LoNGKViTY. — Our forefathers entertained the erroneous belief that the loss by perspira- 

 tion abbreviated life. Manportius roconimcndcd that the body, therefore, should be 

 covered with pitch, and Garden actuall}' arj^ucd that trees lived longer than animals be- 

 cause they took no exercise ! 



Hedges of Old. — Homer says in his OJyssey, that when Ulyssus returned from Troy 

 to his father Laertes, after many years absence, the good old man had sent his servants 

 into the woods to gather young tliorns for forming hedges, and while occupying himself 

 in preparing the ground to receive them, his son asked him, " Why, being now so far 

 advanced in years, he would put himself to the fatigue and labor of planting that which 

 he was never likely to enjoy ?" Laertes taking him for a stranger, gently replied, " I 

 plant against my son Ulysses comes home !" 



Poultry and Eggs. — Have our readers any idea of the annual value of poultry and 

 eggs in the United States ? The value of poultry in 1840 was estimated at more than 

 twelve millions of dollars, and three years later at twenty millions. It is estimated that 

 the city of New York expends yearly a million and a half in the purchase of eggs 

 alone. 



lortitultiiral u^ gignculhiral (^vMbitimis. 



The Ohio State Fair was most flattering to its promoters. The general appearance 

 of the people, says a gentleman who was present, indicated a high state of mental and 

 moral cultivation. The same individual remarks on the subject of young ladies compe- 

 ting for premiums on horseback — "If they get in the habit of managing so noble an 

 animal as the horse, and find it so easily done, won't they try their hand at man V We 

 can assure him there is not the slightest danger. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. — The twenty-seventh Annual EAhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was held at the Music Hall. The display, if not 

 quite equal in extent to some of those of former years, was decidedly the most neat, 

 tasteful and complete we have ever seen. A minute description of it cannot be here at- 

 tempted. "It was an affair which did equal credit to the exhibitors, managers, and 

 the citizens of Boston and vicinity. It is a subject of pride to a Bostonian that such an 

 exhibition should be thronged with visitors for four successive days — the number avera- 

 ging five thousand a day. It indicates the prevalence of a healthful sentiment among 

 our people — a taste for the promotion of an art which refines and ameliorates mankind. 

 If some one should be disposed to retort, that a different kind of an exhibition was largely 

 patronized here a few days ago, we would reply that the people who visited the Music 

 Ilall for the two objects, were generally of quite difi'crent classes ; and while we have 

 reason to regret that so many were found to justify the adage that " the fools are not all 

 dead," we rejoice that the class was far outnumbered by the intelligent votaries of Flora 

 and Pomona." 



