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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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I II >liawle, n large part of which consisted of orti- 

 tij iHod merely for ornament. 



i;a the youiiger daya of our beloved eonnlry, the 

 iierican girls did not dream of 6Uch things as Tog- 

 hawls— their mantles were the products of their 

 n spinning wheels and looms — but with education 

 les refinement, and of dburse its nioiely cousin, 

 lion. More than two millions were paid last year 

 „,,,. and worsted, seven millions for worsted stuff 

 ids — cine million for Inces, nearly the same for leg- 

 n and straw hats and bonnets, being about twenty- 

 millions of dollars for the ladies alone I whose 

 Jty and nice ideas of fa«hinn must be gratified. — 

 rare the gentlemen without their share of foreign 

 uries. Three millions for wine, being six millions 

 jallons, and one million for cigars — the quantity 

 cd away being ninety-three millions I Including 

 ee, tea, spices, spirits, &c., amongst the luxuries, 

 ■e than fifty millions of dollars, nearly one third of 

 entire imports, expended in iu-xury and extrava- 

 ce. 



>ur citizens have lost millions of dollars in endea- 

 ng to establish the silk business in this country, as 

 great morus multicaulis mania will prove, yet 

 3 are imported into this country free of duty, and 

 sequently we are encouraging foreign mauufac- 

 to the utter ruin of our own, and acquiring a 

 . for foreign luxuries, when we would most assu- 

 display more patriotism, were we to advance the 

 lucis of our own industry. The St. Louis Ga- 

 :, in a very sensible article on the subject, remarks 

 It has generally been considered the most just and 

 Dnablo policy to tax the luxuries of life, if taxes 

 t be laid, while, by our present tariff, we tax the 

 ssaries of life and introduce luxuries free of duty, 

 tax the poor man's salt and clothing, and release 

 ich from a tax on their habiliments. ^Ve give 

 loyment to foreign silk gnawers, and reduce our 

 to beggary. Is this in accordance with the ge- 

 of republicanism ! Not certuinly, as wo under- 

 1 it. In our trade with England and mos; other 

 ins, our exporw pay for our imports, but France 



;a us in debt ten or twelve mulicns suaually. 



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all thriving trees confess the fruitful mould, 

 'he reilening npfjle ripens here to gohl ; 

 (ere the Ijlue hg with luscious juice o'erflows, 

 V^ith deeper red the full pomegriint irlinvs," &c, 



Ho.MER's Odifsscif, book vii. 



was certainly an exaggeration of Mrs. Trollope 

 I, that no one could ever hear two Americans talk 

 ninutes without the word dollar. So Bonaparte 

 jerated when he called the British " a nation of 

 ceepers." Be it so. Carrieoturcs often tell the 

 . Even the hideous concave mirror, though it 

 gerate ever so much, shows me some grand blem- 

 in my face. I have tried the experiment, in 

 ing the crowded streets of our cities, to catch the 

 inent word of the passer-by. The catalogue is 

 3d, and consists of such as these, '• Ten per 



' — "doing a good business" — "money niar- 

 — "operations in property" — "exchange" — 

 ck" — "thousand dollars" — " credit" — "profits" 

 brtune," &c. i.tc. 



a man is so practical that he will not wash bis 

 without "value received," I entertain no hopes 

 inging him over. I have no purchase for my in- 

 lent. Now cleanliness is a sort of decoration: — 

 ,ivc, perhaps, but the condition of all the rest — 

 less follows very closely; a cleanly child is usual- 

 at. The cleanly housewife is sure to produce in 

 attage a certain trim and symmetrical arrange- 



whieh gratifies the eye. This is neatness bud- 

 into beauty. This transition ought to be seized 



wherever it appears. The pleosant little chil- 

 who are yonder playing in the dust may be taught 

 ep themselves clean, and then to be neat. Tli 



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and thus we may get a race of people, even 

 g the poor, who will begin to beautify the land. 

 in the hope of seeing cottages along our multi- 

 and dirty railways, each adorned not only with a 

 1 surface and a close fence, but with roses, pinks, 

 i, and all the pretty vegetable gifts of a loving 

 dence; gifts which our yeomanry have too much 

 i|i"'J" bed to green.houses and ballads. 



