The Weather in Louisiana, — A correspondent writes, that while the siigar-cane has been 

 much injurt'd in Louisiana, the orange-trees, wliich are usually killed with the degree of 

 frost they have experienced, are entirely uninjured. 



The New York State Agricultckal Societies' premium lists have been issued in a han<l- 

 some fonn. The exhibition is to be at Watertown, Se])t. 30, and October 1, 2, 3, after the 

 Pomological Convention, at Rochester, on the 24th, making it convenient to attend both. 



AfiRicri-TrRAL KxiiiBiTiox IN Tennessee. — There will bo a "Grand Exhibition and Trial of 

 Agricultural Inipkiuents and Machinery, at Nashville, Teiin., on the 4th and 5th of June, 

 under the supervision of the State Agricultural Bureau." 



Experiment with Cherries. — Some of our readers, it is ho])ed, will try the following mode 

 of preserving cherries. It is from the last number of the London Gardeners^ Chronicle, the 

 note at the close being by the editor, Dr. Lindley : — 



Cherries preserved hy Bl'rial. — On Monday last, I employed a man to excavate a portion 

 of an old strawberry-bed, in order to sink a well some three or four feet below the surface. 

 He found several cherries, plump, round, black, fleshy, and still retaining a sweet flavor. 

 How long they may have lain there I know not. Certainly the ground has not been dis- 

 turbed for four years, the period during which I have been in occupation. I intend trying 

 whether they yet retain the power of germination, and beg to inclose two, which you may, 

 perhaps, think it worth wliile to submit to a similar test. They appear to belong to the 

 variety termed caroons. C. A. Johns, Callipers, Herts. [The specimens sent us quite 

 answered to the above description.] 



Downing's Monument. — Mr. Editor: I was one of the original subscribers to erect a monu- 

 ment to the late Mr. Downing, and can say I never subscribed to anything of the kind with 

 more pleasure. From the character of the committee who had charge of the plan, I have no 

 douT)t of its being well executed, but I, for one, should be Rlad to know the state of the affair, 

 and cannot but hope it is nearly finished. Uorticola. 



We are pleased to be able to state, that a recent correspondence with the committee on 

 this subject, enables us to inform " Horticola," and tlie other subscribers, that the monument 

 is in a forward state, and will very soon be erected in the grounds of the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tute, at Washington, with suitable inscriptions. It is intended to express the refinement, 

 and delicate taste and gracefulness of the mind and nature it is to commemorate under the 

 form of a beautiful antique vase, covered with flowers in arabesque relief. We are assured 

 it will be worthy its object. 



Early Peaches. — Mr. M. H. Simpson, of Saxonville, says the Boston Transcript, of last 

 month, to-day exhibited, at the rooms of the Horticultural Society, a box of the " Early York" 

 Peach. They were grown and ripened in his grape-house, on the principle of the " Simpso- 

 nian system of culture," viz : three crops in two years, which can be applied to peaches as 

 well as grapes. Tlie tree from which these peaches were plucked this morning, bore a crop 

 in Messrs. Hovey & Co.'s Nursery, last Septeml)er. The peaches on exhibition were grown 

 in three and a half months from the time of starting. His grapes grown upon this system, 

 are now fully ripe, and of a superior quality, the vines exhibiting no signs of having been 

 overtasked. 



Jackson Apple. — Mr. Wilson Dennis, of Appleback (what a capital place to grow apples), 

 Bucks County, Pa., sends us specimens of the Jackson Seedling Apple, with the description, 

 as follows : "Tree a good grower, and bears early ; fruit always fair, which will keep till June, 

 and is in season from December till May. Growth of the tree rather upright — young wood, 

 dark brown." This apple is known and esteemed by pomologists — so much so, that Dr. Brinckle 

 had a coloi-ed drawing made of it, and has given us liberty to publish it with a description 

 by himself. We can speak very favorably of the taste of these specimens. 



The Gardening Books, and Books on Agriculture and Science, for sale by J. Q. A. Warren, 

 of Boston, form a large and separate catalogue, embracing all the works on these subjects 

 esteemed in this country, 



Rhoads & Gray, of Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., have issued a catalogue of their extensive 

 fruit and ornamental trees, with a " wholesale list," to which they ask attention. 



