editor's table. 



James W. Gray, of Ball's Pond, Fairfield County, Connecticut, has issued a catalogue bf 

 fruit and ornamental trees, vines, shrubs, &c., at very moderate prices, which we recommend 

 his neie;hbors and friends to consult. 



No. 4 of Dr. Ward's remarks on Pear Culture, will appear in July. 



Meehan's Seeds. — Mr. T. Meehan, who advertises his seeds of trees and shrubs, has been 

 very successful in disseminating a large quantity of the esteemed varieties, which heretofore 

 have been difficult to procure. 



The Seedling Strawberry, noticed in Emile the Elder's pleasant story, we have cultivated 

 for some years, from the stock of " Aunt Charlotte's" single seed. It is of the Alpine family, 

 and all that Emile says of it we can confirm. 



New Roses. — James Pentland, of Green Mount Garden, Baltimore, has introduced, this 

 spring, two new roses, for which he claims the following characteristics : " The Beauty of Green 

 Mount is decidedly one of the most distinct and desirable acquisitions ; it is a noisette, of 

 rich, brilliant carmine color, very large and double (flowering in large clusters), and a very 

 free bloomer, quite as free as the Hermosa, and of robust habit." " The Woodland Margaret 

 is very large, pure white, and double, free blooming, with a lilac fragrance ; blooms freely 

 in the house ;" both are now offered for sale for the first time. 



United States Agricultural Society. — The journal of the fouii,h annual meeting of the 

 United States Agricultural Society for 1856, has been edited by the Secretary, W. S. King, 

 and Part I. is published. It forms an important contribution, and we hope will be exten- 

 sively read. Lieut. Maury's paper on the subject of Observations on Land with Regard to 

 Climatic Influences, is full, as usual, of truth and practical import. This Society is pre- 

 eminently useful, and its proceedings are replete with information. We shall take occasion 

 to allude to them again. 



It is a settled matter, that the next exhibition of the United States Agricultural Society 

 will be held in this city, on the 7th of October. The objects of exhibition will be horses and 

 horned cattle, swine and sheep, agricultural implements, cereal and vegetable products, 

 poultry, native fruits, and wines. We anticipate the greatest turn-out ever seen in America. 



By the way, we have on our table the speech of the Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee, to the 

 Senate, on the Naval Retiring Board, highly just to Lieut. Maury. At least, it was a mistake, 

 which the Legislature should rectify, to pass an unjust sentence on our most scientific officer, 

 one whom it is an honor to the country to honor. This mistake we look upon as no better 

 than a crime. 



The Vine in France and Madeira. — At a recent meeting of the Paris Agricultural Asso- 

 ciation, its President, M. Chevreul, reported favorably upon the nature of the vine disease, 

 and the probability of its speedy disappearance. The Society regards the disease as purely 

 climatic ; not denoting degeneracy in the plant, but as likely wholly to cease with the 

 cessation of the atmospheric influences. An American vine-grower and projarietor in Madeira 

 thinks difi'erently ; he has been under the necessity of ploughing up nearly the whole of 

 his vineyard, and beginning afresh. So great, however, was his apprehension of finding tlije 

 European vine degenerated and liable to the malady, that he has come to the determinatioii 

 of replanting with American vines, as of newer and more vigorous growth, and trusting to 

 the climate to restore the character of the produce. We may thus receive Catawba wine 

 from Madeira. Cincinnati must look to her laurels. 



Albany Agricultural Works, Annual Circular. — Tliis is an important catalogue of Emery 

 Brothers, with portraits and descriptions of a very large collection of farming implements, 

 which, we should suppose, would be good reading to those interested. Such extent and 

 variety of manufactures tell their own tale of progress. 



Guano Convention. — Tliere is to be a guano convention at Washington on the 10th of June, 

 to protest against the Peruvian monopolies. The farmers are also determined to endeavor 

 to have an agricultural department of the general government, which surely is just 

 proper 



