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They encourage profitable industry. In the vicinity of London, 

 there are occupied as fruit and kitchen gardens, about 20,000 acres ol 

 land, of which the annual produce is sold forniore than 7,000,000 dol- 

 lars. Within six miles of Edinburgh, there are computed to be 200'J 

 acres occupied in the same way, of which the annual produce is worth 

 near 800,000 dollars. For the supply of the New-York market with 

 vegetables, fruits, and flowers, there are cultivated several thousand 

 acres of land, of which the aggregate annual produce is supposed to 

 be about Si ,000,000. The proportions of earth thus cultivated are far 

 more productive than any other equal portions of land in the countries 

 where they are situated ; and they give heallhy employment to great 

 multitudes of human beings. 



In no calling may the healthful activity of the mind be more happily 

 blended vviih the healthful acliviiy of the body, than in the noble art 

 of multiplying the treasures of the vegetable kingdom. It has been 

 remarked by the editor of the New-York Tribune, that the country is 

 greatly overstocked with lawyers, doctors, &c. and a persuasive ap- 

 peal is made by him to our aspiring and capable young men to avoid 

 the crowded avenues of those professions, and find usefulness, honor, 

 and happiness in the shady walks of agriculture, diversified as it now 

 is by a thousand applications of scientific truths and principles. " We 

 have," says that writer, " tliousands of young men who would have 

 been useful and respected if Agricultural Schools had existed in their 

 boyhood, but who are now thriftless, useless and miserable. The 

 professions cannot afford employment for half our educated and am- 

 bitious youth : the soil is the only true resource." The estab- 

 lishment of Agricultural Schools in different sections of the country 

 may be regarded as one of the most favorable signs of the times. In 

 his letter to the editor of the Southern Planter, Bishop Ives regards 

 their foundation as of infinite value, " both with respect to the physical 

 and moral advancement of the people." 



Commercial speculations may enrich the merchant; imperishable 

 renown may be conferred on the achievements of genius, and nations 

 gain the pinnacle of glory by military valour ; all this, however, is but 

 " the bubble reputation," which sinks into the shade when contrasted 

 with the operations of the plough, guided by the diligent farmer, and 

 the skill of the gardener, in producing the sustenance indispensably 

 requisite to human existence. In one portion of the earth the labours 

 of the husbandman may be destroyed by mildew, storm and tempest, 



