The Pear Crop, &c., writes a valued correspondent, is light in Rochester, N. Y., and 

 vicinity. The same remark applies here, and in Boston, though Mr. Hovey's fine trees 

 have more than an average. The trees flowered well in most neighborhoods, but much of 

 the fruit fell before it was fully established. Mr. Wilder's extensive collection will pro- 

 duce rather more than half a crop. We should say, after an extensive tour, that pears this 

 year would nowhere be as abundant as was hoped, and the peach crop poor. 



The Forest-trees of America, by R. U. Piper, M. D., Woburn, Mass., is the title of a 

 quarto livraison well printed, which we picked up in Boston the other day. It appears to 

 us to aim at describing many things which have been described before ; the Horticulturist, 

 old and new, is quoted extensively ; the pictures are well drawn and printed, but we do not 

 yet quite discover its aim or drift. 



The Flower Garden, or Breck's Book of Flowers, is a new edition revised and enlarged 

 of the excellent Boston Seedsman and Cultivator, Mr. Joseph Breck. It contains much 

 valuable information of a practical kind, and may usefully be employed as a guide. 



H. A. Dreer, Seedsman, 117 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, advertises seeds suitable for the 

 season. Especially he recommends his Extra Pansies, which took the premium in April 

 last, and have been saved with care. 



Transactions of the Connecticut State Agricultural Society, 1855. — This well printed 

 and well written volume of 350 pages, has been placed before us, by Henry A. Dyer, Esq., 

 of Hartford, Corresponding Secretary. 



Connecticut deserves every honor for having been the first American State to set apart a 

 fund for the maintenance of free schools, thus inaugurating a policy of the deepest moment, 

 which has been followed throughout the Union ; it was also the first to urge the establish- 

 ment of a Normal School, for the education of teachers ; and the first to make provision 

 for the teaching of the Deaf and Dumb. Education, indeed, has been her wealth, and we 

 now see its results in increased attention to the culture of the earth ; her citizens are pio- 

 neers everywhere ; as members of useful Boards in other States to which they emigrate 

 they take the lead in agriculture, and are rarely in the rear. The perusal of these 

 Transactions has afforded us great pleasure. Mr. Huntingdon, their late President, has 

 contributed his Address, a most lucid and agreeable one. Altogether this volume is credit- 

 able to its authors, and we could wish it may be perused in other States as well as at home. 

 The addresses delivered before these societies are wells of thought and information ; they 

 form a new species of literature, engaging the thoughts and experiences of some of our 

 wisest men, so that Transactions which might be thought, on a casual sight of such volumes, 

 to be dry and dull, are among the best reading our presses produce. The work under con- 

 sideration is not a whit behind its now numerous compeers. 



Pamphlets and Circulars Received. — List of Premiums of the Brooklyn Horticultural 

 Society for September Exhibition, September 17, 18, and 19, 1856. 



Fourth National Exhibition of the National Agricultural Society, at Philadelphia, October 

 7th to 10th. Fourteen thousand dollars offered in premiums. 



List of Premiums and Regulations of tlie Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania 

 State Agricultural Society at Pittsburg, Sept. 30, Oct. 1, 2, and 3, 185G. 



Premiums and Regulations for the Seventh Annual Fair of the Ohio State Board of Agri- 

 culture, at Cleveland, September 23, 24, 25, and 2(3, 1856. Competition open to other States. 