le ways of adorning a house by rural aids are va- 

 , and so well known as scarcely to need enumera- 



They may be adapted to the lowliest habitation 

 Hlized man, no less than to the villa or the cha- 



Nothing but love for domestic beauty and ordi- 



ta« are required w rear a thousand tasteful abodes 



along our highways. And if but one provident house- 

 holder will begin, we shall find that, humble as his 

 habitation may be, he will soon be imitated by his 

 neighbors. Fashion itself, the cause of so many fol- 

 lies, may be brought in aid of virtuous enjoyment. — 

 Let some working man make the trial, by holding up 

 before his mind rural decoration as a distant object. — 

 Let him secure to himself a house and garden where 

 he is willing to spend his life. Let him, as his means 

 allow, have it tight and finished, and by all means 

 duly enclosed. This is the frame- work; after this en- 

 sue the details. Let him learn the economy of a lit- 

 tle timely paint, and ol a fence or hedge which will 

 withstand the assaultsof wind ond beasts. From day 

 to day, as he may be able to snatch a moment lor 

 breathing the fresh oir, let him remove unsightly ob- 

 jects and make an entrance upon positive ornament. — 

 How easy it is to set out clumps or rows of trees, for 

 shade and *'ruit, flowering shrubs or evergreen hedges! 

 How agreeable to the wile and little ones, to be called 

 out to join in dropping the cheap llower-seed or train- 

 ing the luxuriant vine! • * » » 



Among these ornaments, the highest rank is due to 

 Gardening; including in that term the rearing of val- 

 uable trees. Children should be early taught that when 

 they set out a fine tree, or insert a graft, they are do- 

 ing a favor to posterity, ond beginning that which 

 shall continue to make others happy when they are in 

 their graves. It has always been pleasant to me to 

 see the house of the industrious citizen embowered in 

 flowering vines and trees. And on Saturday evening, 

 a season when so many forsake their work only for the 

 poner-house or the tavern, the man who possesses 

 such a retreat will have a strong inducement to seek 

 nis delightful home, and meet his little household 

 among the smiles of natural scenery. 



Tliere ate many very precious maxims of life which 

 need to be pointed out; they are overlooked by the 

 mass of the people. Once indicated, they are believ- 

 ed and embraced. Among these is the ibllowing : — 

 Simple ornavicnt hinders no good use, Tiie watch 

 runs as well in a comely case, as it would in a deol 

 box. The draught is just as savory out of a chased 

 tankard. And every good of household life is unim- 

 paired by nestling oniong green ioliage, climbing ho- 

 neysuckles, and parterres of flowers. 1 long to see 

 this acted upon by our people. I long to see them 

 snatching a lew hours from the noisy throng ol idlers, 

 and the delirious mirth of the bar-room, and spending 

 them on the little innocent decorations of humble but 

 delightful home. 



The time required for beautifying a bonse and en- 

 closure is really so little, thatit scarely admits of being 

 brought into a calculation. A few minutes at day- 

 break, in the spring and autumn, will in the course of 

 a year work wonders. A few snatches of time after 

 labor is ended may be spared by the busiest man. If 

 his work has Iain within doors, or has been of the se- 

 denlory kind, a little exercise and air, enjoyed in pru- 

 ning and trimming his vines, will be restorotive to his 

 health and spirits. This is better than mere repose. — 

 Nature abhoisa vacuum of employmenu Is not this 

 positive gain ? Health is " the poor man's riches;" 

 that which conduces to it is worth more than money. 

 Even those who are athletic, or who work at trades 

 which give them constant niolion, do not the less need 

 something of this sort. It is not mere muscular ex- 

 ertion which preserves and restores health. There 

 may be great bodily effort with no better result than 

 fatigue. What every man requires when the day is 

 done, is gentle recreation, something between work 

 and play, which shall break the trainof moody thought, 

 repair the waste of nervous elasticity, and put the 

 jaded mind in good humor with itself and others. 



When the artizan, after his evening repast, goes 

 out to water his flovers, every thing he touches is his 

 own; and nothing so much his own as the trees he 

 planted or the shades hegithered. He is refreshed 

 and tranquilized, and grows into the love of home. — 

 These pleasures are mightily increased, when he sees 

 around him his children partaking in his toils and joys, 

 and cheering one another with the merry laugh to 

 work or sport; while the wife's voice, heard within, 

 as she sings contentedly over the cradle, odds a lovely 

 music to the scene. This is a picture, of which the 

 original may be found in many a poor but happy fami- 

 ly; would that it were so in all! Under such shades 

 as these, domestic quiet loves to dwell; and in such a 

 spot religion finds its sanctuary. 



