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Editoj'ial Notices. 



Vol. XI. 



The North American stated a couple of weeks 

 ago, that New Jersey had this year produced some of 

 the finest apples ever seen in the United States. — New 

 Jersey is famous for her good fruit, as well as her 

 Teal. 



M. F. Maury, of the U. S- Navy, in a letter dated 

 at the National Observatory, Washington, on the 2C>th 

 ult., and directed to the Secretary of the Navy, says 

 he has observed and verified the newly discovered 

 planet Le Verrier. Ue gives its right ascension and 

 southern declination for the three preceding days. The 

 probable distance of this new planet is believed to be 

 not less than three thousand millions of miles from the 

 sun, and its period of revolution is upwards of two 

 hundred years. 



"The discovery of this planet," says Lieutenant M., 

 "may be considered the greatest achievement of theo- 

 retical astronomy. Astronomers had long since ob- 

 served that Uranus sufiered perturbations in its orbit, 

 for which they could not account by any known cause 

 of disturbance. They conjectured, indeed, that it 

 might be owing to the attraction of a planet out upon 

 the confines of the system, perhaps, but which was 

 considered beyond their reach. 



" A Frenchman takes up the subject in his closet, 

 and there, with the perfection of mathematical skill, 

 creates his hypothetical planet, gives it a mass, as- 

 signs an orbit, and a period of revolution ; and then 

 sets it in motion at a distance inconceivably remote. 



"He tries his problem, varies h^s conditions and 

 tries again. At last the position, mass, orbit, motion 

 and places are such that its attraction satisfies the 

 anomalies of Uranus. Astronomers are astonished at 

 his depth of research, and amazed with his results. 

 He tells those at Berlin where to turn their glasses; 

 they point them according to his directions, and the 

 new planet Le Verrier is there." 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has been 

 famous for its great display of fruit. At the Annual 

 Exhibition in Boston in the Ninth month last, some 

 of the contributors produced more than one hundred 

 varieties of both pears and apples. We are aware 

 that a man's orchard or garden is not necessarily val- 

 uable in proportion to the number of kinds of fruit 

 which he cultivates; but the inference we draw in the 

 matter before us, is, that where so much attention is 

 bestowed on the subject, great success and general 

 benefit must result. 



Dr. Darlington, one of the first botanists of the 

 country, having furnished us with a copy of his Ad- 

 dress before the Chester County Horticultural Society 

 at West Chester, on the 11th of Ninth month last, it 

 is with much pleasure we embrace the opportunity to 

 transfer it to the columns of the Cabinet. We believe 

 there is not a sufficiently general appreciation of the 

 conveniences of the vegetable garden as an appendage 

 to the farm, to say nothing about the meliorating and 

 refined influences of the nicer branches of Horticul- 

 cure— the Corinthian order of human attainments and 

 pursuits. Let us remember we live in a world where 

 there is abundant room for improvement, and one of 

 whose great watch-words should be— Progress. 



FOR SALE, 



A BEAUTIFUL FARM, 



Nearly adjoining the city of Annapolis, Maryland, 

 containing 350 acres of land, naturally of good quality, 

 and during the last four years, I have had it highly 

 improved with clover, plaster, ashes, lime, and other 

 manures to the amount of upwards of fifteen hundred 

 dollars. The fences and buildings are all in good re- 

 pair, and divided into ten departments, including one 

 peach orchard, containing upwards of 1500 trees, in 

 fine health of three summers' growth, and an apple 

 orchard in full bearing. About 150 acres of this land 

 are covered with the best sort of building timber. 



I have a good wharf, where a large schooner can lie 

 and receive or deliver produce. This farm is very 

 pleasantly situated, high and dry, and about rolling 

 enough to cast ofi" extra rain water, — also has good 

 spring water in several of the fields. The buildings 

 consist of a good dwelling, nearly new, two brick ser- 

 vant houses, one house for the manager, two large to- 

 bacco houses, 30 by 70 feet each, one is used for a barn; 

 stabling, corn, milk, and hen houses. From the above 

 dwelling I can go to the Annapolis market in about 

 fifteen minutes, where we have a tolerably good mar- 

 ket for hay, peaches, sweet potatoes, milk and butter. 

 Of milk about $2000 worth may be sold annually. 

 Freight is cheap to Baltimore, which is an excellent 

 market, with which we have daily intercourse, both 

 by steam and otherwise. But few farms have the same 

 opportunities of doing business to profit, being now in 

 good order to make money, and only on account of ad 

 vanced age, infirmities, and residing at a distance, am 

 I induced to part with it. It will be sold cheap. Per- 

 sons desirous of seeing the place, will please call on 

 me, near Baltimore, Md., and I will go and show it. 

 ROBERT SINCLAIR, Nurseryman. 



August 28fA.— 4t. ' 



Agency for the Purchase «& Sale of 



IMPROVED BREEDS OF CATTLE & SHEEP. 



The subscriber takes this method of informing bit 

 friends and the public, that he will attend to the pur- 

 chase and sale of the improved breeds of cattle, sheep, 

 swine, poultry, &c., for a reasonable commission. All 

 letters post paid, addressed to him at Philadelphia, will 

 be attended to without delay. 



AARON CLEMENT. 



Sept. 15th, 1846. 



FRUIT AND ORNAMENTAL TREES, EVER- 

 GREENS, SHRUBBERY, &c., 



In great variety, for sale as heretofore, by the sub- 

 scriber, at his Nursery, near Haddington, four miles 

 west of Philadelphia. Orders sent by mail, or left at 

 the office of the Farmers' Cabinet — where catalogues 

 may be obtained — will be attended to, and the trees 

 well packed when ordered to distant places. City 

 gardeners supplied with trees suitable for the streets, 

 at a liberal discount. SAMUEL RHOADS. 



Tenth mo. 15th, 184G. 



