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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



NOTICES OF PUBLICATIONS. 



Tkansactions of New Youk State Agricul- 

 tural. Society. — We have received this valuable 

 work from the Secretary, B. P. Johnson, Esq. It 

 contains the doings of the State society, reports of 

 the county societies, various communications from 

 distinguished agriculturists and horticulturists, in 

 different sections of the country, making a neat, 

 beautiful, and large octavo volume of nearly a thou- 

 sand pages, embellished and illustrated by numerous 

 and excellent engravings. This work contains a 

 fund of the most valuable information ; and great 

 credit is duo Mr. Johnson for the able and faithful 

 manner in which he has prepared this copious work, 

 which must have required much arduous labor. 



Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture. — The Au- 

 gust number contains a variety of valuable matter. 

 Six native pears are figured and described. We shall 

 soon have native pears enough, and of such excel- 

 lence that we can dispense with inany of the uncer- 

 tain foreign kinds. Mr. H. shows that after the high 

 commendations of new strawberries, Hovey's Seed- 

 ling takes most of the prizes at the horticultural 

 shows. 



American Flora. — This monthly for August is 

 embellished with four beautiful, colored engravings. 

 It is a splendid work, replete with the most valuable 

 instruction. New York, Green & Spencer, 67 Bow- 

 ery. By Dr. A. B. Strong. 



Illustrated Natural History. — This work is a 

 monthly, by the same editor and publisher as the 

 foregoing. It is highly interesting and instructive, 

 and beautifully illustrated with various animals and 

 scenery. 



Remarks on the Petition for an Act for Incorpo- 

 rating the College of the Holy Cross. — This is a pam- 

 phlet of 28 pages, which we have not had time to 

 peruse. 



History and Design of the American Institute 

 of Instruction, by Geo. B. Emerson, President of the 

 institution. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental 

 Trees, Shrubs, Roses, &c., at Andre Leroy's nurse- 

 ries, at Angers, Maine and Loire, France. 



OUR COUNTRY. 



On no country more than our own have the charms 

 of nature been prodigally lavished ; her mighty 

 lakes like oceans of liquid silver — her mountains 

 with their bright aerial tints — her valleys teeming 

 with fertility- — her tremendous cataracts thundering 

 in their solitude — her boundless plains waving with 

 spontaneous verdure — her broad, deep rivers, rolling 

 in solemn silence to the ocean — her trackless forests, 

 where vegetation puts forth all her magnificence — 

 her skies kindling ^Nith the magic of summer clouds 

 and glorious sunshine — no, never need an American 

 look beyond his own country for the sublime and 

 beautiful of natural scenery. — Irviiiff. 



Pekin at one time was the largest city in the world. 

 London is now the largest, and New York is the 

 largest city in the United States. 



MY COUNTRY. 



I love my country's i-.inn-clad hills, 

 Her thousand bright and gushing rills, 



Her sunshine and her storm ; 

 Her rough and rugged rocks, that rear 

 Their hoary heads high in the air, 



In wild fantastic form. 



I love her rivers deep and wide. 



And those bright streams that seaward gl"ie, 



To seek the ocean's breast ; 

 Her smiling fields, her fertile vales, 

 Her shady dells, her pleasant dales, 



Her haunts of peaceful rest. 



I love the forest dark and lone. 



For there the wild bird's merrj' tone 



Is heard from morn till night ; 

 And there are lovelier flowers, I ween, 

 Than e'er in eastern lands were seen, 



In varied colors bright. 



Her forest and her valleys fair, 



Her flowers that scent the morning air, 



Have all their charms for me ; 

 But more I love ray country's name. 

 Those words that echo deathless fame, 



And sound from sea to sea. 



THE OLIO. 



A Severe Retort. — George the Second observed 

 a lady whoso dress displayed rather the largest por- 

 tion of her chest. "Madam," said the monarch, 

 " allow me to place my hand upon that soft bosom." 

 " Sire," replied the lady, " give mo your hand, and I 

 will put it upon a much softer place." She took his 

 hand, and laid it on his head. 



The Law. — An editor down south, who seized 

 four days on a jury, says he's so full of law, that it 

 is hard for him to keep from cheating somebody. 



Hour of Death. — It will aff'ord sweeter happi- 

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

 from the cheek of sorrow, than to have ruled an em- 

 pire, to have conquered millions, or enslaved the 

 world. 



A celebrated wit made one of his happiest jokes 

 when he heard that Bishop, who had been sent to 

 Portsmouth preparatory to transportation for life, 

 had escaped. " Gad, sir," said he, "he must have 

 been an arch Bishop to do that ; and yet his dislike 

 to the sea is quite unaccountable." 



Like a dog in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels 

 in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with 

 great labor and incessant anxiety, but never reach 

 the top. 



TERMS. — The New England Farmer is published 

 every other Satinday, making a neat and handsome 

 volume, at the close of the year, of 416 pages, at $1 a 

 year, or five copies for ^4, payable in advance. It may 

 be neatly bound at 1S:{ cents, or elegantly bound in 

 muslin, embossed and gilt, at 2-5 cents a volume. As it 

 is stereotyped, back numbers can be hunished to new 

 subscribers. 



1^ The Postage .^ 



On this paper is only 1 cent, or 26 cents a year, within 

 the state, or within 100 miles out of the state ; and IjJ 

 cents, or 39 cents a year, beyond those distances. 



stereotyped at tub 

 b06t0n type and stereotype founduy 



