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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



April 25, 1828. 



MISCELLANIES. 



Botanical Curiosity. — In the last number of Ed- 

 . wards' Botanical Register, there is a figure of the 



[The following hymn was composed by Dr. Hawk.swor.h, Une new "Air Plant of China," long known to the 

 (a short time belore his dea.h) and repeated to his wife before I Europeans by the drawings of the Chinese, and 

 he rose in tlie morning; — j 



III sleep's serene oblivion laid, 



I safely pass'd the silent night ; 

 Once more I see the breaking shade, 



And drink again the morning light. 



New-born, I bless the waking hour — 

 Once more, with awe, rejoice to be ; 



My conscious soul resumes her power. 

 And springs, my gracious God, to thee. 



Oh ! guide me thro' llie various maze 

 My doybtlul feet are doom'd to tread, 



And spread thy shield's protecting blaze 

 Where dangers press around my head 



A deeper shade will soon impend, 

 A deeper sleep my eyes oppress j 



Yet still thy strength .^haii me defend, 

 Thy gfiodness st;ll shall deign to bless 



That deeper shade shall fade away, 

 That deeper sleep shall leave my eyeS; 



Thy light shall give eternal day. 

 Thy love the rapture of the skies. 



Epitaph in a country church-yard. 



Here I, 



Uo lie. 



But when the trumpet last will sound, 



Then shall 1 lise above the ground. 



celebrated for the splendor of its flowers and the 

 fragrance of its perfume. It has for some years 

 been cultivated in the stoves of this country — but 

 no means could be discovered for making it flow- 

 er, till a new method was pursued by the gi<rden- 

 er of his Royal Highness the Prince Leopold, at 

 Claremont, which finally proved successful. Un- 

 der this mode of treatment a branch of bloss(vns 

 was produced, between two and three feet long — 

 and composed of some hundreds of large dowers, 

 resplendent with scarlet and yellow. The pl-jnt 

 has the remarkable property of living wholly upon 

 air, and is s'lspended by the Chinese from the 

 ceilings of their rooms, which are thus adorned by 

 its beauty and perfumed by its fragrance. — Loti- 

 don Medical Gazette. 



ESTABLISHMENT FOR SEEDS. 



For sale at the Seed Establishment,' connected with the office 

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

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

 of the crops of 18'27. The greatest care has been taken to have 

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

 die sorts perfectly genuine. The following comprises some of 

 oi;r most promineiu sons. 



Artklwke, 

 Asp,, 



Rail ff'ay. — A wager, for a small amount, as to 

 the power of draught of a horse on the Monkland 

 and Kirkintilloch railway, was decided in pres- 

 ence of several of the members of the committee 

 of management of the railway, ami a great crowd 

 of spectators. The horse in questi^n started from 

 Gargil Colliery, drawing a weight of fifty tons, on 

 fourteen wagons, which it conveyed to Kirkintil- 

 loch, a distance of seven miles, in the short space 

 of one hour and forty-one minutes. The first two 

 miles of the above distance «as on a level, and 

 the remainder was on a descent, varying from one 

 in 120 to 1.100 with several level tracts. — Glas- 

 gow Chronicle. 



There is a portion of mankind who are always 

 either naturally or habitually behind hand. This 

 trait of their ch.iractec is easily discovered in eve- 

 ry thing that relates to their conduct and pursuits j The Chimpanna. — This enormous monkey in- 

 in life. Such a man goes too late to bed — and as ! habits the coast of the Gulf of Guinea. Its height 

 a necessary consequence gets up too late in the is sometimes greater than that of ;p man ; it has a 

 morning. Being nut of bed too Ute, he is too lute ' small beard and mustachios, and is exceedingly! 

 at breakfast, and this deranges the affairs of his pugnacious. It lives in society — at least numer , 

 household all the forenoon. Having been behind i ous individuals of the species congregate tngeth- 

 hand at breakfast, he of course is behind-hand at er to plunder the negroes, and carry off their 

 dinner, and lastly at supper. If he makes an ap- j wives. It builds itself a hut, makes love to their | Chervil. 



, Green Globe 

 , Devonshire 

 Gravesend 

 Bauersea 

 Large white Readinj 

 IIS, (2G varieties,) includin 

 the English broad bean> 

 dwarfs and pole. 

 '.y, true Long Blood 

 Early blood Turnip 

 Eai'ly White Scarcity 

 French Sugar, or Amber 

 Orange 



Green, (for soups, &c.) 

 ■'■cote 

 Brocoli, Early While 

 Early Purple 

 Large Cape 

 Brussells Sprouts, 

 Calilhige, Early Salsbury dwarf 

 Early York 

 Early Dutch 

 Early Sugarloaf 

 Early Lou. Battersea 

 Early Emperor 

 Early Wellington 

 Large Bergen, &.c. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 Large Scotch 

 Large Green glazed 

 Large laie Druijhe.id 

 Tree, or 1000 h«aded 

 Green Globe Sa\o> 

 Red Dulch 

 A^ellow Savoy 

 Turnip rooted, &.c. 

 Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Late Sugarloaf 



I Melm,P'we Apple 

 Green t'iircn 

 Persian 

 Nutmeg 



Large Canteleupe 

 Pomegranate, or MusK 

 Carolina Water 

 Long Island Water 

 .^pple seeded, Water 



Canloon. 



