EDITOE'S TABLE. 



II. The land and money was donated by the General Government to this State as a trust fund, 

 ajiart from and indepeudant of the Common School fund. 



III. With this fund the State is required by Congress to establish a State Uxiveksitt or High 

 Seminary of learning. 



IV. The members of this Industrial League are such, and such only, of the inhabitants of the 

 State of Illinois, as desire that when this State Seminary is established it shall be upon the 

 following rational and impartial principles : 



V. It shall be designed to furnish to the great industrial classes of the State, our farmers, mer- 

 chants, and mechanics, each in their own sphere, the same thorough, liberal, and practical 

 education in those various sciences underlj-ing their several pursuits, and in all processes, princi- 

 ples and arts connected therewith, as our colleges and professional schools now afford to their 

 students of theology, medicine, law, and the art of war ; and shall be provided with all needful 

 apparatus — lands, grounds, gardens, animals, drawings, models, instruments, and engines — for the 

 proper elucidation of the same, as other schools are provided with their necessary apparatus. 



To combine the friends of this interest, the Industrial League of Illinois was incorporated by 

 the Legislature, February, 1853. 



1. With a capital of §20,000, to be raised by members, fees, and donations ; 



2. With a Board of one Chief Director and five associates ; whose office it shall be 



3. To print and distribute books, pamphlets, and papers, explaining the advantages and neces- 

 sity of this system of education. 



4. To employ lecturers to visit all parts of the State for the same purpose, and to appoint 

 agents for making collections, <fec. 



5. To circulate and present to the Legislature and to Congress petitions, urging the adoption of 

 this plan for a University, and the liberal endowment thereof by Congress lands, and by State 

 funds in each State of the Union. 



6. To receive from each member ten cents admission, and ten cents annual subscription, with 

 fee for diploma and such voluntary donations as may be contributed. 



7. The funds so collected to be applied to the payment of lecturers, agents, and officers, (other 

 than Associate Directors, who shall receive no compensation for services,) to the payment of 

 printing and such incidental expenses as shall be approved by the Board : and on the establish- 

 ment of a University as herein contemplated, any surplus funds in the treasury to be paid over 

 to the treasury of such L'"niversity. 



8. Members of the Industrial League, who desire it, may withdraw from their membership 

 upon giving notice to any agent of the Board, provided their dues are all paid, including those 

 for the year in which they withdraw. 



9. The year of the League commences with the first day of each January. 



A DESCKrpTrvE Catalogue of rKtrrrs Cultivated and Sold by Tnos. Eivers, of the Xurseries Sawbridgeworth, 

 Herts., England. 



We are always glad to receive Mr. Eiyers' catalogues. They are without exception tlie 

 most instructive and reliable of any we receive from across the water. lie commits errors, 

 to be sure, but it would be wonderful if he did not. lie is a most persevering collector of 

 novelties, and of course is not unfrequently deceived. Mr. Eiveks has given a great 

 impulse to fruit growing in England; he has introduced some new items of practice that 

 bid fair to work well in that cool, damp climate. He now strongly recommends iieimial 

 removal as necessary to the successful cultivation of pyramidal Pears on Pear stocks; he 

 also recommends it for Cherries on Mahaleb stocks. His specimen quarter of Api)les, lie 

 says, contains 350 sorts — on0 plant of a sort — and yet only occupies 350 square yard 

 The trees are planted 3| feet apart, row from row, and 2^ feet apart in the rows, and 

 nially removed in ISTovember. 



