Carpenter's White Peach. — The same journal remarks: "Tlais splendid peach has, we 

 are glad to learn, been placed in the hands of nurserymen for propagation and sale. An 

 intelligent friend says of it ; ' At all the shows where it has been exhibited, it has received 

 the prize as a superior seedling peach. It has had a four years' trial, and has sustained its 

 character fully. It is not only one of the best, but one of the largest peaches erer raised. 

 The flesh is uniformly white to the pit. It ripens about the second week in October. Hav- 

 ing had opportunities of testing it for three years past, I do not hesitate to say that I con- 

 sider it a very great acquisition.' " 



Remontant Roses. — A French cultivator at Lyons, France, commends to our notice the 

 following new remontant roses : Due de Malakoflf and Pauliska, as of the finest description. 



Diana Grape and Orange Raspberry. — We have nearly ready for publication, engravings 

 of these two fruits for the ensuing volume. 



The Soil. — An English paper says ; " The whole process of cultivating the soil, in 

 England, is undergoing such progressive changes by the introduction of artificial manure, 

 the use of improved implements, and the increasing substitution of steam for manual labor, 

 as to amount to a revolution." 



A Large Flock. — Mr. McConnell, of Sangamon County, Illinois, has the largest flock of 

 sheep in the United States. It numbers 21,000, and all of the choicest merinoes. 



Pears. — We have on our table some fine pears from our neighbor, P. R. Freas, Esq., 

 Editor of the Germantown Telegraph, which mark his very successful culture. The Beurri 

 Sieulle, a fruit little spoken of at our pomological conventions, is one of the best, a thrifty 

 grower, and produces abundantly — generally more than should be permitted to remain on. 

 A single tree yielded a full bushel ; it is not an a^iiy bearer, but, in Mr. Freas's garden, 

 since it commenced, it has invariably borne a full crop every year. It is a very handsome 

 pear, continuing yellow a considerable time before it should be eaten, and it should never 

 be eaten till quite soft. Fruit, of medium size, roundish, flattened. SJcin, pale yellow, with 

 a little red on the sunny side. Stalk, an inch and a quarter long, set in a cavity. Calyx, 

 closed, basin scarcely at all sunken. Flesh, buttery, melting, rich, and very good. Ripe in 

 October. 



Mr, Freas's Columbia, Vicar of Winkfield, and Easter Beurre, are higlily creditable 

 specimens. 



Gas Lime. — The Mark Lane Express says, with regard to this material, that " the gas lime 

 must not be api^lied, in a fresh state, to any crop, but should be mixed with two or three 

 times its weight of earthy or vegetable mould, and then turned over repeatedly for at least 

 twelve months. It will then be fit for applying to the land. It will be most appropriate 

 for clover or grass lands. From fifty to sixty bushels of the gas lime, prepared as before 

 mentioned, may be used per acre in the autumn or spring." 



Tee Honey King. — The Agriculturist calls Mr. M. Quinby, of St. Johnsville, Montgomery 

 County, N. Y.,the Honey King, and assures us that, this year, he has sold 22,000 pounds of 

 honey, all raised by himself and his immediate neighbors, with only common hives, small, 

 square, cheaply constructed boxes, with glass sides, which are set upon the common hive. 

 The quality is superior, and it commands a very high price, viz : twenty-five cents the pound, 

 including the weight of the boxes. 



