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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



each with the same action, and the ridges rising 

 or disappearing behind them as they go : 

 "There are forty mming like one !*♦ 



What an attractive picture of healthy, happy la- 

 bor, in the pure, fresh air, made fragi-ant by the 

 world of flowers which are fed and fanned by it ! 

 Such a scene, undoubtedly, may be still witnessed 

 around English homes, as it may in our own New 

 England, but it cannot be denied that the intro- 

 duction of labor-saving machinery has deprived 

 rural life of some of its romance and charms. In 

 the midst of the hay-harvest here, we may travel 

 far and not see the "Mowers, stooping over their 

 scythes, and moving with measured paces through 

 the morning mists." Hand-mowing is aided by 

 the morning dews, but it retards the machine. 

 The hoe is now the implement in use while the 

 dew is sparkling, instead of the scythe ; — but whe n 

 the dews are exhaled, and the grasshopper sings in 

 the burning sun, then may be heard all over the 

 neighborhood, the sharp click, click, — click, click, 

 click, of the Mowing Machine, prostrating the 

 standing grass at the rate of one or two acres per 

 hour ! spreading it as it goes ! Then, towards 

 night follows the Horse-rake, and the evening pre- 

 sents a village of haycocks with their white caps 

 on, resembling an encampment of soldiers. 



But the advantage is certainly on the side of 

 the machine, — it does the work quick and well, 

 saves a vast amount of human toil, and leaves us 

 at liberty — if we but have the disposition — to 

 walk leisurely in the living fields, or among the 

 beautiful and instructive trees, and grow wise and 

 happy in the contemplation of the wonderful de- 

 velopments everywhere around us. 



June is the Month of Roses — loveliest of all 

 the Flowers. "What can be more enchanting to 

 look upon than this newly-opened Rose of Prov- 

 ence, looking upward, half shamefacedly, from its 

 fragile stem, as if just awakened from a happy 

 dream to a reality ! It is the loveliest Rose we 

 have, and the sweetest — except this by its side, the 

 Rose-unique, which looks like the image of the 

 other cut in marble. This surely is the loveliest 

 of all Roses — except the White Blush Rose, that 

 rises here in the centre of the group, and looks 

 like the marble image of the two former. You 

 see, its delicate lips are just becoming tinged with 

 the hues of vitality, and it breathes already, as all 

 the air about it bears witness. Undoubtedly this 

 is the lovehest of all Roses — except the Moss Rose 

 that hangs flauntingly beside it." 



Lovely June — most fertile of all the Months ! 

 Now the whole tribe of Geraniums is out, and every 

 passer by nips a leaf — rubs it between the fingers, 

 and then throws it away. Pinks shoot up their 

 hundred-leaved heads — Sweet Williams lift up 

 their bold, but handsome faces, the Columbine dan- 



ces to the breeze, the yellow Globe-Flower flings 

 up its balls of gold into the air, the Lupines spread 

 their wings for flight, the Mignonette begins to 

 make good its pretty name, and the princely Pop- 

 py, the starry Marigold, the little Pansy, the pret- 

 ty Pirapernell, and "the dear little blue German- 

 der loill spring up, unasked, all over the Garden, 

 and you cannot find in your heart to treat them as 

 weeds." 



June claims that its peculiar duties shall be du- 

 ly attended to. We will not interrupt the train of 

 thought just now indulged in by alluding to them 

 here, but will endeavor to anticipate them, a few 

 at a time, as we jog along from week to week. 



NEW BOOKS. 



Holly's Cocntry Seats: containing Lithographic Designs for 

 Cottages, Villas, Mansions, &c.,with their accompanying out- 

 buildings. Also, Country Churches, City Buildings, Railway 

 Stations, &c., &c. By Henry Hudson Holly, Architect. 

 New York : D. Appleton & Co. For sale by A. Williams & 

 Co., Boston. 



Within a few years, several excellent works on 

 architecture have been published, so that there is 

 really no good reason why any more awkward, 

 inconvenient and unsightly buildings should be 

 erected for the accommodation of either man or 

 beast. Any of these to which we refer, may be 

 purchased for less than three dollars, and if the 

 person building only a thousand dollar house or 

 barn should thoroughly study one of them, he 

 would be quite likely to save, in the cost of con- 

 struction, more than three times the cost of the 

 work. 



The work before us contains designs for almost 

 every class of building, and with a cost ranging 

 from $800 to $10,000. Any person about build- 

 ing will certainly find it for his interest to consult 

 this, or some similar work. 



Profits of Fruit Culture. — It is stated in 

 an exchange paper that E. Lake, of Topsfield, 

 Mass., gathered from one acre — of Baldwin and 

 russet apples two hundred barrels, at four dollars, 

 besides one and a half tons of marrow squashes 

 and one hundred heads of cabbages, one of which 

 weighed twenty-seven pounds ; also that a lady 

 in Gainstown bought eight acres of worn-out, 

 stony land, at forty dollars an acre, and set it out 

 in an orchard at an expense of two hundred dol- 

 lars. She cropped it every year, cleared two hun- 

 dred dollars a year, and at the end of six years af- 

 ter the purchase refused twenty-five hundred dol- 

 lars for the field. There are hundreds of thous- 

 ands of acres of land in our Northern, Eastern 

 and Middle States, now stony, barren, worn-out 

 and useless, which would yield a crop worth hun- 

 dreds of dollars per acre, with a little enterprise 

 and a small outlay on the part of the owners. 



Oranges. — The California Farmer states that 

 a Dr. Strentzel has succeeded in raising excellent 

 oranges in the open air in that State. Col. AVar- 

 ren has no doubt they can be produced in any 

 part of the State. 



