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K E W E N G L A ND FAR M T.R. 



DECEMBEB. r. 1836.. 



jeajiss^s.a^ss's:'- 



AUTUMN. 



BY ISAAC C. PRAV, JR. 



Autumn ! rich autumn I decked with c.imson robe?, 

 Galliered in knots made fist with pliint vines, — 

 There is fruilion in thy playful smiles 

 And cheek sun-scorched, and flushed with shooting 



hues. 

 The olive-branch hongs down about thy neck, 

 And swollen wheat bonds nodding, o'er thy brow 

 In sofiest dalliance with thy dimpling chieks ! 

 Thy mirthful shouts of laughter oft ring out 

 Upon llie nills, and echo mocks them there! 

 The drooping corn with joy lifts up its head, 

 And listens to tiie oft re-echoed laugh ; — 

 The birds above thee sing with mellow throats. 

 And fly around tliee, while the golden corn — 

 Those fruits of industry, more rich to man 

 Than solid wedges from the miser's chest — 

 Thou closely crowdest in thy twisted horn. 

 Oh I Autumn, blessed Autumn, still dwell here : 

 For sweet it is, thy quick unheeding danco 

 To see, amid the oaks and mazy groves ! 

 A joy transcendant rises in my breast, 

 To look upon the branches of the trees. 

 Where hanging o'er the surface of the brook, 

 Thou gatherest up ihn grapes, oul-burstiHg, full 

 With lusciousjuice made richer hy the sun ! 



£mile on ! thou laughing girl ! with plenty smile ! 



And on the floor, amid the heaped-up wheat, 



|j'io down, and with thy fairy hands unlock 



Tile full ripe kernels of the silk-bound corn, 



And scatter them in rich profusion round. 



Autumn! thou giver of substantial gills, 



The time must come for thee to move away, 



And smile on hills afar in other climes ; — 



But never shall thy votary here forget 



The bounteous stores thou gavesl to his home. 



Welcome ! thrice welcome when thou dost return 



To guard the wholesome fruit U|)on our hills, 



And to our garners bring the yellow corn. — 



Farewell till then ! oh, whe;it-crowned girl, farewell ! 



Healthy CoNSTiTUTroKS. — The first ami most 

 impoitant eletiieiit of physical education is to jxo- 

 ciii-e for those to he educated, a constitution of 

 liody orisiiiMlly sound. To this, the soundness of 

 p:iri-nts is indispensable — it lieing a law of iia- 

 tui-p, that (Hiiistilutional qualities are hereditary. 

 If the stamina of the child he defective, it is not 

 to he e.vpected that the health and vigor of the 

 nriult can be made iierfect, 'Ihe primitive defi- 

 ciency, though it may be h;ssen d, can never be 

 removed. As well might you look for the erec- 

 tion of a solid edifice to endure for ages, out of 

 decayed materials. 



The constitution of a child maybe impaired by 

 various causes. Of these, the marriage of the 

 feeble and infirm is one, — children inheriting the 

 coiistilution of their parents. 



Under this head are included all persons havinn- 

 a well known tendency to any form of di.sease"; 

 the more especially if that tendency be a family 

 inheritance. Of this description are those who 

 ere predisposed to insanity, idiocy, pulmonary 

 consumption, asthma, gout, dyspepsia, scrofuhi, 

 end other aftections known to be transniissable 

 from parents to their offspring. 



Early maniages, — those, I mean, that take 



p!ace belore the full maturity of the parties, is an- 

 other. Sound and perfect fruit cannot be the 

 product of iminature and feelde trees.- This truth 

 is well known to skilful agricullurrsts, and scru- 

 pulously observed and practiced on, by th«m, in 

 their doiiiestic animals, and the products of their 

 grounds. It is neglected, and run to, only in what 

 are termed efforts to improve the human race. To 

 improve the human race ! rather say, to deterio- 

 rate itl While man is the laborious improver of 

 every thing else, as well iti art as in nature, strange 

 as it may appear, he neglects, or rather deterio- 

 lates himself: not remembering that self improve- 

 ment would not only be a source of the purest 

 pleasure to him, but would qualify him for ef- 

 fecting every other form of it, by increasing his 

 powers. 



Another cause, is nuirriage, where the male 

 party is far advanced in life, the female being 

 within the period of fruitfulness. The issue of 

 such connexions are liircly possessed of sound 

 constitutions. They often exhibit some of the 

 elentents of old age, even in their youth. And no 

 instance is remembered at present, where they 

 have been long-lived, or distinguished by mental 

 or bodily powers. 



A fourth cause is the inarringe of the indigent, 

 who are unable to provide for their ofrs|iriiig a 

 competent supjily of wliolesoine food. Hence 

 the universal degeneracy of tlie poor — of those, 

 I mean, whose nutrimeiit is scanty, of bad quality, 

 and imperfectly cooked. For the cooking of diet 

 is of great moment ; and the cookery of the poor 

 is always defective. 



A fifth cause is a long perseverance in family 

 alliances ; marriages, 1 mean, between those near- 

 ly allied to each other, by descent. Be the imme- 

 diate reason what it may, the fact is indisputable, 

 that the descemlants of parents thus related dege- 

 tierate ; and the families, in time, become extinct. 

