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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



March 28, 1828. 



MISCELLANIES. 



THE DEITY. 



Not in the solitude 

 Alone may man commune wiib heaven, or see, 



Onl^' ill savagp wood 

 And sunny vale, tlie present Deity ; 



Or only hear his voice 

 Wliere the winds whisper and the waves rejoicf . 



Even here I do behold 

 Tliy steps, Almighty ! — liere, amidst the crowd 



Through the great city rolled 

 With everlasting murmur, deep ind loud, 



Choking the ways that wind 

 'Mongst the proud piles, the work of human kind. 



The j^olden sunshine comes 

 From the round heaven, and on ti:sir dwelling lies. 



And lights their inner homes ; 

 For them thou fill st with air the unliounded skies, 



And givesl them the stores 

 Of ocean, and the harvest of its shores. 



Thy spirit is around. 

 Quickening the restless mass that sweep along ; 



And this eternal sound, 

 Voices and footfalls of the numberless throng, 



Like tlie resounding sea. 

 Or like the rainy tempest, speaks of Thee. 



And when the hours of rest 

 Come, like a calm upon the mid sea brine, 



Hushing its billowy breast, 

 The quiet of that moment too is thine; 



Jt breaths of Him who keeps 

 The vast and helpless city while it sleeps. 



As Sir Waiter Scott was riding (a few weeks 

 ago) with a friend in the neighborhood of Abbots- 

 ford, he came to a field gate, which an Iri: i beg- 

 gar, who happened to be near, hastened to open 

 for him. Sir Walter was desirous of rewarding 

 the civility by the present of sixpence, but found 

 that he had not so small a coin in his purse. "Here, 

 my good fellow," said the Baronet, "here is a 

 shilling for you ; but mind, you owe me si.xpenc<^." 

 " God bless your Honor !" e.xclaimed Pat, " may 

 your Honor live till I pay you !" — Literary Gar. 



Jin Englishti.an's account of JVew England Far- 

 mers. — The whole country, (New-England, Uni- 

 ted States.) are going mad about manufactures, 

 and water powers and water privileges. New Eng- 

 land, however, does seem to be admirably fitted 

 for a manufactiiring, and not for an agricultural 

 nation. There is not much improvement in hus- 

 bandry here, though the people have a strange 

 loolt of property and comfort, and all the rocks, 

 and rivers, and woods, of New England, are 

 smarming with healthy and happy children. How 

 tiiey are fed, God only knows ; for not a thou- 

 sandth pan of the soil is properly cultivated, and 

 it is a very difficult thing for a farmer to sell 

 enough from what is raised on his farm, or in his 

 dairy or poultry ytird, to pay his yearly ta.\es, 

 which are liitle or nothing, And yet no one ever 

 saw, or hoard ol', so happy a people. They are 

 , crovid ■ : with children — well educated, well cloth- 

 ed h aiihy children — with enough to eat and 

 drriili, with a liorsp or two for every farm, a few 

 cows, a few sheep, a few pigs, plenty of poultry, 

 and two or three yoke of fine cattle ; and so hap- 

 py are they, an 1 so far from feeling poor, that, in 

 nine families out of ten, they would think no more 

 of adopting a stray child tliat might come in their 



way, than most people would of giving it a dinner. 

 Wages on a farm are one dollar C4s. 6d.) a day, or 

 12 dollars a month the whole year round [21- 14s.) 

 or 120 dollars per year (.32/. 2s. j In all these ca- 

 ses the laborer is found. In the haying season 

 he may earn one dollar and fifty cents, or 6s. 9d. 

 a day. — JVotes of a Tour throvgh .Veto- England 

 in 1822. 



