o. 7. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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he could lie helped forward, I have no doubt he 

 )uld make crcat progress, for he isreninrkably bright; 

 t he htiB not strengih of himoclf to reach the rich 

 b-aoil. 



Father. — This is the easiest of all the disorders above 

 lumerated, to cure ; it is only to dig deep into the 

 rface-eoil some good compost and lime, repealing it 

 ter a lime, when it will soon be found to strengthen 

 e roots, so as to enable them to strike deep enough 

 reach the rich sub-soil, and so to help themselves. — 

 'e will look after George Hastings, remember: t dare 

 y we can assist him, until he is able to help him- 

 If. 



No. 8. The sour and stubborn soil. A wretched 



•d indeed ! nothing but discontent and disorder con 



ring from it. The tree that is planted in such a soil, 



ihibits almost all the disorders that trees are heir to. 



he rough and knotted bark, the faded leaf, the late 



■ringing, and early falling of which, show the malady 



i;:imed in its system — the crooked branches, and 



1 short shoots of a whole summer's growth ; while 



. cnnker-worm is ever grinding his way between the 



:ik and the body of the tree, destroying its energies, 



iJ crippling all its e.vertions! I suppose you will not 



' nt a loss to iind a poor unfortunate neighbour, who 



! ") much in the state of this pitiable tiee. 



I'rank. — I cannot be mistaken, it is poor farmer 



;nlib! and see, here becomes, that's remarkably 



id ! and how strangely he looks. 



FatJicr. — It 18 so, but strange as he is, and deficient 



energy and perseverance, he is greatly to be pitied, 



well as blamed, for the world appears to him a blank, 



even worse ; the errors of his education, too, haunt 



m, and he is always foreseeing coming events of the 



ost gloomy character ; poor man, all goes wrong 



th him, because he takes things by the wrong end. 



ood day, neighbour, this is fine weather isn't it 1 



Grabb. — Ah, 'tis all veiy pretty while it lasts, but I 



!, very plainly, that a change is coming, for the old 



loster, when he crow'd this morning, turned his tail 



the rainy quarter, and that's a pretty sure sign with 



, that we shall have it again before long; I never 



new too much fine weather at this time of the year, 



id I daje say I shall not be so lucky as to be disap- 



)inted in my expectations now ; indeed I looked for 



in before this, or 1 should have dragged dowit my 



How, as you have your's to-day ; you know the song 



ys, " sunshine's succeeded by rain," and so, lam 



re, it has always been with me through life, and so, 



hove no doubt, it will continue. If I want sun, it 



ins ; and when I wantrain, the sun will shine inspite 



" me — it's enough to sour a crab — bulhere comes fav- 



er Sykes — how do, neighbour ? 



Sijkcs — Why, thank you, neighbour Grabb, well 



id happy. My friend here, and I, have worked down 



ir fallow to-day, and I am now come to invite him to 



in me in a work of charity, in going over to the widow 



Williams, to-morrow morning, to assist her in this her 



me of need. But why didn't you drag your fallow 



■day ? it would have worked finely ; I fear you will 



)t be ready for sowing turnips, as this is only your 



rst ploughing, you know. 



Grabb. — I do do know it, and was always sure I 



ould be behind-hand ; but you sec, f thought we 



lould have rain to-day, and was afraid to begin, lest 



should be caught in tlie midst of the work : I wish 



ow that I had done as you have, for nothing would 



ve me more pleasure than to accompany you to-mor- 



)W — hang it, I think I will do so too. 



Si/kes. — No, you cannot, for you owe a duty to 



ourself and family, and until that is performed, you 



ave no right to share in the "luxury of doing good." 



harity begins at home, remember, and so you must 



rag down your fallow to-morrow. How I enjoy those 



vo veraes which we sing every night before going to 



ed ! the feeling is heavenly ! 



" Oil ! sweeter than the fragrant fiower 



.\l evening's tiewy close, 

 Tile will united with the power. 



To succour human wocal 



-\n<l softer than the softest strain 



Of niu<iic to tlie ear, 

 That placid joy we give and gain, 



By gratitude sincere !" 



Grahb. — Ah, times goes gaily with you ! I'm sure 

 never feel in the humour to sing, either at night or 

 lorning — mine's a very different feeling. 1 often 

 ays, I was born to be imfortunaie, and I have no doubt 

 n't. God knows my heart ; and as I says to my wife, 

 ere am I, with the best intentions in the world — but 

 must go, for I dare say I am wanted in twenty places 

 t once by this time. 

 Sykes. — Yes, there is one that wants you, I know — 

 M confounded old rooster of yours — there he stands, 

 ithhis toil in the wind, crowing away like mad. 



Grabb. — Does he, though ? then I'll beboundwe 

 shall have it to-night, after all, for he is pretty general- 

 ly not far out in his reckoning — so, good bye. 



the 



Notes on European Agriculture. 



