BECAUSE bowel complaints usually prevail most during the hot season of the year—the latter end of summer and antumn [sic], when fruit is most abundant, and in tropical climates where fruits are met with in great variety—it is inferred, according to the post hoc propter hoc mode of reasoning, that the one is the consequence of the other.
Read MoreThose who have planted trees in the neighborhood of woods know by experience, that during long and severe winters, when the ground is covered with snow, deer, hares, and especially rabbits, gnaw the bark off trees as far as they can reach.
Read MoreAs soon as the process of rippling has been gone through, that of watering should be immediately attended to. This requires the greatest attention.
Read MoreAN adjourned meeting of this Society was held at the rooms, No. 600 Broadway, on Monday evening, Nov. 28th, to receive the report of the committee appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year.
Read MoreOF all subjects treated of in books, nothing is further removed from the domain of esthetics and poetry than the cabbage. The literary reader will search his favorite authors in vain, for any considerable scrap or essay upon this esculent. It is not found in the favorite pasture-grounds of the poets, and genius has never sought to invest it with a beauty and glory not its own.
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