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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jiiup fi. Tsot; 



MISCELLANIES. 



THE COTTER'S HOME. 



Who hath his home in a rural glade, 

 AnH his eveirn^ seal in a sweet-brier shade ; 

 AVith verdant fields and blooming flowers, 

 For his morning walk and evening hours. 

 And with all these, a cherub son. 

 And a mui'h-loved, smiling, devoted one ; 

 At either hand, with him to rove. 

 Thro' the fields, the garden, and the grove ; — 

 Whate'er his humble fortune be, 

 Enjoys earth's purest felicity. 



Oh 1 who that hath tasted this, would not 

 Exchange for the cotter's humble lot. 

 Those airj- nothings, which engage 

 A cit. and form his equipage 1 

 Who would n<*t exchange the baubles bright, 

 That coldly glitter in a city's night, 

 For thiise bright stars that deck the dome. 

 And twinkle in. joy o'er the colter's home 7 

 Peace and contentment there alone, 

 And tranquillity, sit on their triple throne. 



See how the birds flit round and round, 

 While the lambkins over the pasture bound ; 

 J.ist to the mock-bird's lay of love. 

 And to the Sjtarrow's chirp in the lilac grove ; 

 How sweetly, with their humble lay, 

 The cotter's care those birds repay, — 

 For no archer's arrow have they to fear, 

 Nor missiles of cruel urchins, here — 

 As ihey perch at will on the allhea spray, 

 And sing the evening hour away. 



If nature hath, in her wide domain. 

 One favorite spot where she loves to reign, 

 "Tis the cotter's hovver, with its fields and groves, 

 And fragrant flowers, and Sylvan loves. 

 Where she sits and tunes her evening lyre, 

 As tranquillity and peace inspire ; 

 "Tis the rural glade, with its wood-notes wild, 

 Where dwells her favorite happy child j 

 Where stands the lowly, humble dome, — 

 The cotter's and conictitmenl'sljome. 



JVatural Barometers The follovvinjr are a few 



of those plants which indicate changes in the 

 weather : Chick-weed is an excellent barometer. 

 When the flower e.xpands fully, we are not to ex 

 pect rain for several hotirs ; should it continue in 

 that state, no rain will disturb the summer's day. 

 When it half conceals its miniature flower, the 

 day is generally showery ; but. if it entirely ^'huts 

 up, or veils the white flower with its green man- 

 tle, let the traveller put on his great coat The 

 different species of trefoil always contract their 

 leaves at the approach of a storm : so certainly 

 does this take place, that these plants have ac- 

 quired the name of the husbandman's b.iromfter. 

 The tulip and several of the compound vellow 

 flowers also close before rain There is. besidee, 

 a species of woo.l-sorrel, which doubles its leaves 

 before storms and tempests. The hauhinia ov 

 mountain ebony, cassin, and sensitive plants, ob- 

 serve the same habit. — Philosophy in Sport. 



ESTABLISHMK.XT FOR SriKDa. 

 For sale at the Seed Establishmeni, conuecied with the office 

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

 ton, the largest variety of Seeds to he found m New England— 

 of the crops of 1827. Th" greatest care has ^oen taken' to have 

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

 the sorts perfectly gentr lie. The following comprises some of 

 0"r most prominent sons. 

 Artichoke . Green Globe I Lettu 



Asparagus. Devonshire 



Gravesend 1 



Battersea 

 Lars-e white Reading 



V rranberr> 



Board of Henllh. — \ countryman, upon visiting 

 New-York during the yellow fever, asked why a 

 Ijoard fence was placed across the street : and 

 upon being informed it was erected to separate the 

 infected part of the city, observed that " ho had 

 often heard of the Board of Health, but had never 

 seen it before." 



How to tell a bad husband. — A few days since a 

 man was engaged in loading his cart with boards 

 which had recently been drawn Iroui a raft, and 

 had placed bis horse in a position which rendered 

 it difficult to pa.ss ; two girls, one of them a smil- 

 ing little gipsey, not liking the obstruction, turned 

 the horse out of the way. The man, who at that 

 moment was tottering under the weight of a hea- 

 vy plank, bur.fl fortn with ti volley of abusive lan- 

 guage ; when tiiis smiling fair stretclied forth her 

 finger and e.xclaimed, "i'W bet a dollar you whip 

 your toift " 



Dancing. — "I am an old fellow," says (yowper, 

 in one of !iis letters to Hurdis, but T had once my 

 dancing days as you liave now, yet I could never 

 find that 1 could learn half so much of a woman's 

 real character by dancing with her, as conversing 

 with her at home, when 1 could observe lier be- 

 haviour at the table, at the fire side, and in all the 

 trying scenes of domestic life. We are all good 

 when we are pleasant, but she is good who wants 

 not the fiddle to sweeten her." 



