AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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?e^ of those he lov.'s g^ithcr joyously around it. 

 liii pjssess in abnnJsiice, the nieaiis of sotiel'y- 

 ■try inuo nmt jiisi itcEiie of iiis nature, and be- 

 wiccr, nobler, larger n\ ionX ilian his leps fonu- 

 iciijhbor; but let faim never (orj,ri — as if prop- 

 rained he never can— that it is bis solemn duty 

 v.aiiul to his I'cl'.ow crciituvos, especially to the 

 ^dcJ and sutTeriiig — to Inbor for their benefit, and 



need be, (or iheir elevation. 

 10 servile idolauy with whieh Ignoia'C; and 

 ;;iiiy have locked up to Power and WealiU — tho 

 which iho irninpled millions have sunt; be- 

 the ears of conquerors and other seourgea el the 

 ore I'aJingand Hitting forever. In the twilight 

 succeeds this gross darknee.s the'e comer) a sea- 

 1 anarchy wlieii men having lost faith in tli-ju!;- 

 whieh once blinded and bound them, resolves t.) 

 ve nothing, to decry and prostrate all who risebc- 

 llic lowest level. Now the laborer with hie ein- 

 reiiirns hatred for tho ci^iitempi once cast upon 

 niul tays, ' What good is there in any thing but 

 iiel labor 1 Away with all else 1 Those whose 

 hiofly mental arcdecciveie end moths 1' But 

 is a transitory ebulliiion. Tho world soon learns 

 3,)eet its benelactors in whatever epliere, and to 

 :e iliat he wh'> truly and honestly exerts himself 

 me dopariinent of neclul efl'iU may justly clcim 

 jtherhood with all who toil, make and earn. Let 

 ieh cease to look dr.vn on the poor — the merchant 

 be porter; let each respect the dignity ot Man, 

 ther in his own person or in that ot his less lortu- 

 broilier. Let haughtiness and pride on one side, 

 envy, jealousy and hatred, with their train ol 

 S! fill consequences, will vanish from the other, and 

 miinnted by a common kinunees, will move for- 

 d in eoncoi d to the attainment of the highest good. 

 'elected. 



Flovi-er Garilea Cultivated by tFio todies. 



neat Flower garden in front of the farm house, 

 roof that the farmer's Wife and daughters are in- 

 trious and reSned. It is proof thai the work with- 

 iOors is » ell perlormed: for it is never the case that 

 rdcr and thriitlessncss reside \dthin, while the 

 len— tended by female hands — is neat and flour- 

 ng. This out-door labor gives bloom to the cheeks, 

 n lo the whole frame, cheevftdness to tho disposi- 

 :, and general efficiency. 



'air and gentle woman ia never in a better school 

 u when busying her lingers and twining bar afl'ec- 

 13 around the fair daughters of Flora. There she 

 igles with bsauiies whose tongues never utter en- 

 3r malfce, end whose cars are deaf to every idle or 

 ul word. There the lovely and innocint speak to 

 of the more lovely and innocent One who deliiie- 

 3 their graceful forms and paints their rich and va- 

 I colors. Purer, richer, belter, are the teachings of 

 shooting blade and opening fljwer, than come 

 a the musings of a listless mind, th3 pages of ro 

 use, or the gossip of corrupted socieLy. The seeds 

 health, and purity, are in the soil on which the 

 ' k and primrose grow, and those who labor to pro- 

 e the fragrance of the latter, wtU taste the delicious 

 it which the former bear; 



Fear not, ye busy wives and daughters, that the 

 •e of a small llowcr garden will be a burthen, ron 

 ring more arduous the labors of the kitchen, the 

 iry room and the neeiib. For the invigorating ex- 

 lations ot the freshly turned s'il, the draughts ol 

 re oxygeir which vviil be found among your plants 

 ten tiie warm sun is e-xpanding their foliage, the 

 riety ^4' exercise which the garden gives to body and 

 nd, together with the pleasure derived from the 

 auty and fragrance of your flowers, will lurnish 

 jre strength than the labors of the garden Will ex- 

 ust. — Nmo Enfrlaiid Farmer. 



Leisure Days. 



By these we mean days in which the care of the 

 op does not require attention — days when the farmer 

 n look about him and turn his hand to some odd 

 b. Usually there are several such days in June, and 

 e manner they are spent is no small m nnent. 

