THE GENESEE FARMER. 



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The KuHArj Annual and Houticultural Diuectoby 

 rou 1853. — This work will be issued in a few weeks. We 

 think it will be found fully equal to its predecessors. It 

 contains treatises written expressly for its pages on Ma- 

 nures for the Orchard arid Gardensi on the Cultivation of 

 Grapes in the Open Air, on the Cultivation of Apples, 

 Pears, Peaches, Plums, and other Fruit, for Market, on 

 the Management of the Kitchen Garden, on Birds injuri- 

 ous and beneficial to the Horticulturist, on the Cultivation 

 of Fruit at the West, as well as short articles on a num- 

 ber of other subjects of interest to all fruit growers. It 

 also conti'.ins a considerable number of plans for Houses, 

 Barns, &c., designed and engraved expressly for this work. 

 The articles are written by horticulturists of experience, 

 Mid we have spared neithet labor nor e.xpense in getting 

 up and illustrating it. It will be alike attractive and use- 

 ful, containing as much information as many dollar books. 



Tlie price will be the same as last year, 25 cents. In 

 dubs of eight, the Genesee Farmer and Rural Annual 

 will be sent for 50 cents the two, with an extra copy of the 

 AMHual to the person getting up the club. We prepay 

 the postage on the Rural Anrmal iu all cases. 



We devote a few pages of the Rural Annual to adver- 

 tfeements, which should be sent in immediately. 



The Dioscorea Batatis. — The experiments which 

 have been^ made in France with this new esculent appear 

 to have been quite successful. Prof. Lindlet, the editor 

 of the Gardener's Chronicle, in an account of a visit to 

 the Annual Exhibition of the Societe Imperiale et Cen- 

 trcde (f Horticulture, held in the Palais cP Industrie at 

 Paris, says : " One of the most interesting objects was 

 the Dioscorea Japonica, of which there were some very fine 

 specimens in all its stages of growth — from that of a tiny 

 bulb to a root nearly two feet long, and somewhat larger 

 than an ordinary sized parsnep. There was also a box 

 containing flour prepared from the roots of this plant, as 

 pure and white in appearance as if it had been obtained 

 firom some of our best kinds of wheat." As the climate 

 and soil of many parts of France seem to be well adapted 



for the growth of this valuable root, he thinks it highly 



■probable that at no distant period it will become of great 



importance for general cultivation as an article of food, 



and be as much esteemed for its nutritious qualities as the 



potato. 



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Corrections. — The Fair of the United States Agri- 

 ooltural Society takes place at Louisville, Ky., September 

 1—6, and not October 1 — 5, as stated in our July number and 

 a portion of the August number. We exceedingly regret 

 the error, and thank President Wilder for calling our 

 attention to it. 



There was also an error in th*e advertisement of C. P. 

 BissELL. The price of New Rochelle blackberry plants 

 should have been $150 per thousand instead of $100, as 

 printed in a part of our edition. 



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Great Sale of Imported Stock. — We would call 

 the attention of Breeders to the public sale of stock im- 

 ported and bred by F. W. Stone, Esq., of Moretnn 

 Lodge, Guelph, C. W., which takes place September 16. 

 Mr. S. is undoubtedly the largest importer of short horn 

 cattle and Cotswold sheep in Canada. The animals were 

 all selected by himself with great care, and witlmut any 

 regard to expense, and we can testify from personal ex- 

 amination, to the unrivalled excellence of his stock. For 

 fiH-ther particulars see advertisement in this number. 



County AantCULTUKAL Faihs. — In reply to a corres- 

 pondent, we would say that the reason why we do not 

 publish a list of the County Agricultural Fairs in New 

 York, is not that we do not entertain a sufficiently high 

 opinion of their value, but because the circulation of the 

 Genesee Farmer is as large in other States as in New York ; 

 and a list of Fairs in New Yoriv would be of no interest 

 to many thousands of readers in Pennsylvania and Canada, 

 or in Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa 

 and other Western States. If we give a list of Fairs is 

 New York, we should have to give a list of all the County 

 Fairs in the United States and Canada, — for we have many 

 subscribers in every State and Territory in the Union, and 

 over three thousand in Canada — all of whom take an 

 interest in their several County and Town Fairs. But onr 

 correspondent will agree with us that a list which em- 

 braced all the County Fairs in the country would occupy 

 too much space, and be of little interest to our readers. 



The Ohio Pomological Society will hold its eighth 

 session at Cincinnati during the week of the State Fair, 

 September 14. — 18. The meetings of this Society are 

 now held biennially, alternating with those of the Ameri- 

 can Pomological Society, and a cordial invitation is ex- 

 tended to fruit growers and nurserymen from other States, 

 especially of the West and Southwest, to participate in 

 the meetings and discussions. Specimens of frait, par- 

 ticularly peaches and pears, are also desired at this 

 meeting. 



Prize Essays. — We have received a considerable num- 

 ber of essays on some of the subjects for which we offered 

 premiums in the July number. The essays will be sub- 

 mitted to a competent committee, and those which are 

 awarded a premium will be published in our next num- 

 ber. 



We shall continue to offer premiums for short essays, 

 and shall be thankful to any of our readers who will 

 name subjects, 



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