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AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



15 



)iii ahnwls, a Inrgc pari of which consisted of arti- 

 ee used merely for oninincnt. 

 In the yoiuiger dnys of ovir beloved country, the 

 mcriciin girls did not dreniu of such things lis Tng- 

 )ni shswla — their mantles wore the products of their 

 vn spinning wheels and looms — hut with education 

 imes relincment, and of course its moicly cousin, 

 shion. M.ire than two millions were paid last year 

 r silk and worsted, seven millions for worsted siutf 

 )ods — mo ntdlion for Inces, nearly the same for leg- 

 jrn and straw hats and bonnets, being about twenty- 

 re millions of dollars for the ladies alone ! whose 

 mity and nice ideas of fashion must be gratified. — 

 or are the gentlemen without their share of foreign 

 xuries. Three millions for wine, being six millions 

 ■ gallons, and one million for cigars — the quantity 

 itibd away being ninetv-lbree millions I Including 

 )flee, tea, spices, spirits, Ac., amongst the luxuries, 

 ore than lifly millions of dollars, nearly one third of 

 ir entire imports, expended in luxury and cxtrara- 

 »ncc. 



Oar citizens have lost millions of dollars in endea- 

 krine to establish the silk business in this country, as 

 e great morus multicaulis mania will prove, yet 

 ks are imported into this country free of duly, and 

 nsequently we are encouraging foreign maunfac- 

 res to the utter ruin of our own, and acquiring a 

 ;e for foreign luxuries, when we would most assu- 

 ly display more patriotism, were we to advance the 

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

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

 It has generally been considered the most just and 

 jsonable policy to tax the luxuries of life, if taxes 

 ast be laid, while, by our present taritl", we tax the 

 ccssanes of life and introduce luxuries free of duty. 

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

 3 rich from a tax on their habiliments. We give 

 ployment to foreign silk growers, and reduce our 

 ■n to beggary. Is this in accordance with the ge- 

 of republicanism I Not certainly, as we under 

 nd it. In our trade with England and mosi other 

 tions, our exports pay for our imports, but France 

 ngs us in debt ten or twelve m'Jitns imiually. — 

 Uimore Ocean. 



along our highways. And if but one provident hiuise- too much bis practice to pass his leisures hours clsc- 



rhs Workingman's Garden and Grounds. 



'Tall thriving Ireca confess the fruitfiil mould, 

 The rcilening apple ripens here to gold ; 



Mhe blue fig with luscioui juice o'erflows, 

 AVith deeper red the full poniegrant glows," &,c. 



Homer's Odjfiscy, book Til. 



Itt was certainly an exaggeration of Mrs. Trollope 

 ay, that no one could ever hear two Americans talk 

 I minutes without the word dollar. So Bonaparte 

 ggerated when he called the British ** a nation of 

 pkeepers." Be it so. Carricatnres often tell the 

 th. Even the hideous concave mirror, though it 

 ggeraie ever so much, shows me some grand blem- 

 ss in my face. I have tried the experiment, in 

 king the crowded streets of our cities, to catch the 

 minent word of the passer-by. The catalogue is 



ted, and consists of such as these, " Ten per 

 t." — "doing a good business" — "money mar- 



' — "operations in property" — "exchange" — 

 tock" — "thousand dollars" — " credit" — "profits" 

 ■ fortune," &c. &c. 

 f a man is so practical that he will not wash his 



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

 haliitntion may be, he will soon be imitated by his 

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

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

 Let some working man make the trial, by holding up 

 before his mind rural decoration ao n distant object. — 

 Let him secure to himself n house and garden where 

 he is willing to spend his lilc. 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 of a fence or hedge which will 

 wilhsiand the assanlteof wind and beasts. From day 

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

 breathing the fresh air, 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 flower-seed or train- 

 ing the luxuriant vincI « » « » 



Among these ornaments, the highest rank is due to 

 Gardening; including in thatteim 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 faror to posterity, and beginning thai which 

 shall continue to make others happy when they arc in 

 their graves. It has always been pleasant to me to 

 see the house of the industrious citizen embowered in 

 flowering viiiee and trees. And on Saturday evening, 

 a season when so many forsake their work only for the 

 poiier-house or the tavern, the man who possesses 

 such a retreat w^ill have a strong inducement to seek 

 nis delightful home, and meet hia little household 

 among the smiles of natural scenery. 