Mode of traveUing in Hussio. — As soon as win- 

 ter sets in, that is, as soon as the sea which is 

 now agitated by the slightest wind, becomes a sol- 

 id mass, the road is marked out on the ice which 

 leads from Petersburgli to Kronstadt ; this is done 

 by a line of large buoys. Ab.iiit every league are 

 stationed six sentry boxes, well armed, and the 

 centinels, during foggy weather, keep up fires at 

 certain distances, and, by the tinkling of bells, 



serve as a security and guide to the traveller 



About halfway is established a restaurateur. The 

 innumerable crowds of people, of all ages and 

 both sexes enveloped in their large pelisses, and 

 gliding with indifference upon the fragile surface, 

 which alone separates them from the abyss be- 

 neath, offer to the inhabitants of a southern coun- 

 try a strange sight, and impress him with a feel- 

 ing of terror quite unknown to a northern people. 

 But It is when they begin to run the bouers, that 

 the road to Kronstadt 'resents the most animated 

 picture. These bouers are boats fixed on two 

 plates or blades of iron like skates, with a third 

 which is adapted like a rudder. Seats are ar 

 ranged round this hack, which has one, two, or 

 sometimes three masts. Driven before a wind 

 which always blows with violence during this 

 season, and directed by an able pilot, these boats, 

 distinguished by their variety of rigging and flags 

 of different colours, skim along the surface with 

 inconceivable rapidity. A pale sun lends its rays 

 to the scene, but imparts no heat ; the sails are 

 unfurled ; the north wind whistles; the boat darts 

 forward ; and the sailors, by skillful manoeuvres, 

 endeavor to pass each other ; and thus, in less 

 than an hour, you glide through a space of ten 

 leagues. — AncdoVs Travels in Russia, in 1820. 



An English merchant, established at Hammers- 

 felt, has founded a colony of 25 Laplanders and 

 other Northern Europeans, at Spitzbergen, to col- 

 lect furs. The brother of the undertaker is at the 

 head of the establishment. They have convenient 

 iiouses ; the climate is very healthy, and not too 

 cold to prevent hunting ; no one has been sick 



for the three years that the colony has existed 



Every year a ship brings provisions and takes a- 

 way the furs. 



L^ever make an enemy, or lose a friend, un- 

 necessarily. 



ESTABLISHMENT FOR SEEDS. 



For sale at tlie Seed Establishment, connected with the office 

 of the New England Farmer, No. 52 North Market Street, Bos- 

 ton, the largest variety iif Seeds to be found in New England — 

 •f the crops of 1827. 'i'he greatest care has been taken to have 

 them raised by our most experienced seed growers, and to have 

 the sorts perfectly genuine. The Ibllowing comprises some of 

 otir most prominent s»rls. 



Fruit Trees. 

 WILLIAM PRINCE, the Proprietor of the IJn- 

 n<ean Botanic Garden and Nurseries at Flushing, 

 Long Island, has the pleasure of intbrmingthe pub- 

 lic. i1iat his Nursery now contains 172 varieties of 

 the Apple — 2 2 do. of the Pears — 76 do. of Cher- 

 ries — '..iii do. of Plums — 25 do. of Apricots — 84 do. of Peaches 

 — 2 do. of Nectarines — 1 do. of Almonds — 14 do. of Miillier- 

 ries — i"i do. of Quinces — 16 do. of Figs — 16 do. of Currants— 15 

 do. of Raspberries — 17 do of Gooseberries — 2 do. of Straw- 

 berries — 267 do. of Grapes — 6 do. of Ornamental Trees. &c. 

 Above 5 of the above kinds of Fruit are not to be found in 

 any other collection in A merica. The different varieties cannot 

 be othi^rwise than genuine, as the greatest attention is paid, and 

 neariv all the kinds are inoculated from bearing trees. The 



. Peach, and other Trees, are generally of a large siz 

 ! may be obtained of .T. R. Newell, at the Agri< 



Ch. 



Catalos; 



tural Warehouse, .52 North Mai ket street, gratis ; and orders 



left there, or sent bv mail, will meet prompt altentien. 



March 14 



Aiiichof.'e, Green Globe 

 Asparagus, Devonshire 

 Gravesend 

 Battersea 

 Large white Reading 

 Beans, (26 varieties,) including 

 the English broad bean 

 dwarfs and pole. 

 Beds, true Long Blood 



Early blood Turnip 

 Early White Scarcity 

 French Sugar, or Amber 

 Orange 



Green, (for soups, &c.) 