[^Takcn by (I Sonthern traveler and published 

 Simthern Cabinet, Charleston, S. C.'\ 

 AcRicui.Ti'H.M. SociKTiES. — The benefits of Socie- 

 ties for the promotion of Agriculture, in siimulaling 

 industry and ambition, I saw exemplified in Scotland, 

 England, and at the Fairs of Germany. The Highland 

 Society of Scotland has existed si.\iy-one years, and 

 from one of the bleakest and most sterile countries of 

 Europe, Scotland has, with all its disadvantages, risen 

 to a state of agricultural prosperity, far beyond any 

 thing which could have been e.Npected from such a soil 

 and climate ; and some of the counties, especially the 

 Lothians, are not inferior, in point of cultivation and 

 product, to the richest in England. At a meeting of 

 that Society, held a few weeks previous to my arrival, 

 177 members were added at one time, paying thjce 

 guineas entrance, and one guinea annually, and these 

 included the names of the most respectable men in the 

 country. At this meeting, there was an additional 

 sum of £1,500 ($7,000) siibscrioed, to promote the 

 interests of the Society. Every agricultural county 

 makes an annual report, and thus thirty-three reports, 

 embrac*»g every object of agricultural interest, ore an- 

 nually submitted to the Society. English Agricultural 

 Societies, although with less uniformity, oresedulor.s- 

 ly engaged in the same cause, and the result has bem 

 the general difl'usion of agricultural knowledge. The 

 different soils have been analyzed — the kinds of ma- 

 nures and modes of cultivation adapted to each, have 

 been pointed out. The steam engine has been intio- 

 duced in thrashing and for other agricultural purposes, 

 and Great Britain, (including Ireland and Scotland) 

 which formerly averaged only nine bushe.s of wheat 

 to the acre; last year produced in the aggregate, ISJ 

 bushels ; and three of the counties of Scotland, and 

 several of England, averaged 51 bushels to the acre. 



True method of F.vkming. — A farmer by the name 

 of Thomas Oliver, residing five or si-x miles from Edin- 

 burgh, leased a farm for the last twenty years, of 150 

 acres, paying annually a rent of 10 guineas per acre, 

 (g;7,500i on which he raised grain, hay and vegetables 

 for the market of Edinburgh. This lease he has re- 

 cently renewed for fifteen years, (the usual time to 

 which leases run) on the same terms, and from a poor 

 man he has become independent in his circumstances, 

 and now rides in his carriage. What American Far- 

 mer could make a profit that woulil enable him to pny 

 such an enormous rent 1 All may be accounted for on 

 the priijciples of judicious management and careful in- 

 dustrious cultivation. 



Agrici'Lti'bai. Fairs in Gkrmanv. — On the conti- 

 nent, especially in Germany, their annual fairs bring 

 together the fanners and peasants of all the surround- 

 ing country, where their ambition and industry are 

 stimulated by a variety of fetes, the distribution of 

 prizes to successful competitors, and whilst Princes, 

 Dukes and Barons are engaged in awarding prizes to 

 those who have been most sncccteful in the cnltivalion 

 of grains and cattle, their lovely wives are occupied in 

 a humbler, but much more lively scene, in compli- 

 menting and distributing premiums to the industrious 

 housewife, for her fine specimens of fruit— her butter 

 and cheese — her linen cloths, weaving, knitting, and 

 other manufactures. I have no doubt I shall he ridi- 

 culed for my want of taste, when I state that to me, 

 the Grand Duchess of Baden, presenting a a, her cup 

 to a peasant girl, before an assembled crowd of formers 

 and nobility, for the finest specimen of manufactured 

 gloves, was a more interesting sight than that of the 

 gay Queen Victoria, racing thrmigh St. James Park, 

 with fiftv fools at her heels, striving not to he distanced 

 by their lovely mistress. 



Unadulterated Seeds.— In the preservation of 

 seeds, of grain and vegetables, intlKiiely more pains 

 are taken to preserve the varieties distinct and unadul- 

 terated than with us. In the mountains of Scotland, 

 there are certain districts appropriated solely to the 

 cultivation of Garden seeds — and no two varieties, that 

 are in danger of becoming adulterated by luing placed 

 near each other, are allowed to be cultiva:ed in the 

 same district. I noticed, at Edinburgh, in the collec- 

 tion of Eawson & Son, Seedsmen and Nurserymen to. 

 the Highland .and Agricultural Society of Scotland — 

 83 variefies of wheat, 62 of peas, 51 of turnips, 1 46 

 of potatoes, and an immense number of species and 

 varieties of Grass seeds, some of which may probably 

 be adapted to our Southern country. In a subsequent 

 number, I will endeavor to recur to this latter subject, 

 and point out those species liii which it would be advi- 

 sable to moke experimeius. 



