Litchfield enquirer., 1833-05-16

can throw one of 'em into a squirrels eye a hundred yards every crack, out of my old Kentucky bar of Iron. Hoop! for old kentuck. I'm Kentuck up to the hub and two inches deeper. BILL ScRATcHTALE. GARDENING.
 The Garden is at once source of prof. it, of substantial comfort, and of high in- telIectual qualification. Its fruits and its vegetables constitute the most grateful del- icacies of our table. Its flowers exhibit the exquisite pencillings of nature, calcu- lated to gratify our senses, and to awaken the finer feelings of nature. Its employ ments elevate the mind, reveal to it new sources of delight, ,and give health and vigor to the body. Its charms are alike calcu- lated to temper the passions of youth, and to solace the infirmities of age. In fine it's pleasures afford one of the best illus,ra- tions we can possess, of the happiness of our first parents in their primeval abode. So apt am l to couple in my mind the cul- ture of the Garden with whatever is com mendable in life, that never in travelling from home see neatly cultivated spot of this kind, without intuitively imputing to its cultivator the exercises of the social and relative virtues.
 Half an aero of we'll cultivated garden will go further towards subsisting farm er's family than perhaps thee acres of his farm, with the further advantages that while its products serve to gratify divers ity of tastes, they materially contribute to secure the blessings of health. Its labors may be managed by those who are too young or too old to share in the heavier tolls of the field, by the female inmates of the family and the occasional aid of the workmen, without impeding the operations of the farm. My first essays at gardening were made during period of comparative indulgence and of active mechanical em- ployment, which left mo little but the usu- l al hours of rest to devote to my garden.- My rural labor did not infringe upon my ordinary business, and yet I managed to raise, with triAing expense, all the gar den productions necessary for my family. My zeal for improvement in this business attracted the attention of that excellent philan,hropist the late Chancellor Livings- ton, who encouraged my efforts by pre- senting me trees and scions of new fruits which ho had recently brought from France I buddsd and grafted, and though my ef' forts were bungling, yet nevertheless sue
 ceeded, with the occasional purchase o
 plants from the nurseries, in the establish ing in my grounds an excellent assortmen of garden and orchard fruit. Thirty year experience has fully satisfied me that gar den is not only profitable, but that it a! l lords comforts and pleasures which wealt , cannot purchase. The passion for rurs t culture has increased with my years; an f I look forward to ile employments, shoul r my life be mercifuliy spared, as the hes } conservator of health, and the prolifi source of future enjoyments.
 T In many parts of Europe, the garden j not only common appendage of the farm
 but oven of cottage; and while thes' little improvements effect a great econom, of labor in furnishing human subsistence their floral decorations excite peculiar ln
 forest and admiration in the traveller, ant are tho theme of high commendation. IT Wurtemburg, Baden and some parts of the other German states, this branch of labol has particularly engaged the attention o the governments, and forms branch O.
 education in the primary schools. A
 knowledge of gardening is made an indis
 pensable qualification in teachers of schools
 who are required to instruct their pupils, il
 the hours of vacation, in garden which il
 attached to every district school.
 | ~. Y. Farmer.
 CoL. DAVID CROCHET, OF TENNESSEE.
 In the canvass of the congressional cleo
 ton of 18-, MT. was the Colonel
 opponent-a gentleman of the most pleas r ing and conciliating manners-w ho seldon
 addressed a person or company witlIou
 wearing upon his countenance pecnIia
 good humored smile. Tho Colonel t