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Very truly your fellow-laborers in Ihc cause of Horticulture. 



WJI. E. MEARS/| 

 R. BUUHaNAN, 

 JOHN P. FOOIE, 

 S. MOSHEH, U'ommittee. 



K. O. GARY, I 



N. LO-\GWORTH, 

 A. H. ERNEST, J 

 Cincinnati, Nov. 28, 1857. 



Wilson's Albany Strawberrv. — Nicholas Longworth, of Cin- 

 cinnati, in a letter to the Southern Cultivator, says — " I had Wil- 

 son's Albany Seedling in bearing the past spring. From its bearing 

 this year it appears to have the rare character of being perfect in 

 both male and female organs, and to bear a full crop of fruit of 

 good size." 



The editor of the Woonsocket Patriot makes merry over the 

 mistake of an old Shanghai hen of his that has been "setting" for 

 five weeks upon two round stones and a piece of brick ! " Her anxie- 

 ty," quoth he. "is no greater than ours, to know what she will 

 hatch. If it proves a brick-yard, that hen is not for sale." 



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The Journal of Commerce published a table by which it appears 

 that during November last there sailed from New-York for Europe, 

 no less than sixty-one vessels with grain on board, amounting, in 



the aggregate to 1,500,000 bushels. 



Vermin on Animals. — M. Raspaii recommends to make a solu- 

 tion of allocs — one gramne of that gum to a little water — and apply 

 it. It will speedily destroy all vermin on animals or plants, and 

 prevent others from approaching. To clean sheep and animals with 

 long hair, they must be well bathed in the solution. Several triafe 

 proved it completely successful. 



