THE FARMERS' CABINET, 



DEVOTED TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. 



Vol. II.— No. 4.] 



Pliiladelpliia, September 15, 1S37. 



[AVhole No. 28, 



To the Editor of the Fanners' Cabinet. 



Horticultural Society. 



The Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society was held on the even- 

 ing of the 4th September. Horace Binney, 

 President of the Society, was appointed Chair- 

 man, and James S. Newbold, Secretary. 

 The meeting proceeded to the election of 

 officers for the ensuing year, when the fol- 

 lowing gentlemen were duly chosen : 

 President — Horace Binney. 



Vice Presidents. — Charles Chauncey, Jo- 

 seph Price, George Pepper, Robert Carr. 

 Treasurer, John Thomas. 



Corresponding Secretary, J. B. Smith. 

 Recording Secretary, Garvin Watson, M. D. 



Council. — J. J. Vanderkemp, Richard 

 Price, Henry C. Carey, Andrew Dryburg, 

 Thomas Astley, Alexander Parker, James 

 Laws, Isaac Meyer, Robert Buist, Samuel C. 

 Ford, John VV. Burrows, C. W. Churchman, 

 Joseph T. Mather, Charles Roberts, Thomas 

 P. James, Horace Binney, Jr., John M'Arran, 

 Daniel Maupay, George M. Coates, Christo- 

 pher Langstroth, J. B. Smith, P. K. Gorgas, 

 Charles B. Trego, Frederick Brown. 



ANNUAL EXHIBITION. 



The Society will hold its tenth Exhibition 

 at the Masonic Hall, Chesnut street, on 

 Wednesday and Thursday, the 20th and 21st 

 of the present month, September. The Com- 

 mittee charged with the preparatory arrange- 

 ments, solicit contributions in Fruits, Flow- 

 ers, or Culinary Vegetables ; and speci- 

 mens of either of a quality meriting distinc- 

 tion, will be thankfully received and publicly 

 acknowledged. When transmitted from a 

 distance, by public conveyance, the Society 

 will cheerfully defray the cost of transporta- 

 tion. They may be addressed to Messrs. D. 



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Landreth &, Co., at their Seed Warehouse, 

 No. 63 Chesnut street. To prevent confu- 

 sion, it will be necessary to present all but 

 the Bouquets on Tuesday the 19th ; the lat- 

 ter may be furnished on the mornings of the 

 days of exhibition. 



Should you be unable, personally, to furnish 

 any thing towards the contemplated display, 

 you may perhaps essentially aid by extend- 

 ing the notice of this circular. 



John B, Smith, 

 Peter McKenzie, 

 John McArran, 

 Daniel Maupay, 

 Robert Buist, 

 Commiltee of Arrangement. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



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In a preceding number of the Cabinet, I 

 attempted a brief explanation of the nature 

 and process of bony ulceration, or caries, for 

 the special benefit of Subscriber. He ac- 

 knowledges that he did not possess the infor- 

 mation given ; — says that he loves to know 

 things; and, is willing to learn from any 

 one; — yet, he becomes restive under instruc- 

 tion, and appears to doubt the truth of the 

 information afforded. "I am not aware, 

 says he, of any reason why I should be sup- 

 posed to know it, for, I presume that such 

 information is not generally possessed by 

 men, either of scientific, or ordinary know- 

 ledo-e." Neither had I any reason to sup- 

 pose that he did know it, but strongly to the 

 contrary, or I should not have given the in- 

 formation. Whether it is "generally pos- 

 sessed by men of scientific knowledge," is 

 quite another question. 1 aver, that ever 

 since John Hunter wrote his admirable and 

 demonstrative dissertation on what he hap- 



