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NEW ENGLAND FARiVlEK. 



Nov. 9, im7. 



i-Hiscdlrinirs. 



i'Vowi the Nei 



York tiMestiutn 



CHRISTMAS CEREMONIES. 



•Ei!glaii(! was tnciry England when 



Old Christmas brought his spoi'ts again. 

 'Tvvas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale ; 

 Tw.is Christmas told the merriest tale ; 

 A Christmas gambol oft would cheer 

 A poor man's heart through half the yea 



I 'I'he mention of llic "Chri5tii;as log" will kindle j Manvfarture. of Salt. — The New Bedford Cou 



~ ^ (the feelings of every New Englander, as another rier eslimatea the quantity of salt works in tht 



well known feature of this joyous festival. It was counties of Barnstable and Bristol, at 1,6.36,700 

 in Old England the great inJi><pensable, to have feet. This is equal to a superficial surface of 

 "a huo-e lieapcd-up. over-heaped-iip, all attracting 16,307,000 square feet of vats, for containing the 

 fire;" and the larger the log, the merrier the de-]salt water. The greater part of these suit works 

 fiance which was given to the cold without. All 

 the demons of frost, and the spirits of the storm 

 were laid by the potent spell. A charm, this, in 

 these northern climes, tthich needc"! not the aid 



uc.''aiilt of recent news, it may be interesting of superstition to enforce it. Then coraes 



the 



in the count? of Barnstable. 



Longevity. — Old Arthur Wall, of Wake Forest, 

 (North Carolina) completed the hundred and nintli 

 year of his ago on the 15th ult. A few days ago. 

 lie walked three miles, but said he was somewhat 



the reader to trace the origin of customs, where f«ast, and dance, and song— and then the grave j-j^jlg^^j^ 3„j thought he .liscovered by it, tha 



The 



the primary motive has ceased to operate 

 prnctice of decorating churches an 

 -vith evergreens at Christmas, is supposed by 

 inany to allude to the people's strewing branches 

 in the way of the Saviour when he entered Jeru- 

 salem; by o'.hers, to the taste of the monastics in 

 the early period.s of the church, who hung their 

 altars with ivy and laurel, emblems of devotion 

 and triumph, to enhance the grandeur and solemn-' 

 ity of their rites. / 



Cut the practice of ornamenting places of wor 

 ship with everpieens, springs from an earlier 

 date. The Druiils decked their houses and pla- 

 ces of worihip with evergreens in December, that 

 Ul'c Sylvan spirits might repair to them and re- 

 i;iain unhurt by the frosts and storms of that chil- 

 !iug season. On the accession of Christianity, 

 councils of the church forbade Christians to de- 

 corate their houses v-fith Bay or Holly, but after- 

 wards permitto'i it, in order to accommodate its 

 ceremonies to the old mythology in such things 

 as were not fundamental. An ancient writer says 

 •liat " trimmyn;.)- of tiic temples with hangynges of 

 flov./res, bonghes, and garlondcs, v/as taken of the 

 lieathen people, whiche decked their idoles and 

 liouses with ssxhc arraye." 



In tie earliest ages the Mislotoe was held pre- 

 eminent for such uses over every other plant or 

 tree. The Druids venerated it, for its mystical 

 orio'in. Growing as it does upon the oak, without 

 resembling it, they deemed it a miraculous pro- 

 <]uction, and believed it possessed of charms and 

 dofeuces against evil. It was cut by them from 

 the tree with great ceremony. The prince of the 

 Druids ascending the oak, cut the Mislotoe with 



reflect on the glorious occasion ; and the gay re- i^i^j ^,^^ ^^.^^ creepina" upon him. 

 apartments I J°''^^ with mirth and gladness, and gifts, on the ^g »jf i -ii ..ul..u3 »c».^ ^ 



' solemn festival whicli commemorates I :i^*S& truit Trees. 



Vi M. PRINCE, the proprietor of the Linnaxin Bo- 

 tanic flardm cmd Nurseries at Flushing. L. I. has 

 ihe pleasure of informiug the public, ihat his nurse- 



^^ ry now contains 172 varieties of the Apple, 202 c!"' 



