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iSEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 14, 1827. 



^MISCELLANIES. _ 



yroin the Phila(ielp}iia Magazirie. 



THE VOICE OF WINTER. 

 T come— my Ijrealh i.s on llie blast ! 



A UTealli ofrlouds is o'er me ; 

 \m\ the loveliest flowprs of earth as I past. 



Have witlier'd anil slirun!; l>cfore me. 



.r have found Ihe earth in ils richest bloom. 



I come to gather it's pride to Ihe lonib ; 

 I have found it aH with jov elale, 



I come to make it desolate. 



'i'lie leaves of the trees are rustling and gay. 

 The sheen of the river is bright as the spring, — 



\ will blow those rustling leaves away, 

 I will stop (he streamlet's murmuring. 



r will strip of its robe the towering oak. 



Its roots shall be torn, nnd its limbs be broke, 

 i will howl through the wa.'^tC; .'ind the wild beasts there 



At the sound of my voice shall shrink to their lair. 



The eagle shall close her soaring w'ing, 



And seek her nest on the eyrie Ivgh ; 

 Kni every songster rease to sing, 



At the sound of my ominous rushing by ! 



I will bow to the dust the gayest flowers. 

 And strip of their pride the fairest bowers . 



1 will clothe the earth in white as 1 come — 

 The winding sheet of her wintry tomb ! 



I Advantage of .N'ewspapers. During the past they fairly threatened to challenge the tenants 



j season, we publislied an extract from a writer on with longer possessio;i. The fried cork had onl) 

 '• the suhj.3ct of raising English turnips, describing been laid for them three nights before the whole 

 1 thp best method of cultivating that vegetable. A | disappeared. A fact of this kind cannot be made 

 'highly respected patron, of Essex "-ounty, happen- ( too public — since it may be the means of prevent- 

 ing in at our office a few days since, stated to us, | ing iTiany of those serious acciilents which so fro- 

 that in consequence of following the directions quently occur from the use of poison. — Stirling pu. 



contained in that article, he had raised from a lit- 



tie over ten rods of ground sntnty hiishi-ls of ex-\ No fewer than about 1,648 species of plants, 

 cellent turnips, equal to about one thousand bush- mostly new, have been recently discovered in our 

 • els to the acre, some of which weighed from ten \ncv; Indian territories. Among these are a ches 



to thirteen pounds. He state.;, that early in the 

 spring he ploughed the lot two or three times, — 

 and fenced it off for a cow-yard, for which pur- 

 ; pose it was used until the u?ual time of sowing, 

 ' when it was again ploughed, harroued, and sow- 

 i ed broad cast. The grotind had formerly been 

 I much infested with weeds and thistles ; to reme- 

 I dy which, the turnips were hoed and thinned out 

 I several times, commencing soon after they had 

 I attained the third leaf. Ho attributes the success 

 ! of his crop almost entirely to the hoeing an.i thin- 

 i ning of the plants — as, by similir treatment in 

 I every other respect, he had never before had 

 much success in the cultivation of turnips. — Ver- 

 mont Rcpuhiiian. 



nut and an oak. No country was ever more gifted 

 with natural capabilities; forests of timber trees: 

 fine and navigable rivers ; animals of all sorts. 



The efforts made in Flanders for the cultivation 

 of the vine huve completely succeeded. The com- 

 mencement of the vine harvest was at Renaix, the 

 occasion of a fete, in which the authorities took 

 part. Fifty acres of land pl.inted with vines have 

 produced about 30 tierces of wine. 



Soft Lips. — A lady of fasiiion inscribed on a 

 pane of glass, at an Inn, in Staines, (England.) 

 ■'Dear Lord norrinjton has the softest lip? that 

 ever pres^^ed t'msi' of beauty." Foote, coming in- 

 to the room .soon after, wrote underneath — 

 '* Thf'n as like as two chips, 

 Are his head and his lips." 



Tho following instances of erroiieotis estimates 

 Tjy publishers are given in Mr. Goodhugli's popu- 

 lar work, '-The English Gentleman's Librnry 

 Manual." At first Miller would not give Thom- 

 son a fiirtliing for his IVinter. lie afterwards gave 

 Mm three guineas for it. Cave offered half tho 

 J>ooksellers iu London the property of the Gmfle- 

 Hien's Magazine ; and, as they all refused to en- 

 gage in it, he was oliliged to publish it himself — 

 Bk/jj's Justice was offered in vain to every pub- 

 lisher, for 50/. Dr. Buchan offered his Domestic 

 Medicine to every principal bookseller of Edin- 

 burgh and London for 1(1(1/., without obtaining a 

 purchaser; and after it hau passed through twen- 

 ty-five editions, it sold i". thirty-two shares, at riOl. 

 *ach. Berofiford offered the copyright of tUe Mis- 

 • riet of Human Life, fur 20/.; it afterwards real- 

 ized 5,000. 



The Moon. — Some persons are very particular 

 in sowing their seeds iu a particular time of the 

 moon. Let such regard their moonshine — it may 

 uiaKe the negligent plant their seeds in season. — 

 But he that has his ground well prepared, and 

 plants good seed, and does it early, will find that 

 sunshine will affect hi.s crop more than moonshine. 

 The hi):;s, too, must be killed in a partiiulor time 

 of the moon, in order to have the pork swell hy 

 boiling ! We have only to say to such charac- 

 ters, fatten your hogs upon H'e-liee! instead of 

 corn, and kill them if you please in your particu- 

 lar time of the moon, and neillier vour ^oi nor 

 pork barrel will burst by the swelling of your 

 pork. — Berk. Amer. 



Roses. — Perhaps among the productions of the 

 vegetable kingdom there is none more remarkable 

 than a rose recently introduced into Europe from 

 China, the Rosa GrerUii, or Grcvilli's China Ross.' 

