EDITOR'S TABLE. 



A New Southern' Peaoh. — The Rev. A. B. Laweence, "VVoodville, Mississippi, sends us 

 the following description of a seedling peach, which will be interesting to our friends 

 at the South : " Fruit — very large, often measuring between eleven and twelve inches in 

 circumference. Skin — deep purple next tlie sun, when fully exposed, shading off toward 

 the sides to a bright pink ; on other parts, a creamy white, with crinkling lines of pink 

 running across in parallel lines. Flesh — greyish white, delicate, tender and pecuhar flavor, 

 partaking slightly of both the strawberry and pine apple. Ripens here about the last of 

 July or first of August, parting freely from the comparatively small stone. Leaves — large, 

 Avitli uniform glands. 



The above description is taken from the original tree, a volunteer growing in a cotton 

 field at least half a mile from where there has ever been a person dwelling. The tree is 

 very old, rotten at the heart, and in almost the last stages of decay. Some of the leaves 

 measured over nine inches in length, and wide in proportion. I have proposed to name it 



Henry Clay. 



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The United States Ageicultural Society held its Annual Meeting at Washington on 

 the 2d of February. The attendance was good, the sessions interesting, and the prospects 

 of the Society encouraging. Some $2,000 was added to its funds during the meeting. The 

 president, Marshall P. Wilder, made an interesting address, giving the history of the 

 formation of the Society, and its operations thus for, and making many valuable suggestions 

 for its future guidance. Mr. Wilder was re-elected President for the ensuing year. A 

 Vice President Avas selected from each state. The other oflBcers are as follows : — ^J. C. G. 

 Kennedy, Corresponding Secretary, Wm. S. King, Recording Secretary, and Wm. Seeden, 

 Treasurer. 



The Executive Committee have prepared a memorial to Congress, asking for "a portion 

 of the money now annually appropriated to the Patent Office for the preparation of the 

 Agricultural Report and the collection and Distribution of Seeds," with a view to the per- 

 formance of that work themselves. It was resolved to urge the erection of a monument 

 to Downing in the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute. 



The Kew York State Agricultural Society at its late Annual Meeting passed the follow- 

 ing resolution : 



Resolved, as the unanimous opinion of this Board, that to no man more than to Mr. Tucker 

 is the Society indebted for its present highly j^rosperous condition, and that the thanks of the 

 Executive Committee, together with a service of plate to the value of $500, be presented to 

 him, as a testimonial of their high appreciation of his services and character. 



The compliment is well deserved. 



The Burlington Gazette, notices the death of the Kew Jersey Horticultural Society, " of 



a complication of disorders," and indulges in a very feeling obituary, which is closed with 



the following lines : 



" AfBictions sore, long time she bore, 

 Physicians were in vain ; 

 And now at last, the struggle's past, 

 She'll ne'er revive again." 



Potatoes. — ^Mr. C. E. Goodrich, of Utica, has given the subject of potato culture much 

 attention. We have adniired his fine exhibition at our State Fairs, and the freedom with 

 which he communicated information. We refer with pleasure to Mr. G.'s advertisement. 



