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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Oct. 



hojKtey locust or three-thorwed acacia. 



This tree iu Pennsylvania and in the more 

 Southern States is highly prized for the beauty 

 of its foliage, small flowers, and long pods 

 which contain polished seeds invested in a 

 sweetish pulp, which, fermented, is made into 

 a sort of beer. It has been employed in 

 making hedges, and with good success. The 

 sharp spines or thorns with which the body 

 and branches are covered are found effectual 

 in keeping o£f such animals as would intrude 

 on the enclosed grounds. 



Mr. Elliott says in his Lmimand Shade Trees, 

 that the Honey Locust, is a tree that does not 

 sucker ; its branches are strong, rarely if ever 

 breaking under the strongest gales of wind : 

 assumes to itself the privilege of growing in 

 many shapes, from that of a tall, branching, 

 and lofty character, to one of almost horizon- 

 tal form. In foliage it is hght and open, 

 feathery, and together with its wood studded 

 with long pointed thorns, and seed pods of 

 five or six inches in length, wliich hang on all 

 winter, create for it a tree very desirable in 

 the composition of groups, and also for road- 

 sides or streets where only a partial, not deep, 

 shade is desirable. 



INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE. 



The attention of the reader is especially 

 called to an article in another column in rela- 

 tian to the Worcester County Free Institute of 

 Industrial Science. It is from the pen of our 

 highly valued correspondent, Mr. George B. 

 Emekson, author of the charming work on 

 the "Trees and Shrubs Growing Naturally in 

 the Forests of Massachusetts." He has long 

 given character to these columns by the prac- 

 tical and judicious views in which he treats all 

 subjects which he discusses. While grateful 

 for his former contributions, we hope they 

 may be no less frequent in the future. 



Our own careful observation through many 

 years confirms the views of our correspondent 

 in relation to the desire among young people 

 of both sexes to avoid manual labor. The 

 idea has taken fast hold of them that it is dis 

 graceful, the teachings of St. Paul and the 

 necessities of the world, to the contrary not- 

 withstanding. It is a baleful idea, crippling 

 body and soul, sapping the foundations of our 

 social existence and contravening the express 

 injunctions of Holy Writ. It is a mean rob- 

 bery to eat the bread that another labors to 



