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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



berry ripens the 1st of September. It is of a pleas- 

 ant sharp acid, but high flavor. By the middle of 

 September, it becomes thoroughly ripe, and keeps 

 well on the vine, and it is then of a good quality. 

 The berry is small, but the bunches rather large and 

 compact. For several years we have cultivated these 

 two varieties, and we had fruit from thora this season. 

 They are great growers, and very hardy. Their ear- 

 liness, with their valuable habits, gives them an im- 

 portance; As we have much less experience with 

 these than our venerable friend who has kindly 

 furnished them to us, we cannot do justice to the 

 subject. 



Of Luther Gilbert, Grantvilie, Neodham, Riley 

 potatoes. We never saw finer potatoes than they 

 are baked ; but in boiling they were so mealy that 

 they broke into pieces, and were scattered in the 

 water ; so we think that they would be excellent for 

 potato pottage. We never saw this variety before 

 under this name, but we think that it is identical 

 with tlie Early Worcester. We intend to give them 

 a thorough test, another season, by pl&nting them 

 ' with the Early Worcester. 



Of Captain Amos Perry, South Natick, a good 

 vine of Perry's Native, which is among the best, if 

 not the very best wild grape that we have tasted. 



From John Washburn, Plymouth, Pear quinces 

 of enormous size. The largest weigh one pound two 

 ounces. Mr. W. had some specimens still larger. 

 They were raised on light, sandy soil ; and such noble 

 productions, under disadvantages as to soil, do great 

 credit to the skilful cultivator. 



From Mark Morse, Francistown, N. II., apples of 

 a good size, and very fair, handsome, and of fair 

 quality. They are doubtless a new variety. 



From 11. O. Stoddard, Waitstield, Vt., some excel- 

 lent, purified maple sugar, equalling, in appearance, 

 refined sugar. It appears by the note sent with it, 

 that the package was a long time on the way. 



Of Charles L. Spaulding, Cavendish, Vt., several 

 varieties of apples, among which are the Spaulding 

 Sweet, a fair, handsome apple, of good size, and tol- 

 erably good quality. One variety resembles the 

 Scavcr Sweet in appearance, but it is different in 

 quality. One is a little, beautiful, red apple, as 

 handsome and as good as the Fameuse, and it re- 

 Biimbles that faifious variety. 



Water Cure Journal — Phrenological Jour- 

 nal. We would direct the attention of the reader 

 to the advertisement of these periodicals on our 

 cover. Pure water, which abounds in nearly all 

 parts of the world, is a powerful remedial agent ; and 

 by this simple element alone, many severe and ap- 

 parently obstinate diseases have been cured. Phrenol- 

 ogy, pursued as a study, is doing much in the cause 

 of education, and tends to illustrate many difficult 

 metaphysical subjects, and develop the science of 

 mind. By intelligent gentlemen devoting their whole 

 energies to distlnc^t branches, they discover important 

 facts, which otherwise would lie dormant forever. 



THE PLOUGH AND THE SICKLE. 



RY HON. T. BURGES, OF RHODE ISL\ND. 



With a Pioneer Axe, what a conquest is made ! 



What a field from the forest is won ! 

 What regions, reduced from the Avildorness shade, 



Are no--v warmed in the beams of the sun ! 



From the rock whore our fathers in exile first landed. 

 Their cioaring fiom river to river has spread ; 



And moiintainsi and plains by their sons are com> 

 maiided, 

 Till nov,- on the beach of Pacific they tread. 



What a form for a nation to cultivate now, 

 And gather the wonderful harvest it yields ! 



'Tis an Emi)ire reduced to the Sickle and Plough, 

 An Empire of gardens, and orchards, and fields. 



Hail, Nation of Farmers ! rejoice in your toil, 

 And shout when your harvest is o'er ; 



Receive the oppressed to your land v.'ith a smile, 

 But frown every foe from your iron-bound shore. 



And he who, by deeds, has now reached a high 

 station, 

 And is called to preside o'er the commonwealth 

 now. 

 Must relinquish his farm to save our young nation, 

 As for Rome Cincinnatus relinquished his plough. 



The Plough and the Sickle shall shine bright in 

 glory, 

 When the sword and the sceptre shall crumble in 

 rust; 

 And the farmer shall live, both in song and in story, 

 When warriors and king's are forsrotten in dust. 



THE OLIO. 



An old offender was lately brought before a learned 

 justice of the peace. The constable, as a prelimi- 

 nary, informed his worship that he had in custody 

 John Simmons, alias Jones, alian Smith. " Very 

 well," said the magistrate, " I will trj' the Uoo women 

 fii'st : bring in Alice Jones." 



The sandal-tree perfumes, when riven, 



The axe that laid it low ; 

 Let man, who hopes to be forgiven. 



Forgive and bless his foe. 



A man once rushed into a fight, and after beat- 

 ing the combatants indiscriminately, some one asked 

 him which side he was on. " I beg pardon," waa 

 his rejily; "I thought it was a. free fight ! " 



An English Bull. — An English paper, allud- 

 ing to the queen's visit to Ireland, says, that tho 

 shouts with which she was received, waa a sight ever 

 to be remembered. 



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