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pected to die on the passage. But after their arrival, if 

 due attention is paid to what is written in these few short 

 articles, it does seem to me, that they can be naturalized 

 to some of our mountainous districts and prove an im- 

 mense addition to our national wealth. Every person de- 

 sirous of information about the Alpaca, should procure 

 this volume of the Agriculturist. I do not know where 

 he could obtain the same amount of information in so 

 cheap and condensed a form. 



The Straiuberry Question. — By W. R. Prince.^ As of 

 the potato question, enough said. Mr. Prince spins out 

 his yarn entirely too fine to wear well with a majority 

 of your readers. And those who read his articles must 

 "wade along" as deep as he has done in Mr. Downing's 

 articles." Mr. Prince cannot "set this question at rest 

 for ever." His bump of combativeness is too large; and 

 so is that of "the opposition." 



"Revieiv" of the last Review. — I asked you, Mr. Editor, 

 uncommonly serious, to tell us "where to feel the pulse of 

 animals," and you answer just as though you knew I 

 owned flocks and herds of cattle which I often skinned, 

 when in fact (not being a Loco editor) I never even 

 skinned a 'coon. In another place you intimate that I 

 may be "one of the Editors of the Tribune." In other 

 words, a 'coon to he skinned. Now the fact is, you don't 

 know whether I am a 'coon or a 'possum, as you have only 

 seen my nose yet. Just wait till my tale is full grown, 

 before you pretend to say whether I am one thing or an- 

 other. As to our difference of opinion about the tariff, 

 we won't say another word. Time will show. 



The Corn-Crop. — Not what it is, but what it may be. 



^ William Robert Prince, nurseryman and horticultural writer, 

 born at Flushing, Long Island, November 6, 1795; died March 28, 

 1869. Published Prince's Manual of Roses in 1846, an admirable 

 enlargement, with additional directions and comments, of The Rose 

 Amateur's Guide (1837) of Thomas Rivers, an English nursery- 

 man. Collaborated with his father in writing A Treatise of the 

 Vine (1830) and also The Pomological Manual (1831). Contrib- 

 uted largely to agricultural periodicals. Dictioyvary of ATnerican 

 Biography, 15:234-35. 



