editor's table. 



List of Premiums of the St. Louis Agricultural Association, to be held at St. Louis, Sep- 

 tember 23, 185(}. 



Cliartor, Constitution, and By-Laws of the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Asso- 

 ciation. 



Annual Report of the President of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture of the General 

 Assembly of Ohio, for 1855. Chillicothe, Baker & Miller, Printers. 



Wholesale Catalogue, for Autumn of 1856 and Spring of 1857, of Ellwanger and Barry, 

 Rochester, New York. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, cultivated and 

 for sale by Hubbard and Davis, at the Detroit Horticultural Garden. 



"Wholesale Catalogue of ditto. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Strawberries, comprised in the collection of Wm. R. Prince &. Co., 

 Flushing. 



Catalogue of the Fruit-Trees, Plants, &c., for sale by C. B. Swasey & Co., Yazoo, Miss., 

 wholesale. 



Premium List of the First Annual Fair, to be held in Columbia, S. C, 11th to 14th of 

 November. 



Cheap Glass SxEucTrRES. — Tlie ensuing number will contain some illustrations of a cheap 

 glass structure which has been built in Belgium for sixty cents a running foot, the most 

 economical we have ever heard of. It is a subject of extreme interest to discover a mode 

 of having cold orchard and grape houses at a moderate cost ; they may be attended almost 

 without expense when the plants are established, so that the man who goes out to daily 

 labor may grow his ton of Black Hamburghs and reap a reward proportionate to his intel- 

 ligence. His wife, if there was no other assistance, with the least exertion, could regulate 

 the ventilation, and shut it up in high winds or during rain ; but there are hundreds who 

 "work at home, who could obtain an income equal to that from a small farm by a simple 

 grapery. At the latest exhibition in London, the prizes for grapes were taken from all the 

 expensive houses, by a gardener who built a small shed for growing vhies for sale ; a few of 

 them were left to run over the structure, as will be more fully detailed in our next number, 

 with a neglected little border and but little attention. 



It is the season now when all will be looking about how to protect their valuable plants, 

 and to facilitate this object, we give the dimensions of a complete pit of very simple con- 

 struction, which we know to have produced a succession of bloom that shamed some finer 

 structures. 



It is in form something like the pit described in the April number, page 105, but has no 

 flue, and from it the plants are taken to a little conservatory, made by simply inclosing a 

 portion of the piazza communicating with the drawing-room, as fast as they appear likely 

 to bloom. It is built of one and a half inch plank made double, and the space between 

 the two sides filled with tan, which is cheaper than manure, renewing it every two or three 

 years. Charcoal, where it is to be had cheaply, would answer equally well. 



DIMENSIOXS. 



Length of the outside 



Breadth " " 



Height in front " 

 " back " 



Length of the inside . 

 Probably another foot in breadth, making 9 feet, would be preferable. 

 It fronts S. S. E. with the door of entrance at the W. S. W. end, which in winter is closed, 



6 in. 



