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of the author, and he pays the following tribute to their use- 

 fulness: — 



But if horticultural societies have done much to advance this pur- 

 suit, horticultural publications have perhaps done more. I was an 

 original subscriber to Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, the first of 

 these publications, and I have watched with much interest the pro- 

 gress and effects of that and the other publications which have sprung 

 from its example. I do not hesitate to state my conviction that, with- 

 out such publications, many of these societies would not now be in 

 existence; and that thousands of individuals, who have found innocent 

 and delightful resources and excitement in horticulture, would have 

 been ruined at the tavern or the gambling-house, — finally, that it is 

 impossible to calculate the advantages bestowed on mankind by the 

 vast diffusion of a taste for hoi-ticulture, which these publications 

 have mainly contributed to produce. I cannot now enter more into 

 detail of these ailvantages; besides a very brief instance will elucidate 

 them with more force. 



Mr. Teschemacher concludes by congratulating the Socie- 

 ty upon their resolution to admit the ladies to take a part in 

 the pleasures of their tneetings, and pays a just tribute to their 

 virtues, and the part which woman has always taken in the 

 promotion of horticulture. 



MISCELLANEOUS LNTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Domestic Notices. 



Notes on the climate of Ohio, and the state of Gardening in Cin- 

 cinnati. — My Dear Sir: When I left the East, I expected to leave 

 behind me the cool, too cool, summers to which 1 had been accus- 

 tomed, and to come into a region of long, dry, sunnrier heat. I was 

 asked by almost every person whom I knew, if I had ever spent a 

 season here; and then came pictures of drought and bilious fever: — 

 the former, I supposed, would kill my trees — the latter, me. As it 

 is, I have hardly ever known so pleasant a season, or one which has 

 been more generally favorable to horticultural operations. We 

 have had but one check (in May) since its opening, and timely show- 

 ers have come to temper the heat of the long sunshine of the sum- 

 mer's day. 



Two crops of strawberries and raspberries have been sold in our 



market; a fact which 1 have never before known to occur, and one, 



which I think, deserves to be chronicled. Apples, pears, and plums, 



I have seen in blossom a second time; raspberries have cast their 



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