DEVOTED TO AGKICULTUHE, HORTICULTUBE, AJVD KINDRED ARTS. 



NEW SERIES. 



Boston, June, 1867. 



VOL. I.—NO. 6. 



R. P. EATON & CO., Publishers, 

 Office, 34 Merchants' Kow. 



MONTHLY. 



SIMON BROWN, ) T, 



S. FLETCHER, \ Editors. 



BEAUTIFUL JUTfE, 



"Seize, happy mortal, seize the good- 

 God's hand supplies thy sleep and food, 



And makes thee truly blest; 

 With plenteous meals enjoy the day, 

 In slumber pass the night away. 



And leave to fate the rest." 



HE month of June, in this cli- 

 mate, is, really, what the poets 

 represent May to be, the most 

 lovely month in the year. Summer 

 is commenced, and warm weather 

 thoroughly established ; yet the heats 

 rarely rise to excess, or interrupt 

 the enjoyment of those pleasures 

 which the scenes of nature at this time afford. 

 The trees are in their fullest dress, and a pro- 

 fusion of the gayest flowers is everywhere scat- 

 tered around, just before they are cut down 

 by the scythe or scattered by the heat. 



All nature is glowing with fervid life. The 

 grain is green in the fields. The blades of 

 corn are shooting up green and succulent. 

 The plants in the garden 'are e.xpanding their 

 leaves and filling the soil with their rootlets, 

 and each is struggling to secure possession of 

 as much space as possible, for its further de- 

 velopment. 



The sun shines in our latitude more hours, 

 this month, than in any other month of the 

 year. His i-ays are sending their all-penetrat- 

 ing force into the most hidden recesses of ani- 

 mated natui-e, and under his stimulating influ- 

 ence, she is driving, in full tide, the life-blood 



through every artery and sap-vessel of every 

 living thing. 



And now that June is so beautiful, its 

 breath so fragrant with the sweet odors of the 

 flowers, and all the rich influences of the 

 heavens and the energies of nature herself are 

 working for us, and cheering our labors, let 

 us not be deficient in efforts for ourselves. 

 First, let us 



Work Systematically. 

 Although the farmer cannot be governed by 

 exact rules as the mechanic can, he may still 

 introduce system into his labors with conven- 

 ience and profit. The work for June, and the 

 other summer months, should be reduced to 

 something like a plan, so that all confusion 

 may be avoided, and everything be ready to 

 accomplish the work in the easiest and best 

 way, as each day and week makes its new de- 

 mands. In this way no part of the crop is 

 likely to be neglected. 



No Weeds.— There is an old story of the 

 heathen gods, of a famous robber named Sisy- 

 phus, who was killed by Theseus, and his punish- 

 ment in another world was to roll a great and 

 unwieldy stone to the top of a high hill, and as 

 often as the stone almost touched the top of 

 the mountain, down it would go again, in spite 

 of all his efforts to prevent it. So he had to 

 trot back and roll it up again ! 



The stone of Sisyphus pretty well illustrates 

 the folly of allowing weeds to perfect them- 

 selves in our gardens and fields. The farmer 