 Borecole 



Broi-oU. Early White 

 Early Purple 

 Large Cape 

 BntsseUs ^p emits, 

 Cabbage, Early Salsbury dwarf 

 Early York 

 Early Dutch 

 Early Sugarloaf 

 Early Loii. Battersea 

 Early Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large Hergen. &c. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 Large Scotch 

 Large Green glazed 

 Large late Drumhead 

 Tree, or lOtjO headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Yellow Sa\oy 

 Turnip rooted, &.c. 

 Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 

 Cardoon. 



Carrols, Altringham 

 Early Horn 

 Blood Red(for West In 



dia market) 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Cremer 

 Cauliflower, Early and Late 

 Celery, White sol'id 



Rose coloured solid 

 Italian 



Celeriac, or turnip rooted 

 Chen<il. 

 Chives. 



Com Salad, or Vettikost 

 Cress, Curled or Peppergrass 

 Broad leaved or Garden 

 . Water 



Long Orange 

 Cucimiber, Early Frame 

 Green Cluster 

 Short Prickly 

 Long Prickly 

 Long green Turkey 

 Long white Turkey 

 White Spined 

 Small Girkin, &.c 

 Egg Plant, Purple 

 While 

 Endive, Green 



White Curled 

 broad leaved Oatavian 

 Garden Burnet 

 Oarlic Setts 

 Indian Com, (several varieties) 

 Kale, Sea 



Purple curled 

 Green curly Scotch 

 Leek, London 



Large Scotch 

 Letli'ce, Early Curled Silesia 

 Large Green head 

 Royal (^ape 

 imperial 

 Hardy Green 

 Brown Dutch 

 Grand Admiral 

 Tennishall, or Rose 

 Drumhead 



Magnum Bonum Cess 

 Bath Coss 

 Ice Coss 



White Coss, or Loaf, 

 Green Coss 



Melon,Vn\e Apple 

 Green Cilren 

 Persian 

 Nutmeg 



Large Canteleupe 

 Pomegranate, or Musk 

 Carolina Water 

 Long Island Water 

 Apple seeded. Water 

 Marjoram, 



Mustard, White and Bro^vn 

 IKasturtivm , 

 Mangel Wurtzel, 

 Okra 



Onion, Potatoe 

 Tree 



White Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Madeira 

 •Stratsburg 

 Large Red 

 Parsley, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 Curled, or Double 

 Parsnip, Large Dutch swelling 



Silver Skinned 

 Peas, Early Washington 



Early double blossomed 

 Early F ame 

 Early Golden Hotspur 

 Early Charlton 

 Early Strawberry Dwarl 

 DwaVf blue Imperial . 

 Dwarf blue Prussian 

 Dwarf Spanish, or Fan 

 Dwarf Marrowfat 

 Dw-arf Sugar 

 Matchless, or Tall Mar. 

 Knight's Tall Marrows 

 Tall Crooked pod Sugar 

 Peppers, Long, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squash 

 Bell 

 Cherry 

 Pumpkins, Finest Familv 



Connecticut Field 

 Mammoth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short top Scarlet 

 Lf ug Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long while, or Naples 

 Cherry 



Violet colored. 

 White Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanish 

 Rhubarb, for tarts, &c. 

 Rjita Baga, 



Salsa/y, or vegetable oyster 

 Sea &e, 

 Skirrel 

 Scorzpnera 

 Saffron, 



Spinach, New Zealand 

 Pncklv, or Fall 

 RounJieaved summer 

 Eng. Patience Dock 

 Sage, 



Squash, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 

 Tomatm 



Tuniips, Early White Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 \\ hiie Flat, or Globe 

 Green Round 

 Red R.und 

 Swan's Egg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long Tankard 

 Long Yellow French 

 Yellow Dutch 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Yellow Aberdeen 

 Yellow Stone 

 Yellow Swedish 

 Dedham 

 TVnjrtie— Sweet Btsil — Boneset, 

 Laeender — Rosemary — Hyssop, 

 Wormwood — Summer Savory, 

 Penny rental — Spikamrd — Dill, 

 Balm — Tansy — Bene. <^c. 



