No. 3. 



Editorial JVotices. 



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ment of the present season over the preceding, when 

 our readers will recollect but one of the rooms was oc- 

 cupied. Notwithstanding the crowds that gathered 

 there from day to daj', and in the evenings particu- 

 larly, thtre was ample room for all to move with tol- 

 erable comfort; and though at times you were obliged 

 to float along with the mass, without being at all able 

 to look to the ostensible objects of your visit, yet the 

 jam was by no means so suffocating as we have some- 

 times known it in previous years, when there was 

 uiuch less room. 



The Society and Committee of arrangement, cer- 

 tainly manifested great taste in the distribution of the 

 articles so liberally poured in upon them. The lower 

 room was occupied with numerous bouquets and taste- 

 ful designs formed of cut flowers, some of which, reach- 

 ing to the ceiling at a height of 21 feet, were in size 

 well adapted to the spaciousness of the saloon. The 

 fountain too, which was playing in the centre, not 

 only seemed appropriate to the general character of 

 the exhibition, but pleased the ear with its murmuring, 

 and gave health and pleasantness and freshness to an 

 atmospbeie which might otherwise have been rather 

 too confined. Tables up the centre and whnle length 

 of the sides, were filled with flowers and plants of all 

 descriptions, and natives of all climes. Ample space 

 and opportunity were aflbrded for the amatetir to ex- 

 hibit from his green-house specimens of his success, 

 and thus indulge his liberality of feeling, by throwing 

 open to general inspection and enjoyment, the rare 

 and curious plants which all are pleased to exam- 

 ine, and which but few can cultivate for themselves. 

 In the upper room, more extensive still than the 

 lower, the display of fruits and vegetables was really 

 very fine. The latter, we thought, had never been ex- 

 ceeded; such melons, such beets, such pumpkins, &c., 

 every one would take a pride in raising. It is, as we 

 all know, a general fruit season, and it would seem in 

 almost all the samples before us, as if nature had done 

 her best. Finer grapes in appearance, have perhaps 

 b.:jti shown in previous years, hut never in greater 

 variety. Indeed it may be said, the fruit had but one 

 solitary failing — it was forbidden. 



There was ample room for the distribution of pre 

 miums, and we have been glad to observe they were 

 spread far and wide around the city. Our Jersey 

 friends were well in the field, and contributed their 

 full share to the richness of the show. However they 

 may be charged with hailing from the land of pine 

 knots and blowing sand, they can proudly point to 

 their products of the field, the gaiden and the orchard, 

 and say, heot us if you can 



Something short of !g-2,500 were taken at the door, 

 and from twelve to fifteen thousand persons visited 

 the rooms. During a part of the second evening, we 

 concluded there could scarcely be fewer thati :)500 per- 

 sons in attendance: in the upper saloon alone, it was 

 estimated that 2500 were crowded at once. To view 

 Ihem from the galleries above, was a beautiful specta- 

 cle, and to the editor, one of no ordinary interest. 

 The youth, and the beauty, and the aniniaiinn, and 

 the hope of the city and country, were floating bdow; 

 and though, as we leaned over the railing and con- 

 templated the crowd, we could not but acknowledge 

 the question asked by a friend at our side— "where 



will all these be fifty years hence?" — was both natural 

 and full of meaning;— and though we could scarcely 

 restrain a tear, kindred to that which Xer.xes dropped 

 at Abydos, when the reflection was forced upon him, 

 that the days were numbered of all the mighty host 

 before him— yet the hope and the elasticity of feeling 

 which everj' surrounding object w as calculated to in- 

 spire, expelled the threatening s/tade, and as we with- 

 drew the eye from the moving thousands beneath, and 

 the abundant proofs presented on every hand, of na- 

 ture's exuberant bounty and loveliuess, the exclama- 

 tion of the dying girl was remembered, "what a beau- 

 tiful world is this we live in !" 



During a part of the last evening, the audience was 

 rather taken by surprise, by an exhibition of skill in 

 music. The question was asked by several whom we 

 met— is this appropriate to a horticultural exhibition? 

 is it not rather foreign to the purpose? will it not de- 

 ter many from the rooms? and if it should draw any 

 thither, will they not be of a class different trom that 

 select one, w hich no doubt the So iety wishes to see 

 on its floors? The objects the Society has in view in 

 these annual displays, are, we apprehend, to incite by 

 competition, to a multiplication of the con forts of 

 life — to diffuse a taste for the elegancies of the green- 

 house and the garden ; and to afford to an intelligent 

 and well cultivated public, a chaste and unexception- 

 able amusement, in which all can freely, and without 

 hesitation, participate. 



It is stated, and no doubt truly, that on the 7th ult., 

 the locomotive United States, built by Baldwin &. Whit- 

 ney of this city, brought from Pottsville to Richmond, 

 the depot of the Reading railroad, on the Delaware, 

 a little above K(>nsington, a train of one hundred and 

 fifty cars, containing five hundred and sixty-four tons 

 of coal. Tiie cars themselves, weighed three hundred 

 and forty ions: total weight, nine hundred and four 

 tons. This is probably the greatest performance ever 

 made by a locomotive, either in this country or Eu- 

 rope. 



On pages 63 and 382, of last volume, references will 

 be found to the Etrurian wheat, introduced by Com- 

 modore Stewart, of Bordentown, N. J. H. M. Zollic- 

 koffer, of this city, left at the oflice two or three weeks 

 since, a beautiful sample of this wheat, grown by his 

 brother Daniel, of Carroll cc, Marylarid. It is a white 

 variety, said to he fly proof, and scarcely subject to 

 rust. 



We have just learned that the ploughing match of 

 the Newcastle County Agricultural Society will take 

 place in a field near Brandywine Village, on the 18th 

 inst. The rules to be observed in the match, and the 

 list of premiums will be made known on the ground. 



Tho Bucks Cfiunty Agricultural Society will hold its 

 Exhibition and Cattle Show on the 2-lth inst. Th^^y 

 had nia.ie arrangements to hold it on the ITth, but it 

 was postponed on account of our own commencing on 

 that day. 



The exhibition of our Agricultural Society is now 

 at hand. To-morrow and the day following, will be 

 lively days at the fiisivg Sun. On the 18th will be 

 the trial of ploughs. 



