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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 4, 182«. 



Mif^CELLAlVIES. 



The foUmein^ lines, (enclosing; a ring) \ 



Lyttleton to Ins wife, fouiieen years after marriag£. 

 Thep, Mai'v, with this ring I wed ; 

 So fourteen years ago I said. 

 Behold another ring ! For what ? 

 f To wed thee o'er again j why not ? 



With that first ring I wedded youth, 

 Grace., beauty, inn 'Cence, and truth j 

 Taste long admired, sense long revered. 

 An-, all my Mary then appeared. 



If she by merit since disclosed 

 Prove twice the woman I supposed, 

 I plead that double merit now, 

 To justify a double vow. 



Here then to day, witii faith as sure, 

 With ardor a^ intense and pure, 

 As when amidst the rights divine, 

 I took thy truth and plighted mine. 



To thee, sweet girl, this second ring, 

 S. token and a pledge I bring 

 With this I wed, till death us part. 

 Thy riper virtues to my heart j 



Those virtues which, before untried. 

 The wife has added to the bride — 

 Those virtues, whose progressive claim. 

 Endearing wedlock's every name, 



iVly soul enjoys, my song approves. 

 For conscience' sake, as well as love's — 

 For why ? they show me hour by hour. 

 Honor's high thought, affection's power — 

 Discietion's deed, sound judgment's sentence, 

 And teach me all things — but repenteTKe. 



house ; which, after the frame was raised grew to 

 such a height, that the work was stoppeil ; and 

 add--essed Ini Lord'^^^ '^^'^"^^^^^ frame stood for years exposed to 

 the elements, until it literally tumbled down. An 

 attempt was then made to rebuild the house — a 

 new frame was provided for the purpose — and the 

 "society" gathered together for the raising. A- 

 mong those present, was the late Dr. Lemuel 

 Hopkins, of witty memory, (then a boy) together 

 with his father, the clergyman of the adjoining 

 parish. 



As was customary in those times, it was propo- 

 sed to have prayers and singing before the " rais- 

 ing" commenced — but there was no Psalm Book 

 there. Young Hopkins, however, suggested that 

 he could remember a Psalm, and was accordingly 

 requested to give it out, in the old way, by 

 it." He therefore began — 



ESTABLISHMENT FOR SEEDS. 



For sale at the Seed Establishment, connected with the office 

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

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

 •f the crops of 1827. The greatest care has been taken lo have 

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

 the sorts perfectly genuine. The following comprises some of 

 our most prominent sorts. 

 Artichoke, Green Globe I J/Won.Piiie Apple 



" Except the Lord doth build ihe house, 



" The builders work in vain. 

 These being duly sung to the good old tune of 

 Mear — he continued, 



" Except the Lord doth finish it, 



'' 'Twill tumble down again." 



We have now before us a better school-slate than 

 we ever saw before. It is of sufficient thickness 

 and polish, of a fine grain and of a dark colour. — • 

 This slate is from the quarry of J. M. Porter, near 

 Easton. He has an immense number ready for 

 market, and will sell them as clieap as the import- 

 ed article. Its manufacture will give employment 

 to some hundred of our citizens. — Philn. Press. 



A discovery has recently been made at Albany, 

 it is said, to bleach linen and muslin by steam. — 

 Thick linen drilling has been bleached in ten 

 hours, without injury to the fabric, and cotton in 

 much less time. It has been patented. 



Conveyance of Sound. — The wide spread sail of 



Asparagus, Devonshire 



Gravesend 1 



Baltersea 

 Large white Reading] 

 Beans, (26 varieties,) including 

 the English broad beaus, 

 dwarfs and pole. 

 Beets, true Long Blood 



Early blood Turnip 

 Early While Scarcity 

 French Sugar, or Amber 

 Orange 



Green, {for soups, &.C,) 

 lining Borecole 



i Brocoli, Earlv While 

 Early Purple 

 Large Cape 

 Bnissells Sprouts, 

 Cabbage, Early Salsbury dwarf 

 Earlv York 

 Early Dutch 

 Early Sugarloaf 

 Early Lon. Batiersea 

 Early Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large Bergen, &c. 

 Large Cape Savoy- 

 Large Scotch 

 Large Green glazed 

 Large lale Drumhead 

 Tree, or KX)0 headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Yellow Savoy 

 Turnip rooted, &c. 



Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 

 Vardcon. 



Carrots, AUringham ' 

 Early Horn 

 Blood Red (for West In 



dia market) 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Cremer 



Early and Late 



red solid 



Italian 



Celeriac, or turnip rooted 

 Cherril. 

 Chit 



OldB/iiley wit. — A man tried for stealing a pair 

 of boots from a shop door in Holborn, with which 



he ran away. (Judge, to the witness who had pur- a ship, rendered concave by a gentle breeze, is al- 

 sued and seized the prisoner ) so a sjood collector of sound. It happened once | ^"te^White solfd 



Judge. — What did he say, when you caught on hoard a ship sailing along the coast of Brazil, '^ Rose colour 

 !iim ? 1<X) miles from land, that the persons walking on 



Witness. — My Lord, he said that he took tho deck when passing a particular spot, alwaysheard 

 boots in joke. most distinctly the sound of bells ; varying as in 



Jurfg'c— Pray how far did he tarry the joke ? human rejoicings. All on board listened and were j %°"',,fcAxr\eTolvTw^r^!>ss 



ffitness. — About forty yards, please your Lord- convinced, but the phenomenon was mysterious ' '- •■ - ■ 

 ship. and inexplicable. Montlis afterwards, by com- 

 paring notes, it was ascertained, that at the time 



An Irishman who was employed on the canal last of observation, the bells of the city of St. Salva- 

 spring, was observed one day attentively watching aor, on the Brazilian coast, had been ringing on 

