To. 5. 



AND GAKDKNER'S JOURNAL. 



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n rttiirii wiiU me, 1 will sluiw bim the magical ef. 

 :t8 of culiivaiion on tbe same plant. 

 Two seasons bavo passed since one of ihese wlld- 

 wera was iranaiilanted to our garden. I hardly 

 pected to see il live ; bin in the place of one low 

 tlk, and one boll, from that same ruot wo had, la'*! 

 mmer, from June until Oetobi-r, n sucression of 

 wers growing on sinlka froin two to three feet high, 

 d often three belU on a stalk, I one day counted 



ly- 



Noiwiihetauding tbe change in Iho fljwer-stnlks, 

 shells seem in no wise changed, but retain all tboir 

 iglnal delicacy, ibus proving to a demonstration that 

 y have not, like many other beiUs, been injured by 

 miration. 



I know not its botanical name, or if it have any — 

 :an admire it without one — but it has beauty enough 



tainly, to compensate for the longest and homclicai 

 mc that any Botanist ever invented. E. 



Le Roy, March IIM, 164-2. 



The plant to which our correepondent refers, is one 

 lich wo think from his account, we have seen 

 d admired, and which we suppose claims the 

 tonicfll name of Campmmla rotimdifolia or Flax 

 • llnwer. Its name, campanula, signifies its bell- 

 apo. It is among a class of flowers easily transfer- 

 i to the garden, and greatly improved by cultiva- 

 Bcck's Botany describes it thus: Stem, 8 — 12 

 :;he3 high. Radical leaves cordate (withering 

 rly). Flowers few, largo, blue, in a loose terminal 

 nide or raceme. (If E will send us one of the 

 iBsoms when they appear, in a letter or paper, he 



II oblige us, and we cnn ascertain the name.) 



Large Bree<i ofHotisiii Clyde. 



Clyile, Fehruat-y 2\st, 1342. 

 Editok — 



IDear Sir — I have a breed of h>igs that grow to a 

 rge size, one of which about two and a half years 



I I killed on the 14th inst., that weighed when 

 esaed 80.'! lbs., of which T'll lbs. was lard, and the 

 uns weighed .56 lbs. each. 



II commenced feeding him about the middle of 

 ivembcr with peas and corn, at which time he was 

 llow condition. When alive, he measured 6ft. 8 in. 

 iiund his body just ba:k of I he fore shoulders. The 



ight of this animalsounds large to us in this neigh- 

 ■hood ; and if you consider him deserving of it, 

 It will no doubt pay him the compliment of a no 

 « in your useful paper, the JS^ew Genesee Farmer. 

 Your ob't servant, 



JOHN POTTS. 

 This hog certainly deserves a memorial, and is 

 »rthy of being an Emperor among bis own counlry- 

 n. He must have taken a lesson of the frog, who 

 id to equal the ox. but with a good deal more sue- 

 sand without ending in the same unhappy explo- 

 n. He was as heavy when dressed as hal tha 

 ill that are killed. Onr correspondent doea not 

 e his breed of swine a name ; and it might be 

 !med uncivil to call them the Potts breed ; but con 

 ering the value of such pork for boiling, we might 

 forgiven if W3 should call them the Pot Breed. 

 a\'a "doing the thing to a t." 



The Ne Plus intra. 

 Since giving a notice of the Clyde Breed of Hogs 

 ra Mr. Potts, we have received the subjoined from 

 orrespondent in Maine. The Yankees may well 



this the " Beatem ;" ond il will be a small afiair 

 any other state to talk of " going the whole Hog" 

 •r this. Tbe amount of loss in killing ia very small 

 i contradicts the usual experience. 



Blaine Pig vs. Genesee Pigs. 

 Mr. Adams, in the last number of tbe New Genesee 



mer, says " Mr. Marks had four Berkshires which 

 ighed 1838 pounds, and Mr. Corter'etwo weighed 

 10 pounds, when twenty months old." Now. Mr. 



F.dJtor', I ha>-e n tale to tell worth two of that. Mr. 

