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StAtcs Agricultuml Society, in the city of Boston, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday ami 

 Friday, October 2:Jrd, liJth, 2"jth, and liClli. 



Twenty-thousand dolhirs have been guaranteed by patriotic gentlemen of IJoston and its 

 vicinity to defray tlic expenses; the city of Boston has generously granted to the Society for 

 present use, a fine public square of fifty acres ; and ten thousand dollars will bo offered in 

 Premiums in various departments. 



Tiie previous Exhibitions of this Society — at Springfield, Mass., in 185:3, and at Springfield, 

 Ohio, in 1854 — were eminently successful, and no eff'orts will be spared to make tlic present 

 Show, combining as it does, the Four Great Departments of Farming Stock, superior to its 

 predecessors. 



The Premium List, -with the Rules of Exhibition -Nvill be forwarded to all who will 

 address the President, or Secretary, at Boston, to that cff'cct. 



It is earnestly hoped that all Breeders, and owners of Fine Stock will feel it to be a duty, 

 as it certainly is for their interest, to contribute to the Show. 



The List of Entries, Exhibitors and Award of Premiums, and all the proceedings of the 

 Exhibition, will be published in the Journal of the Society, for 1855. Annual members of 

 the Society who desire to receive the Joui-nal, should remember to renew their subscriptions. 



William S. Kino, Secretary. Marshall P. Wilder, President. 



TuE North-Western Fruit Grower's Associatiox. — The Annual Meeting of the North- 

 western Fruit Grower's Association will be held in Burlington, Iowa, on Tuesday, September 

 25th, 1855, and will continue in session four days. 



This Association, organized for the purpose of facilitating and encouraging the propagation 

 of Fruits and Fruit Trees in the North-Western States of the Union, and composed of 

 Nurserymen and Fruit Growers from these States earnestly solicits the favorable attention of 

 all persons from the North-AVest, interested in the cause for which they will assemble. 



It also respectfully solicits the attendance from all such persons from all portions of the 

 Union, and requests them to furnish the Association with specimens of such fruits as are 

 indigenous to, or are cultivated in their respective localities, with contributions giving the 

 experience of cultivators as to diseases, destructive insects, &c, as may facilitate investigation, 

 and add to the public information on these important topics. 



In many portions of the Union the season has proved unusually propitious, and there will 

 be a heavy yield of fruit. In others, frosts early in the season destroyed the hopes of culti- 

 vators. Those who have been successful in raising fruits will please forward specimens of 

 their varieties to the Association at this place, to care of E. E. Gay. 



Carriage or freight, by express or otherwise, will be paid by the Association. 



P. Barry, Esq., of Rochester, N. Y., late editor of the Horticulturist, and one of the most 

 extensive and widely known Nurserymen and Fruit raisers in the country, has kindly prom- 

 ised to be present and address the Association, and also to contribute speciijiens of the fruits 

 of Western New York. 



As Burlington is connected with St. Louis and Minnesota by means of the Mississippi river, 

 and with Chicago and the East by Railroad, we indulge the hope that there will be a large 

 attendance of persons interested in Fruit Growing, from all sections of the Union. 



The AVixter &c. in Virginia. — My Dear Sir. — The last winter was remarkable for its 

 unusual severity here, as in other sections of the country, December was an intensely cold 

 month, and there being but little snow upon the ground, the earth froze unusually deep and 

 hard. For several mornings in the month, the mercury stood from 8° to 12° below 0. 

 January was milder, there was more snow. Early in February the cold attained its greatest 

 intensity ; on the morning of the sixth of that month, the mercury stood at 15° below 0. 

 It did not rise to zero through the day, a circumstance which I do not remember having before 



