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regular architecture, are not less interesting. There is, indeed, no scene where such a 

 variety of forms and embellishments may be introduced at so small an expense, and with- 

 out anything fantastic or unnatural, as that of a village ; none where the lover of painting, 

 and the lover of humanity, may find so many sources of amusement and interest." 



Deak Sik: I cannot forego a remarkable passage of Mr. Cretin's speech in the Commice of 

 St. Symphorier. He says : — 



a * * * Agriculture and business are twin sisters ; they aid each other. Wlien one 

 is suffering, the other feels the eifect of it. * * * Agriculture is the most moral of all 

 arts ; we are going to prove this. * * * We often hear people say : This industry, set 

 up in that State, is going to interfere with a rival industry in another State or town ; not so 

 with agriculture. Never did good cultivation impede the progress, or diminish the benefits 

 of another good cultivation. But, two firms in the same city or town transact the same 

 kind of business ; they are rivals, and conceal their operations. Two farmers produce the 

 same crops ; they give each other all information, and promote, at large, the best methods 

 of cultivation ; they emulate, and do not rival. What is the reason ? The first have a 

 certain, limited number of customers, who can leave them ; the others, have all the world 

 for customers, and God and nature for stock." 



Industry works on a given capital ; what one gets, he takes it (as more than his share) 

 out of that capital. Agriculturists depend upon that inexhaustible source which comes 

 from nature's bountiful treasure. It does not take away what ought to be the share of 

 others ; there is no competition, and, of course, no angry feelings. B. 



fnrtitttltMral S0tietics. 



New York Horticfltural Society's Exhibition. — ^The show of plants, flo-wers, and garden vegetables, In 

 June, at Clinton Hall, was worthy of note in several points of view. In the first place, it was the show of a 

 society numbering some three hundred paying members, at a season of the year when earth's plants were in 

 full bloom, and when every gai'dener who cultivates vegetables for the city market should boast of his abundant 

 productions. The Society published a liberal list of premiums. * * * 



In fruit the show was better. There were perhaps a dozen quarts of strawberries, and some of them very hand- 

 some. Two dishes of Longworth's Prolific, exhibited by Edward Decker, gr. of J. Q. Jones, took a five dollar 

 premium, and were considered much the finest specimen exhibited, though severr.l others were handsome, both 

 of this variety, Hovey's Seedlings, and some others. There were several fine seedlings. 



Rare plants were indeed rare. Not a single one of the celebrated new Chinese ■pl&ui, Bielytra Spectabalis, was 

 shown, and only a meagre bunch of the flowers. There were four pots of Erica, iu full bloom, one of them 

 bearing flowers of pale green, shown by Alex. Gordon, gr. to Edwin Hoyt, that could not be easily exceeded in 

 beauty. 



The same gardener exhibited a plant, we think, quite unknown to florists generally in this country, called 

 Parritia Borbonica. It is not in flower, but the leaves are very beautiful, and attracted much attention. It was 

 awarded a premium of ten dollars. 



The collection of cut roses was as fine as the most ardent lover of this, the Queen of Flora's Kingdom, could 

 desire. The first premium, fifteen dollars, was awarded to Win. A. Burges, of Glenwood, near Roslyu, L. I., 

 for the best collection of roses, and a premium of ten dollars for a bunch iu a pot. He has some seventy varie- 

 ties, most of which he brought from England three years ago, of the choicest in the kingdom. This fifteen dollar 

 premium was the one ofl'ered by W. G. Hunt. 



Dr. G. Knight showed a pretty collection of ferns, a beautiful plant which is very much neglected, because 

 it is so common in a wild state. Ilis new arrangement of long, tin tubes, filled with water for cut flowers, is a 

 great improvement on the old style, of vials set iu boles in a board. 



The great lack of interest iu the public of New York, is the most remarkable thing connected with the show and 

 the Society. True, there was a fair amount of visitors in the evening, but, through the day, the rooms were 

 nearly empty, and no wonder ; the exhibition was not ono to attract a crowd, or one worthy their attention, or 

 creditable to the city, however much it might bo to the active few who have so long struggled to maintain it in 

 a state of respectability. — Kew York Paper. 



Pennsylvania Hokticultural Society. — The stated meeting of this Society was held at Concert Hall, Phila- 

 delphia, on Tuesday evening, June 17, lb.J6, E. W. Keyser, Vice-President, in the chair. Premiums were awarded 

 by the Committee on Plants and Flowers, viz: — 



Fuchsias — eight plants— for the best to Thos. Koberlson, gr. to B. A. Fahnestock ; for the second best to John 

 Pollock, gr. to James Dundas. Gloxinias^ight plants — for the best to Thos. Robertson ; for the second best to 

 John Pollock. Herbaceous cut flowers — for the best to Peter Kaabe. Collection of twelve plants — for the best 

 rt Buist ; for the .second best to Chas Sutherland, gr. to John Anspach. Collection of six i)lants- 

 Mark Hill, gr. to M. W. Baldwin. Specimen plant — for the best to Thomas Robertson, for fiti'j^ 

 ibunda ; for the second best to John Pollock, for MediniUu rrutgnifica. F^r New Plants — four dollars 



