more than one or two inches deep, come out as fresh and green as in raid-summer ; while 

 all above the snow-line, the foliage is as red as though it had been scorched by fire. 



In England the winter has been remarkably severe — unequalled within seventeen years 

 past. In commenting on it, the Gardener's Chronicle states the following, to show the 

 protecting power of snow : 



" Tlie effect of snow, even in small quantities, as a protecting material, was strikingly shown 

 on the night of the 10th (February). While the exposed thermometer stood at 1°, another close 

 by, covered by two inches of loose snow, stood at 20°." 



Here we see two inches of snow giving 19° difference — a fact that should not be forgotten. 



We can not pursue this subject further at present, but shall return to it when we obtain 

 more information. Our correspondents will oblige us, and benefit all readers of the Uorti- 

 culturid, by giving such facts in relation to it as may come under their observation. 



Fkot-Geo wees' Society of "Western New Yoek. — A society under this title has been 

 organized for the advancement of fruit-culture in the western counties of New York, 

 beginning with Onondaga at the east. The President is John J. Thomas, of Macedon ; 

 Secretary, John B. Eaton, of Buffalo ; Treasurer, "Wm. P. Townsend, of Lockport. 

 A committee of three is to be appointed in each county, to collect information and coope- 

 rate with the society in carrying out its object;^. 



This promises to be one of the most eflicient organizations of the kind in the country. 

 The gentlemen who have been placed at its head are not only competent, in every respect, 

 to discharge the duties imposed upon them, but they are well-known to the fruit-growers 

 of Western New York, and enjoy their confidence and esteem to the fullest extent. 



We intended to give a full account of the proceedings up to this time, but find that we 

 must defer it till next month. In the mean time, we hope that the county committees and 

 all whose aid has been solicited, will manifest that interest in the matter which its impor- 

 tance justly demands. 



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AGEicrTURAL CoLLEGE OF THE State OF MICHIGAN. — A bill has been passed by the 

 Legislature of Michigan establishing an Agricultural School and Experimental Farm, to be 

 located within ten miles of the Capitol — Lansing. The purchase of land is to be not less 

 than 500, nor more than 1000, acres in one body, and to cost not more than fifteen dollars 

 per acre. Tuition to be forever free to pupils from the State of Michigan, and to be under 

 the direction and supervision of the State Board of Education. 



Michigan is a great agricultural State, and she does well to build up in her center an 

 institution where her youth may be educated in the profession. The education of farmers' 

 sons, now-a-days, drives them from the farm simply because it is not such as it should 

 be. All the learning must go to the city, and all the ignorance remain at home. Agricul- 

 tural schools in less than a quarter of a century will, we trust, correct, and perhaps reverse, 

 this state of things. We should, in justice, say that much credit in this matter is due to 

 the able Secretary of the Michigan State Agricultural Society, J. C. Holmes, Esq., for his 

 indefatigable efforts to attain this object. 



Mr. R. B. Leuchaes, of Quincy, Mass., author of the popular treatise on the Construc- 

 tion, Heating, and Ventilating, of Hot-houses, has just returned from Europe, where he 

 pent the winter months. We are indebted to him for an interesting account of "The 

 tal Palace at Sydenham," as he found it, which should have appeared last month. 



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