Catalogues, etc., received. — Regulations and List of Premiums of the Seventh Annixal 

 Wisconsin State Fair, 1857, to be held at Janesville. This came too late for notice last 

 month, and before this reaches our Wisconsin readers, the fair will be almost or quite over. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Strawberries, comprising the collection of W. R. Prince & Co., 

 Flushing, L. I. 



W. R. Prince's address to the American Institute on the Chinese Potato — Dioscorea Bata- 

 tas. If this esculent has the great value in this country, attributed to it by the French 

 reports, it is time we had efficient specimens in plenty. Thus far we have been unsuccess- 

 ful in propagating it to any extent. 



Annual Catalogue of Grape-vines, for sale at the Vinwood Grape Nurseries, Ilion, Herkimer 

 County, N. Y., J. D. Ingersoll, proprietor, 1857, 1858. This list embraces all the esteemed 

 varieties, at moderate prices. 



Wholesale Catalogue for Autumn of 1857- Du Page County Nurseries, Napierville, 

 Illinois, Lewis Ellsworth & Co., proprietors. This comprises a large and valuable stock, to 

 which it affords us pleasure to call attention. 



Complete Set of the Transactions of the Michigan Agricultural Society, commencing in 

 1851. Most portly and interesting additions to our library shelves. 



Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, &c., for sale by W. T. & E. Smith, 

 Geneva, N. Y. This is a carefully prepared and valuable catalogue, embracing a great 

 variety of the best stock. 



W. R. Prince's Select Catalogue of Bulbous Roots. Ditto. Descriptive Catalogue of 

 Strawberries, 1857-8. 



Bulbous Roots. — Mr. A. Bridgeman, of New York, advertises a large stook of bulbous 

 roots, including a number not generally kept for sale. His catalogue may be had on appli- 

 cation to 876 Broadway. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co.'s Descriptive Annual Catalogue (1857) of Bulbous Flowering Roots, 

 with Directions : No. 15 John Street, New York. A grand collection, indeed. 



New York Horticultural Society's Schedule of Premiums for the Exhibition, which closes 

 to-day, October 1. This came too late for notice in last number, and of course, from the 

 date, we have to regret that the present issue contains no account of the doings transpiring 

 while our number is sailing about through all the post-offices of the land. 



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

 for sale at the Marshall Nursery ; Manly & Lowe, Marshall, Clark County, Illinois. It is 

 very pleasing to see such extensive lists from the interior. We are making a curious col- 

 lection of all the catalogues of the country, for binding and preservation in a public library, 

 and shall be pleased to receive all that are published. 



Wholesale Priced List of Trees and Shrubs. Nursery of G. W- Strong, Nonantum Hill, 

 Brighton, five and a half miles from Boston. For the fall of 1857. Apparently a well 

 selected stock, and certainly not unreasonable. 



Mk. Peabody has been awarded a gold medal, of the value of fifty dollars, by the Alabama 

 State Agricultural Society, "as a testimony of their high appreciation of his success in 

 the propagation of his seedling Hautbois, and bringing the culture of the strawberry to such 

 perfection." 



A valued correspondent writes thus : " It belongs to the mission of the Horticulturist, as 

 I understand it, to teach Americans that the highest beauty and the highest utility are 

 inseparable. Its influence illustrates the hidden sense of the old myth that the goddess of 

 1)eauty was wedded to Vulcan, the god of practical ingenuity. It has already accomplished 

 so much in this direction that, to me, a journey by steamboat or railroad is like turning 