Peaij, Vo ofChcrries. 1.39 of Plums, 25of Apricots, &1 of Peacli- 

 ,...,, , . , , . ,_ •, <? I es, 20 of Nectaruies,10of Almonds, Uof Mulberries, 6ofQuin- 



ly ; It IS the calm of the world, the smile of na. | ces, 16 of Figs, 16 of Currants, 15 of Raspberries, 47 of Goose- 



To man a savi' 



•' The day that gave 

 r — freedom to the slave.' 



Peace The name of neace is sweet and love- 



ture, the harmony of those gentle and v/ell-tuned berries, 20 of Strawberries. 2.57 of Grapes. 600 of Ornamental 



'Trees. Above 500 of the above kinds of Fruits are not to bo 



airs, which are struck from melodious instruments. 

 A blessing inferior only to holiness ; and a great 

 glory is shed over the 

 and peace meet together, and kiss each other. 



found in any other collection in An 



The different varieties cannot be otherwise than genuine 



and where righteousness | ,"«^ S'y='"=^' a"«""<'n i^ paid.and nearly all the kinds are ii,. 



" ' lalcd from bearmg trees. 1 lie Cherry, Peach, and other u< ■ 



arc generally of large size. Catalogues may be oblainedal Ihc 

 New England Farmer office, gratis, and orders left there,or sent 

 by mail, will meet attention. 



A writer in the Worcester Spy, condemns the 

 present militia system, and states that tho annua! 

 expense of the militia voviows in Massachusetts 

 alone is $917,000 per annum. What would the 

 people say, were this enormous sum drav.'n from 

 their pockets by direct taxation? 



Allan Cunningham. — This excellent poet I.'as 

 written much, and among all the efl^usions that he 

 has offered to the world, nrt a word or a line can 

 be found tliat can offend the most fastidious. It 

 is said of him, that like too many of the sons of 

 genius and of song, he has to contend with the 

 hard hand of poverty, and that the strains of bia 

 lyre are often interrupted by the sigh of grief, 

 and the murmur of human suffering. 



Hull Young Mmirnl. 



The above named supcnor animal, of two years old this - 

 mer, 3- lilis of the '' Improved D urham Short Horns," of 1 

 the " Gore breed," and obtained Ihe first premium at Bright 

 is oflercd for sale at the low price of one hundred dollars.— 

 would be let for two or three years, to a respectable man. 

 reasonable terms. Apply to JOHiV PRINCE. 



Ro.rten/,Ort. 2.5,1827. 



Mr PRINCE can also sell r«'o or three 6De 2 years old 1 

 crs in milk— of the half blood of the " Durham Shorl Horns,' 

 from first rate native cows. 



.Merino Sheep for Sale. 

 One hundred, the greater pari Ewes, at Winehendon, comity 

 of Worchesler, Mass. Apply to Selh Tucker Jun. of said Win - 

 chendon. Also about one hundreil al Windsor. County of Berk- 

 shire, in said Massachusetts. Apply lo Tdwan! Withington ol 

 said Windsor; or application may be made lo Nathaniel Tucker 

 of Mihou. Counlv ofNorfolk. 



K.rlevsive A'urseries. 



FOR sale al the Kenkick Establishment in Ne>' - 



TON, one mile from Agricultural Hall in Brighton. 



the greatest quantity and varielvol Fruit andFor- 



est Trees known at any other place in New Eng- 



Sleep — Sleep has often been mentioned as the 

 image of death ; "so like it,'" says Sir Thomas 

 Brown, "that I dare not trust it, without my pray- laud, 

 ers." Their resemblance is indeed striking and Written orders atWressed to John ot Wii.liam Kenrick, 

 . , ■? , I and directed lo the Brighton Post On ICE, will be speedily 



apparent; they both, when they seize the body, revived and punctually attended u. : or ihey may be left al the 



,. i 1 ^ .u f 11 .1 1 1 leave the soul at liberty, and wise is he that re- tgroccry and seed store of Mr Joseph Bridge, in Courtslrecl 



a golden sickle in the presence of all the people, "^"^^ ""^ r , „ Till i^I .„.d» ==ro ,„, where Catalogues may be fomished gratis. 