 - red headed wood-pecker, while it was tapping a j,,g occasion of a festival ; the sound, therefor?, 

 On being asked what attracted his favored by a sentle wind, had travelled over 100 



beech tree 



attention, he said, "I'm speering at the strange .^-jg^ ^f ;„,ooth water, and had been brought to a 

 haste upon yonder tree— for sure enough the silly f^^^g ^y the sail in the particular situation on the 

 crnth,.r has knocked his tace against it till his j^^^ .^^ere it was listened to. It appears from 

 ^'""'^ "^ ^ gore ot Uuid. j^,,;^ ^^^^ ^ machine might be constructed having 



Geese.-One of these birds was hatching ou a ^^^ ^^'"« '■^'''''°" '° """""^ "'=^' " telescope has to 

 hill in our neighbourhogd during the late snow j ^^ 



storm. The winds blew and the snow descended] Cochineal. — The Washington papers, of last 

 and drifted around her but slie hung on like the j week, contained a valuable article on the subject 

 tootli ache. And it was not until etery part and 'of cultivating Cochineal, in the United States. — 

 parcel of her was covered except her head that ' The late English publications state, that it has 

 the benefit of a removal occurred to her. She i succeeded in Europe. The common opinion that 

 then "rose, reported progress," and we believe 'these insects fly from leaf to leaf to deposite their 

 has had "leave to sit again." — Taunton Adu. ; esrgs, is not correct. The male insects only fly. 



— — 'Tlipy are few, one or tAo to every thousand fe- 



Apropos Psalm .sz«King._JUany years ago, in males. These insects feed upon the prickly pear, 

 "Old Continental times," an obscure parish, in a which is indigenous in the Sonthcrn States.— 



corner of the town of W , in Connecticut, set Hence it is inferred, that the Cochineal m.iy bo 



about the erection of a house of public worship.— cultivated, very profitably in this country. Its price 

 As not unfrequently occurs on such occasions, a is about throe dollars per pound. The e.xperiment 

 disagreement took place about the location of the j certainly should be attempted. 



Broad leaved or Garden 

 Water 



Long Orange 

 Cucumber, Early Frame 

 Green Cluster 

 Short Prickly 

 Long Pricklv 

 Long green "Turkey 

 Long white Turkey 

 While Spined 

 Small Girkin, &c. 

 Efg Plant, Purple 

 White 

 Endive, Green 



White Curled 

 broad leaved Batavian 

 Garden Bnrnet 

 Garlic ifettf 



Indian Corn, (several varieties^ 

 Kale, Sea 



Purple curled 

 Green curly Scotch 

 Leek, Loijdon 



Large Scotch ' 



Lettuce, Early Curled Silesia 

 Large Green head 

 Royal Cape 

 Imperial 

 Hiirdy Green 

 Brown Dutch 

 Grand Admiral 

 Tennisball, or Rose 

 Drumhead 



iMagnum Bonum Coss 

 Bath Coss 

 Ice Cos.s 



Whfte Coss, or L»af, 

 Green Coss 



Gree« Citron 

 Persian 

 Nuimeg 



Large Canleleupe 

 Pomegranate, or Musk 

 Carolina Water 

 Long Island Water 

 Apple seeded, Water 

 Marjoram, 



Mustard. White and Brown 

 Nasiurtlum 

 Mangel Wurtzel, 

 Okra 



Onion, Potatoe 

 Tree 



Wliiie Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Madeira 

 Siratsburg 

 Large Red 

 Parsley, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 Curled, or Double 

 Parsnip, Large Dutch swelling 



Skinned 

 Peas, Early Washington 



Early double blossomed 

 Early F-ame 

 Early Golden Hotspur 

 Early Charlton 

 Early Strawberry Dwarf 

 Dwarf blue Imperial 

 Dwarf blue Prussian 

 Dwarf Spanish, or Fan 

 Dwarl Marrowfat 

 Dwarf Sugar 

 Matchless, or Tall Mar. 

 Knight's Tall Marrows 

 Tall Crooked pod Sugar 

 Peppers, Long, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squash 

 Bell 

 » Cherry 



Pumpkins. Finest Family 



Connecticut Fiela 

 Manimolh 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short top Scarlet 

 Lr ug Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white, or Naples 

 Cherry 

 Violet' colored 

 While Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanish 

 Rhubarb, for tarts, &c, 

 Rnla Ba« 



Snlsafy.ar vegetable oystci 



;SVa Kale, 



Skin-el 



Scorzonera , 



Saffron, 



Spinach, New Zealand 

 Pricklv, or Fall 

 RoviiKlleaved sumincr 

 Eng. Patience Dock 



Sage, 



Squash, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 



Tomatos 



Turnips, Early While Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 While Flat, or Globe 

 Green Round 

 Red R«und 

 Swan's Egg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long TaiiKard 

 - Long Yellow French 

 Yellow Dutch 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Yolluw .Mierdeen 

 Yellow Sione 

 YeWy Swedisli 

 Dedhani 



Thyme— Street Basil— B.'. 



Lavender — Rostmartj — Ih. 



Wormieood — Summer jSV 



Penny roi/al — Spikenard— ' 



Balm — Tansii — Bene, *5'' 