Beans. Earlv Y 



Earlv Mohawk 

 EarlVYellnw six Weeks 

 Earl'y Canadian Dwarf 

 Earlv rhina Dwarf 

 Dwarf riusier 

 While Kidney Dwa 

 While Pranherrv Dwarf 

 Refl Cranberrv Dwarf 

 Warrinerton or Marrow 

 Thousand to Ore 

 Large White Lima 

 Saba, or Carolina 

 Red Cranl'erry string 

 White Cranberry string 

 Broail Windsor 

 INTOXICATION. Field 



The laws against into,xicr,tion are enforced with : ^"'^' r"*',''M^ ?'^'"' 



„ '^ ,-, I Early blood Tur... 



rigour in Sweden — Whoever is seen drunk is r Earlv White Scarcitv 



fined, for the first offence three dollars ; for tha French Sugar, or Amber 



second six; for the third and fourth, a still larger Gre"n,Vor soups, &,c.) 



sum ; and is also deprived of the right of voting at i Boreeolf 



elections, and of being appointed a representative. , ^'''*^<'''- ^"""y „ *"'? 

 . .^ 'r r I Early Purple 



He is, besides, publickly expo.sed in the parish j Large Cape 



church on the following Sunday. If the sime in- i BrussrHs fipmnt: 

 1- ■ I L ■ r J ■..■ ."i a- , CaMt)o-e, Earlv ^ 



dividual is found committing the same offence a j E.irlv ' 



fifth time, he is shut up in a house of correctinn, 

 and condemned to six months' hard 1 ibor ; and if 

 he is again guilty, to twelve months' punishment of 

 a similar description. If the cfTence has been 

 eommitted in public, such as at a fair, at an auc- 

 tion, &c. the fine is doubled ; and if the oS'ender 

 has made his appearance in the church, the pun- 

 ishment is still more severe. — Whoever is convict- 

 ed of having induced another to intoxicate liim- 

 self, is fined three dollars, which sum is doubled if 

 the drunken person is a minor. An ecclesiastic k, 

 if he should fall into this offence, loses his bene- 

 fice ; if it is a layman who occupies any consid- 

 erable post, his functions are suspended and per- 

 haps he is dismissed. Drunkenness is never ad- 

 mitted as an excuse for any crime: and whoever 

 dies while drunk, is buried ignominiously, and de- 

 prived of the prayers of tho church. It is forbid- 

 den to give, end more explicitly to sell, any spir- „ ,.- *^"'"i?'' 



*: ' , , J f Cajihflou'er. Early and L; 



ituoiis liquors to students, workmen, servants, ap- Celery, White solid 

 prentices, and private soldiers ; whoever is observ- Rose coloured solid 



Ma 



f.Early Curled Silesia 



Large Green head 



Royal Cape 



Imperial 



Hardy Green 



Brown Dutch 



Grand Admiral 



Teiinisball, or Rose 



Drumhead 



Magnum Bonum Cos5 



I^aih Coss 



Ice Coss 



While Coss,-or Loaf, 



Green Coss 

 , Pine Apple 



Green Citr«n 



Persian 



Nutmeg 



Large Canteleupe 



Pomegranate, or Mus'k 



Carolina Water 



Long IslantI Water 



.^ppTe seeded. Water 



nUhurv dwarf 

 'oik 

 Earlv Dutch 

 Earlv Sviear 

 Earlv Lon. Rauersea 

 Early Emperor 

 Earlv Wellington 

 Large Rergen. &c. 

 Large Cape Savoy 

 large Scotch 

 Large Green glazed 

 Large laleDrumhe;« 

 Tree, or 1000 headed 

 Green Globe Savoy 

 Red Dutch 

 Vellow Savoy 

 Turnip rooted. &c. 

