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Pennsylvania, and New England, no frost was found, altliougli fires were quite 

 comfortable ; hence it will be seen that the crops in these States, and Maryland 

 Delaware, and New Jersey continue to promise a most abundant yield. 



The returns received at the Department, written between the third and eighth 

 days of September, from all the States visited by severe frosts, generally place 

 the injury to the corn crop at from one-Jifth to onc-haJf the. whole crop; but the 

 average of the States of Minnesota, Michigan, and Illinois is three-tenths, and 

 of Indiana four-tenths. The tobacco crop is reported as injured to a still greater 

 extent. There can be but little doubt that this crop has suffered much more thau 

 any other. Sorghum is injured less than corn. But it is useless to dwell longer 

 on the extent of injuries that could not be Avell ascertained at the time these 

 reports were made ; we must wait until the returns of next month. 



The Cincinnati Ilortictdtural Society. — In the July report we took occasion 

 to refer to the remissness of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society in not respond- 

 ing to the cii'culars of this Department, thereby withholding from it information 

 of an interest for which that society has done so much — the culture of the grape. 



For three months circulars were sent to E. P. Cranch, secretary of the 

 society, from whom came no response. Well knoAving the public spirit of this 

 association, and its high intelligence, we could look upon this neglect in no other 

 light than unfriendliness to the Department, which was the more surprising, as 

 we knew it had labored to have this Department established. 



The neglect of any other association could have been better endured ; but 

 here in Washington, contrasting this the seat of our national government, on 

 sacred soil, of magnificent distances; whose broad avenues are but dust in summer 

 and bottomless mud in winter ; where scarcely a flower blooms for the family, 

 or an amateur cultivator is seen ; where government has spent its millions on 

 public edifices and grounds without calling into existence, appai'ently, any taste 

 for horticultural pursuits ; a city Avhose market-places are as revolting as their 

 prices are exacting ; where no gardens are in its vicinity to attest a horticultural 

 taste or knowledge — contrasting these things •v^ith their opposite at Cincinnati, 

 where this association had shed abroad on labor a taste and an intelligence as 

 the sun sheds light and warmth and beauty wherever it shines — coiitrasting 

 what the Queen City has with what Wasliingtou has not, we could not but ex- 

 press a regret that this public spirited association stood aloof from this Depart- 

 ment. 



But it seems that Mr. Cranch was not the secretary. The society in the fol- 

 lowing proceedings exhibits its desire to promote the objects of this Department, 

 and we commend its action to all other horticultural associations, with the 

 injunction to each — Go tlum and do lihcioisc. 



" At the regular weekly meeting of the Cincinnati Horticidtural Society, on 

 the 29tli August, it was — 



"Resolved, That a committee of correspondence with the Agricultural Depart- 

 ment, at Washington, be appointed, with the view of furnishing the Department 

 with monthly reports upon the agricultural and horticultural interests of the 

 vicinity of Cincinnati." 



This resolution being unanimously adopted, the following gentlemen were 

 appointed on the committee, viz : 



Daniel B. Pierson, College Hill post office, Mill Creek township, Hamilton 

 county, Ohio. 



B. Buchanan, Cincinnati post office, Clifton township, Hamilton county, 

 Ohio. 



John H. Gerard, Mount Washington post office, Anderson township, Hamil- 

 ton county, Ohio. 



Dr. A. Whipple, Delhi post office, Delhi township, Hamilton county, Ohio. 



Charles Remelin, Dent post office, Green township, Hamilton county, Ohio. 



