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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



this treatment. Indeed, they may be recommended 

 as among the best of the porpctuals. 



I have adopted, with excellent results, Mr. Rice's 

 recommendation of giving the roots of well estab- 

 lished roses a good soaking of li'^iiid guano, after 

 they have shed their leaves, say middle of October. 

 It greatly promotes their luxuriant growth the next 

 season. — Horticulturist. 



USES OF THE BLACK CURRANT. 



The Black English Currant is represented to have 

 qualities that entitle it to extensive propagation. 

 A kind of vsfine has been manufactured from it, 

 which is celebrated for its medicinal properties. The 

 Boston Medical Examiner, quoted by Fessenden, said 

 of this wine, " It has all the good properties of the 

 best Port, without any of its heating or constipating 

 effects. We could name several instances, Avhere, in 

 gi-eat debility and exhaustion, after protracted and 

 Bcvere fever, and from other causes, nothing else 

 could be thought of or taken with pleasure or advan- 

 tage, in which this wine proved grateful to the palate, 

 and most friendly to the stomach ; in which, indeed, 

 it was the principal means of conducting the patient 

 to health and strength. Its exhibition has been 

 attended with remarkable success in the early stages 

 of cholera and dysentery ; and again in the later 

 stages of these diseases, after the symptoms of in- 

 flammation or febrile excitement had ceased. It has 

 been strikingly remedial in the low stages of typhoid 

 and bilious fever. We have not room to enumerate 

 many other morbid affections, in which this "wine 

 has proved useful. In sore throat, it has, for many 

 years, been considered almost a specific remedy." 



These opinions are confirmed by other testimony. 

 Kcnrick, in his American Orchardist, sa5-s, "From 

 the black currant a jelly is made, of considerable 

 medicinal cfEcacy ; a wine is also made from them, 

 which possesses far superior medicinal virtues to 

 Port wine. The jelly has been highly recommended 

 for disorders of the throat, and as a necessary article 

 in the stores of ships sailing to the East Indies. A 

 liquor is prepared from the black currant, which, Mr. 

 Forsyth states, is possessed of great medicinal efficacy 

 in obstinate coughs, &c. The currants for this piu-- 

 pose are bruised, and, being placed in ajar, whiskey 

 or any other species of alcohol is poured over them ; 

 the jar is then covered close for a fortnight ; after this, 

 the liquor is strained and bottled." 



• The jelly from the black currant is further de- 

 scribed as being fine for the table, and the wine as of 

 peculiar flavor, which, to those long accustomed to its 

 use, is delectable. 



A friend of ours, who has many years made use 

 of this currant in his family, as a remedy for some of 

 the above-named affections, especially for diarrhoea, 

 fully concurs in the foregoing estimate of its value. 

 He considers it also excellent as a preserve. — Mich- 

 igan Farmer. 



IDLENESS. 



Nine tenths of the miseries and vices of manhood 

 proceed from idleness. AVith men of quick minds, to 

 whom it is especially pernicious, this habit is com- 

 monly the fruit of many disappointments and schemes 

 oft bafHed ; and men fail in their schemes not so much 

 for the want of strength, as from the ill direction of 

 it. The weakest living creature, by concentrating 

 his powers on a single object, can accomplish some- 

 thing ; the strongest, by dispersing his over many, 

 may fail to accomplish any thing. The drop, by con- 

 tinual falling, bores its passage through the hardest 

 rock, the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous 

 uproar and leaves no trace behind. — Thomas Carlyle. 



THE LATE VINTAGE IN FRANCE. 



During the year 1848, there were 5,000,000 acres of 

 land in France planted with vines, which produced 

 919,580,575 gallons of wine and 27,220,050 gallons 

 of brandy, estimated at the enormous sum of 

 479,088,302 francs, (£19,121,000.) The average value 

 of each acre of vines may be taken at 530 francs, 

 (£21.) The annual consumption by each individual 

 in France is calculated at 18 gallons of wine and 3 

 gallons of brandy. — Clcavcland {Ohio) Herald, 1849. 



LARGE POULTRY. 



At a show held in England, under the direction of 

 the late Earl Spencer, the following were the dressed 

 weights of some of the poultry exhibited : The 

 best turkey weighed 20 lbs. 4 oz. ; capon, 7 lbs. 14 

 07.. ; pullet, 3i lbs. ; goose, 18 lbs. 2.^ oz. ; couple of 

 ducks, 15 lbs. 10 oz. 



MUSIC OF SPRING. 



" There's music in the balmy breath 



Of spring, when from the realms of death 



She calls the flowers to life again. 



And decks with gorgeous hues the plain, 



Then wakes to notes of harmony 



The grove's enchanting minstrelsy. 



There's music in the murmur low 



Of gentle waters rippling by — 

 There's music in the onward flow 



Of rivers in their majesty. 

 There's music in the bubbling fountain — 

 There's music on the sun-bathed mountain 



There's music on the earth — 

 There's music in the air — 



And music into birth 

 Is biu'sting evert/ lohere." 



THE OLIO. 



Hour of Death. — It will afford sweeter happiness, 

 in the hour of death, to have wiped one tear from 

 the cheek of sorrow, than to have ruled an empire, 

 to have conquered millions, or enslaved the world. 



LiPE-LiKE. — The Philadelphia Galaxy says an 

 artist in that cit)^ painted a cow and cabbage so 

 natural that he was obliged to separate them before 

 they were finished, because the cow commenced 

 eating the cabbage ! 



Rousseau says, " The empire of woman is an empire 

 of softness, of address, of complacency. Her com- 

 mands are caresses, her menaces are tears." 



Why is a chicken pie like a gunsmith's shop ? 

 Because it contains fowl-in-pieces. 



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