Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-06
LOVE OF DRESS.


 It is an indication of d youth void of understanding to be wholly occupied about the decoration of his person, and the dis play of fexternaf pomp or accomplishments. There is an attention 10 the decencies of dress which is conducive to the we'll being of society. But there are many with whom the adorning of their persons is the princi- pal source of self satisfaction, and the chief business of life. Man is an intelligent be- ing. He has glorious faculties to dis- charge. He has eternal life to secure.- What can more strikingly indicate want of that wisdom by which such a being should be distinguished than to have his faculties absorbed and his ambition satisfied with the transient varieties of external ate tire Besides, how contemptible is tho distinction which is merely superficial !-- The bee, that gathers treasures from every flower, has not tho finest coating. The eagle that scars on majestic wings tothe birth ofthe morning, has not tho most gilt tering plumage. It is the butterfly that idly Autters on the passing breszes, which tho fopling emulates. The care of the bo- dy with him is more than the care of the mind. With usefulness and virtue, with Knowledge and heaven 10 engage him, be- hold him the slave of a. color, or a fashion, placing his glory in that in which inferior animals may often vic with him, and fow- CTS and plants excel him. Such young man, whom dress alone occupies and de- lights, will be claimed by folly as her le- l gitimate child. Wisdom rejects him. In- telligenco sighs over him as young man void of understanding. tH
 Nev metAOd of fpropagating Apple Trees. A paragraph under the above Interesting caption, has taken it's annual trot through our country's papers for quite number of years,-we do not know how many,--but it is quite an old acquaintance. Now if the editors who give it circulation, would try to propagate apple trees in this new way, they would soon he able to prove to their readers all about tho new methOd.- For ourselves we. feel perfectly satisfied, and feel willing that our readers should know as much about it as we do ourselves. The method alluded to is to take shoots from the choicest trees, insert them into potatoe, and plunge both into the ground, leaving about an inch or two of the shoot above the surface.' We have tried this new method, and known tt to be tried by others. and the resul; has been invariably that only one of the combined material would grow. viz. the potatoe.- Yankee Farmer.
 Honor 10 Practical AgricMlturists Na- tiOn0l Benefactors.-The names of tliOse who havo enriched our gardens wiih useful and valuable plants are deserving of record and remembrance. Sir ". Raleigh intro duced the potatoe; Sir Anthony Ashly first planted cabbages in this country--a cab- bage appears at his feet on his monument; Sir Richard Weston brought over clover grass from Flanders in 1463 figs were planted in Henry inc Eighth's reign. at Lambeth, by Cardinal Pope; its said the idcnticaltrees are still remaining. SPiliord. who erected the first paper mill at Dartiord. in 1890, brought over the first two lime trees, which he planted. and they are still growing. Thomas Lord Cromwell enrich ed the gardens of England with three diff feren, Kinds of plums. It was Evslyn,. whose patriotism was not exceeded by his learning, who largely propagated .hemcble 1 oak in this country, So much so that the trees he planted have supplied the navy of 1 Great Britain with its chief proportion of l tha. .ime.-Englisk paper.