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Tessels affording the means of transporting' and th© 

 United States' agents in foreign countries, of selecting 

 them. The meeting of the national Representatives in 

 the fall of the year, aiVords an opportunity of receiving 

 thro' their patriotic attention, whatever is rare or useful 

 in our own extensive territory, and on their quitting the 

 Capitol early in the spring, of diffusing over tiie Union 

 the freshest seeds and best plants of every kind cultivated 

 in the establisment, with a knowledge of the mode of 

 culture to be observed. For this puipose has ample 

 provision of ground been made in the city of Washing- 

 ton. The park as it is called, south of the Tiber creek 

 and at the point formed by it and the Potomak in front 

 of the president's square, contains nearly 30 acres of tine 

 land, which would be sufficient to commence with, and if 

 circumstances required an extension, it adjoins the public 

 appropriation extending from the Capitol, containing up- 

 wards of 200 acres more. These could not be more use- 

 fully employed to the nation, or more beautifying to the 

 City, besides affording, under proper regulations, plea- 

 sant and instructive walks during the summer season. 



If the Agricultural Society would take the subject up, 

 and get the sanction of the government, I have no 

 doubt but an annual subscribtion for its establishment 

 and support would be easily obtained. 



FRANKLIN, 



MICHAUX's HISTORY 



OF THE FOREST TREES OF NORTH AMERICA. 



MR. F. ANDREW MICHAUX, son of the well 

 known Botanist, who resided many years near Charles- 

 ton, South Carolina; has published at Paris, during 

 tl^e present year, a few of the first numbers of his " His- 

 tory of the Forest Trees in North America,*' in re- 

 ference chiefly to their uses in the arts, and their in- 

 troduction in commerce, and likewise to the advantA- 



