MISCELLANEOUS. 



From the Knickerbocker. | 



OUR MOUNTAINS AND VALLEYS. i 



" GiiD of our fair, px(en(led [ilains, i 



Thy sweet green fluids contented lie, | 



Thy mountains rise, like holy lowers, . 



To hold communion with the sky I" 



Ptiilwdij. ! 



The mountains and the valleys wide, 



Ofour dear native land ; 

 In all their bright green loveliness, 



How gloriously ihey stand ! 

 The white clouds built on azure skiis, 



Like palaces and towers, 

 The spanning rainbow's brilliant arch, 



Formed of the sun and showers ! 



The creeping breeze that floats in waves, 



Far o'er the flowering rye. 

 And purple hills, with clover buds, 



Reposing blushingly : 

 Rich are the fields with bearded grain, 



Where the broad valleys run, 

 To meet the mountain ramparts blue, 



Gilt by the cheerful sun. , 



Oft shadowed into darker spots. 



Beneath the floating cloud, 

 Oft gleaming with a rosy tinge. 



Where mantling forests crowd ; 

 All o'er the waving, graceful line, 



As forth it sweeps along, 

 Sweet, varied into lofty peaks. 



And deep dells, filled with song. 



Down midst the slopes, the village spires, 



Are rising among bowers. 

 And o'er each dwelling's garden wall, 



Break ibrth the truant flowers. 

 And here are all the yeomanry 



That grace our happy soil ; 

 Who bid it smile thus beautiful, 



Beneath their cheerful toil. 



The plough, and scythe, and harrow conic. 



And cradle, in their time, 

 And spread the boon of plenty round, 



Within our changeful clime : 

 'Tis God that gives the sun and shower, 



The soil, and forest shade, 

 And husbandmen make joyful here, 



The lovely world He made. 



HoRTicULTHKAL SOCIETY. — We vlslted twice 

 yesterday, the exhibition of fruits and flowers-atthe 

 saloon of Niblo's Garden. It is truly a choice ex- 

 hibition, embracing numberless varieties of plums, 

 peaches, nectarines, melons, grapes, &c. &c. &c., 

 both of rare kinds and uncommon TJimensions. 



The display of dahlias is truly gorgeous — the 

 extent and variety of the collection and the tasteful 

 disposition of the flowers, exceeding bv far, any 

 former exhibition. 



The specimens of fruit and the flowers, are for 

 the most part arranged upon a long table in the 

 centre of the saloon. The vegetables, of rare sorts 

 and enormous size, upon tables along the sides. 



The gentleman whose contributions are the most 

 extensive and various, is Alexander Walsh, Esq., of 

 Lansinburgh. And to his taste the society is in- 

 debted for a very appropriate and beautiful orna- 

 ment at the head of the saloon. It is what Mr W. 

 has fitly named the horticulturist's coat of arms. 



forming a pyramid twentyfour feet high, construct- 

 ed entirely of the various instruments of horticul- 

 ture. A thermometer, handsomely decorated, is 

 placed in the centre, with the motto, " Sciencf. di- 

 rects OUR Mov:-MENTS." The spade, vake, hoe, 

 &c. &c., covered with a wreath of evergreens, and 

 decorated with a superb variety of dahlias, rare ex- 

 otics, and native flowers, form the frame work of 

 this fanciful device. From the most prominent 

 parts of the structure are suspended filberts, teazle, 

 madder root, woad, sumac, perennial flax, &c., all 

 produced by Mr Walsh, emblematic of the aid hor- 

 ticulture affords to manufactures. The silk busi- 

 ness is fully represented by the eggs, reeled silk, 

 and a tasteful display of cocoons and wreaths ofthe 

 silk moth. Near the centre of the structure the 

 grape, and that which maketh the heart glad, corn, 

 oil and wine, are justly represented. 



The pedestal, some thirty feet long, is loaded 

 v/ith some fifteen or twenty varieties of plums, al.«o 

 apples, pears, filberts, a profusion of choice and 

 rare vegetables, and we may here also mention, a 

 diminutive bee hive and a snn-dial. 



On the right, a little raised from the pedestal, are 

 placed a variety of rural engravings. Copies of the 

 New York, New England, Michigan, and Genesee 

 Parmer, the Cultivator, and other publications, fully 

 to complete this gardener's budget, have likewise 

 been placed upon the table — ^Mr Walsh's motto be- 

 ing, " Son utile aindn que hricondo :" " I am useful 

 even when sportive." 



Amidst all this beautiful display we are not only 

 chagrined, but provoked, to find thatlbe New York- 

 ers, the cultivators of fruit and flowers in this city, 

 and its environs, have been so backward on this oc- 

 casion. While Mr Downing, and others, of New- 

 burgh, Messrs Holbrook, Kneeland, and others, of 

 Duchess CO., Messrs Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, 

 Judge Buel, Isaac Denniston, and others, of Albany, 

 and Mr Walsh, of Lansinburgh, have taken such 

 pains to favor us with choice specimens of their 

 horticultural labors, we have not more than two or 

 three exhibitors of fruit, and as many more of flow- 

 ers — none, we believe, from Long Island or New 

 Jersey. Our friends from the country have done 

 verv handsomely on the occasion, but the coldness 

 ofthe city and its environs is chilling to their feel- 

 ings and enterprise. It has struck us also, that our 

 contemporaries of the press have been unusually 

 backward in stirring up our citizens to the impor- 

 tance of this most interesting and beautiful depart- 

 ment of practical political economy. 



