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NEWENGLAND FARMER 



OCTOEER 19, I83R. 



5na5!:s©igSi3S^ssr2r. 



[The following from llie Token for 1337 by i. C. Prav, 

 Jr., Esq. is one of tlie best things we hava met with for 

 some lime. It will bear a compari.«on with Halluck's 

 lines on the same subject, which have been so nniver- 

 sally read and admired.— iWr P. needs only caro and 

 critical attention to become one of our best poets.] 



TO THE AMERICAN FLAG 

 I. 

 Hail I Standard of the free and bold : 



I love thy waving gorgeousness ; 

 Which seems, like changing skies, to fold 



Thy stars, whicli fited, both guide and bless ! 

 Thpy are the emblems true of states 



Linked fast in league well known lofame — 

 "Whose souls thy glory emulates — 



Whose sons shall never read their shame 

 Till, as a pleiad gone from Heaven's own blue, 

 A star be lost from thy holy hue. 



II. 



Float ever, I'lag, as when at first, 



Our fathers bore thee through the air. 

 And pledged their lives, while on them burst 



Thy glorious stars in splendor there — 

 ,Ay, pledged their lives and liberty. 



While thou their canopy shouldst stand. 

 To guard, protect, and honor thee — 

 The emblem of our rising land : 

 Ay ! — float as when each soldier in his lent 

 Dreamed that his flag was ihe firmament. 



HI. 



Thou lofty ensign of the free — 



May every land thy glory know, 

 And every freeman trust in ihee 



While breezes mid thy folds shall flow. 

 Jlay hand, and heart, and hopes, and zeal 



Be ever by thy form inspired — 

 And if shall shake the common weal. 



May every soul by thee be fired. — 

 Each patriot heart discern amid thy form 

 A beacon-star in the battle-storm I 



Good Advice. — Never cut n piece out of a 

 ne\vspa|ier until you have looked on the other 

 side, where perhaps you may findsotuethiiif; aiore 

 valuable tlian that which you ijucndcd to a]ipro- 

 priate. 



Never put salt in your soup before you have 

 tasted it. I have known gentlcinsn very uiucli eu- 

 ■■agi?d by doing so. 



Never burn your fingers if you <-:in lielp it. 

 People burn their fingers every day, when lliey 

 !tii!iht have escaped it if they had been careful. 



Let no gentleman ever quarrel with a woman. 

 If you are troubled with her, retreat. If she abuse 

 you, be silent. If she tear your cloak ofT, "ive 

 her your coat. If she bo,\ your eais, l)ow. W 

 siie tear your eyes out, I'eel your way to the door 

 — but fly. 



Dou't jHit your feet on the tal):e. True, the 

 members of Congres.^ do so, but you are not a 

 member of Congres.s. 



If you form one of a large mi.xed company, ajul 

 a ditndent stranger enter tlie room and take his 

 .seat among you, say something to him for Heav- 

 en's sake, even though it be only, ' Fine evening, 

 sir." Do not let him sit bold upright, suffering all 



the agonies of bashfulness, without any relief. Ask 

 him how he has been — tell liim you kuow his 

 friends and so and so — anything will do to break 

 the icy stiflfness in which very decent fellow.s are 

 sometimes frozen in their debut before a new cir- 

 cle. — Pearl. 



A Gemus. — A distinguished engraver, residing 

 about cue hundred miles from 15oston, is as re- 

 markable for his love of ihefar nietite, as for his 

 skill in his profession. 



' Wliere is H — ? ' said a friend. 



' Fishing,' was the reply. 



' Ay,' remarked one who knew him well, ' he is 

 always ready to forsake his graver for his lighter 

 occupations.' — lb. 



ExpERiE.NDE To most men, says Coleridge, 



' E.xperience is like the stern-light of a ship, which 

 ilhim ue only the track it has passed.' This is 

 very pretty, and very true ; but like a great many 

 pretty and true things, it does not amount to 

 much. Suppose e.xperience were like a light on 

 the bow. What would be the difTerence ? It 

 would then only show you the danger, just as you 

 would be on the point of feeling it. It would not 

 penetrate the gloom sufficiently to point it out in 

 time to avoid it. For my part, I do not calculate 

 largely upon the benefit which the human family 

 is likely ever to derive from the likely ever to de- 

 rive from the lights of e.xperience. A cool, cau- 

 tious, well-balanced head will carry a man safely 

 over a sea in which experience would wreck him 

 anv minute. — Blackwood. 



A drunken man fell from a jirecipice near Ni- 

 agara Falls, among some rocks, and was taken up 

 alive. He was shockingly mangled, but is expect- 

 ed to recover. This is what we call preservation 



in spirits. 



GiRAP.D College. — The edifices intended for 

 the use of this institution wtil be the most splen- 

 did of any in our country. No wood-wark is al- 

 lowed in the construction — they are built of mar- 

 ble, and the pillars are superb, costing about fif- 

 teen thousand dollars each. Description would 

 beggar the richness of thj architecture. Philadel- 

 phia will become richer in all that is lovely, than 

 any of our cities, when the college is finished. 

 Her Fair !\Ioiiut Water Works were he.- pride, 

 but they will be sliaded by the towering walls of 

 this stupendous congregation of marble. — Pearl. 



