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this and home of the best things, through the American Institute. You 

 must have our grains to plant, we want such agricultural works as you can 

 spare us, agricultural implements, &c. We will present all to the agricul- 

 tural societies of Australia. Send to me through R. W. Cameron, agent, 

 No. 6, Bowling Green, New York, to Wilkinson Brothers, Melbourne, 

 for me. 



I find this climate delightful. Our police here are excellent, the city a 

 lovely one ; prospects of business bright. We have a million and a quarter 

 of inhabitants in this large territory. We want ten millions of people, and 

 in twenty or thirty years we shall employ forty millions of people. 



I send a printed meteorological table, showing our weather and tempe- 

 rature, which I wish you to hand to Mr. Meriam. 



D. K. MINOR. 

 SORGHUM SUGAR. 



At Springfield, Illinois, a sugar mill is running day and night ; it yields 

 near 300 gallons a day of the molasses ; no sugar made yet ; the syrup is 

 not so good as usual, owing to too much wet. The cane syrup of last year 

 yielded ten per cent saccharine. 



[Journal de la Societe Imperial et Centrale d Horticulture. Napoleon III. Proteeteur. 



August, 1858.] 



THE PAULOWNIA IMPERIALIS. 



At Alfort, on the river Seine, on the property of one of our colleagues, 

 Mons. Rousset, we transplanted, last December, a very large paulownia, 

 about twenty-sis feet high, with a round head of considerable extent. I 

 had to take off some of the branches, especially such as were broken. 

 These branches were left all winter in the garden. On the 16th of May 

 last we were much surprised to see all the extremities of those branches 

 covered with numerous flower buds, which grew and flowered at the same 

 time as the buds on the tree to which they belonged. None of the buds 

 failed, and, I may say, were more numerous than those on the parent tree, 

 and the flowers preserved their color and their sweet agreeable odor which 

 exhales at their blooming. This is a remarkable fact, for few ornamental 

 trees, whose branches are cut off and left in open air five months before 

 the period of flowering, were ever known to survive so long. 



Prof. Nash said that however strictly science and labor are applied to 

 cultivation, it may be considered to be experimental, for nature acts in 

 many ways which we cannot define. 



The Chairman called up one of the subjects — " Winter treatment of 

 Manure." 



Mr. Meigs. — My old friend, Mr. Amos, of Greenwich village, cultivated 

 a large garden there, where the old State prison long afterwards stood. 

 Mr. Amos was one of the very energetic farmers of that day. In winter, 

 when most men do little out doors, he carted out his large masses of manure 

 upon the snow or the ground, and has loaded up 100 loads, one horse cart, 

 in a day, and put it out on the land, by which great industry he probably 



