340 Flower Garden.— Tabular Estimate of Crops for \M5. Vol. X. 



A NeAV Flower Garden in Paris. 



A LATE letter from Paris, contributed to 

 the columns of an exchange journal, has the 

 following information : 



"The fashionables of Paris have been 

 thrown into an ecstasy delight by the open- 

 ing of a flower garden on a new plan, in the 

 Champs Elysees. It is called Lie Jardin Z>' 

 Hiver, the Winter Garden, and is a verita- 

 ble floral palace. A perpetual summer 

 reigns under its vast glass roof, with an at- 

 mosphere as fragrant as the spicy vales of 

 the Indies. Here are found the treasures 

 of all seasons and all climates; the most 

 modest and most superb plants, flowers of 

 the mountains, and flowers of the valley 

 Beautiful promenades are laid out, bordered 

 with trees and fringed with evergreens. 

 After threading the pretty labyrinths of the 

 garden, you enter the saloon, carpeted with 

 green and furnished with ottomans, where 

 the flowers are arranged with such exquisite 

 elegance and art, as only the hands of a Pa- 

 risian can arrange these delicate creations 

 The court in front of the garden is always 

 filled with the carriages of those rich vota- 

 ries of pleasure, who come here to select 

 from two hundred thousand plants, the most 

 beautiful flowers with which to decorate 

 their persons for the ball or the opera, and 

 as a matter of course, drawing all the dan- 

 dies and idle fashionables of the capital to 

 this enchanting retreat, so that the proprie- 

 tor is likely to reap a golden harvest from 

 his happy thought of a Winter Flower Gar- 

 den." — Repository. 



Tabular Estimate of Crops for 1845. 



We again have the pleasure of acknowleging the 

 reception of a large volume of upwards of 1300 pages 

 from Edmund Burke, the Commissioner of Patents, 

 containing his Annual Report to Congress, for the 

 year 1845. 



The Patent office is now regarded as the general head 

 and representative of the useful arts and industrial 

 interests of the country, and this volume necessarily 

 embraces a great amount of information on these mat- 

 ters. The industry and enterprise and good judgment 

 of the present Commissioner, as vi'ell as of his prede- 

 cessor, have swept over a large field, and gathered 

 within the compass of a Report, a vast number of 

 facts and statements, both valuable and interesting. 



Twelve hundred and forty sis patents were applied 

 for during the past year, about 200 more than for 1844. 

 The receipts of the office were nearly $43,000, while 

 its expenses were such as to leave a balauce of more 

 than $11,000 in its favor. 



In the 9th No. of our last volume, tabular estimates 

 were given of the crops of the different states, for the 



year 1844. Similar tables taken from the Report, are ap- 

 pended, showing the results of cultivation, &c. for 1845. 

 While the population of our country is steadily on the 

 ncrease, and the general prosperity is steadily aug- 

 mented, we find apparent, a variation from year to 

 year, in the amount of agricultural productions, though 

 we must not forget to bear in mind that the numbers 

 given, are all of them, but approximations to the 

 truth. Thus the crop of corn is stated to have been in 

 1845, four millions of bushels less than in 1844, and 

 nearly eighty millions less than in 1843. The crop of 

 wheat however was by several millions of bushels, 

 heavier than in either of those years, while that of hay 

 was very considerably lighter. The production of silk, 

 appears to be gradually on the increase. Tennessee, 

 Ohio and Kentucky were last year the three greatest 

 corn growers, while New York, Ohio and Pennsjiva- 

 nia grew the most wheat. Louisiana makes more 

 than three times as much sugar, as all the rest of the 

 states together, and New York and Vermont are the 

 next heaviest producers of this article. South Car- 

 olina excels in her rice, while Georgia is only inferior 

 to Mississippi in the making of cotton. New York is 

 far the largest producer of potatoes and hay, but Ken- 

 tucky greatly exceeds all in the growth of tobacco. 

 Thus with our varied climate from Maine to Florida, 

 and from this city to the rocky mountains. Providence 

 has given us every facility for the growth and produc- 

 tion of every necessary of life, and of every luxury that 

 can at all minister toour comfort. We dwell truly in a 

 south land. While the soil and climate of one dis- 

 trict may direct the agriculturist to some particular 

 objects, those of other districts, favor the cultivation of 

 what is not less essential to the general convenience, 

 though of a very different character. It is our privi- 

 lege too, not to live beneath a sky so genial, as to su- 

 percede the necessity of labor; nature, here, though 

 disposed to yield to cultivation every thing that can 

 be desired, is nevertheless of so rugged a temperament, 

 that she will only throw forth of her abundance to the 

 strong arm of industry and toil. And what a blessing 

 is this! Let us ever remember that no idle population 

 can be prosperous and happy. Who shall limit our re- 

 sources? or where is the political economist who will 

 calculate the millions and millions which our popula- 

 tion may reacli, and say that it can go no further? As 

 our country is almost without boundary, so is our 

 ability to produce food for the consumption of man, 

 without limit. And should happily our own follies 

 not thrust away the measure of greatness and increase, 

 which the heart is sometimes made to thrill with the 

 prospect of, he who lives an hundred years hence, may 

 see a Commonwealth, containing within itself, all the 

 elements of a greatness and a strength, both moral 

 and physical, a parallel with which, history has never 

 yet been able to record. Every thing among us of a 

 secular nature, seems aiming at progress. Every suc- 

 ceeding year multiplies facilities of every character, 

 and agricultural improvements, we trust, will not be 

 in the rear. If we would not impede this progress, but 

 lay deeply and securely, a foundation for continued 

 national prosperity, let each one practically illustrate 

 the laws of morality— of right— in all the relations of 

 life, as well social and political, as private.— En, 



