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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. X 



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CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Page 

 E.\liil)iti.>n and Cattle Show of Chester and Del. 



County Agricultural Society, 105 



Address delivered before the Chester and Del. 



County Agricultural Society, by John S. 



Bovven, Esq. 107 



Premiums of the Chester and Delaware County 



Agricultural Society, 113 



Great Crop of Corn 115 



Colours of Flowers. — James Go wen's Letter to 



Gen. Richardson on Farming, 116 



Cherokee Agriculture. — Tobacco in Massachusetts, 120 

 Two new Varieties of Sti a« berries, by W. D. 



Brinckle, M. D., 121 



Extracts of an Address delivered before the Ag. 



Society of New Castle County, by the Hon. 



J. Roberts, of Pennsylvania, 122 



Crossing Seeds, 126 



Annual E.xhibition of the Phil'a Ag. Society, 127 



Report on the Philadelphia Ag. E.xbibition, 131 



Dr. Brinckle's Strawberries sent to the Uueen, 132 

 Officers of the New Castle County Ag. Society.— 



Fifteenth Meeting of the British Association 



of Sciences.— Editorial Notices 133 



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