Education. — ."V better safeguard for liberty 

 than a standing army. If we retrench the wages 

 of the schoolmaster, we must raise the wa"ges of 

 the recruiting sergeant. 



'I he Boston Post has discovered an infallible 

 remedy to disperse a mob. It consists merely in 

 carrving round a contribution box. 



The New York Gazc'tte relales as a fact within 

 its own knowledge, that a gentleman at a reading 

 room, after employing four hours in wading thro' 

 the contents of his favorite newspaper, laid it down 

 and taking up another paper pored it over for 

 two hours longer, before he discovered that it was 

 a duplicate copy of the first, wliich a wag had put 

 on the table to try him. 



NURSERY Oil' WII.L1IAIII KEKRICK. 



Nonantiim Hill hi Newtm, 55 miles /ram Boston by the West- 

 ern Avejiue, and near the great Weste7-n Rail Road. 



This e.'ilablishment, which now comprises 25 acres, includes 

 the selections of llie linesl kinds of new Flemish Pears, and 

 of all other hardy fruits — selections from the first rale sources 

 and the finest varieties known. 



75,00'J Morus Muhicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry Trees, 

 can now be supplied, wholesale or retail. 



Ornamental trees, shrubs and roses. Also Herbaceous 

 flowering plants of the most heautifiii varieties. 



Address by mail, post paid, to Willi im Kenrick, New. 

 ton, fllass. Trees and plants when ordered, are carefully 

 selected, and labelled, and faithfiilly packed, and duly Ibr- 

 worded from Bost.ip by land or sea. Transportation gratis 

 to the city. Catalogues will he sent 10 all who apply. 



Sept. 21. 8m 



GREEN HOUSE GLASS 



Of everv size and thickness, for sale by 



LORING & KUPFFR. No. lO Merchants Row. 



Boston, Sept. 7. 2mis. 



SUPERB DUTCH BULBS, 



Just received from Holland, at the New England Seed 

 Store, a fine assortment o( Bulbs obtained from a responsible 

 and celebrated garden near Rotterdam ; consisting in part of 

 the following kinds of Hyacinths. 



La Heroine, double yellow with rosy eye, (supeiior); 

 Grande Vidette, single blue; Commandant, doufde bla< k ; 

 Congress of America, do ble red; Gront Voorst; Boquet 

 Tendre ; Grande IVIonarche de France, single white ; Vol- 

 taire ; Louis d' Or, douI>le yellow, &c. Hyacintlis, mixed 

 colors, without names, by the dozen or hundred. Double and 

 Singlw Sweet Scented Jonquills ; Polyanthus Narcissus, of 

 various sorts; Crocus, by the dozen or hundred; Double 

 Hanunculus, mixed sorts ; Double Aiiemones, mixed sorts; 

 English Iris; Persian iris; Martagnon Lilies ;■ Crown lin| e- 

 rials ; Amaryllis Formosissma ; Amaryllis, of ten difieronl 

 varieties, some very splendid ; Gladiolus Cardinalis ; Mexi- 

 can Tiger Flower; '.* uberoses ; (Cyclamens; Frilalarias, and 

 Tulips, double and siuijle. ol every variety. 



'I'he above lot ot bulbs is worthy the attention of amateurs. 

 They were ail selected with the nicest care, expressly lor our 

 estabtishinen , and are undoubtedly the besl lot ever imported. 



Sept. 21. JOSliPH BKEClv & CO. 



THE NE\V ENGLAND FARMER 



Is published every Wednesday Evening, at ^3 per annum, 

 payaiile at the en<l of the year — but those vviio pay wiihin 

 sixty days from the time of subscribing, are entitled to a de- 

 duction of filly cents. 



Hj' No paper wiU be senl to a distance without payment 

 being marie iu ail\ance. 



AGENTS. 



AV(c York — G C. Thorburn. II John-street. 



Albanij — Wm . THoiiEORS, 347 .Market-sticet. 



PhiUiiJelMa — D, A- C. Lani) Bt:TH, 85 Chesnul-slreel. 



Baltimore — Puhiislier ofAmcrican Farmer.- 



Cincinnati — S. C. Parkhurst.SS Lower Market-street. 



Flushing, N. Y. — Wm. Prince ilj- Sons. Prop. Lin Bot.Gar, 



Miildlehnry. Vt, — Wight Chap.man, ftlerchant. 



West nradforil^Muss.— U.wv.Si. Co. Booksellers. 



Taunton, Mass. — S.-vm'l O. Dunbar, Bookseller. 



Hart/ord — GooinviN Jp Co. Booksellers. 



Newburyport — ErenezeR SteijMAN, I^ookseller. 



Portsmonlh. N. H. — JoHN W. FOSTER, lioi ■ seller. 



Woodstock, Vl. — J.A.Pratt. 



Baniror, Me. — Win. Ma-nn, Druggist. 



llalifa.T.N. S.— E. Bkown, Esq. 



»S7. iouis— Geo. Holton, and Willis & Stevers. 



PRINTE1> BY TUTTLE, WEEKS & DENNETT, 



ISchool street. 



orders for PRIKTINO RECEITEB BV THK FUBLISHIRS, 