We cannot enumerate the e.xhibitors either of 

 fruits or flowers this afternoon, and must await the 

 secretary's report. The most inviting and beautiful 

 nectarines that we have ever seen, are from Mrs 

 Van Rensselaer, of Albany, and we think the choic- 

 est looking peaches are from Mr Kneeland's gar- 

 den in Hyde Park. 



The annual discourse is to be dblivered this after- 

 noon at half past 4 o'clock — -a most unfortunate 

 hour — in the saloon, by William Emerson, Esq. 

 The elegant scholarship of .Mr Emerson warrants 

 the expectation of an able and finished performance. 

 But a small portion ofour papers will be distribut- 

 ed at that early hour ; but we nevertheless entreat 

 all who see the notice — the ladies especially — to 

 attend. — JV. Y. Com. Adv. 



'I'here recently arrived at New York one bull 

 and ten full-blooded short-horned Durham cows — • 

 imported by Henry Clay, for his farm at Ashland, Ky. 



Ne'w York Urate and Poudrettc Company. 



Not incorporated but carried on by individual enterprise. 



The manures are not divided among the Stockholders, as 

 are those helonaing to another estahlisliment, but sold, to,ap- 

 plicants. for cash on delivery. Orders are supplied in the 

 order of time in which they are received. Urate 5(1 cents and 

 Poudrate 40 cents per hushel, with contingent charges for 

 ba^s or barrels, &c. 



The company are daily preparing for use, d'Jf'ng the 

 warm, dry weather, the materials collected during the past 

 winter, aiid will have several thousand Imshels ready before 

 tlie firs', ol October ne.tl. The material is disinfected and 

 renderi'd .ree from offensive smell, by a compound, every 

 part of which is in itself a good manure. 



The experience of the past and present years, 1838 and 

 1839, on Long Island, has satisfied many of the farmers 

 that these manures have ihe quickest operation upon vegeta- 

 l)le mailer, producing irreater abundance, and the cheapest 

 of any manure ttiey have ever tried. 



AmendeA instrudions for their use, the result of practicil 

 experience, will be furnished on application. The effect o/" 

 PoudreUe upon Grape Fine-s and Moi-us MuUicaulis is bey- 

 ond all comparison. 



This company are erecting large and extensive works in 

 the viiiniiy of the city of New York to prepare the manures, 

 and farmers and gnrdeners may confiilenily rely on a supply. 



Orders, po,i(;)i]id. directed to" The New York Urate and 

 Pouilralc Company," Box, No. 1211, Post Offic'e, New York, 

 or sent to the sinre of STILLWELL & DEY, No. 365 

 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, will lie attended to. 



The Company will' he very mu?h obliged to gentlemen 

 who have used the manures, to give them a statement in wri- 

 ting what has been the result of their use and experiments in 

 relation to them. 



New York, August, 1839. 



Hale's Patent Horse Po^ver and Patent Tliresli^ 

 Ing Blachine. 



.10=;EPH BRECK & CO. offer for '-ale this valuable 

 machine and feel great confidence in recommending it as the 

 best machine now in use. It will thresh from 75 to lOft 

 bushels per dav in the best possible manner. The horse 

 power is calculated to propel any kind of machinery, 

 is very simple in its construction, occupies but the 

 small space of nne feet by two, and con easily lie transport- 

 ed from one plaie to another, and when combined with the 

 Threshing Machine it forms the most superior article for the 

 purpose ever invented-. They can he supplied at short no- 

 tice at ihe N. E. Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store. 



August 33. 



BOKE MANURE. 



The subscriber informs his friends and the pnhlic, that 

 after ten years experience, he is fully convinced that ground 

 hones form the most powerful slimulant that can l.e applied 

 10 the earth as a nianiue. 



He keeps constantly on hand a supply of Ground Bone, 

 and solicits the patronage of the agricultural cominunily. 

 Pr'ce at the Mill 33 cents per bushel ; pui up in casks and de- 

 livered at any part of the city at 40 cents jmt bushel, and no 

 charge for casks or carting. 



Also, ground Oyster Shells. 



Orders left at the Bone Mill, near Tremont road, in Rox- 

 liurv, at the New Ensland Agricultural Warehouse and 

 Seeil Store, No 59 North :\Tarkel Street, or through thePost 

 Office will meet wilh pro;Ti|)t attention. 



GREEX'S PATENT STRAW CUTTER. 



JOSEPH BRECK & CO. at the New England Agricul- 

 tural Warehouse and Seed Store, Nos.5! and 5'2 North Mar- 

 ket '-^Ircet, have for sale, Green's Patent Straw, Hay and 

 Sialk Cutter, operating on a mechanical principle not before 

 applied to any implement for this purpose. The most prom- 

 inent effects of this application, and some of the consequent 

 peculiarities of the machine are; 



1. So great a reduction of the quantum ol power requisite 

 to use it, that the strength of a half grcwn hey is sufficient 

 jO work it very efficiently. 



2. With even this moderEtte power, ii easily cuts two bush- 

 els a minute, which is full twice as fast as has been claimed 

 by any other machine even when worked by horse or steam 

 power. 



3. The knives, owing to the peculiar manner in whichthey 

 cut, require sharpening, less often ' than those of any other 

 straw cutter. 



4. The machine is simple in its constrnci ion, made and 

 put together very strongly. Il is therefore not so liable as 

 the complicated machines in general use to get out of order. 



THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER 



Is putiiished every Wednesday Evening, at S3 per annnni 

 payable at the end of the year— but those who pay williiii 

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

 duction of 58 cents. 



TUTTLi, DENNETT AND CHISBOLM, PRINTEKS, 



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