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VOL. XXVIII. No. 9. { 
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course, this meritorious doubling of produc¬ 
tion is not limited to timothy or clover, the 
blessings of his countrymen and the approval 
of heaven will cheer the mind uud soothe the 
spirits of every liberal soul. In every old 
country the names of great improvers in 
agriculture are cherished, as also arc those 
who have contributed to the improvement 
of the live stock, and anything benefiting 
farming. Now, if such is the case, what can 
the men be deserving of who cultivate and 
crop a a farm till one blade of grass scarcely 
grows where two had used to flourish; where 
les 4 than half the corn grows now ; where 
wheat can’t bo grown at all, and where liic 
live stock is not more than half of what it 
used to be; where the sons become disgusted 
with the life on their father’s land; which 
is work from morn till sunset, and the pros¬ 
pect more disheartening still as the soil be¬ 
comes more and more exhausted. 
Well, the man, or themselves and their 
fathers before them, have gradually reduced 
the food for supporting and growing the 
<pi u'rity of grain, corn and hay, which were 
formerly brought to perfection, and it is 
really a most discouraging existence; and, 
whatever a short-sighted exhausting system 
of cropping may be deserving of, these poor, 
worried, anxious farmers experience it, for 
theiris is a painful present, hopeless aud de¬ 
spairing. New England is gone past all re¬ 
covery in the present generation, and other 
States, than tho New England ones, are fol¬ 
lowing, step by step, as they proceed West. 
It is only a question of time, unless some 
wonderful revolution in agriculture should 
occurs ; but as tile Great Creator arrested 
the same kind of running down and impov¬ 
erishing in Old England, by the introduction 
of the turnip and other root crops, whereby 
such an amazing increase of sheep followed 
and lie, the Disposer, influenced them to then 
crop their land so as to keep animals in suffi¬ 
cient numbers to enrich the land with their 
manure, so the same Good Providence will, 
in Hia good time, provide for the evil now 
being complained of, and vvhnteve.r may ba 
the deserts of the few good farmers and the 
many bad ones, we may rest assured all will 
be for the best in the end. 
Yet, while it is well to trust iu the wisdom 
of the Ruler of tlm Universe, and believe 
that everything which he permits is or will 
still responsi- 
of the “Orchard House” to endeavor to im¬ 
prove the varieties of peaches. The few sorts 
selected as worthy of naming have been taken 
from more than 1,500 seedlings, and it. may 
give some idea of t he work done when it is 
stated that these were all grown under glass. 
Mr. Rivers has been a large employer of 
labor; a small agricultural village has, by llm 
continued employment of the capital required 
iu carrying out his ideas—all of which neces¬ 
sitate labor — been benefited by the large 
sums annually spent. 
“Mr. Rivers, through failing health, 1ms 
retired from active life, yet his mind is still 
active. Seventy-six years is a long measure 
of life for a man, but few men can look back 
with greater satisfaction than he can on a 
life worthily spent and deserving in every 
way of the commendation that, as far as lay 
iu his power, he has been a good citizen of a 
great country.” 
THOMAS RIVERS 
progress. Hence, our miners win oe gran- - 
fled to see an excellent portrait of him in the ’ 
columns of the Rural Nf.w-Yoiiker. The 
Garden, from which we copy it, says Of Mr. 
Rivers: 
“Mr. Rivers’ history is that of most men 
who have achieved success in their under¬ 
takings by constant and unremmitting atten¬ 
tion to their work. Ho was not flora, with a 
silver spoon in his mouth, and to this fact 
much of his success is probably due. lie in¬ 
herited a small property, and a business in 
which his enthusiastic love of plants enabled 
him to foresee a great development. When 
he began to turn his attention to his profes¬ 
sion, rose cultivation was in a very different 
position to what it is at present. Standard 
roses being principally imported from France, 
and in small quantities, he determined to 
visit France and examine the French mode of 
rose culture for himself. The. success of his 
earliest literary effort. “ The Rose Amateur’s 
Guide,” established him at once as an En¬ 
glish cultivator fully equal to the. French in 
love of the flower and In skill in its cultiva¬ 
tion. The book, in manuscript, was submit¬ 
ted by him to one of his earliest rose friends, 
Professor JONES of Hailey bury College, then 
one of the most profound scholars of the 
day. Dr. June’s approval was at once ac¬ 
corded, and “The Rose Amateur’s Guide” 
was received by the public as it was received 
by Dr. Jones. 
