Literary Notices. — General Notices. 113 



let this State take the lead of all the others. Where is the man of so niueli 

 apathy as not to he cheered hy the anticipation of hehokhng such an institu- 

 tion: an extensive and handsome edifice, where onr young men shall be 

 taught, in theory and in practice, those imnnitabie principles of nature which 

 form the oniy infaliil)le guide to all the substantial comforts of life ? Where, 

 by n)ingling the useful with the sweet, they will become inured to habits of 

 industry : where science and art shall combine to inspire them with laudable 

 enuilation to excel each other! If we are charmed with viewing a garden, 

 upon a small scale, the work perhaps of a single, but skilful individual, how 

 infinitely more charming must be the view of three or four hundred acres, 

 planned and laid out with all the accumulated skill of ages, aided by all the 

 lights which science has thrown on the subject, with all the beauties of the 

 vegetable world, and all that is useful of tlie animal ! Could any earthly 

 prospect be more delightful? I answer, yes ; that of two hundred young 

 men, vieing with each other in skill and industry, not only in improving and 

 beautifying the establishment, but in imjjroving their minds by study, and 

 their bodies by manly labor, infinitely more pleasing and more to their credit 

 than the mountel)ank feats of a gymnasium ; thus fitting themselves as bril- 

 liant lights to guide, instruct, and adorn the succeeding generation." 



The remainder of the address relates to the fencing of farms, ma- 

 nuring of land, &:c. 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



The Arhoretum Britannicum, or the hardy Trees of Britain, native and 

 foreign, Pictorially and Botanically Illustrated, and Scientifically 

 and Popularly Described ; loith their History, Culture, Uses, and 

 Effects in Landscape Scenery. Conducted by J. C. Loudon, F. L. S. 

 H. S., &c., was to appear in London, on January 1st. 1835. To be 

 be published in monthly 8vo. numbers. Price 2s. Cd. each. 



Chaptcd^s Agricidtural Chcviistry , translated from the last French Edi- 

 tion, will be published in a few days, by IIilliard, Gray, & Co. 

 and HovEY & Co. One volume 12mo. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JVotices. 



Mdrus multicaidis. It appears from the deliberations of the French Royal 

 Society of Agriculture, which we find noted in the Farmer's Register, that 

 the Chinese mulberry is not a distinct species ; that its seed will not pro- 

 duce its like, and as a valuable variety, cannot be preserved except by mul- 

 tiplying it by cuttings, grafts, or layers ; and that it is exclusively by these 

 means the Chinese cultivators have reared this tree from time immemorial. 

 Seeds sown near Venice have produced veu-ieties, but none like the true 

 Morus multicaulis. — Cultivator. 



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