they damp so easily. A sunk pit in the open ground, with a covering of glass or boards, to 

 exclude the rain and frost, if air be admitted occasionally, to dry off the damp, will gene- 

 rally carry them through. 



Catalogues, etc., received. — California Fruit, painted for the State Agricultural Exhibi- 

 tion, from specimens raised at Smith's Gardens, near Sacramento, by Thomas M. Logan, M. D. 

 A very handsome colorecl picture, which we have had framed, varnished, and mounted. 

 The fruits are Crawford's late Peach ; circumference, twelve inches ; weight, near twelve 

 ounces. Smith's Californian Seedling Strawberries : longest diameter, two and two-tenth 

 inches ; shortest diameter, one and one-fourth inch. Black Hamburg Grapes : average 

 diameter, eight-tenth inch. Cannon Hall Muscat : average diameter, nine-tenth inch. A 

 superb group, indeed. 



Maury's Wind and Current Charts ; Gales in the Atlantic. A beautiful quarto of twelve 

 plates, designed to show the relative frequency of gales, during each month, in various parts 

 of the Atlantic Ocean, North and South. A most valuable publication, by which Mr. Maury 

 arrives at the conclusion that the season which presents the most favorable state of the 

 Atlantic for passenger travel, is found to be about the last of July and first of August. 



Circular of W. T. Hallett, Architect, Norwich, Conn. Well considered, lucid, and sen- 

 sible. 



Brunei's Mammoth Ship. Description of the Great Eastern Steamship, with engravings. 

 New York : S. D. Drain. 25 cents. 



Demands of the Age on Colleges. Speech of Hon. Horace Mann at Cincinnati, Ohio. 

 New York : Fowler & Wells. 



How to do Business ; a Pocket Manual of Practical Affairs, and Guide to Success in Life. 

 Same publishers. 



List of Premiums and Regulations for the Ninth Annual Fair of the Michigan State Agri- 

 cultural Society, to be held at Detroit, September 29th and 30th, and October 1st and 2d, 

 1857. A promising and liberal list. J. C. Holmes, Secretary. 



Catalogue 1857 and 1858 of Fruit and Ornamental Tree, Flowering Shrubs, &c., cultivated 

 by Wm. Reid, Elizabethtown, N. J. Among much that is valuable, Mr. Reid enumerates 

 the American Holly, which many are now in search of. 



Wholesale Price List, Fruit-Trees, &c., cultivated and for sale by the same. 



The Northwestern Fruit Growers' Association will hold their next session at Alton, Illi- 

 nois, commencing September 29, and to continue four days. This Association is a most 

 valuable one, and will be attended by the best pomologists of the country. An invitation 

 to attend will be accepted if health permits. 



STATE EXHIBITIONS FOR 1S57. 



Alabama, at Montgomery, Octoher 27 to 30. 

 Canada East, at Moutroal, Septomber 16 to 18. 

 Cauada West, at Brautl'ord, September 29 to October 2. 

 Connecticut, at Bridgeport, October 13 to 16. 

 California, at .Stockton, September 29 to October 2. 

 East Tennessee, at Kuoxville, October 20 to 23. 

 lllinoi.s, at Peoria, September 21 to 24. 

 Indiana, at Indianapolis, October 5 to 10. 

 Iowa, at Muscatine, October to 9. 

 Kentucky, at Henderson, October 12 to 16. 

 Maryland, at Baltimore, October 21 to 2.^. 

 Massachusetts, at Boston, October 21 to 24. 

 Maine, at Bauijor, September 29 to October 1. 



Michigan, at Detroit, September 29 to October 2. 



New Hampshire, at Concord. October 7 to 9. 



New Jersey, at Now Brunswick, September 29 to Oct. 2. 



Now York, at ButTalo, October 6 to 9. 



t)liio, at Cincinnati, September lo to 18. 



Pennsylvania, September 29 to October 2. 



Tennessee, at Nashville, October 12 to 17. 



United States Agricultural Society, at Louisville, Ky., 



September 1 to 6. 

 Vermont, at Montpclier, September 30 to October 2. 

 Virginia, October 28 to 31. 



Wisconsin, at Jonesvillo, September 29 to October 2. 

 West Teuuosseo, at Jackson, October 27 to 30. 



Twenty-Ninth Annual Fair of the American Institute is to be held at the New 

 ystal Palace, in the latter part of September. The programme is a liberal one. 