Contrast with this a case which we are often called 

 to witness. The mechanic or laborer has worked 

 hard all day. At the close of his toils he turns his 

 face homewards. But he has not provided or cherish- 

 ed at his dwelling any strong attraction. No refine- 

 ment of taste has ever eoiicncd his spirir, It has been 



too much his practice to pass his leisures hours else- 

 where. He feels the need of some relaxation. He is 

 languid from (htigue, and sullen from the disgust of 

 lobor. In such a condition he is easily attracted to 

 the bar-room. There, amidst the odors of liiiuorand 

 tobacco, he forgets his previous listlcseness and anxie- 

 ty, to become the victim of an unnalural and dnnger- 

 (Uts exeitemem. The glnts, the jest, and the song 

 make the evening fly swiftly. Late ol night he wends 

 his way home, if not drunk, yet humbled, discontent- 

 ed, and peevish. No children greet him with their 

 joyous laugh; the neglected little creatures ate asleep, 

 and the sad wife is awoke only through anxious «x- 

 pectation of her husbond. Am I oxiravnonni in trm- 

 cing much of the misery in such a cose to the wont of 

 taste for those little things which mokes one's home 

 desiroble ? As a general observation, I have never 

 seen idle or profligate sons issuing Irom within the 

 cottage poling which has been adorned by their own 

 infant hands. And, on the other bond, it would re- 

 quire stoical love of virtue ferits own soke, to make 

 ony youth love the foul, smoky, fenceless cobin of a 

 thriftless lather. Sweeten home, and you close nine 

 out often doors to temptation. — Working-man. 



Silk. 



In May, I hatched a lot of silk worms, numbering 

 about 6,000; fed them on the White and Black mul- 

 berry; after the lost inoultin, I lost about half of them 

 by crowding them too thick upon the shelves ond be- 

 ing unable to ventilate the room in three as hot diya 

 as we have had this summer; butthe remainder wound 

 about one bushel of cocoons of a fine quality, which 

 at the present price, would pay ot least $4 per day, in- 

 cluding all the time in feeding the whole. — Alb. Cul. 



C. M. L. A. 



Lacosic Advick. — Mr. Hii'yard, who for twenty- 

 one years has been the President of the Northompton- 

 shire Farming and Grazing Society, the onnuol meet- 

 ing of which was held on Wedncsdoy, in presenting 

 a prize cup to Mr. J. C. Elliott, gave him the Icllow- 

 ing laconic piece of advice : — " Now, young man, 

 take this cup, and remember always to plough deep, 

 and drink shaUoic." — Eng. paper. 



Ploughing. — The whole series of furrows on an 

 English stotnte acre, supposing eoeh to be nine inches 

 wide, would extend to 19,360 yords ; ond adding 

 twelve yards to every two hundred and twenty for the 

 ground travelled over in turning, the whole work of 

 cue acre may be estimated as extending to 20,416 

 yards, or eleven miles ond nearly five furlongs. 



Apology for Cultivating Flowers. 



BT MRS. SEBA SMITH. 



I deem it not an idle tiisk. 



These lovely things to rear, 

 TIi.1t spread their arms as they would aelc. 



If sun and dew are here — 

 For simple wants alone are theirs, 



The pure and common too — 

 The bounty of refreshing airs. 



The gift of liquid dew. 



And they return for every roy, 



A gayer smile pnd look ; 

 And greenly as the clear drops play, 



They murmcr of the brook; 

 And thus our thoughts awaj' they lure. 



Where woods and waters gleam, 

 And mountain airs are strong and pure, 



And sing the bird and stream. 



Frnil, grateful things! how fondly they 



The nurtured leaf outspread. 

 And more than all my care repays, 



"When from its folded bed 

 Some pink or crimson blossom press 



To thrill uie with delight, 

 To fill my very eyes with tears, 

 Its beauty is so bright. 



Nay, 'tis no idle thing, 1 trust, 



To foster beauty's birth, 

 To lift from out the lowly dust, 



One blossom of the earth — 

 "Where barrenness before had been 



A verdure to disclose, 

 And make the desert, rich in sheen, 



To bloasoiB it tire rvs*. (La4iet fhmpamum 