“While pursuing his rose researches, the 
pyramidal mode of fruit tree training, as 
universally practiced iu French and Belgian 
gardens, attracted his attention — always 
keen on matters likely to prove of general 
utility—and the “ Miniature Fruit Garden,” 
modest and small in its infancy, inaugurated 
a new era of fruit cultivation in English gar¬ 
dens. Although for years practiced in France 
uud Belgium, pyramidal fruit tree training 
does not appear to have been much employed 
in Euglaud until Mr. Rivers drew public 
attention to the extraordinary facilities given 
The frequent failure 
THE MAN DESERVING, WHAT! 
A man who causes two blades of grass to 
grow where one only grew before, is said to 
be deserving good from his country. As, of 
be right in some sense, wo arc 
ble beings and ougBt to use the little reason 
we have ; and the one fault, above all others, 
seems to be an unwillingness to look forward 
and farm in such a way as to raise the capa¬ 
bility for production, to manure and culti¬ 
vate, also crop in rotation, with a view to the 
future, instead of endeavoring to make all 
possiblo for the present. This brings to mind 
the evil of the better class of agriculturists 
changing their foremen so often, or engaging 
and employing such men as only expect to 
remain a lew years, or, m some instances, 
only one or two in their place, as all of such 
men will contrive in every way to serve 
present purposes at tho expense of the future. 
The man who will discover the means for 
changing the present exhausting system of 
plowing without the; means of returning more 
chan is taken off through the cultivation, and 
will establish the fact that there are crops 
which cau be grown to produce profit instead 
of being turned under, as clover is done, and 
such as can be repeated with benefit to the 
intervening crops, thus certainly giving extra 
fertility eaoh rotation, will deserve so well 
from hia country that he will lie immorta l ; 
aud after such a clear manifestation of the 
power to farm go us to surely incraasa yiekl 
by this mode of culture, 
of the fruit crop led him to devise some simple 
and effective means of protecting fruit, and 
he hit upon the system of growing trees in 
pots, Bv very small degrees, and with con¬ 
stant ex; ..eriments, extending over some years 
before finally giving the culture a name, he 
perfected the “Orchard House.” Like the 
“Rose Amateur’s Guide,” and the “Minia¬ 
ture Fruit Garden,” the “Orchard House” 
began at the beginning. 
“ During the time occupied in developing 
his ideas on these heads ha was constantly 
occupied in studying and forming large col¬ 
lections of fruits, and nearly every conti¬ 
nental new fruit found its way to Saw bridge- 
worth, and most of them eventually to the 
tire heap. Mr. Rivers wap at one time a 
most, ardent cultivator of what are called 
ornamental trees and herbaceous plants ; his 
collections of both were at one time very 
large, and he was quite as enthusiastic a lover 
of these as of roses. LQUBpN gave him the 
benefit of his vast knowledge, and took great 
interest in his various collections; in one 
tribe, that of the Oaks, jus collection was 
unusually extensive. He has made good use 
MURDOCK THE ACTOR SELLING CALF 
SKINS. 
Mr, Murdock once had a farm near Leb¬ 
anon, U., and used to reside on it in the sum¬ 
mer montus. One day, going to town he 
took some calfskins to sell to a tanner. Driv- 
mto the tanyard he met the proprietor, of 
whom he Inquired “What are you paying 
for good Call skin-; to-day?” The tanner 
took a chew of tobacco, put both hands in his 
pocket, and said with a lazy air that he didn’t 
xnow—he wasn’t sure that he wanted any 
calf skins. Murdock’s stager was aroused at 
tiie fellow’s mixture of impudence and indif¬ 
ference, and, straightening himself mto an 
acting attitude, he delivered a splendid piece 
of vituperation from one of Shakskeark’s 
plays. The tanner soon changed his indiffer¬ 
ence into amazement and admiration. He 
was a very ignorant man, but Murdock’s 
oratory and HiiaKspe aRE’s words, hud trans¬ 
fixed him. When the piece was finished he 
reached out his hand, " Who are you?” 
said he : “ if you say that over again I’ll give 
you a dollar a pound for your old hides.” 
Murdock told him Ins name, the. hides were 
sold, and seller and buyer enjoyed a hearty 
laugh. 
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