Carrots, Altrin»ham 

 Early rforn 

 Blood Red(for West In 



dia niaikel) 

 Lemon 

 Long Orange 

 Cremer 

 Caulijlovxr . Early and Late 

 : Celery, White solid 

 ' Rose coloured solid 



I ■ Italian 



Celeriac, or turnip rooted| 



pointment, he never gets to the place in season ; negresses, and driven away those who approach \ Chives. -^ ■, 



and if he is to meet a board of directors, or a com- his dwelling, by pelting them with stones. S^'V - c'r"ssCm\ed'or Pepverera^'i 



mittee, or any public body whatever, he is always eral young ones have been tamed, and found to 



twenty minutes or half an hour too late, and upon possess great imitative talents. — Lon. Revieiv. 



being reminded that he has obliged his associates 



to wait, and thereby to waste their time, he char- Potato Bread. — At the Edinburgh Agricultural 

 ges his delay to his ivatch ; which, like the owner, meeting, at which above three hundred noblemen 

 is always invariably at least a quarter of an hour and gentlemen attended, Sir John Sinclair address- 

 too slow. If he has made arrangements to leave ed the party after breakfast, and informed them 

 town in a stage, especially if it is nn early stage, that a great part of the bread they had been eat- 

 he commonly forces the carriage to wait for some ing, was comnoped chiefly of potato flour ; and 

 time, or, what is not very uncommon, is left be- that if the country would be contented with such 

 hind. If he intends to take his departure in a bread, Britain would never require a bushel of 

 steam boaft, you will meet him two streets off as foreign grain. 



the last bell tolls, and after running down to the i ■ 



wharf finds the boat h.Tuled off; and if he gets | Caterpillars This is one of the worst enemies 



aboard at all it is by the long boat, and often at lo an orchard when neglected, but easily destroy- ' "^'purp 

 the haza d of his life. If he is an attendant upon ed with a little atten tion, in the spring when the 

 public worship, he never reaches the church until nests are small, and the insects young and tender, 

 after the services have commenced, and greatly They never venture abroad in the early part of 

 disturbs the congregation by entering in the midst the day, when the dew is on the trees, or in bad 

 of their devotional exercises. In short, such men , weather ; they may then be effectually destroyed 

 labor, and toil, and drudge on through life, just as | by crushing them in the nest. This attention 

 uniform and regular in their Concerns, /ifl// on ftnuj- 1 continued for a short time every spring, will de 



too late, as punctual people are in season. If such 

 persons could, by some great exertion, redeem 

 that half hour, and set their watches right, they 

 might go on with the same ease they do now, and 

 always be in season. 



stroy those in existence, and will prevent their in- 

 crease in future years. If left till grown strong, 

 they wander from their nests, and cannot be ef- 

 fectually overcome without great trouble and ex- 

 pense. — Coxe on Fruit Trees. 



Broad leaved 

 Water 



Long Orange 

 Cucumber, Y.:xr]y Frame 

 Green Cluster 

 Short Prickly 

 Long Prickly 

 Long green Turkey 

 Long white Turkey 

 White Spined 

 Small Girkin, &c. 

 E^s Plant, Purple 

 White 

 Endire, Green 



While Curled 

 broad leaved Batavlan 

 Garden Burnet 

 Garlic Setts 

 Indian Com, (several varieties) 



■pie curled 

 Green curly Scotch 

 Leek, London 



Large Scotch 

 Lettuce, Early Curled Silesia 



Large Green head 



Royal Cape 



Imperial 



Harily Green 



Brown Dutch 



Grand Admiral 



Tennisball, or Rose 



Drumhead 



iMa^num Bonum Coss 



Baiti Coss 



Ice Coss 



White Cass, or LOaf, 



Green Coss 



Marjon 



Mustard, White and Brown 

 ?.aslwtium 

 Matifrel Wurtzel, 

 Olcra 



Onion. Potatoe 

 Tree 



White Portugal 

 Yellow 

 ftladeira 

 Stratsburg 

 Large Red 

 Parsley, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 Curled, or Double 

 Parsnip. Large Dutch swelling 



Skinned 

 Peas, Early Washington 



Early double blossomed 

 Early Fame 

 Early Golden Hotspur 

 Early (Jharlton 

 Early Strawberry Dwaif 

 Dwarf blue Imperial 

 Dwarf blue Prussian 

 Dwarf Spanish, or Fan 

 Dwarf Marrowfat 

 Dwarf Sugar 

 Matchless, or Tall Mar. 

 Knight's Tall Marrows 

 Tall Crooked pod Sugar 

 Peppers, Long, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squash 

 Tell 

 Cherry 

 Pumpkins, Finest Family 



Connecticut Fieit; 

 Mammoth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short lop Scarlet 

 Lfiig Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white, or Naples 

 Cherry 

 \'iolei colored 

 While Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanish 

 Rhubarh, for tarts, &c. 

 Ruta Baga, 



Snlsa/ij. or vegetable oyster 

 Sea Kale, 

 Stirret 

 Scorzonera 

 Safrcm, 



Spinach, New Zealand 

 Prickly, or Fall 

 Roundleaved siimmei 

 Eng. Patience Dock 

 Sage, 



Sqiuish, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 

 Tomatos 



Turnips, Early While Dutch 

 Early Garden Stone 

 White Flat, or Globi: 

 Green Round 

 Red Round 

 Sw,in's Egg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 I.oiig Tankard 

 Long Yellow French ' 

 Yellow Dutch 

 Yellow Maltese 

 Yellow Aberdeen 

 Yellow Stone 

 Yellow Swedish 

 Dedliam 

 Thyme— Sweet Basil— Bmitsel'. 

 Lavender — Rosemary — Hyssqp, 

 Wormuood — Summer Savortj; 

 Penny roual — Spikenard — QflL 

 Babi— Tansy— Bene, ^r, 