 Of course it is not in our power to tell you what is 

 be dune on your particular place — for on one farm a 

 w rods of stone fence is to be built; on another an 

 nderdrain is to be completed; on a third the diiLhes 

 iquire attention, &c. &c. But ot these times keeps 

 larp lojk out for manure making. The swine must 

 a/e iVequent suppliet! of the raw material, and leaves, 

 )il, inuck, &e. must be deposited near the hog yard 

 :ote, 60 that in the busy days of haying, soinething 

 iiy be thrown in, and your hogs not left witlioui 

 leans of doing their proper work. These days for 

 .:hite ^-asking, for clsiming up sroitnd tlis lioiwe and 



barn, for seasonablo repairs, and the like, are among 

 the most pi-olitable of tho season. We class thcmnn- 

 der the head of leisure days, but they should be far 

 from days of idleness: more of the profits of husband- 

 ry is obtained from the gooJ judgment and perseve- 

 rance with which improvemiSnta and plans arc execu- 

 ted; (wc mean the gradual iiiiplenienlB which tho good 

 fanner will have an eye to, and will carry on at times 

 when the cost will be but li{ile)~more of the real pro- 

 fits of larming tm-ns upon these than npon the ordina- 

 ry crops of the farm. V/hcre coil and manure arc 

 alike, one man can obtain a8 good a crop as anuihe., 

 or nearly so; the skill rcmi red 13 not so much that 

 of platiting and hoeing, as of increasing tho manure 

 heap, increasing the depth of the soil; protecting the 

 dry lands from drought, and draining those that arc 

 too wot; the mixing of soils and sniting the manures 

 to the soils and crops to which they arc applied. These 

 arc the import.int matters; and many of them deserve 

 attention at this leason of tho year. — M. 



What should Paieats do with tlieii Eoys t 



Many parents have sons, whom, when they arrive 

 at j'ears of discretion, they are '.'.ueertnin what to do 

 with. For instance, 11 respcclabie mechanic has a 

 good, stout, henrly, well disposed son, whom he wish- 

 es to bring up respectably. If he is in easy circum- 

 stances, be some h"W or other seems to think that his 

 son must be brought up to s-une higher business than 

 a mechanic. He therefore c.mcludes that he must 

 send him to college, and make bim a lawyer, a doc- 

 tor, or a clergym.ui, and the honest well meaning pa- 

 rent labors hard to earn money to pay the expenses of 

 a collegiate education, for the purpose of making him 

 respeetal/le, to make him tnke a higher rank in the 

 world than that of a mechanic. Here is a great miS' 

 take. When the boy leaves college, what is he to do '/ 

 He is then just qualified tor nothing. He turns peda- 

 gogue for awhil"!. He beats learning into the youth- 

 ful progeny; but few, very few, think of pursuing 

 the business of a school master as a permanent pro- 

 fession. After continuingitforayearor two, hequits 

 it, and commences the study of one of the learned 

 professions. Here are three or four years spent in 

 preparing to become a professional man, and at much 

 Quditionnl exper.de to his father. He at last 's admit- 

 ted 10 the bar, or receives a degree of M. D. , or is li- 

 censed to preach. The next thing is to get a living 

 by the profession he has chosen, and this is not so ea- 

 sy a matter. All the learned professions are full to 

 overflowing, and there seems 10 be no room for new 

 begiimcrs. The consequence is, that the young as- 

 pirant for eminence, drags along, without getting bu- 

 siness enough to pay the rent of an office. Year after 

 year he toils, or would toil, if he had any thing to do, 

 without making half enough to pay his own expenses. 

 To be sure, there are some, whose superior intellect 

 and commanding talents will enable them to rise at 

 once to eminence, and to command a business which 

 will render thtm 'lulej.endent; but these cases are few 

 and l.tr between. 



When such do occur, the superiority of mental 

 power will shine out beforehand, and should be foe- 

 leied. But the propensity which some mechanics 

 have of bringing their sons up at college to m.ake them 

 more respectahle, we think to be a great error. It is 

 injuring a son mor«than it is benefitting him, unless 

 ■iome oxlraordinary mental energy displays itself in 

 the youth. He goes through college, and thence, 



" Proceeding ;-non a gra'lu.ited dunce," 

 he is jest fitted for — what? lie has spent the best 

 part of his youthful days, in quolilying himself for a 

 pro.'ession fiom which he cannot gain a living, or at 

 'east a very scanty one. 



In our humble opinion, as the professions now ore, 

 we should say to mechanics, and indeed to profession- 

 al men, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, give 

 ','our sons a good education, and then put them as ap- 

 irentices to some respectable mechanical business. 