and then presented it to the other Druids, who ! '"embers of both, that they can be made sate and Trees will fe scm to Boston when ordered, and suitablypack- 



received it with great reverence, and distributed 'happy only hj ^mae.— Adventurer 

 it, as a sacred talisman and blessing for the new 



,. , . 1 ,1 1 ■ 1 J f I A Vermont paper, in remarking upon the late 



year, it was, however, at length banished from ,,. . r r ^ ." ^ 



-', 1,1 '. Ill J 1, .1, 1 publications on perpetual motion, says "when a 



the churches because it was held sacred by the : i^ , ,, . '^ ^ . , . ,c >. n- 



, ■ rx .1 r • 1 J 1 • » • I man shall contrive to .-aise himselt by pulling at 



heathen, and might therefore mislead christam i , . . ,,.,., , u n li i 



,. , , r,„ ,„ „ t e •» ,. f„ t. the waistband of his breeches, we shall then have 



worshippers lo a profane respect for it, or to be 



edin malls, for shipping or distant 

 rod ; but distant gentlemen should 

 and pay for lliem. 

 N. B". Great care will be taken lo preserve the roots. 



eyance by land, if desi- 

 plny •:ome agpiit to receive 



lieve, as the Druidical rites had taught them, 

 "that it had the power of proclaiming pardon and 

 freedom to all wickede people, towardcs the four 

 qaarteres of neavene." 



The mince-pie, and the Christmas-pic, tliose 

 "favorite peculiars" of the Christmas festival had 

 also their appropriate derivation. The former be- 

 ing a compound of the ciioico.-t productions of the 

 East, represents the offerings made by the wise 

 men, who came from afar to v.'orship, bringing 



perpetual motion." 



Earli/ Top or Tree Onions. 



These produce onions at the bollom and a bunch of small ones 



on the top of the seed stalk. The small onions are proper 10 



plant very early in the s))iing, and seldom fail lo produce a 



good crop under proper cultivation. They should be planted 



I in rows ten or twelve feet asunder, and set two or three inches 



Rattle Snakes. — A few miles from this place, in apart, and one inch deep, taking care to place ihe bottom 

 ,,, . . 1 u- downwards. Thcv soon spring up, and fi-om their size and \ ig- 



Saratoga county, a young man took his gun one \ „,.^„, g,„„.,h. ^^i not snibject to be .leslroyed by insecC. 

 day last week, and went up the side ofPalmertown i Should ihev put forth seed stalks, as many of the larger ones 

 mountain. While searching for game, he discover- will, iheysWd be broken off soon alter ■they anpeav. other- 

 6 5, , wise the onions al the bottom will not be so large. These oil- 



ed near him a rattle snake of enormous size, upon ig„s are mild, grow to a large size, and are. generally, rai<r-d 



with less trouble than the common kind. — Just received for ' 

 al the Farmer Office. 



which he levelled his piece and shot it through 



the head; ho had oo sooner done this, than, on ——-. — ; . .. . , , — 5,. ,^-t j— i — ; — ttt"-— r 



' . , , , This day published bv Richardson & Lord, at their 10" 



looking around, he found that lie was surrounded 1 (-ouniry book^iore. the Old Farmer's Almanack for 1S20, 1 



He I B. Thomas, Esq. containing the usual quanlilv of new 

 • wiih Ihi 



,,,-,,., on every side by these venomous serpents __ 

 spues. The coflin shape of the true old Englisn 1 j,^^^ ^^^^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^ commenced killing, and be 



Chnstmas-pie "is in imitation of the manger' : f<„.e they could make good their retreat, he had ,„.., ,... , 



wherein the infant Jesus wa.s laid. "This pastry ^.^^,^ ^,. ^j^^^^ , .^^ ^,^.,,1 ^g,.^,^ ^^-^ u,^ jg,,,. j-^,,^ Almanack, likewise ihe Mn^-: 

 is a learned compoMtion, being a mixture of neats ^^ ^j^^^^^ ^^^ returned home. On measuring them -—-—---——— 

 tongues, chicken, eggs, sugar, raisins, lemon and ,^j^ ^^.^^.^ j.^,^_^j ^^ ^^ ^^^.. f^^, ^^^ „ half feet in 

 orange peel, with wines and various kinds of spy- j jg^^^^j^^ ^^^ ^-^^^^ 5^^^^^ i„ circumference, 

 cenes.' | [Glens Falls Observer. 



and entertaining mailer. logcilipr wiih Ine sun's declination 



Country trailers supplied by R. iSc L. al the lowest rale. i:. 

 the press, and will soon be put>Iis!>ed, the .tliniature or Pocket 

 ■■ ., «r ■ ;cinl!(.gislcr for IS28 1-t 



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 Gentlemen who procure ^je responsible subscr^e/s, 

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