DOMESTIC NOTICES, 



Dnnifstir JMim, 



State Agricultural Schools. — Just before 

 the Legislature of the State of New-York broke 

 up ia the late abnormal manner, the bill for the 

 Agricultural College was, at its third reading, 

 quietly laid on the table — chiefly at the motion 

 of Messrs. Vaknum and Pardee, two gentle- 

 men who we believe wish more time to consider 

 whether it is worth while to give a farmer's son 

 any education! 



This bill, or any other for the same object, 

 will never pass, and should never be expected 

 to pass, till the leading farmers of the state be- 

 stir themselves a little more energetically to 

 procure its passage. They greatly desire its 

 passage, to be sure; they even send a petition 

 to that effect from various parts of the state, 

 now and then, and for the rest, they quietly 

 pass their winter days in foddering the cows, 

 and their evenings in reading the agricultural pa- 

 pers by the fireside. Meanwhile, when any 

 other interest in the state wishes legislative aid, 

 it makes its importance felt at Albany by the 

 presence of constituent representatives who give 

 no peace to law-makers till they decidedly as- 

 sent or deny. Pressed by such unceasing de- 

 mands by some of their constituents, and allow- 

 ed almost to forget the real wants of others, it 

 is not remarkable that the railroad bills pass, 

 while farm-school bills are laid upon the table. 



The new session of tlfe legislature is, we un- 

 derstand, to be called in June. Let every ag- 

 ricultural society in the state but send one de- 

 legate to Albany, armed to tlie teeth with sharp 

 and earnest words about farmer's rights, and the 

 wise men at the capitol will deny them nothing. 

 But if the farmers expect to get laws enacted 

 for their benefit, and the good thereby of tlie 

 whole country, by merely sitting still at home, 

 and hoping, when all the rest of the world is 

 as busy asserting its rights, as mid-summer bees 

 in making honey, they are in a fog of delusion 

 as impenetrable as Egyptian darkness. 



New- Jersey is, we see,, faring no better than 

 New- York. Massachusetts has the matter of a 

 State Agricultural School still under considera- 

 tion, and judging from the signs upon the sur- 

 there is every reason to believe that she 

 succeed first. Prof. Hitchcock who visi- 



ted for this special purpose all the leading farm 

 schools in Europe last year, has made a very 

 valuable report to the legislature, embracing all 

 the needfid statistics of these schools. Hun. M. 

 P. AViLDER, chairman of the Agricultural 

 Committee, a host in himself, is laboring un- 

 weariedly to bring the matter to a decided ac- 

 tion, and public meetings have been held at the 

 state house, to develop and bring to a focus pub- 

 lic opinion on this subject. Thus, Massachu- 

 setts, with one-f(Jurth of the farming interest at 

 stake, compared with New-York, will doubtless 

 get a school to teach fiirming first, because her 

 farmers are more active in asserting their 

 rights. 



Fortune's Five Colored Rose. — Messrs. 

 Parsons & Co., of Flushing, have success- 

 fully introduced this rose. A small plant, 

 which they had the kindness to send us late- 

 ly, has produced some fine flowers, pure 

 white, striped with red, and we trust, when 

 older, will show its full character. Mr. For- 

 tune, it will be remembered, brought this plant 

 out to England from China, and his account of 

 it — given in his travels, is the following: '• Ano- 

 ther rose, which the Chinese call five-colored, 

 was found in the gardens; it belongs to the sec- 

 tion commonly called China Roses in this coun- 

 try — but sports in a very strange and beautiful 

 manner. Sometimes it produces self-colored 

 blooms, being cither wholly red, or French 

 wliite, and frequently having flowers of both co- 

 lors on one plant at the same time, while at 

 other times the flowers are striped with the co- 

 lors above mentioned. This will be as hardy as 

 our common China Rose." 



On inquiring of Mr. Cadness, (at Messrs. 

 Parson's establishment,) respecting the beha- 

 vior of this new variety in this country, we re- 

 ceived the following note from him. Ed. 



Fortune's Five Colored Rose is undoubtedly a 

 great novelty amongst roses, but like all flowers 

 of its character, requires nice cultivation in or- 

 der to get the flowers true. We have not, as yet, 

 we consider, paid that attention to its culture 

 which it undoubtedly requires, having given it 

 the same treatment as our other China and 

 Roses, and for the past year encouraged 



