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Agricultural Societif — Iloriiciilfnrnl Society. 



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With the best wishes for the prosperity of! 

 your valuable Journal. 



I remain your friend, 



Samuel W. Smith. 



Duchess Co.,N Y., Jan. 17th, 1838. 



Society for Promoting Agriculture. 



At a meeting' of the Philadelphia Socie- 

 ty FOR Promoting Agriculture, held at the 

 Philosophical Hall, on the 23d of January, the 

 following gentlemen were elected officers for 

 the ensuing year: 



President — Nicholas Biddle. 



Vice Presidents — Dr. James Mease, Jo- 

 seph Cloud. 



Curators — Charles Roberts, Robert 

 A. Parish. 



Treasurer — A. S. Roberts. 



Secretary- — Kenderton Smith. 



Committee of Correspondence — R. A. 

 A, Parish, Richard Peters. 



On motion of Charles Roberts, it was 

 Resolved, That all communications on Agri- 

 cultural subjects, approved by the Society, 

 be published in the Farmers' Cabinet. 



0::C/"The meetings of the " Agricultural So- 

 ciety," will be held on the 3d Wednesday of 

 every month, at 11 o'clock, in the rooms of 

 the Philosophical Society, in Fifth, below 

 Chesnut Street. Applications for member- 

 ship may be made to either of the above 

 named officers, or at the Office of the Farmers' 

 Cabinet, No. 45 North Sixth above Arch 

 Street. 



For the Cabinet. 

 The Society of St. George's and Appoqul- 

 nlniiiik Uiiiidretls for tiie Promotion of 

 Agrlciiltiire. 



Pursuant to adjournment, a meeting was 

 held at Cantwell's Bridge, Del., on Monday, 

 the 1st day of Jan. 1838, for the purpose of 

 forming an Agricultural Association. A con- 

 stitution having been presented by the com- 

 mittee appointed for that purpose, at a previ- 

 ous meeting, was adopted, after which a com- 

 mittee was appointed to nominate officers tor 

 the Society, which reported the following 

 named gentlemen, who were duly elected 

 officers tor the ensuing year, viz. — Gen. 

 Richard Mans&e\d,President; A. R. Penning- 

 ton, and A. Snow Naudain, Vice Presidents ; 

 Benjamin Gihh&i Record iiig Secretary; J as. S. 

 Naudain, Corresponding Secretary ; Daniel 

 Corbit, Treasurer; Directors J. M. Smith, J. 

 M. Woods, G. W. Karsher, Joshua Clayton, 

 Robert Cochran and Charles Tatman. 



On motion, it was ordered that the above 

 proceedings be published in the newspapers 

 of the county, and in the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Daniel Corbit, Chairman. 



P. S. Naudain, Secretary. 



Horticultural Society. 



The monthly meeting of the Pennsylvania 

 Horticultural Society, was held on Tuesday 

 the Itith January, in the room under the 

 Atheneum. 



The Committee on Plants and Flowers 

 awarded the premium for the best display of 

 Plants in pots to Robert Buist ; who exhibited 

 Astrahea Wallichii, Acacia thegonocarpa, 

 Verbena Twecdiana, Daphne odorata, and 

 D. Hybrida, Bletia Tankervillia, Eucomis 

 Undulta, 2 Erica Mediterranea, Camellia Ja- 

 ponica flora pleno Striata, C. alba, C. Clive- 

 ana, C. Decora, C. Chandelerii, C. Derbyana, 

 C. Lady Humes Blush, C. Paniflora, C. Spe- 

 ciosa, C. insignis, C. pompone, Goodyera 

 discolor, and Poinsetii pulcherrima. 



The premium for the best bouquet to 

 Robert Kilvington, gardener to Wm. Loyd. 



The Committee on Vegetables awarded 

 the premium to W^illiam Chalmers, sen., 

 gardener to Mrs. Stolt, tor the best display of 

 Vegetables that evening, having exhibited 

 along with various other articles a basket of 

 new potatoes, which is very unusual at this 

 season. 



William Graham, gardener to the Alms- 

 house, Bleckley, exhibited some fine bunches 

 of asparagus. 



William Hobson, gardener, Kingsessing 

 exhibited a plate of very fine mushrooms. 



j\Irs. Hibbert exhibited two very fine plants) 

 of Azaleo Indicaalba and purpurea. 



Col. R. Carr, exhibited a bonnet made by 

 the Florida Indian Women of the fibres of 

 the Squash. * 



The display of plants was very fine 

 especially the Cawellias, many of them 

 were new, never having flowered in the 

 country before. 



The Vegetables were good considering the 

 season, the Potatoes, the Asparagus, and 

 Mushrooms, were unusual at the season, and 

 do great honor to their predecesors. The 

 Society is monthly increasing in numbers, and 

 is getting more and more interesting every 

 month from the laudable ambition of our 

 gardeners and amateurs. 



G. Watson, Record. Sec. ' 



riiiladelphia, Jan. 22, 1838. 



Spring W^heat. — We have been request- 

 ed by a gentleman, who has taken great pains 

 to introduce the genuine Italian Spring 

 Wheat in this region, to state that a different 

 article, (Italian Winter Wheat,) is offered 

 and sold in various places, at a very high rate, 

 as the Italian Spring Wheat, those interested 

 will therefore be on their guard. 



*An increnious delicate summer bonnet. 