 Jameson, of this place, yesterday killed a pig twenty 

 two nioniha and twelve days old, which weighed 

 alive 1010 pounde. Urccscd he weighed DOS lbs — 

 without the caul, that weighed thirty eight and a half 

 pounds. Rlnkinghis whole weight 94:iJ pounds — a 

 loss of only 6t5J pounds. He was a cross of the 

 Berkshire and Bodl'ord — girted seven feet, and was 

 live feet and about ten inches in length. His keeping 

 till September last, was not high or expensive. Six 

 bushels ol potatoes and two of meal, with weeds and 

 tbe spare milk of three cows, lasted him and two 

 breeding .sows of the same age, two weeks. They 

 were fed but twice a day. The potatoes were boiled, 

 mashed up in n large tub, the meal added and water 

 enough put in to make it quite thin. In addition to 

 this feed n'ght and morning since September, he has 

 had three quarts of corn at noon. 

 Your ob't eerv't 



WM WATERMAN. 

 Cornis h, Mc, March 2.'), 1842. 



Oriiaineutal Trees. 

 [fViim Caimans Fourth Report. 'i 



The cultivation of ornamental trees ought to be 

 strongly pressed upon the farmers. " Put a tree 

 down ; it will be growing while you are sleeping." 

 Many of thera enrich the country ; all adorn it, 

 and thus essentially increase the value of an es- 

 tate, and render the country more healthful as well 

 as beautiful. Every place on a farm, where they 

 can grow without injury to the crop, ought to be 

 planted with trees. Timothy Walker, of Charles- 

 town, Middlesex county, lately deceased, left a 

 legacy of some hundred dollars to be expended in 

 planting ornamental trees on some of the great 

 roads in that town. This was a noble bequest ; 

 and places him among the benefactors of the com- 

 munity. It is an example worthy of imitation. 

 A taste for the beauties of natural scenery can- 

 not be too much cultivated among us. A taste for 

 natural beauty is closely allied to a taste for moral 

 beauty. The more attractive our homes are ren- 

 dered, the more shall we love our homes ; and the 

 love of home is the parent of many kind and no- 

 ble afl'ections. 



A taste for natural beauty is an original element 

 of the mind. It may be strengthened, elevated, 

 and enlarged by education ; but it appears even in 

 the rudest minds, and thus speaks its divine origin. 

 I believe the perception of beauty exists in all an- 

 imals ; or why should they have been made so 

 beautiful ? 



Natick in Mdidlesex Co., was the seat of the fir.st 

 christian mission to the Indians, where the benev- 

 olent Eliot, designated as the Apostle, sought to 

 pour into the minds of these children of nature, 

 benighted with the thick darkness of superstition, 

 the heavenly rays of inspired truth. Eliot was 

 followed by a worthy successor, Oliver Pcabody. 

 The Indians appreciated the blessings of the reli- 

 gion of peace and love which he taught them ; and 

 in gratitude for his services, these sons of the for- 

 est, to whom the trees seemed as their own kin- 

 dred, came in a deputation bringing two elms, and 

 asked leave to plant in front of the humble dwel- 

 ling of the missionary these ''trrcs tiffiicnilsliip." 

 This was in 1722, and these trees stood for ninety 

 years, when one was rived by lightning, and the 

 other seemed to perish through sjanpathy. When 

 the successor of Mr. Pcabody, Mr. Badger, was 

 settled in lla'S, the Indians offered the same token 

 of respect and the same pledge of good will to 

 him. These trees are still in full vigor, and re- 

 main as beautiful monuments of ofl'ections, which 

 have gone out on earth, but are destined to be re- 

 kindled .and burn with a purer flame. 



Nature is every where prodigal of beauty, as if 

 she would stimulate the passion for it to the ut- 

 most extent. Among the varied combinations of 

 charming objects, which mingle in a rural l.ind- 

 scape, the trees are preeminent. Sometimes rising 

 in single cones so exact and symmetrical in their 

 form, that they seem the perfection of art ; some- 

 times spreading their umbrageous limbs in curves 

 and lines of the most graceful expansion ; some- 

 limes bending their boughs to the earth loaded 

 with golden and crimsoned fruit, and when the sun 

 pours its bright rays upon them, presenting not an 



inapt image of that sacred bush where the divine 

 presence wrapt itself in robes of lire ; sometimes 

 seen in long single lines skirting the trnveller's 

 path ; sometimes in beaulilul clumps and clnsli-rb, 

 alfording a grateful shade to the panting lierds ; 

