VOL. XX, NO. 0. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER. 



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ventures; this is the least important part of it; 

 but this common origin and kindred blood, ties of 

 our common ancestry, actually make us one people 

 in every thini,' else. (Cheers.) Tor every |)iirposo 

 but that of political jurisdiction — for every pur- 

 pose, social, literary, moral or intellectual, it in- 

 deed does make us one people. (Cheers.) Every 

 thing that emanates from you is immediately re- 

 ceived and eulogized by the reading public of my 

 country ; and I am happy to say, that our authors 

 are received with equal favor liere. (Loud cheer- 

 ing.) My most respected friend, Dr. liuckland, 

 told you yesterday with liow much pleasure he had 

 perused a geological work of a transatlantic au- 

 thor; that he had lent the volume to a friend, who 

 had not since returned it; but I can assure him 

 that he shall suffer no loss, for as soon as I can 

 send to the United States, I will take care that he 

 shall be provided with another copy ; and 1 can 

 tell him in the mean time that his own excellent 

 works in every department of the science of geol- 

 ogy are as well known and as much appreciated in 

 the United States as they are in Great Britain. 

 (Hear, hear.) 



We who have kept our eye upon the practical 

 part, see what has been doing for the improvement 

 of agriculture. The climate of the New England 

 States, though severer than that of Great Britain, 

 and running to either e.itreme to an e.\tent which 

 yours does not, is not greatly dissimilar, and tliere- 

 fore we are able to derive instruction from the 

 books printed at the English press upon agricul- 

 ture ; those works are now read with great avidity ; 

 for instance, in reference' to the subject upon which 

 we heard a lecture yesterday — thorough draining 

 and subsoil plowing — that has received the atten- 

 tion of our farmers, and I intend that the excellent 

 pamphlet by Mr Smith shall be transmitted by that 

 stecm ship which leaves on Saturday, and I have 

 no doubt that it will be received with the greatest 

 satisfaction. (Cheers.) I wish the Agricultural 

 Society of England to understand that the improve- 

 ments which they secure are literally sowed broad- 

 cast across the Atlantic. (Hear and cheers.) You 

 cannot by your improvements shorten the bones of 

 pigs, nor straighten the back of the cow, nor ren- 

 der the fleece of the sheep finer, but that in due 

 time the effect is felt in the husbandry across the 

 .Atlantic. (Laughter and cheers.) I am happy to 

 aelieve that the community will persevere in this 

 nost peaceful of all departments, and one too, as 

 lis Royal Highness has so well expressed it, by 

 vhich all other branches are materially affected. I 

 )elieTe the people of the two nations to be good 

 Viends, and they ought to be engaged together; 

 ind while Mr Smith is teaching us his system of 

 horough-draining, I doubt not that at the same 

 ime it will draw off the bitter waters oi' interna- 

 ional disagreements, and will create a warm and 

 jenial soil, in whirh will grow the fruits of har- 

 nony and good order. (Loud cheers.) I fear that 



have already taken up too much of your time. 

 Cries of "Nc, no," and "Go on.") 



I most cordially respond to the wishes you have 

 !xpressed ; I wish for harmony and peace between 

 ho two countries ; I wish from the bottom of my 

 leart for nothing else than that the differences be- 

 ween the two countries were amicably adjusted. 



am happy, however, to siiy that from all the 

 neans of information, which I have at my com- 

 nand, that such an event is most likely to take 

 Idace. (Loud cheering.) Those little clouds once 

 down over, and I should wish to see the two na- 



tions ru!raged heart and hand together in the pur- 

 suit of all the great objects which would improve 

 the condition and ennoble the character of man ; 

 and, with England and America united, I do be- 

 lieve, ihiit if it were necessary, they might bid de- 

 fiance to the world. (Cheers.) 1 would add noth- 

 ing more than again to return you my most heart- 

 felt tlinnks for this unexpected, kind, and flattering 

 reception from this great and respectable company. 

 (Prolonged cheering.) 



Mr. Everett shortly :ifterward rose and said — It 

 is necessary lor me to say, having so recently oc- 

 cupied the time of the company, that I should not 

 have arisen again except by special command of 

 your Chairman. I have been requested to propose 

 a toast, which I am sure will be received with the 

 greatest enthu.sinsm, it being one wishing prosper- 

 ity to the great Society under whose auspices we 

 are assembled this day. — (Loud cheers.) — This is a 

 duty which I perform with the highest satisfaction ; 

