1864. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



11^ 



180 f. 



RFFERENCE8. 



Main Carrinpe Road. 

 Path to Front Door. 

 Flower Beds. 

 Kitchen Garden. 

 Verand!\h.*!. 

 House. 

 h. Kirchon. 



c. Wood<hod. 



d. Barn and Cellar. 



e. Pig-sty. 



Village Homestead as it should be— Improved. 



How the scene is changed ! How pleasantly 

 it strikes us, and at once fills us with agreeable 

 emotions ! \A'e love to linger near it, and con- 

 template the forms of beauty which everywhere 

 meet the eye, and listen to the cheerful sounds 

 that mingle in the perfumed air. Everything 

 conspires to fill the mind with grateful feelings, 

 and to impress upon it such a charming landscape 



that whatever the business of the occupants may 

 be, more money will be made under the inlluences 

 of the neatness, order and beauty of the Improved 

 Homestead, than there can be with the same busi- 

 ness talent unimproved. 



Soil for FLOWErxS. — Soil for flowers may be 

 looked up during the winter season. Very few 

 understand that an occasional change of soil is 

 view and harmony of sounds, as will come back y^jj. beneficial to flowers in beds, though all know 

 in pleasant memories in all after life, whatever how important it i;* to flowers in pots. There is 

 our employment may be, or wherever in the wide nothing belter than surface soil from an old pas- 

 world our lot may be cast. | f"'"^' ^f ^" "^ f'^'f ^''^ inches deep, and throwo 

 , ... , , , • 1 i 1 1 J into a heap muIi about one-sixth part oi old hot- 

 As will be seen by this sketch, the curved road, ^^^ ^^^„^ ^^ partially decay. In addition to this 

 /, does away with the necessity of going to the "staple" item, a smaller quantity of difi'ercnt mat- 

 barn to get into the carriage, or to roll a barrel of ters should be gathered together for peculiar cases, 

 flour across the grass to get it into the house, or particular plants. Peat, for instance, will be 



c ^ .1 .u .u k »u« ,)„„ „n u„„j ;„ found very useful for many kinds of plants. This 



So, too, the paths through the garden all bend in . . •. ^ j , , "^i , . ^ 

 ' ' ' /r^ 1 1- f ■^^ "ot, as IS olten supposed, mere black sand; but 

 such a manner as to off^er the readiest means for ^ spongy, fibrous substance from the surface of 

 exit and entrance, without leaving sharp corners bogs and boggy wastes. Sand should be collect- 

 to be cut across. The flower-beds, h, off'er a ed sharp and clean ; the washings from turnpike 

 pleasing object to the eye, and the porch and ve- J^'^'^'^'^s are as good as anything. Leaf-mould is 

 1 , 1 . J ^ .L L • /T 1 1 best got already well decayed from the woods. A 

 randahs added to the house, ;, afford a cool i ,i . „„ ^r n i a ~ j 

 ' •' load or so oi well-decayed cow-manure is a good 



promenade morning, evening and mid-day, and thi„g for the gardener to have by him, as all those 



screen the windows from the hot sun, and when plants that dislike our hot summers, and want a 



festooned with vines furnish more beauty than cool soil to grow in, prefer it to any other ma- 



any other possible ornament. Flower beds, h, ""'"«• ^ small pile of hot-bed manure is almost 

 are cut out of the grass, and should be kept well 



filled with flowers. Farmers. Be ON YOUR Guard !-The Pleuro- 



Finallv, neatness, order and beauty, outside, t» • • .u -.i . i i . Mr 



. •/. 1 . Pneumonia IS among us still, without (loiiht. We 



indicate neatness withm. A beautiful writer says, , . e » i i.- ^i i i 



^, „„ ,,.... , . . ^ , advise every farmer to keep his cattle as closely 



as possible, as, by this caution, he may keep this 



pestilence from his stalls. We learn that it now 



exists in some twenty towns in this State. 



indispensable to a garden. — Gardeiier-'s Monthly. 



"The care of flowers and cultivation of plants, do 

 not merely contribute to the maintenance of 

 health, they soften the passions and elevate the 

 taste above the afi'irs of every day life. In the 

 home around which we see a well-kept garden, 

 internal order almost always prevails ; and where 



A CORRESPONREXT of the ^Lirk Lnne Zfxpress, 

 who highly extols the cabbage for feediiit: milch 



^, . a .1 * •] .u ^ • I .. COWS, store cattle, siicep and swme. and more es- 



there is a fljwer-stand outside, there is almost • u . • f i- e \ , ■ 



, ' petiallv tor K])riiig feeding of lambina: ewes, says 



always a boo <-sheif within. j|,jt ,|,c average prodnpt per acre in p:nglao<i 



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