EDITOU'S TABLE. 



of Europe. We are glad that somebody >Yill aid us in taking tbc jiait of the Lumbltd public 

 against tbc Lords of the rails. 



United Statks Agriovltihal Society. — The cxbibition nt lloston, succcsMful as it was, will 

 be fully reported in those periodicals which especially devote themselves to its topics; except 

 iiK'iilentally, it scarcely fall.s to our lot to do more than give it a favorable greeting and to 

 record its advent. AVell did Colonel Wilder, its great promoter, remark: — 



"A prominent object has been to awaken in the public mind a just appreciation of their 

 labors and a stronger love for agriculture and rural life. IIow delightful the occasion! Huw 

 salutary its influences! Here the rough animosities of party strife, the asperities of political 

 dissensions and the bitterness of sectional jealousy are merged and lost in the love of a com- 

 mon pursuit, and a common country; and in proportion as we act in concert and harmony for 

 the advancement of the great industrial arts of life, we cement and strengthen the bonds of 

 our glorious Union. (Enthusiastic cheering.) Here we witness an illustration of the power of 

 voluntary associations, the grand characteristic of our age, the great engine which propels the 

 car of modern enterprise.*' 



Again, he said: "We, of New England, cannot boast of a luxuriant soil like that of the 

 prairies and valleys of the West, nor of a genial clime like that of the sunny South, but in- 

 dustry constrains our reluctant soil to yield its increase; and though prominent among our 

 exports are granite and ice, yet these are no indications of the hardness of our hearts, nor of 

 the coldness of our affections. No! Ko ! .' We extend to you our friendly greetings, and our 

 most cordial salutations." (Cheers.) 



The Boston Journal says: "This truly national affair has been successful beyond the most 

 sanguine hopes of those under whose auspices it was arranged. The display of stock has em- 

 braced some of the best cattle, sheep, and swine, ever exhibited in this part of the country, 

 and we doubt whether a finer collection of horses was ever brought together." 



Our own city was well represented, and if eloquence had been entitled to a premium, our 

 brother editor, Morton McMichael, might have carried off the first. 



Sixty thousand persons were on the ground at one time, and the cost of the liberal arrange- 

 ments were all met by the pay for entrance. This is very encouraging for the future ; on 

 one day the gates had to be closed, so great was the throng. Why not have the next ex- 

 hibition in Philadelphia? We trust it may be so. 



Notices of Books. Flora's Dictionary. — Messrs. Lucas Brothers, of Baltimore, have issued 

 a new edition of Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E. W. Wirt, of Virginia, with fiOO wood engravings, 

 and 56 groups, colored from nature ; the title and presentation plate are printed in colors, 

 making a capital Christmas or New Year's book. 



The Illustrated Annual of Rural Affairs and Cultivator'' s Almanac for 1856, by J. J. Thomas, 

 has been published by Luther Tucker & Son, of Albany, N. Y., in a neat and handsome cloth- 

 bound duodecimo. It is a very useful manual for the country. 



TVie Western Agriculturist is the name of a new weekly paper, published at Pittsburg, Pa., 

 by David Ramaley. It promises to be a valuable addition to the agricultural periodicals now 

 so useful and numerous. 



Downing' s Familiar Notes and Letters. — In the ensuing volume of the Horticulturist will be 

 published a short series of familiar characteristic notes and letters from the late A. J. Downing 

 to the present editor, written off hand, in the full tide of life and hope. We feel confident they 

 will interest all who peruse them, and revive in many hearts feelings of admiration for the 

 hand that is now cold ! 



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