 it is. Sir, in the first place a debt of gratitude, 

 since you were so kind yesterday, as the organ of 

 the Council, to inform me that they had done me 

 the honor to make me an Honorary member of this 

 Society, — a distinction for which I shall ever pre- 

 serve the most grateful recollections ; but for rea- 

 sons far above personal gratification, do I perform 

 the duty with pleasure. I am persuaded from 

 what I have seen and heard, that no other institu- 

 ticm of the kind in the world is doing at this mo- 

 UiCnt a greater amount of good than the R^yal Ag- 

 ricultural Society of England; — (Loud cheers) — 

 and let me say that it appears to be good of the 



very best character too. — (Renewed cheers.) It 



has been said that he is the greatest benefactor to 

 his race who can make two blades of grass to grow 

 where only one grew before ; but by the labors of 

 this Society, men of science are brought to unite 

 with men of practice, — men of the highest station 

 in the realm mingle together with the farmer and 

 the cultivator, and by this means they are not only 

 making two blades of grass to grow where one on- 

 ly grew before, but they are producing this good 

 in a quadruple ratio. (Cheers.) I have had statis- 

 tics given to me on the average of crops, and it is 

 plain as day that by the improvements which have 

 been introduced into the agriculture of England 

 during the last generation, aye, even within the 

 last fifteen years, not only two blades of grass, but 

 five and even six have been made to grow where 

 none grew before. — (Loud cheers.) — Surely then 

 you ought to be considered not merely to bo bene- 

 factors to the human race, but creators, humanly 

 speaking, if you can double the quantity of food to 

 supjdy the wants of men; if you have doubled the 

 expense of your territories, you must provide for 

 that expense — you must snatch land out of the 

 bosom of the encircling sea, and make another 

 England to rise up, — (Cheers) or make another is- 

 land rise from the depths of the sea with all its 

 " Deep waving folds and paslnres green, 

 lis gentle slopes and groves between." 



— [Cheers.) — AH this added to your dominions, 

 and all subjected to the sway of your youthful and 

 beloved sovereign ; — (Loud cheering) — and all this, 

 sir, without the cost of one pound, (except what 

 comes back to supply the wants of the people,) and 

 without shedding one drop of human blood. (Cheers.) 

 Oh, sir, what is there in all the conquests of the 

 Alexanders and the Ceesars that ever wasted man- 

 kind, compared to a victory like this. (Deafening 

 cheers.) These, sir, are the blissful triumphs of 

 your Society, — triumphs not confined to your own 



king<l(]m, but which all other nations share — and 

 confer benefits in which all nations will wish you 

 God speed. (Cheers.) I will not take up more of 

 your lime, but proceed to propose to you — Success 

 lo the Royal English Jlgricullurnl Sucitti/." (Loud 

 cheers.) 



CATTLE SHOWS. 



The great cattle show at Syracuse, N. Y., was 

 very much indebted for its unusual excellence, to 

 the public spirit of the N. Y. Railroad companies, 

 who carried hundreds of fine heavy cattle from a 

 great distance to the place of exhibition, free of 

 charge. When we consider the great public ad- 

 vantage of these fairs, and that no more than one 

 in a hundred who exhibit live stock, do not do it 

 at their own expense, it appears to us that the sutr- 

 gestion that our railroad companies adopt a similar 

 policy in relation to the conveyance of live stock 

 to these fairs, need hut be made to the public spi- 

 rited directors of these corporations, to secure its 

 immediate adoption. This would make the Wor- 

 cester show the crack show of the country. — Bost. 

 Times. 



HERBS. 



A wise housekeeper will remember in time, that 

 he and his may be sick in the course of a year, 

 and that then he may want certain valuable herbs 

 whicli he cannot find without much trouble or loss 

 of time. Now is the season for getting them, and 

 let it not be passed unimproved. The following 

 will be found valuable : Sage, thyme, peppermint, 

 spearmint, tansy, rue, summer savory, hoarhound, 

 wormwood, b'alm, mellows, horse-radish leaves. 

 These are generally cultivated in gardens. Our 

 fields and woods afford the following valuable 

 herbs: gold-thread, life of man, sarsaparilla, blood 

 root, sweet flag root, bog onion or mucillaginous 

 brake root, elecampane, catnip, wormwood, Johns- 

 wort, &c. Do n't let the present opportunity to 

 save such things pass. 



All herbs should be gathered when fairly in blos- 

 som, and dried by spreading them in the shade, as 

 up garret or in an open chamber. The sun ex- 

 tracts the aroma, and causes them to lose half their 

 virtue. Yankee herbs, like the Chinese tea, are 

 always best for being dried in the shade. — JV. E. 

 Ploughboy. 



TOBACCO. 



Tobacco is the servant of Alcohol and Idleness. 

 He is a sallow, ill-fuvored, good-for-nothing fellow. 

 Some pretend he is a dentist and cures the tooth- 

 ache. Beautiful work he makes of it ! The 

 mouth where he has operated — what a place it is 

 for pearls! The breath, how balmy! But for a 

 dentist, he is a great while at it. He is a sort of 

 travelling dentisl. You can hardly step into a 

 tavern without stumbling over one of the beautiful 

 basins which he keeps for his patients to spit in. 

 Ar.l ".".'hen he doco not fui'iiish Lliese basins, his pa- 

 tients, the plagues of b'-gypt take them ! spit on the 

 floor. If people have ocoasion for a dentist, why 

 not resort to his office and rrcoive his attentions in 

 private, instead of lugging the doctor about with 

 ihem, and spitting his fragrant tooth-wash in all 

 sorts of places ? — Selected. 



An up-country editor says if his subscribers can't 

 pay him cash, he'll take potatoes, string beans, hop 

 poles, or winter squashes, at 15 per cent, discount. 



