SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
world, fciiid all ihe usetu! of the animal — could any earth- 
ly prospect be more delightfull 
Although other avocations may ofler the greatest prizes 
in the “ lottery of life,” yet if we compare the advantages 
of rural industry with those of any other of the common 
occupations to w hich men devote ihtmselves, we ehall 
find that he, who is engaged in Agriculture, has no reason 
to be dis 3 mi;hid with the hit which fortune has assigned 
him. Its supei oriiy in point of salubrity over any se- 
dentary employment is too .apparent to require illustra- 
tion — and it affords more of those common enjoyments, 
which constitute much of the elements of happiness, th.an 
any other state of equal mediocrity. The farm yard, the 
orchard, and the dairy, supply almost without expense, 
abundant means for those gratifications usually terrned 
the comforts of life, besides many luxuries beyond the 
reach of people of humble fortune. Few persons are in- 
deed insensible to the difference of mere animal existence 
as enjoyed by the farmer who passes his days in the 
healthful labors ot the field, and that of the mechanic or 
the shopkeeper who wears away his hfe at the bench or 
the counter.^ But it is not in these alone that the advan- 
tages exist; of all the feelings which we cherish, none is 
dearer than the consciousness of independence, and this 
no man who earns his bread by the favore of the public, 
can be said to enjoy to an equal degree with the former. 
Traders, as well as those termed professional men, are ri- 
vals, jealous of each other’s success, and let this be what 
it may, they still owe a deference to the world which is 
often galling to their spirits ; but the farmer fears no com- 
petition ; individually, he has nothing to apprehend from 
the success of his neighbor; he solicits no preference, 
and he owes no thanks for the purchase of his produce. 
His business, though subject to more casualties than al 
most any other, is yet so divided among many risks, 
that he is rarely exposed to the hazard of total failure ; 
the same weather which often injures one crop, improves 
anoiher, and the very difficulties of a critical season, 
opens a field of exertion, by which he is often gainer. 
Possessing on his farm all the means of life, he is under 
no corroding anxiety regarding his daily subsistence. 
He is removed from those collusions of interest, and 
struggles for precedence, which rouse the worst passions 
of the heart; and his constant observations of the benefi- 
cient dispensatory of Nature, for the care of all her crea- 
tures, can hardly foil to impress him with a deep sense of 
that religion of the heart which consists in the conviction 
of, and reliance upon, the care of an all-ruling and all- 
bountiful Providence. And to borrow the sentiment of 
a distinguished French nobleman — “ I could wish to in- 
spire all the world with a taste for Agriculture: it seems 
to me impossible how a bad man should possess it ; there 
is no virtue I do not attribute to him, who loves to talk 
of farming and to conduct it. Absorbed in this passion, 
which is the only one that increases with age, he daily 
overcomes those which derange the calmness of the soul, 
or the Ol der ofsociety, when he passes the limits of the 
city, (the seat of moral and physical corruption,) to go 
and work on his lands, or to enjoy them, his heart re- 
joices at the sight of nature, and experiences the same 
sensations on his lungs, on receiving the pure air that re- 
freshes him ” 
Nothing tends more to enlarge the mind, and extend 
the sphere of our rational pleasures, than the contempla- 
tion of the economy of nature ; and to those whom for- 
tune has placed above considerations of pecuniary advan- 
tages, but who set a due value on intellectual enjoyments, 
the stuoy of Agriculture offers an inexhaustible fund of 
amusement, as well as instruction. The same objects, 
seen in a variety of aspects, present an infinite variety of 
feature ; and the most slender stock of appropriate know- 
ledge, if aided by habits of observation and research. 
may be eminently useful in ascertaining facts hitherto un- 
known or unrecorded, and in thus illustrating Agricul- 
ture, which, however sedulously it has been explored, 
still opens a wide field for inquiry, while even if not for- 
tunate in the attainment of any material benefit, the mere 
occupation of the mind in tracing the origin and progress 
of any novel iiyprovtiuenf, will be found productive of 
the purest gratification As tiie soil, however rich, says 
Seneca, cannot be productive Vvithout culture, so the mind, 
without cultivatiiin, cannot produce good fruit. — Virgin- 
m Farm Jovrvai. 
HORTICULTURE AND AGRICULTURE. 
EXTRACTS FROM AN ADDRESS BY JOHN C. CARMICHAEL, ESa 
OF GREFNBORO’, GA. 
‘‘For ages, and in all countries this subject (Horticul- 
ture) has occupied a portion of the attention of those who 
formed a taste for the beautiful in Nature. Where is the 
man who can look at a flower and say that it is not beau- 
tiful 1 The culture of flowers develops our finer feelings 
and softens our nature, Show me the lady who does not 
posses^, a taste for flowers 7 and I would say, if I was in 
search of a wife that she would not be selected oy me to 
occupy that position. The Duke of Richmond, having 
heard of a rare plant in India, dispatched a special mes- 
senger for it, who conveyed it to England at an expense 
of §10,000. The Emperor of Japan, v/ishing to bestow 
a mark of courtesy upon a distinguished personage, sent 
him a gold snuff box containing a rose and two other 
plants growing beautifully. The gardens of the Japanese 
are all on a small scale, and all of the plants are dwarfed 
down to the smallest size. The Japonica is the Rose of 
.Japan, but does not compare with Japonica of our own 
happy land, which has been beautified by horticulture, and 
whose petals have been largely increased in numbers, and 
whose colors have been increased by art and taste. The 
handsome Tulip, now almost neglected, once held its 
sway in Holland, and the excitement became so great that 
a single buib sold for ^'5,000. * * * * 
You, doubtless, have heard of the Rose of an hundred 
leaves. I once plucked a rose, cultivated by my own 
hand, which had one hundred and eighty eight distict pe- 
tals or leaves. It was known as the Souvenir de Mai- 
niaison. 
More than seven hundred different Roses are now 
known, and the number and variety is being increased by 
Horticulture. Some of them are beautifully striped. Some 
are of all the shades of red, and some are as delicately 
tinged with the pink, as the Maiden’s Blush. The differ- 
ent shades of white, the delicate straw color — the Cloth of 
Gold. The Green Rose, whose discovery was so soon 
followed by the Blue Rose, and they vary in size front 
the dime to the saucer. 
It is a source of deep regret that so little attention is 
paid to the subject ot Horticulture. Our Agrieulturistshave 
it in their power to develope many of the beauties of one 
science with another, by adding the beautiful to the usetuL 
In all the cities of the North, the proper attention is p dd 
to the culture of the handsome little emblems, which 
have been considered more beautiful than was Solomon in 
all his glory. “Consider the Lillies of the Field; they 
toil not, neither do they spin; yet Solomon in all his 
his glory was not arrayed like one of these.” ** * * 
The Cemeteries attached to the beautiful cities of the 
South, during the spring and summer months, are laden 
with flowers. Those belonging to New Orleans, and par- 
ticularly the one appropriated to the French portion of its 
population, is magnificently decked with boquets of the 
choicest flowers, which are arranged with truly artistic 
taste. This is particularly the ca.se on “All Saints Day,” 
which is the 1st day of November of each year. The 
