Rensselaer Agricultural Society. Ill 



Art. 7. Is on the Culture of Persian Melons. 

 Art. 8. On Protecting and Preserving Fruit Trees. 



Art. 9. On the Cultivation of the Mushroom. 



The December number is chiefly filled with notices of the various 

 Amateur, Botanical, Floricultural and Horticultural Societies through- 

 out England, Scotland and Ireland. 



Art. TI. First annual Report of the Proceedings of the Rensselaer 

 Agricultural Society, being for the Year 1834. Also, the Address 

 of S. Blydenhurgh, Esq. Delivered at the first annual 3Ieeting. 

 Pamphlet 8vo. 16 pp New York, 1835. 



This rejjort contains an account of the organization of the Rens- 

 selaer Agricultural Society ; the constitution adopted by the mem- 

 bers ; the address of a committee, appointed for the purpose, to the 

 farmers in the said county, and the address of S. Blydenhurgh, Esq. 

 at the annual meeting, October 17th, 1834. 



The first meeting, for the formation of the society, was held on 

 the 14th of January, 1834, at Troy, and committees appointed to 

 nominate the ofiicers, obtain members, and draft a constitution. The 

 committee reported one similar to those of other Agricultural Soci- 

 eties. The address to the farmers of Rensselaer county is replete 

 with sound sense and excellent advice, and will be productive of 

 great benefit to every farmer, desirous of improving his lands or his 

 stock. The usefulness of Agricultural Societies is distinctly stated, 

 and the importance that the farmer should frequently " meet with his 

 companions in toil, who have had experience and who have grown 

 gray in the study of the best means to make the earth yield her 

 treasures to the support of man," is especially urged. " Such meet- 

 ings," say the committee, " will teach, and such suggestions ' tell,'' 

 of the produce of your farms, and the cash in your pockets." 



The address by Mr. Blydenhurgh is full of information to the 

 farmer, and cannot but prove highly interesting to every individual who 

 duly estimates the importance which agriculture will have upon the 

 future happy condition and prosperity of our country. We have not 

 room to make many extracts, but we cannot refrain from giving our 

 readers a few paragraphs, which have struck us as exceedingly 

 appropriate to the present state of farming. 



Mr. Blydenhurgh commences with a few remarks upon the prac- 

 tice, in European and other countries, of the produce of the earth's 



