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Editorial JVotices, 



Vol. XL 



THE FARMERS' CARIWET, 



AND 



Philadelphia, Eighth Month, 1846. 



With this number commences the eleventh volume 

 of the Farmers' Cabinet. In entering upon it, it is 

 natural to turn back, and look a little over the volume 

 just closed. In doing so, the editor may be indulged 

 in the expression of the belief, that he has given to 

 his subscribers a volume which cannot fail to be abun- 

 dantly more valuable to them than the price it has 

 cost them. We are not prepared to say that the 

 Farmers' Cabinet is the best agricultural paper in the 

 world, or to boast of our tens of thousands of sub- 

 scribers; but we are willing— and we acknowledge 

 some degree of pride in the feeling— to place our little 

 favourite along side of any of its cotcniporaries, and 

 so far as plain, matter of fact, substantial usefulness 

 to those it is intended for, is concerned, let it speak 

 for itself, and make its own quiet declarations. As to 

 our list of subscribers, we^lhink it is not half so large 

 as we deserve, and we are sure it is not one quarter 

 as full as we would like. 



We enter upon a new year, disposed to do our best, 

 and while we wish our subscribers multiplied, we also 

 wish for them health, happiness, and agricultural suc- 

 cess. 



We omitted to state in our last number, when a list 

 of premiums \vas published, that our Agricultural So- 

 ciety will hold its approaching Annual Exhibition at 

 the Rising Sun, on the G'-rmantown road, where it has 

 been many times heretofore held. It may not be amiss 

 to repeat, that the time is the 30th of next month, and 

 the 1st of Tenth month. The ploughing match to be 

 on the second day of the Exhibition. 



James S. liAWRENCE, of New Egypt, Monmouth co., 

 N. J., two or three years ago, informed us of his sue 

 cess in the prcsirvation of apples. He puts them down 

 in dried oak snindust. The editor of the Princeton 

 Whig, was shown apples a few weeks since, preserved 

 in this way, gathered in 1844 and 1845. 



The Horticulturist and Jpumal of Rural Art mid 

 Rural Taste, edited by A. J. Downing, author of Land- 

 scape Gardening, Designs for Cottage Residences, Fruits, 

 and Fruit Trees of America, &c.,&,c., has been received 

 upon our table. It will be published monthly, by Lu- 

 ther Tucker, at Albany, in pamphlet form, at $3 per 

 annum, and may also be obtained of G. B. Zeiber &. 

 Co., of this city. 



It is the object of the editor to assist as far as pos- 

 sible, in giving additional impulse to the progress of 

 horticulture, and the tasteful in rural life. His ability 

 to do this, has been very well established by the works 

 above named, which he has already published, and 

 which are doing much to spread among all those inte- 



rested in country pursuits, that kind of taste, the cul- 

 tivation of which will be found materially to add, in 

 almost every position of life, to its comforts. 



The first number of Vol. 4, of the American Quar- 

 terly Journal of Agriculture and Science, is on our 

 table. It is conducted by Dr. Emmons, A. Osborn, and 

 O. C. Gardiner, and published by Huntingdon & Sav- 

 age, New 'STork, at $2 per annum. This number, like 

 its predecessors, contains a large amount of valuable 

 matter, and we wish the editors increasing success in 

 their enterprise. 



In the last number of the Southern Cultivator, pub- 

 lished at Augusta, Ga. — an excellent paper, by the way, 

 and one we have had frequent occasion to refer to, — we 

 found a slip containing a proposal of our friend Mc 

 Donald, of Eufaula, Alabama, that he would be one of 

 a thousand who should each procure twenty subscrib- 

 ers, and thus place the Cultivator upon a pretty high 

 horse. We were also requested to "call attention to 

 this proposition ;" but whether for the purpose of serv- 

 ing our own interests, or those of our Augusta friends, 

 they do not explicitly state. We however take plea- 

 sure in assuring agriculturists of the South, whether 

 20,000 or twenty times that number, that after having 

 subscribed for the Farmers' Cabinet, they can hanily 

 appropriate another dollar bettor than by ordering the 

 Cultivator; but let thein be sure to supply themselves 

 with the Cabinet first. 



We regret to be obliged to state, that frequent men- 

 tion is made in our exchange papers from Delaware, 

 of the appearance this summer of the potatoe rot. Our 

 friends in Jersey inform us, that it is much feared in 

 some neighbourhoods on that side of the river. We 

 also learn that it has made its appearance in our own 

 immediate vicinity. 



The corn crop, from present appearances, very gene- 

 rally promises well in this vicinity. This is also the 

 report from more remote sections. 



TREES FOR SALE. 



The Subscriber has for sale at the Mount Laurel 

 Nursery,— established by J. Needles— an extensive as- 

 sortment of Apple, Pear, Peach, Plum, and Cherry Trees 

 and Grape Vines. Also, a great variety of 



ORNAMENTAL AND EVERGREEN TREES, 

 Which are of the best quality, and good size for trans- 

 planting. Orders left with Josiah Tatum, No. 50, N. 

 Fourth street, will be punctually attended to, where 

 catalogues may be procured. 



EZRA STOKES. 



Mount Laurel, near Moorestown, JV. J., 

 Eighth month 15th, 1846. 



Persons wishing trees,— particularly Southern pur- 

 chasers—are invited to notice the above advertise- 

 ment. Orders sent to this office, will be promptly at- 

 tended to, and every care taken to have them faith- 

 fully complied with. Catalogues will be forwarded by 

 mail, as they may be requested. 



