1867. 



NEW ENGLAND :PARMER. 



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ven^ thrifty, with large tops. They are mostly 

 of the Early Crawford, Coolidge Favorite, and 

 Seedling varieties. 



Last year Mr. Emerson had on this orchard 

 from sLxty to seventy ban-els of apples. This 

 year the trees blossomed well and set for fiiiit, 

 but a frost killed many of the apples when 

 about the size of peas ; and many of those 

 that grew were one-sided, caused by the cold 

 weather. Mr. Emerson has, however, a very 

 good share of apples this year. He has other 

 good orchards, but I have given a particular 

 description of tliis as it illustrates his manage- 

 ment, which has been very successful. 



]\Iuch of the land in Windham is naturally 

 well adapted for farming purposes and there 

 are some good farmers and fruit-growers ; but 

 many of the farmers devote their time to 

 teaming, to the neglect of their lands. In this, 

 they mistalce, in my opinion, their true inter- 

 ests ; for the same labor devoted to their farms 

 would in a few years pay them much larger 

 profits. If they would try feeding grain to 

 stock, either to make milk or for other purposes, 

 for a few years, they would find it so. 



Corbett's pond, in Windham, and its sur- 

 voimdings afford a most delightful prospect, 

 and it would well repay all lovers of the beau- 

 tiful in Nature to take a drive around the pond 

 in an}^ pleasant season of the year, especially 

 in October. C. E. Wood. 



Nov. 1st, 1866. 



For the New England Parmer. 

 JVLETEOROLOGICAL RECORD. 



These observations are taken for and under 

 the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. 



August. 



The average temperature of August was 61° ; 

 average midday temperature 72°. The corres- 

 ponding averages for August, 1865, were 68° 

 and 78°. Warmest day the second, averaging 

 76° ; coldest day the twenty-fourth, averaging 

 56° ; coldest morning the twenty-fourth, ther- 

 mometer 50°. Range of temperature from 5U° 

 to 81''. 



Average height of mercury in the barometer 

 29.16 ins. ; average do. for August, 1865, 

 29.25 ins. ; highest daily average 29.42 ins. 

 lowest do. 28.98 ins. Range of mercury from 

 28.94 to 29.45 ins. 



Fifteen rainy days ; amount of rain 5.97 ins. 

 Six rainy days in August, 1865, and 1.47 ins. 

 of rain. There was one cloudless day ; on one 

 day the sky was entirely overcast. No cloudless 

 days nor days of total cloudiness in August, 

 1865. The difference between the tempera- 

 ture and also the amount of rain in August this 

 year and that of same month last year will be 

 noticed. 



September. 



The average temperature of September was 

 69® ; average midday temperature 67^^. The 

 corresponding averages for September, 1865, 



wei*e 65^"and 75''. Warmest day the second, 

 averaging 74" ; coldest day the twenty-third, 

 averagitig 46°'; coldest mornings the 16th, 23d 

 and 24th ;' themit>meter 34°. Range of tem- 

 perature from 34'* to SC. 



Average height of mercury in the barometer 

 29.26 ins. ; average do. for September, 1865, 

 29.34 ins. Highest daily average 29.56 ins. ; 

 lowest do. 28.92 ins. Ran^e of mercury from 

 28.88 ins. to 29.62 ins. 



Fifteen rainy days ; amount of rain 7.18 ins. 

 Eight rainy days and 3.38 ins. of rain in Sep- 

 tember, 1865. There was otte cloudless day ; 

 on five days the sky was entirely overcast. 

 Five cloudless days and two days of total cloud- 

 iness in September, 1865. 



These two months, August and September, 

 will be long remembered as cold and wet all 

 over the country, and especially when com- 

 pared with last year. The earth, having become 

 dried to a great depth by two years of drought, 

 is now filling up again with water, of which we 

 surely cannot complain, though some loss and 

 suffering be caused thereby. a. c. 



Claremont, N. H., 1866. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 THE LANGUAGE OP FLO"WERS AND 

 PLANTS. 



We do not, in this aiticle, refer to the defi- 

 nitions given in some glossaries ; for such defi- 

 nitions are arbitrary, capricious and unnatural. 

 But we refer to the real unequivocal language 

 of nature, in this her most beautiful aspect. 



When Mungo Park, one of the early explor- 

 ers of Africa, sank down with hunger, fatigue 

 and sickness on the banks of the Niger — that 

 geographical mystery of his age, in an inhos- 

 pitable climate and among inhospitable inhabi- 

 tants, and in despair of succor, resigned him- 

 self to death, a beautiful though small and 

 modest plant caught his languid and almost 

 dying eye, and said to him, "He who has done 

 so much to sustain and adorn so humble an ob- 

 ject as myself, will not forsake thee." Mark 

 how this corresponds with the language of 

 Scripture: "If God so clothe the grass," &c. 

 Encouraged and invigorated by this appeal, he 

 arose and reached a native settlement, where, 

 among pitiless men, the pity of woman came 

 to his relief. 



What was the language of that modest flow- 

 er, a few years ago transplanted at Botany Bay 

 from England? I think it was the common 

 primrose of England, prmH?fflVM7<7ar;'5. Would 

 it have been of any avail to have told the peo- 

 ple of that settlement, that according to our 

 glossary the language of that flower was — 

 Covfidence ? No. To the hardened ci'irainals 

 of that penal colony, this flower, this memento 

 of the innocence of their childhood, spake a 

 lauguage which needed no intei-preter. Before 

 it they knelt in homage, and in sobs and tears 

 gave vent to an irrepressible emotion. 



What says the common morning glory of 



