mcnters to try long narrow parallelopfraniH, and 

 avoid large areas. What has hitherto been doDO 

 on tJiis subject is of small moment : the attempts 

 have been merely trifling and theoretical. Dr. 

 Forster has the sole merit of first suggesting a 

 uflcful and economical application of this won 



derful agency. In fact, the great objection to 

 the success of bis system is, tliat such a sudden 

 advance in cultivation as this promi.scs has nev- 

 er been made before, and seems almost contrary 

 to the laws of aature. 



DEXA. 



EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL FAIR OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Of tliis great national display of the products 

 of American Agriculture, Arts and Manufac- 

 tures, we have room only for a few words of ex- 

 hortation to every friend of the substantial inte- 

 rests of his country to lend it his countenance 

 and encouragement in every fonn. We are 

 well advi.sed that the exhibition will be opened 

 to the public on Monday, the 6th day of Octo- 

 ber, 1845, at 12 o'clock M. at Niblo's Garden, 

 Broadway, in the City of New-York. Contribu- 

 tions from exhibitors will be received on Thurs- 

 day, Friday and Saturday of the previous week. 

 To insure the most favorable locations, and the 

 advantages of competition, the pro(^TCts of the 

 Manufacturer, Mechanic and Artisan must be 

 delivered and entered on the books of the Fair, 

 on one of those days. The chance of a good lo- 

 cation will be in favor of those who come the 

 first and second days. Fruits, Flowers, &c. form 

 an exception. The proper time for entering 

 them will be specified in the Agricultural and 

 Horticultural circular, or notices hereafter to be 

 issued. 



Arrangements already made, and in progress, 

 for carrj-ing out the E ighteentb Celebration, arc 

 on a scale more extended and attractive than 

 ever before; and if public favor towards this 

 institution continues to extend and increase each 

 year as it has during the last seventeen, means 

 will be afforded of enlarging the value of the pre- 

 miums, and thereby creating a more intense and 

 univernal competition. Several opulent and 

 munificent individuals, desirous of making the 

 exhibition wortliy of our great Emporium, and 

 giving a fresh impulse to improvements in our 

 countrj.-, have vo.unteered donations for the pur- 

 pose ; others have promised not only to contri- 

 bute, but to use tlieir mfluence to cause their 

 friends to do the same. After resening what 

 discretion demands, to cover the annual current 

 expenses of the Institution, every dollar will be 

 expended by the Managers to promote improve- 

 ments in Agriculture and the Arts. It is the fix- 

 ed policy of the Institute, to appropriate every 

 dollar for the benefit of that public which has 

 been its generous, unfailing patron. 



There will be an opening addrea.s followed 

 by novel and interesting displays o£ fireworks. 



On Thursday, the 9th of October, a National 

 Convention of Farmers, Gardeners and Silk 

 Culturists will be held. 



For the second week has been assigned the 

 Cattle Show and other live Stock, and the plow- 

 ing and spading matches. 



The Anniversary and other discourses will 

 also be delivered in the course of the Bccond 

 week. 



The Horticultural exhibition of vegeta- 

 bles, fruit, flowers, &c. will be in Niblo's long 

 promenade, and superintended by eminent Hor- 

 ticulturists. 



The best new and useful inventions will be 

 objects of the highest honors. 



The following is the list of Managers — while 

 their names give assurance that all will be done 

 rightly, and in order, the thanks of the commu- 

 nity are due to them, in advance of that per- 

 formance, which with such citizens, is sure to 

 follow their consent to serve : 



Adoniram Chandler, Edwd. T. Backhouse, John 

 Campbell, Jas. Viui Norden, II. W. Cbilds, Joseph 

 Curtis, Geo. Endicott, Wm. Hall, Jo.seph Torrey, Jas. 

 R. Smith, Martin E. Thompson. Isaac Fryer, John D. 

 Ward, Edward Clark, Robert Lovett, Gurdon J. 

 Leeds, A. D. Frye, T. B. Stillnian, Joseph Cowdin, 

 Ja.s. J. Mapes, Geo. F. Barnard, C. C. Haven, Chas. 

 Mapea, Jonathan Dodge, T. W. Haxvey, T. B. Wake- 

 man — Managers. 



We may be allowed to add, with some sense 

 of national pride, that in these exhibitions, our 

 American Institute here, at the great commer- 

 cial Emporium of the Country, has set an exam- 

 ple of sagacious attention to great public inter- 

 ests, which even London is only just now about 

 to follow. 



The London Athenaeum has just announced 

 the " possibility of establishing something of the 

 kind in the British Empire." We, thanks to the 

 indefatigable officers and managers of our Insti- 

 tute, are already in the fruition of what they are 

 just hoping to accomplish. In the annunciation 

 of their project, in the Athenoaum of June last 

 they say : 



" Besides the delight and instruction which 

 would certainly be afforded, it may fairly be ex- 

 pected that a periodical competition of this na- 

 ture will exert some beneficial effect on the pro- 

 gress of the Arts ; not only by exciting honora- 

 ble rivaJry in the producers, but by enabling the 

 consumers better to appreciate real excellence. 



