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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



THE FLOWERS. 



BV C. D. STUART. 



There is a legend old us earlh, 



But beauiifiil and true, 

 Which tells us how the flowers had birth, 



And wherefore came the dew. 



When Eve, through Satan's sore deceit, 



Touched the forbidden tree, 

 And templed her "good man" to eat, 



The Lord came angrily; 



And straightway turned from Eden's bowers 



These first-born sinners forth, 

 Away from all its smiling flowers — 



Upon the barren earth. 



But pitying— ere to Heaven he passed— 



His angels— brothers then — 

 O'er all the earlh their fooiprints cast, 



And hill, and vale, and glen. 



Sparkled with flowers— Earth's starry spheres- 



And ere they fled from view, 

 They strewed the flowers with pitying tears, 



Wliich since has passed lor dew. 



And thus, though Paradise was lost 



By first of human kind, 

 Their children know, though sorely crossed, 



God's love is left behind. 



HORSES— CAREFUL USE OF, &0. 



An acquaintance lost his horse, a few days ago 

 in a manner that would suggest an habitual cau- 

 tion in driving. The horse, a valuable one, well 

 kept, in good spirits, and in perfect health, was 

 taken from the stable and driven. He had ascend- 

 ed a long and hard hill within the first mile of 

 driving, and as soon as the summit was reached, 

 the driver, as is the habit of many, touched him 

 with the whip ; he sprang, stopped, staggered, 

 and fell, and by the time the driver could alight 

 from the carriage, he was dead. An examination 

 showed that a large blood-vessel near the heart hSd 

 been ruptured. No appearance of disease could 

 be detected. 



Now there would be in the same circumstances 

 always a danger of a similar occurrence. Espe- 

 cially if the stomach should happen to be filled, as 

 it would be directly after a full meal. 



Every increase of the muscular action of any an- 

 imal produces an increase in the rapidity of the 

 circulation of the blood. This arises from two 



full and pressing upon the cavity of the lungs, it is 

 easy to see that a great pressure of blood in the 

 lungs and the great cavities of the heart must take 

 place. Almost every person has experienced the 

 sharp pain and distress produced by this state of 

 things after having run a little way sharply, not 

 being accustomed to the exercise. It is not diffi- 

 cult to see how, in this crowded state of the ves- 

 sels, a sudden and powerful muscular exertion 

 should cause a rupture of some one of the distend- 

 ed vessels. 



When a rupture of a blood vessel does not re- 

 sult, oftentimes so much injury is done to the del- 

 icate membrane of the air cells as to produce an 

 incurable heaves. 



We were early taught this lesson of care in driv- 

 ing, by an old stage proprietor of whom we once 

 had a pair of horses for a journey. ' 'The only cau- 

 tion," said he, '.'I care to give you about driving, 

 is never to start quick from the top of a hill you 

 have just ascended. If you do you may spoil the 

 horses' wind." — Granite Farmer. 



THE ONION WORM. 



Within a few years past, our gardeners, in many 

 parts of the State, have been exceedingly annoyed 

 by a little worm that would be found in the very 

 heartof their young onions, which destroyed them 

 entirely, if not eradicated in season. In some 

 places it has been impossible to raise onions at all, 

 and their cultivation has been given up. Almost 

 every expedient has been tried to prevent the rav- 

 ages of these little destroyers, but with very little- 

 effect. Indeed, there has been a good deal of ob- 

 scurity in regard to the origin and habits of it, and, 

 therefore, no very systematic course of prevention 

 could be adopted understandingly. 



We were pleased to find a chapter on this sub- 

 ject in the last Granite Farmer, communicated to 

 that excellent paper by Hon. Edmund Burke, for- 

 merly Commissioner of Patents at Washington. 



Mr. B. found that this insect laid a claim to the 

 onion beds in his garden, and was destroying them 

 both root and branch, affording him no prospect 

 of having a single onion to flavor even a "hasty 

 plate of soup" in the fall. 



In searching out the causes that left him thus 

 onionless, he says he found a description of it in 

 "KoUar's work on insects injurious to gardens," 

 and he forwards to that paper, Kollar's descrip- 



causes, one mechanical, as the compression of the 



blood-vessels by the muscular contraction; and I tion and history of this insect, a part of which we 



one physical, as the necessity for the more rapid here borrow for the benefit of our readers who 



purification of the blood in a period of exercise. 



Physiology teaches that every muscular action 

 is attended with a waste of the material of the 

 body, as in galvanic action when zinc is used in the 

 circuit, at each period of* action, portions of the 

 zinc are destroyed. Tliis waste portion of the 

 animal solid goes into the blood and must be dis- 

 charged mainly from the blood in the lungs. The 

 more violent the muscular action, the more of this 

 waste matter is o;iven to the blood, and this once 



have heretofore had cause to mourn over their des- 

 olated onion beds in the spring. 



The perfect insect or fly, says KoUar, is entirely 

 of an ash gray color in the females, with black 

 stripes in the males, (known to naturalists by the 

 name of Anthomyia Ccparum,) the wings clear 

 like glass, with blood iridescent reflections, and 

 yellowish brown veins. It is found throughout 

 the summer in several generations. The larva 

 lives during that season singly, aiid also gregari- 



loaded witl: it is useless until it has been purified ously on the different sorts of leeks and onions 



in the lungs. Consequently the blood is sent to 

 the lungs in a vastly increased current, and the 

 breathing becomes more rapid to introduce larger 

 portions of air to the blood in the lungs. Here, 

 then, are increased quantities of air in the lungs 

 at the same time, producing a state of fullness if 

 the lungs have full play. But if the stomach is 



and does great damage among the white onions, 

 so that it often destroys the whole crop. 



"The fly lays her eggs on the leaves of the on- 

 ions, close to the earth. The newly hatched mag- 

 got bores through the first leaf and then descends 

 between the leaves into the onion in its base, when 

 it entirely destroys the bulb, which soon becomes 



