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Editorial JVotices. 



Vol. XII. 



be a guaranty for an energetic and efficient Society. 

 Their first Annual Exhibition will be held at Mount 

 Holly on the 20th of next month. A list of premiums 

 ofilred will be found on page 50. 



It is stated in the Belgian Horticulturist, that M. 

 Houltoti has communicated to the Medico Botanic So- 

 ciety of Louviers, that an onion which he had found 

 in the hand of an Egyptian mummy, which had been 

 entombed more than two thousand years, on being 

 planted in a garden.had vegetated with great strength. 

 It did not vary at all in appearance or qualities from 

 the onion of the present day. 



A PROPOSITION by John De La Haye, of Liverpool 

 has appeared in the Mechanics Magazine, to build a 

 submarine Railway from Dover to Calais. It is to be 

 placed on the boitoin of the sea, which is said to be 

 across the Straits, very little undulating. He writes 

 as if he thought his plan entirely practicable, at a cost 

 of only £-2,500,000. This would be a bolder work than 

 the Thames Tunnel. 



The seventeenth Exhibition of the Franklin Insti 

 tute of the State of Pennsylvania, for the promotion 

 of the Mechanic ^rts, will open at the Museum build- 

 ing in this city on the li)th of next month, and close 

 on the 30lh. These have heretofore been occasions of 

 great interest, and the approaching Exhibition, we 

 trust, will not be inferior to those which have pre- 

 ceded it. 



Enquiry has been made from York, Pa., whether 

 Parker Askew was correct when he stated in our last 

 number, page 13, that the "first growth" of his Medi- 

 terranean wheat v\ as apparently destroyed by the flij: 

 as the general belief has hitherto been, that this spe 

 cies of wheat was not liable to injury from this insect. 

 The article originally appeared in the Cecil Whig, 

 whence it will be perceived, we copied. But we be- 

 lieve that statements have been made at different 

 times and in difTiTeiit sections of country, that the 

 Mediterranean variety did not continue to be so ex- 

 empt from the ravages of the fly, as it at first promised 

 to be. 



The kindness of W. Bacon, of Richmond, Massachu- 

 setts, has put on our table a valuable Abstract from the 

 Returns of Agricultural Societies, in Massachusetts, 

 in 1846. 



The Revue Horticole speaks of the Belle Avgcvine 

 pear as a variety remarknble for its great size. M. 

 Calle, of Brionne, had produced on one of his trees, a 

 specimen which we should think, hardly need be beat. 

 It weighed 2 lbs. 15 oz. avoirdupois; measured more 

 than 13 inches in circumference, and was nearly eight 

 inches in height. 



Silas Wright, who was to have deliveriHi the Ad- 

 dress at the New York State Agricultural Show, at 

 Saratoga Springs, we regret to state, has been sum- 

 moned, after a short illness, to that bourne, whence 

 no traveller returns. We have not been advised whom 

 the SocimS^ has selected to supply his place. 



The etforts of the Massachusetts Agricultural Socie- 

 ty are laudably directed, and with great energy to prac- 

 tical purposes. Not content with having made consi- 

 derable importations of stock, with a view to the 

 improvement of the breeds of cattle, they have ordered 

 from Paris, at a cost of about 0dOO, the figure of a 

 horse of full size, so constructed as to admit of all the 

 pieces being taken apart. These pieces represent the 

 muscles, blood vessels, heart, lungs, and other organs 

 of their natural size and appearance. They are com- 

 posed of materials of an imperishable nature, and 

 when put together, form a beautiful object. They have 

 also directed the preparation of the skeletons in full 

 size, of the horse and ox, that an exact knowledge of 

 the limbs of these valuable animals may be viithin 

 reach of the curious enquirer. When these objects 

 arrive in Boston ihey will be placed together in some 

 convenient situation, and made accessible lo the pub- 

 lic without expense. 



Reports from almost every section of our country, 

 speak of the fine promise of the corn crop. Wheat 

 flour is worth §5 50 to $U per barrel, and corn 65 to 70 

 cents per bushel. 



Daniel Lee, of the Genesee Farmer, is to be the 

 future Editor of the Southern Cultivator. 



J. W. Moore, of this city, has lately published a 

 neat duodecimo volume of some 260 pages, entitled 

 "Agricultural Botany ; an enumeration and description 

 of useful plants and weeds, which merit the notice or 

 require the attention of American Agriculturists; by 

 William Darlington, M. D." It is dedicated by the au- 

 thor to "The Young Farmers of the United States," 

 to aid and persuade them to cultivate a department of 

 science essential to an enlightened agriculture, and 

 indispensable to an accomplished yeomanry: and it 

 will be found eminently useful for the purpose de- 

 signed: fur whatever Dr. Darlington attempts in these 

 favourite pursuits, w ill be well done. He addresses 

 himself -'to the youlhfiil and aspiring agriculturists 

 of our country, who seek to elevate their noble profes- 

 sion to its just rank among human pursuits,— and who 

 feel that the exercise of intellect, as well as of muscle, 

 is indispensable to the accomplishment of their pur- 

 pose." We heartily commend the volume lo the en- 

 quirer who would know something of every plant that 

 grows on his farm. The "Observations," apart from 

 the technical matter, are highly interesting and in- 

 structive. 



Prince's Catalogues— 3Glh Edition. 



Wm. R. Prince & Co., |)roprietors of the Nurseries 

 at Flushing, L. I., have just published their new Cata- 

 logues at an expense of above $1000. The Descriptive 

 Fruit Catalogue is the most complete ever published, I 

 and the glands, size and colour of the blossoms of the 

 peaches are given in addition to all other information. 

 'I'erms SI, post paid, witli ihe application. ThK oli 

 edition will he sei\\ grutis. 



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