 at other times in the wide spread forest, shading 

 a volley with their deep and black green; here 

 again burnishing the mountain's side with their 

 thick and matted foliage ; now in autumn robed ia 

 the gorgeous vestments of more than oriental mag- 

 uiliconce ; and often in winter bending under their 

 piled-up lleeces of snow, or glistening with match- 

 less splendor when cased in ice and changed into a 

 crystal forest of glass and diamonds ; in all these 

 cases how suited are the trees to charm Ihe eye and 

 delight the mind! Why should not the eye be 

 charmed ? Why should rtot the imagination be 

 delighted I Why should we not take pleasure in 

 the beauty of God's works? Why should we not 

 do what we can to make our homes continually 

 nrore and more beautiful ; and to multiply and fill 

 to overflowing these innocent sources of pleasure 1 



The country is full of poetic sentiment and re- 

 ligious monitions. The privileged inhabitants of 

 the country should seek to rise above the mere 

 drudgery of life, and make themselves familiar 

 with nature in her ever varying and charming as- 

 pects. It will not hurt their industry, but it will 

 cheer their toil to study the benevolence of the 

 Creator in the perfection of all his works ; and, I 

 trust I may add without irreverence, to second his 

 provision for the happiness of his creatures in 

 multiplying every where around them the forms of 

 beauty. 



I hope I shall be pardoned for the enthusiasm 

 which I may betray on this subject. Let those 

 who think ray remarks out of place, kindly pass 

 them over. Penetrated to the depths of my soul 

 with a sense of the beauty of nature and the 

 charms of rural life, I am anxious that even the 

 lowest laborer may have his toil alleviated, his 

 self-respect quickened, and a sentiment of the dig- 

 nity of his own nature breathed into his heart by 

 a habit of observing and studying ond enjoying 

 the wonders and glories of the visible creation 

 around him. I cannot think it difficult, under a 

 just education, to awaken this sentiment and form 

 this habit, even in the humblest minds ; and what 

 sources of gratiticalion in such case shall we open 

 to him, which the wealth of cities cannot purchase, 

 and what motives to religious trust and joy shall 

 we inspire, -which written teachings can never im. 

 part. For what a prodigality of beauty is every 

 where manifested in the natural world ! Light it- 

 self is the perfection of beauty, and wherever it 

 spreads its glittering robe, converts every thing 

 which it touches into beauty. Take the great fea- 

 tures of nature, the earth, the water, the sky, the 

 sun, the moon, the stars ; and what beauty is re. 

 splendent in every one of them. Take the vege- 

 table tribes, the trees, the flow'ers and the verdant 

 fields ; take the animal creation, from the fairy 

 bird that cleaves the liquid air with his burnished 

 wing, to the pearl of exquisite briUiancy, that lies 

 buried in the depths of the sea ; and what a divine 

 beauty shines out in the whole. Examine the mi- 

 nutest atom, which you cnn pick from the earth 

 with the finest needle, the smallest flower that 

 drinks in the refreshing dew, the least insect that 

 floats in the sun-beam, the tenderest leaf that 

 quivers in the breeze, and the vast continent with 

 all its mixed and varied features of land and water, 

 of valley and mountain, of prairie and forest; 

 take the vast ocean, with its ceaseless heavings, 

 and its deep curulean waves, and the golden and 

 crimsoned heavens at the rising and setting sun ; 

 look at nature, even in her decay, in the variega- 

 ted glories of autumn, or reposing under her jew- 

 elled mantle in the death of winter, look at every 

 thing in its individual form, or in its combinations, 

 and even in objects which seem offensive or loath- 

 some, or terrific, — all, all, is flooded with beauty. 

 I have stood hour after hour, gazing at the mighty 

 Niagara ; and while I beheld in its tremendous ' 

 movement, an image of the Divine Power, and in 

 its ceaseless flow, a symbol of the Divine Eterni. 

 ly, yet in its deep torrent of living grten, its glit- 

 tering tresses, of a whiteness which the drifted 

 snow does not surpass, and in the dazzling iris, 

 spanning its troubled and foaming abyss, anti 

 girding, as it were, (he lion's neck with a cincture 

 of brilliants, beauty, ineffable beauty, pervaded 

 and triumphed over the whole ; and there, of all 

 other places on earth, seemed to have fixed her 

 shrine nnd to demand universal homage. 