 Witness the present royal fiimilies of Europe, that 

 froin sce|jtred j)ride, and state policy, have long 

 intermarried with each other. They can now 

 scarcely muster heirs, in tlie direct line, to occupy 

 their thrones — and such heirs that the wdiole of 

 them united, would not form a well-gifted man I 

 Three of them are females, [1833] the average of 

 whose ages would make tliein children of about 

 ten years eld — feeble hands to sway the trident 

 and sceptre over a liundred and fifty millions of 

 the human race ! Yet those fimilies, now so de- 

 generate, were once signalized for high and noble 

 qualities, in the iriidst of the most noble, and 

 were, on that account, clad in purple, and deco- 

 rated with crowns. Nothing but comnmnding at- 

 tributes, mental or personal, or both, could have 

 raised them, at first, to regal power. Of the no- 

 bility of Portugal, I might observe the same. They 

 were once the pride of Europe, btit by intermar- 

 riages, continued for centuries, they are now a 

 most degenerate race. Ry intermarrying with 

 comiTioners, the nobility of Great Britain, Turkey, 

 and Persia, avoiil degeneracy, and continue among 

 the finest people of their respective nations. — 

 Caldwell on Physical Ed. 



Love and Married Life. — 'J'lie afiection that 

 links together man and wife, is a far holier and 

 more enduring passion than the enthusiasm of 

 young love. It may want its gorgeousness — it 

 may want its imaginative character, but it is rich- 

 er in holy and trui*tiug attributes. Talk not to us 

 of the absence of love in wedlock. WJhat! l-». 



eausc a man lias ceasi;d to "sigh like a furnace "' 

 are we to believe the fire ia extinct? No! it 

 biiynswith a st 'ady and brilliant flame; shedding 

 a bertign influence upon existence, a million times 

 more precious and dtli-ghtftil than the cold dreain» 

 of phitosopliy. — Constitutional Mag, 



nURSERY OF WIi.I,IAl»I KENRICK. 



Nonantum Hill in Newtm, 54 miles from Bostmi hy Ihe West- 

 ern Avenue, and near the great Western Rail Road. 



This p.stablishfneni, wliicli now comprises 25 acres, includes 

 Ibe .stieclions of llie finest kinds of new Flemish Peais, and 

 uf all other hardy fruits — selections from the fiis-t rate sources 

 and (he finest varieties known. 



75,000 Morus Itluliicaulis, or true Chinese Mulberry Trees, 

 can now be supplied, wholesale or retail. 



Ornainriiial trees, shrubs and roses. Also Herbaceous 

 floweriiis plants of the most tteiiutifni varieties. 



Address by mail, post paid, to William Kenrick, New- 

 ton, Mass. 'frees and plants when ordered, are carefully 

 selected, and labelled, and railhr..lly packed, and dulv <or- 

 Horded from Boston by land or sea Traiisporlalioii gratis 

 to the citv. Catalogues will be sent to all who apiilv. 



Sept. 21. 8m 



FEAR TREES. 



For sale at the garden of the suliscribcr, Dearborn street, 

 North Salem, a valuable collection of Dwarf and Standard 

 Pear frees; among them will be found some ol the best old 

 and new varieties, and all warra iled tube iruc to tlieir names 



ti.pt. 28. » KOIJKliT MANNINU. 



PLUM TREES, GRAPE VINES, &.C. 



500 Plum Trees of the most approved kinds, and extra size. 



2(XI (Juince I rees, of gojd size. 



1000 Isabella Grapes. 



100 Catawba and Pond's Seedling, Bland's and Perry, extra 

 size. 



lilack Hamburg, Swecl Water, Chasselas, &c. 



10,000 Giant Asparagus. 



10,000 Wllmol's Faily Rhubarb or Pie Plant, lately intro- 

 duced. 



And a good assortment of Gooseberries and Roses of dif- 

 ferent kinds Orders led at this office, or willi the subscriber 

 at Camhndgeporl, w;ll l>e attended to prompllv. 



Of. 5. 2m SAMUEL POND. 



THE MEAV EXeLAND FARVIER 



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AGENTS. 



New York — G C, Thokkurn, 11 John-street. 



Flushing, N. Y. — Wm.Princk ^•So^•s, Prop, Lin.Bot.Gar, 



Alhami — W'm . Thorburn, S-t? IVIarket-stieci. 



J'hiliidetvhia — D. <)(• C. LAriuBKTH,85 Chesnul-streel. 



HM'.imore — Publislier of American Farmer, 



t'inci»nu(2— S, C. Pakkhuust, 23 Lower Markcl-slrccl. 



Midflleliury, Vt. — Wight Cha PM AN, !\lerchant. 



IVifsf Bradford, Hiuss. — Half. & Co. Ronksdlers, 



'J'aunton, Alass. — Saw'l O, Dunbar, Bookseller, 



Hartford — Goonwi.N if Co, Ittioksellers. 



Kewliuryport — LRKNf.ZKR .Stedmas, Bunkseller, 



Portsmouth, IV. H. — John W, Fostek,Boi .seller, 



Woodstock, Vt. — J, A, Pratt. 



Bangor, Me.— \\k. Mann, Druggist, and Wi». B, Hariow 



Halifajr,M. S.—V.. Brown, Eso. 



iS<, Louis— U. L. Hoffman, and Willis & .Stevens. 



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