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it has been tried at the rate of one hundred twenty-five pounds to the acre, 

 the produce has been treble of that manured with ordinary stable dung. 

 The ground was thoroughly ploughed, and the guano harrowed in, and the 

 seed sown the first of February. — Yours, J. McDonald. Bagdad, Florida, 

 July 6, 1852. 



Art. II. Horficidtural Societies. 



Lincoln Agricultural and Horticultural Society, Maine. — We 

 are glad to see our sister State is about taking a deeper interest in the 

 cultivation of fruits and plants, and the means of more widely extending a 

 rural taste. Only one horticultural society, we believe, exists in the State, 

 viz., that at Bangor. It is therefore with pleasure that we announce a new 

 association for the county of Lincoln, an act for the incorporation of which 

 was passed in April, upon the petition of our zealous correspondent Mr. A. 

 Johnson, Jr., and other gentlemen interested. Mr. Johnson is always found 

 leading in any movement to improve the soil, and we doubt not a society 

 organized through his exertions will go on flourishing, and to flourish and 

 accomplish valuable results. We shall look with interest to a report of its 

 exhibitions. 



Genesee Valley Horticultural Society. — At a special meeting of 

 the Horticultural Society of the Valley of the Genesee, held in the city of 

 Rochester, August 12, 1852, the president, on calling the meeting to order, 

 stated that he had called the members together at the suggestion of others, 

 and in accordance with his own feelings, to express in some suitable man- 

 ner tlie feelings of the members in regard to the sudden and melancholy 

 death of A. J. Downing, who had been for many years an honorary member 

 of this society. 



On motion of M. G. Warner, a committee of five were appointed to 

 prepare resolutions for the consideration of the meeting. 



The president appointed M. G. Warner, Jas. H. Watts, H. E. Hooker, 

 Geo. Ellwanger, and A. Frost. 



The committee, through their chairman, reported the following preamble 

 and resolutions, — which were unanimously adopted : — 



Whereas, in the death of A. J. Downing, American horticulture has lost 

 its noble and gifted standard bearer, and society one of its most amiable, 

 accomplished and useful members, — who has done more than any other to 

 awaken among the American people an appreciation of their country's 

 resources, and to cultivate and diflfuse a love for the beautiful in nature and 

 art, — whose writings, brilliant and powerful in style, and truly American in 

 sentiment, have given us a horticultural literature which commands the 

 admiration of tlie world, — therefore. 



Resolved, That we regard his loss as one of the greatest that could in 

 this day befall the American people in the death of any one man, — that we 

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