VI Tannic Acid, for strawberries, 359, U. 541 University of Albany, 48 529 Plan for Industrial, 306, 414 21 W. Wants of our readers,. 210 437 Vegetable life, remarks on,... 327 Wash for barns, 200 293, 509 - Physiology, 111, 212, 319 Watering plants in pots,. 569 juto 292 Races, improvement of,. 153, 265 Wells, ice water in,. 434 Western New-York, horticulture necessity for,................ of, 224 What will the edifice cost,. 129, 213 Whittling, poetry of, Wine and Temperance, 98 529 151 54, 204 Winter, effects of, .... Deep holes for,. 145, 214, 200 237 at Cincinnatti, 245 Forest, of America, 529 Luxuriance of,. 327 Great variety of native, 263, 367 on Evergreens, 255, 367 Vineries-Borders for,. 94 Half hardy,.. in the West, 193 392 Construction of,.. 218 in Georgia, 243 In cities, 345 Grapes for, 444 in Illinois, 388 Large,. 237 Hints about, 488 in State of N. York, 380, 462 in northern New-York,.. 243 Management of. 95, 109, 192, 211, Old, management of, 222 239, 241, 252, 322, 416, 418, 517 Y. Ornamental of Panama, 141 Mr. Green's, Planted too deep, Yankee Whittling,. 98 152 Mr. Messer's,. 418 Stunted, how to treat, Yellows in Peach Trees,... 101, 515 248 To protect from rabbits, &c. 61 Tribute well deserved, Mr. Suydam's,. 419 Yew, American,.. 362 Yucca, as a hardy ornamental 93 plant, 227 288 294 Z. 293 Zauschneria Californica,.. 321 K. Cooper, Jas. Fennimore,. Kirtland, Bilius, Poland, O., .... 292 Valk, Wm. W.,.. 200, 397, 433, 501 372 V. Vaux, Calvert, Newburgh, 73 C. N. J.. 107 Cousin, David, France,. L. 129 Carey, Alice,.. 182 484 530 C., Chicago, Miller, Samuel, Pennsylvania, 89, 100 575 D. ...... 291 Messer, A., Geneva, Munn, B.,. 418, 567 W. .. 263 Y. N. D. T., Greatfield, ..... 434, 435, 437 N. Y. H., Philadelphia, . The Bome Education of the Rural Districts. HILE the great question of Agricultural Schools is continually urged upon our legislatures, and, as yet, continually put off with fair words, let us see if there is not room for great improvement in another way-for the accomplishment of which the farming community need ask no assistance. Our thoughts are turned to the subject of home education. It is, perhaps, the peculiar misfortune of the United States, that the idea of education is always affixed to something away from home. The boarding-school, the academy, the college-it is there alone we suppose it possible to educate the young man or the young woman. Home is only a place to eat, drink, and sleep. The parents, for the most part, gladly shuffle off the whole duties and responsibilities of training the heart, and the social nature of their children-believing that if the intellect is properly developed in the schools, the whole man is educated. Hence the miserably one-sided and incomplete character of so many even of our most able and talented men-their heads have been educated, but their social nature almost utterly neglected. Awkward manners and a rude address, are not the only evidences that many a clever lawyer, professional man, or merchant, offers to us continually, that his education has been wholly picked up away from home, or that home was never raised to a level calculated to give instruction. want of taste for all the more genial and kindly topics of conversation, and a want of relish for refined and innocent social pleasures, mark such a man as an ill-balanced or one-sided man in his inner growth and culture. Such a man is often successful at the bar or in trade, but he is uneasy and out of his element in the social circle, because he misunderstands it and despises it. His only idea of society is display, and he loses more than three-fourths of the delights of life by never having been educated to use his best social qualities-the qualities which teach a man how to love his neighbor as himself, and to throw the sunshine of a cultivated understanding and heart upon the little trifling events and enjoyments of every day life. JAN. 1, 1852. No. I. A |