 Russian 

 Late Imperial 

 Lale Sugarloaf 

 Cardoon. 

 Carrots, Altringham 



Early Horn 



RloodRed(ror West In- 

 dia market) 



Lemon 



Long Orange 



Cremer 



en drunk in the streets, or making a noise in a Celerfac, or turnip rooted 



tavern, is sure to be taken to prison, anil detained Cherril. 



until sober, without however, being on that ac- 5^''"'"c; ; j -i; ..i . 

 ' , r- TT 1/. ,- Corn SoM'/, or VetlikBst 



I count exempted from the fines. Half these fines Cress, Curled or Peppergrass 

 '• so to the inforn-ers (who are generally police of- i f^ma.i\ leavetl or Garden 



Water 

 i ficers) the other half to the poor. If the delin- | Long Orange 



I qnent has no money, he is kept in prison until he i £'"«"'>*«■. "Early Frame 

 [has worked out his enlargement. Twice a year' Green uster 



these ordinances .ire read aloud from the pulpit by 

 the clergy ; and every tavern keepe- is hound un- 

 der the penalty of a heavy law fine, to have n copy 

 of them hungup in the principal roonriS of his 

 house. 



: Short Prickly 



\ Long Prickfv 



Long green Turkey 

 Long w hite Turkey 

 While Spined 

 Small Girkin, &c. 

 £"■<;■ Plant, Purple 

 White 

 Eiulire. Green 



White Curled 



broad leaved Pala\'ian 



Cum for the Scratches in Hordes. — An ointment 



of itch weed or poke-root is said to be a certain Cm-rlen Burnet 



cure for the troublesome disease called scratches ('orlic Setts 



1 r. 1 ■ . J .■ „ r .1 ; f«(/i«n Cora, (several varieties) 



in horses. Dy making a strong decoction ol this ^^-^^^, p^,_., 



root, and adding an equal quantity of melted lard,; Purple curled 



a few applications to the fetlocks of the horse, it, ^^^^. LoTdor?"''^ ^™"'' 



is said, will effect a cure. — Belvtdere JlpoUo. I '• — <-e .sceich yBalm—'Pansij—Bme.,lfc, 



^■jor. 



Mustard, White and Brown 

 NasmrtivTn 

 Mangel Wurlzel, 

 Olcra 



Onion. I'otatoe 

 Tree 



White Portugal 

 Yellow 

 Madeira 

 Stralsburg 

 Large Red 

 Par'sleu, Siberian 



Dwarf Curled 

 (^urled, or Double 

 Parsnip, Large Dutch swelliner 



Silver Skinned 

 Peas, (14 varieties,) 

 " )ers, Loug, or Cayenne 

 Tomato, or Squasb 

 Pell 

 Cherry 

 ■pkins. Finest Family 



Conned icut Field 

 Mamuioth 

 Radish, Early Frame 



Short lop Scarlet 

 Lf iig Salmon 

 Purple Short Top 

 Long white, or Naples 

 Cherry 

 Violet colored 

 \\ hiie Turnip Rooted 

 Black Fall, or Spanisb 

 Rliubarh, for tarts, &.C. 

 Ruta liaga, 



Siilsafy. or vegetable oyster 

 .S'ra kale. 

 SHrret 

 Scortonera 

 Saff.on. 



Spinach. New Zealand 

 Prickly, or Fall 

 Rouiidleaved sumine 

 Eng. Patience Dock 

 Sajre, 



Squash, Early bush Summer 

 Long Crook Neck 

 Vegetable Marrow 

 Porter's Valparaiso 

 Acorn 

 Tomatos 



Turnips. E.nrly While Dutch 

 Earlv Garden 'Stone 

 White Flat, or Globe 

 Green Round 

 Red Round 

 Swan's Fgg 

 Large Eng. Norfolk 

 Long Tan kard 

 Long Yel'ow French 

 YVIloH Dutch 

 »llow Maltese 

 Y'cllow Aberdeen 

 Y'ellow Stone 

 Y'ellow Swedish 

 Thyme — Sweet Basil — Bonfsef, 

 l.'iiendcr — Rosemary — Hyssc^, 

 Wormteood — Summer Savonj^ 

 [Pemnj ro»ol — Spikenard — Diff. 