 In one specimen that wo have seen, the shoot far 



At a dinner retently given by the city of Amiens 

 to the King of France, was placed on the table 

 opposite to his Majesty, an immense column, com- 

 posed of sugar manufactured from beet-root, at 

 Franvillers, near Amiens. The column consistoil 

 cffour different qualities of refined sugar, and 

 crystals of raw sugar formed the pedestal. 



fi'uit Trees. 

 WM. PRINCE, the proprietor of llie i/jVinopt^n Bo- 

 Un/ic Gaii/tn and Xutst:i-ks at Flushing, L. 1. has 

 the pleasure of informing tho public, thai his nurse- 

 ry now contains \T1 varieties of the Apple, 202 of 

 f ( herries, 13!) ol Plums, iS of A pricols, 84 of Peach- 

 es. 20 of Nectarines, lOofAlmoniit-, 14(.f Jiulberries. 6 ol Quin- 

 ces, IC of Figs, IG of Currants. U of Raspberries, 47 of Goose- 

 berries, 20 ol Strawberries, 2i>7 of Grapes, GtX) of Omamenlal 

 Trees. Above SOOoflhi* above kinds of Fruits are not to he 

 found inanyolher coll'-clion in .America. 



The ditferent varieties (annot be otherwise than genuine, a* 

 the greatest attention is paid, ami nearly ail the kinds are inocu-^ 

 iated fr*:in bearing trees. The Cherry, Peach, and other trees 

 arc^enerally of large size. (Catalogues maybe obtained at the* 

 New England Farmer oihce, gratis, and orders lell Ihere.or sent 

 by mail, will meet atlenlion. 



JAMES ULOODGOOli & Co's. 



ATursery, at Flushing, on Long-Island near JVcir 



York. 



IN behalf of the proprietors of die above nursery. 



the subscriber solicits the oiders ol horliculturisis* 



who may be desirous ot stocking their gardens and 



fields with fruit trees of the finest sorts and niosr 



henliliy ai:ct vigorous slocks the pre.>^eiit autumn. 

 BrooDGOOK cc Co. alfcnd persunally to the inoculating ava 

 I graftiiiic ofatltheirfi ait trees, and \iurchasers may relv v ■•' 

 feet, and it now covers an area of about one huii- confid'ence that the trees lluy order will prove genuine, 

 dred square feet, with more than a hundred triis- . The subscriber, agent of the ais.'ve nursery, will receii 



exceeds any thing of the kind, having in the spac 

 of a few weeks attained the height of eighteen 



A captain of a Wcsl Iiidiaman wished to piiF- 

 chase a horse ; in conseqiieuce, he applied to a 

 well known character, v.-ho sold him one. After 

 'he purchase had been made, tho captain observ- 

 ed, "Well, no'.v the horse is mine, pray tell mc 

 '■annidly, whether he has any faults, imd what arc 

 they." — " What do you moan to do with him .•'" 

 »eplied the other. '■Why, to take him to sou, 

 said the captain, "to the Wijst Indies." — "Then 

 i will be candid," »eplied the dealer, " he mat/ go 

 oery iceli ol sea, but. on lau4. lie cannot go at all, 

 or I would not have sold him." 



ders for any quantitv of 



" FKUIT AND FOREST TREES, 

 FLOWEKINC, .■SHRUBS, 



.AND 



PLANTS. 

 And the trees will be delivered in Ihis city at the risk and 



ECS of flowers, sumo of which have more than fifty 



buds in a cluster, so that the amount of flower 



hiids may be computed at three thousand ; but 



the greatest curiosity is the amazing diversity of 



tints in the buds at first opening — white, light i pense of the Purch.-iscr-, the billsmay be paid to him. 



,,,^, iiii-i^ 11 1 1^ The reputation of Ihis nursery is so extensively known ami 



batsh, .deeper blush, light red, deeper red, scarlet , [,as been so well sustained -thai I take leave to refer those in 



and purple, all on the same cluster. This rose ; want of trees tn anv of the Moriicultnr:sts in this citv and Its vi- 



grows iu tlie manner of tho mulVillora, but is easi 1 "^'P'.'.V' «'»' ''<"•"'«' dcn.onsin.iMui is .ksir..<l, I invi"ie those who 



?.. ,1,1 . /■ 11. wish to be thus salislied to examine the trees in my gardener 



ly distinguishable by its leat, which 13 much larg- Dorchester, procured from this nursery lor ihree or four years 



or iiiid more nio-ose. En-r. pa. past, some ol which arc now in bearing, all in a healthy and 



** ^ ' vigorous slate. 



It is said the arehes of the tunnel under the 

 Thames are built with a new Italian cement, — 

 which makes them tight, and preserves them even 

 from dampness. 



Dtstniclion of Rals A correspondent who had 



noticed, in a recent number of our Journal a para- 

 piaph recommending ground cork, fried in greiK-ie, 

 as ail cilicac-ous plan for di^slroyiiig rats, states 

 that he lately put the plan to the test of expori- 

 ance, and completely suceeded. The case was 

 that of two old women in the village of Denny, who 

 had lived in two detached garret rooms of the same 

 building. The rals had long been troublesome, 

 but at length became so numerous and daring, that 



Catalogues will be delivered gralis on application to 

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 Just published, at the New Enghuul Farmer Office, and 

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 at the Itookstnres generally, the I^'<-ir Eiigla7}d Fiinners Alma^ 

 wm/i-. for I!;28. By Thomas G. Fessemleu. Editor of tlie iXew 

 England Farmer " 



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 per .innum, or $^2,50 if paid in advance. 

 Gentlemen who procure _/i«'« responsible suiscribersj 

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