, for the food of vegetables. To the 

 American farmer, who is lord of his hundred or 

 his thousand acres, this exactness might seem 

 piddling business, but here it is absolutely necess- 

 ary, that every rood should maintain its man. It 

 would take btit few such farms, such as are found 

 in the interior of New York, to cover the whole 

 Duchy of Lucca, which contains only 320 square i 

 miles, more than half of which consists of barren 

 mountains, incapable of tillage. Yet this territory 

 has a population of 120,(l!J0, who depend chiefly 

 on the cultivation of the soil for support. The 

 richness of the lanc'scape bears ample testimony 

 to their hone«t industry, and to the utmost nicety 

 in the modo of culture. Females who never saw 

 festoons of silk or damask are engaged in adjus- 

 ting festoons of vines, stretching from tree to tree 

 in waving and graceful wreaths. 



It is told of ths late Earl of Strathmore that he 

 was suddenly awakened at night in his carriage, 

 by a highwayman, who, ramming a pistol through 

 the w indow, and presenting it close to his breast, 

 demanded his money, exclaiming at the same time 

 that he had heard thit liis Lordship had boasted 

 that he would never be robbed by ^ single high- 

 wayman, but that he should now be taught the 

 contrary. — His Lordship putting liis liand into his 

 pocket, replied — "Neither would I now be r-'j- 

 bed, if it were not for that fellow -.s licj is lookiajr 

 over your shoulders." The hi_'h--vaym:in turued 

 round his head, when his Lordship, wl-.o had 

 drawn a pistol from his pocket, instead of a purse, 

 shot him on the spot. 



Mind. — No state can be more destitute than 

 that of a person who, when the delights of sense 

 forsake him, has no pleasures of the mind. — Burg. 



Social Intercourse. — From social intercourse are 

 derived some of the highest enjoyments of life ; 

 where there is a free interchange of sentiments 

 the mind acquires new ideas, and by a frequent 

 exercise of its powers, the understanding gains 

 fresh vigor. — .Addison. 



Spirits. — It is a Spanish maxim, that he who los- 

 eth wealth Inseth much ; he who loseth a friend 

 loseth more ; but he that loseth his spirits loseth 

 all. 



Time. — Much may be done in those little shred.s 

 and patches of time, which every day produces, 

 and which most men throw away, btit which nev- 

 ertheless will make at the end of it no small de- 

 duction from the life of man. Cicero has termed 

 them ititercessiva tempora, and the ancients were 

 not ignorant of their value ; nay, it was not un- 

 usual with them either to compose or to dictate 

 while under the operation of rubbing after the 

 bath. 



Winter in Siberia. — Mr. Ledyard, a native 6f 

 Connecticut, who traversed some of the dreary 

 regions of Russia, in a letter to Dr. Ledyard of 

 Long Island, wrote as follows ; 



" You have no idea of the excessive cold in the 

 region of Siberia. By experiments that I made at 

 Yakutsky, I found on the U»th of November the 

 Mercury in my thermometer froze. In December, 

 I found by repeated observations, that two ounces 

 of clear quicksilver openly exposed, froze hard in 

 fifteen minctes. I observed that in these severe 

 frosts the air was condensed, as it is with you in 

 a thick fog — the atmosphere is fro?,en — respira- 

 tion is fatiguing, &c. It is a happy law of nature, 

 that in such intense cold there is seldom any wind 

 — when there is it is dangerous to be abroad. 



" There are no wells at Yakutsky ; for it ia 

 found by experiment that the w ater freezes at six- 

 ty feet deep. People of these regions are there- , 

 fore obliged to use ice and snow. They have also 

 ice windows, glass is of no use to the few who 

 have it ; the difference in tiie state of the air, 



Trouble not yourself with wishing that things 

 may be just as you would have them, but be well 

 pleased they should be just as they are, and then 

 you will live easy. — Epictelus. 