There are many very precious maxims of life which 

 need to be pointed out; they are overlooked by the 

 mass of ihe people. Once indicated, they arc believ- 

 ed and embraced. Among tiese is the lollowing : — 

 Snn^le ornament landers no good use. Tiie watch 

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

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

 tankard. And every good of household life is unim- 

 paired by nestling among green foliage, climbing ho- 

 neysuckles, and parierres of flowers. I long to see 

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

 snatching a few 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 house and en- 

 closure is really so liitle, thatitsearely 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. It 

 his work has lain wiihin doors, or has been of the se- 

 dentary kind, a little e-xercise and air, enjoyed in pru- 

 ning and trimming his vines, will be restorative to his 

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

 Nature abhois a vacuum of employment. 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 motion, do not the less need 

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

 ertion which preserves and restores health. There 



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

 languid from fatigue, and sullen from the disgust ol 

 labor. In such a condition he is easily atirncted to 

 the bar-ronm. There, amidst the odois of liipior and 

 tobacco, he forgets his previous listlcfsneps and anxie- 

 ty, to become the victim of an unnatural and danger- 

 ous cxcilemcni. The glafs, the jest, and the song 

 make the evening fly swiftly. Late at night he Trends 

 bis way home, if not drunk, yet humbled, disconient- 

 cd, and peevish. No children greet him with thoir 

 joyous laugh; the neglected liitle rrcnlurfs are asleep, 

 and the sad wife is awake only ihrough anxious «x. 

 peclalion of her husband. Am 1 extrnvngant in Ira- 

 cing much of the misery in such a case to ihe want of 

 taste for those lillle things which makes one's home 

 desirable t As a general observation, I have never 

 seen idle or profligate sons issuing Irom wiihin tha 

 cottage paling which has been adoincd by their own 

 infant hands. And, on the oiher hand, it would re- 

 quire a stoical love of virtue I'artts own sake, to make 

 any youth love the foul, smoky, fenceless cabin of a 

 thriftless father. Sweeten home, and you close nine 

 out of ten doors to temptation. — JVorlcing-man, 



Silk. 



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

 about 6,000; fed ihem on the While and Black mul- 

 berry; after the last nioultin, I lost about half of them 

 by crowding them too thick upon the shelves and be- 

 ing unable to ventilate the room in three as hot days 

 as we have had this summer; bullhe remainder wound 

 about one bushel of cocoons of a fine quality, which 

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

 cluding all the time in feeding the whole. Jib. Cul 



C. M. L. A. 



Lacosic Advice. — Mr. Hillyard, who for twenty- 

 one years has been the President of the Northampton- 

 shire Farming and Grazing Society, the annual meet- 

 ing of which was held on Wednesday, in presenting 

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

 ing laconic piece of advice ; — " Now, yonne man, 

 take this cup, and remember always to plough deep, 

 and drink shallow. " — Eng. paper. 



e without " value received," I entertain no hopes 



oringing him over. I have no purchase for my in- I may be great bodily effort with no belter result than 



inient. Now cleanliness is a sort of decoration; — 

 ativc, perhaps, but the condition of all the rest. — 

 atness follows very closely; a cleanly child is nsual- 

 leal. The cleanly housewife is sure to produce in 

 cottage a certain trim and symmetrical arrange- 

 iit which gratifies the eye. This is neatness bud- 

 g into beauty. This transition ought to be seized 

 n wherever it appears. The pleasant little chil- 

 n who are yonder playing in the dust may be taught 

 teep themselves clean, and then to be neat. This 

 10 path towards decoration. Tasle needs devclop- 

 These creatures may be bred to enjoy orna- 

 iit, and thus we may get a race of people, even 

 ing the poor, who will begin to beautify the land, 

 ve in the hope of seeing cottages along our multi- 

 d and dirty railways, each adorned not only with a 

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

 ps, and all the pretty vegetable gifts of a loving 

 vidence; gifis which our yeomanry have too much 

 ished to green. houses and ballads. 

 ["he ways of adorning a house by rural aids are va- 

 ts, and so well known as scarcely to need ennmera- 

 I. They may be adapted to the lowliest habitation 

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

 1. Nothing but love for domestic beauty and ordi- 



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fatigue. W'hat every man requires when the day is 

 done, is gentle recreation, something between work 

 and play, which shall break the irainof 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 flowers, 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 be sees 

 around him hia 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, adds a lovely 

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

 original may be found in many a poor but hoppy 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 wc 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 



Plocghisg. — The whole series of furrows on an 

 English statute acre, supposing each to be nine inches 

 wide, would extend to 19,360 yards; and adding 

 twelve yards to every two hundred and twenty for the 

 ground travelled over in turning, the whole work of 

 one acre may be estimated as extending to 20,416 

 yards, or eleven miles and nearly fivefurlonga. 



y tact are required to rear a thousand tasteful abodes raent of taste has ever softened his ^irife It has bcEii 



Apology for Cultivating Flowers. 



I deem it not an idle task, 



These lovely things to rear, 

 That spread their arms as they would ask. 



If sun and dew arc here — 

 For simple wants alone are tlieiri, 



The pure and common too— 

 The bounty of refreshing airs, 



The gift of liquid dew. 



And they return for every ray, 



A gayer erailc ?,nd look ; 

 And greenly as the clear drops play, 



They murmcr of the brook; 

 And thus our thoughts away they lure. 



Where woods and waters gleam, 

 And mountain airs arc strong and puro, 



And sing the hird and stream. 



Frail, 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 prcsi 



To thrill me 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 blojiOm as the rmrS. ^Ladlei CompamiaH 