AoRicui.TuRE OF EoitopE. — From a cursory review 

 of the cultivation of the various kingdoms of Europe, it 

 appeared to me that England was in the highest elate 

 of culiivotion, ond which, iiom its beautiful thorn 

 hedges — its neat cottages, adorned by the eglantine 

 honeysuckle ond ivy, chequered here and there by the 

 park and loidly palace, rendered the whole lond a pic- 

 turesque garden. Some of the counties of Scotland, 

 such 08 the Loihiaue and the carse of Sterling and 

 Gowrie, are in no wise inferior. The little I saw of 

 the cultivation of Ireland, rather exceeded my expecta- 

 tions. Belgium and poitions of the Netherlands, have 

 a better soil than thot of England, ond are fully as pro- 

 ductive, but they want neatness of cultivation, and, 

 like the whole continent of Europe, are destitute of 

 fences and hedges — to me the fieldswanted ornament, 

 and the cottages seemed without much comfort. The 

 fields of Denmark were looded with en abundant crop 

 of wheot, but there, os well as every where else, I 

 hcord biner comploints of hard times, ond the seveie 

 exactions of Government. I frequently thought thot 

 it would be no bad plan for our American giumblers 

 about foxes and oppression, to take a trip to Europe, 

 and learn a wholeeonie lesson. Take my word for it, 

 it will stop the mouths of demagogues, reconcile them 

 to their own country, ond they would return — not as 

 poliiiciane, but Americans, saying, I have sinned 

 against heaven and my native land, ond am now only 

 worthy to be called thy son. I found the Grand Duchy • 

 of Baden and parts of Wirtemburg, better cultivated 

 than Prussia in general, probably bi^cause the soil woa 

 mo!e susceptible of improvement. Switzerland is loo 

 romantic to be rich — and the Rhine is too classic a 

 strcom to be the dull river of commerce, or be sur- 

 rounded by any thing else than mountains where the 

 vine clambers along us sides and the ruined castle 

 liov, ns on its loftiest peaks. In the cultivation of 

 France, I was greatly disappointed — the sword has 

 bcaice'y had time 'o he beat into the ploughshare — the 

 soldier finds it bard to stoop to the labor of the harrow 

 and the hoe, and seems disposed, yet a while to leave 

 this drudgery to the woman. Austria, with its fine 

 soil and climate, is retarded in agricultural improve- 

 ment by the wealth of its nobles ond the oppression of 

 its pecsantry. Its possessions in Bohemia appeared 

 rather better cultivated than those portions bordering 

 on Hungary and Venice. 



THE BOONS. 



The Moss Rose ajjd the Harp. 



BV MRS. S. E. THOMSON. 



Wlien the stern mandate from on high did come 



Unto the guilty pair whoM sinu'd and fell, 



To secfc, Iieyond ilie gates of heaven, a home. 



It smote their spirits like a funeral knell. 



Eve clasjicd her hands ia anguish and despair — 



"Ah 1 iuust I leave ihee, Paradise, so soon '. 



Flowers that will wither in a colder air, 



Noiv fare tliee well ! Oh ! bitter, hitler doom ' 



" I csnnot part with all -—this bursting rose 



Which I have nurs'd and clierislied here so long. 



The briglitest, sweetest flower that grows — 



Oh ; God forgive me and its fife prolong \ 



In liie cold, cheerless world lo wliich we go. 



Grant it to hloasom in its beauty there ! 



My tears of peiiiteiK-e shall o'er it ffow — 



Oh '. grant thy lowly suppliant's parting prayer '. 



The prayer was granted. 'Round its s'.em was twin'J, 



Undying moss ; a kindly guardian given, • 



That it might live in an ungenial clime, 



A thing of earth, and yet a child of he.tven. 



Did Adam, ere he wander'd, ask no boon, 



And bend his way to other spheres ? 



Or, in his bursting heart, was tharc no room 



For aught but pcnilenL-e, or aughl but tears ? 



He touched his golden harp wlicn r.l the g.ate ; 



In one long, lingering s'Taiii, o'er heaven it swept, 



So sad, flo wiid, to truly desolate, 



That e'en lite angels bowed their heads and wepi. 



"Oh! sivemeiliis! my own, iny mucli loved 1} ;e : 



Take il not from me - 'tis a harp of heaven ; 



Dear to my heart is every golden wire— 



Gh ! leave me this, or my crushed spirit's riven '" 



The boon was granted. On their lonely way. 



Far from the realms of hope and light above. 



The rose, an oasis unto them by day ; 



At night, the harp breathed out a song of love. 



And thus to K.arthcauie Music's witching spell ; 



Else unto mortals It had ne'er been given ; | 



For who so pure, or who can soar so well, 



As e'er to calch the inclodv of heaven. 



Ben rraniilm 