 They will then as soon as their time of apprenticeship 

 s expired, be indepeitdent, capable of earning an hon- 

 est living at once. The profession of a mechanic is 

 faily becoming more and more respectable, thanks to 

 .he good sense and good judgment of the present age, 

 md it can no longer be thrown out as a mark of re- 

 iroach, you are a mechanic, or the son of a mechanic. 

 It is on the contrary an honor. 



As the question has been recently discussed among 

 1 few mechanics, what they should do with their eons, 

 we would repeat, give them a good education and then 

 'iring them np as mechanics or farmers, if you wish to 

 ensure them a comfortable, honorable, and independ- 

 ent living and station in society. — BosUm Transcript. 



A Gi'M. — " Carbonic acid, water, and amminio, . 

 contain the elements necessary for the snppoit of ani- 

 mals and vegetables. Tho some substance ore the ul- 

 timate products of the chemical processes of decay and 

 putrefaction. All the innuniei.ihlc products of vitdi- 

 ty resume, after death, the original form from which 

 they sprung. And thus death — the complete diteolu- 

 tion ot an existing goneration — becomes the source of 

 life for a new one." — Lkbig. 



C'nlture of Buckwheat. 



Dry light land is most suitable tiir buckwheat; but 

 when that hoe been swarded for a number of yeais 

 and then ploughed but once, a great crop cannot be 

 expected. Something may be obtained this year and 

 a greater harvest will follow in the second year. P ny 

 ground that bore beans, potatoes, or corn last yei.r, 

 and for which yon have no manure to spate this se: son. 

 will yield a good horvest. We sow the seed Irom the 

 twenly-liflh of June to the t'ourth of July — Eomeiim s 

 the earliest sown produces best and someiinics tho 

 latest sown— it depends on the seac'on, which no ore 

 can foretell. A neighbor of ours, Mr. E. Freeman, 

 keeps one of his lightest ticids on loirpose for buck- 

 wheat. In the spring he sows rye on the field, and in 

 tho last port of June he ploughs in his lye v.-ith his 

 horse plough and sows his buckwheat on the furiow. 

 By this practice he is biinging a thin soil gradually to 

 fertility nt trifling expense. He took olf fine crop 

 of buckwheat lost season, and he uses tho straw fcr 

 fodder ior his cattle. — Boston Cultioatur. 



Pity is a passion proceeding from the misfortune of 

 another. Envy is a f assion proceeding Irom anoth.« 

 ers success. — Addison. 



Go Forth ijito the Fields. 



Go forth into tlie fields, 

 Ve denizens of the pent city's mart ; 

 Go fortti, nnd linow the gl.idness natute yields 



To the care-vvcaried heart. 



Leave ye the feverish strife, 

 The jostling, eager, self-devoted tiirong; 

 Ten thousand voices, waked anewtoJife, 



Cult you with sweetest song. 



Hark ! from each fresh-cl.id bough. 

 Or btisiful sonring in the golden air, 

 Bright bird:, with juyous uiusic, tiidyounow ' 



To spring's loved haunts rep.iir. 



Tiie silvery gleaming rills, 

 Lure with soft inurniura from the grassy lea; 

 Or gaily dancing down the sunny hills, 



Call loudly in their glee I 



Andtheyoung w.nnlon breeite, 

 With breath all odours from her bloseomy chase, 

 In voice low whispering, 'mong the embowering trees, 



Wooa you to her embrace. 



Go breathe the air of heaven, 

 VViierc violets meekly sjiile U'lon your way *, 

 Or on sonic pinc-crown'dsuraiiiil, tempest driven. 



Your wandering fuotstepa stray. 



Seek ye the solemn wood. 

 Whose giant trunks a verdant roof uprear, 

 And listen, while tho roar uf some far flood 



Thrills the i'oung leaves with fear 1 



Stand by the tranquil lake. 

 Sleeping 'mid willowy banks of emcie.ld dry. 

 Save when the wild bird's wings its surfucc Lreafe, 



Chequering the mirror'd sky^ 



And if within your bre.ist, 

 H.-ilIow'd by nature's touch, one chord rcmuin i 

 If aught save worldly honors tind you blest, 



Or hojie of solid gain — 



A strange delight shall thrill, 

 A quiet joy brood o'er you like a dove ; 

 Earth's placid heauty shall your bosom fill. 



Stirring its depths with love. 



Oh, in the calm still hours. 

 The holy Sabbath hours, '.vhen sleeps the air, 

 And heaven and earth deck'd with her beauteous flowers. 



Lie hush'd in breathless prayer. 



Pass ye the i)roud fane by. 

 The vaunted aisles, by flaunting folly troj, 

 And 'neath the temple of uplifted uky, 



Go forth and worship God [ Hclecttd. 



