editor's table. 



The Weathek. — On this fruitful topic, we may say, that up to June 22, we have had, in 

 this region, a truly rainj/ season, such as many believe exists in the tropics. There have fallen, 

 up to the above date, in the past month, 7.01 inches of water ; and, in May, we had 6.43 

 inches, maldng nearly thirteen and a half inches in two months — notwithstanding which, 

 the prospect of fruit continues good. Strawberries have been abundant and dear. Cher- 

 ries were injured with the wet, and rotted on the trees. The summer and autumn fi'uits 

 promise well. 



In May, 1855, rain fell to the depth of 6.53 inches, and in .Tune, of the same year, 8.07 ; 

 in July, 6 50. In 1855, this great amount of rain was followed by an arid summer, which 

 it may be well to provide for the coming season. 



Trial of Reapers, Mowers, etc. — The first national field trial of reapers, mowers, &c., by 

 the United States Agricultural Society, will come off at Syracuse, New York, the present 

 month, and is looked forward to with great interest by farmers and inventors. The exact 

 date is not ascertained when we write, but July 6tli to the 13th is named ; the precise time 

 was to be fixed as soon as it could be ascertained when the crops would be ready for the 

 harvest. We since learn it is the 13th. 



The Fifth Anscal Fair of the United States Agricultural Society will be held at Louis- 

 ville, Ky., during the fall, and will embrace "a national trial, in the field, of agricultural 

 implements and machinery." 



Fruit-Trees. — The New York Journal of Commerce says : " The importations of foreign 

 fruit-trees and seeds, this spring, now nearly over, are estimated to have been at least fifty 

 per cent, in excess of those of any former year ; and this branch of horticulture is fast 

 acquiring importance. The destruction of trees by the severity of the two last winters, and 

 the rapid settlement of Western lands, but more than all, the encouragement to the culture 

 of domestic fruit afforded by the formation of numerous agricultural societies throughout 

 the country, have given an impetus to this business which is quite iinprecedented. Trees 

 are imported in bales and cases, chiefly from France, England, and Scotland ; and seeds are 

 invoiced by the ton." 



The Late Winter, etc. — A valued correspondent says : " I would advise you to repeat 

 your trip to Cuba next fall, to get away from our Nova Zembla winter. The last exceeded 

 all in my memory. It has actually killed several of the oldest paper-mulberries in Newark, 

 N. J., streets, and at Astoria, N. Y., I observed no indication of life in two venerable catalpas 

 which must have braved thirty or fort}' winters, facing N. N. W. 



" My last advertisement ]>aid well, for many orders referred to the ' Horticulturist for April 



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