Written at the End of his Bible by Sir William 

 Jones. — The scriptures contain, independently of 

 a divine origin, more true sublimity, more exquisi- 

 te beauty, pure morality, more important history, 

 and ijfer strains both of poetry and eloquence, than 

 can be collected within the same compass from all 

 other books that were ever composed in any age 

 or in any idiom. The two parts of which the 

 scriptures consist are connected by a chain of 

 compositions which bear no resemblance in form 

 of style to any that can be produced from the stores 

 of Grecian, Indian, Persian, or even Arabian learn- 

 ing. The antiquity of these compositions no man 

 doubts ; and the unrestrained application of them 

 to evenl.-i long subsequent to their publication, is 

 a solid ground of belief, th 4 they were genuine 

 predictions, and consequently inspired. 



Never write a letter when in a pwsion. 



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Linnaian Botanic Garden and .Yursery, 

 {jvi ^-. ^ Ti"^ subscribers give n 



•jJ4 '^■«^" ^"^^ that they have been appoi 

 lci?J'^^ -'-■''r^^' ^°'<' ageuts for this vicinity 

 ^ ' W^ the Linnoe-m Boianic Ga 



^ - i "■" Sid Nursery, at f lushing, 



^j. ' "t-'-j Island. 'I'his Nursery is 



known, and contains the 

 extensive collection ofK 

 i'ijy^ ^ O.-namenlal Trees, and PI 

 '^~W^ / i" .America. The f ruits ., 

 (i^ been selected by actual ia] 

 fa^^ tigation of their merits. 

 Inch are engrafted from btaring treei 

 tion, which has been the particular 

 suit of Mr PlilN'CE and his father for more than 

 century, he has spared neither pains uor expense,; 

 such as did not possess particular merit ha >e beei 

 ji-cted and their accuracy has been tested by Ihi 

 .Hulhors of the age. 



In the present catalogue he offers above 500 ne 

 rit ties of I'Vuits not to be found in any nlher coUei 

 in Anieiica, and which include the most cclebj 

 kinds that liavi within a few years past been bri 

 into notice and recomjnendid by those dislinguj 

 florliculturalists, Van Mons i Duquesene, and 

 Knight, President of the Uorlirultural Society of; 

 don. 



In regard to the character and accuracy of the Ffoi 

 sent from this establishment, the propiieior refers 

 the Hon. Jonathan Hunewell, ?nd other gt-nilemen 

 Boston and its vicinity, who have patronized his egb 

 lishmeut for the last fifty years, and particularly uM 

 fruit of the various kinds with which the Boston dl 

 ket is now supplied from the extensive collection 

 trees furnished the late Dr Oliver Smith, Secretary 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, who, 

 than thirty years since, had sev. lal thousand treei 

 nually, which were distributed among the membi 

 that Association. It may perhaps be deemed wi 

 of notice that near 100 varieties of the fruits offeri 

 sale, by the proprietor, are different from those 

 vated by other establishments under the same j 

 and the identity of every fruit sent by him, the proj 

 tors expressly guarantees. 



0;5=\\eare authorized and requested by Mr P: 

 to say, that the allusion in another advertisemeni 

 nurseries whose trees have their roots trimmed oi 

 much, can have no reference to trees sent from; 

 nursery. 



Catalogues maybe obtained gratis of the subscril 

 and orders left at the New Kngland Farmer office 

 Agricultural Establishment, No. 52 North Mi 

 street, (if from a distance, post paid) will meet p: 

 attention. JOS. R. NEWRLL, 



JOHN B. RUSSELL, 



TO FARMERS—To let, a farm containing 35 aj 

 of land, a large and comfortable house, barn. &c. 

 land is of good quality, and of easy cultivation, 

 are on the place a variety of choice young fruit 

 which are just beginning to bear ; also 10 acres ofi 

 meadow, on which could be cut enough fuel foi 

 family, and is an excellent manure. Said farm is I 

 aleil in Cambridge, about 4 miles from Boston ami 

 The terms will be on a lease fr»m six to ten years, 

 first year's rent to be expended for manure, and a 

 aft'-rwards to be laid out in the same manner et 

 y ar. — The above offers a desirable opportunity la 

 intelligent, thorough and cnterprijing farmer. Noj 

 but who can bring recommendations as being such' 

 apply. THOMAS BREWER, 416 Washington 



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