^p'^ 



it scedd well, aiul may tlms be easily propagated like 

 half-hardy annuals. 



Phloxes we have not mentioned, because they are 

 now so generally cultivated as hardy border plants, 

 that we do not deem it proper to claas them with 

 summer bedding plants. Still they are indispensable, 

 and tliose who have not already supplied their gar- 

 dens, may obtain plants in pots that will bloom the 

 coming autumn. 



Scarlet Geraniums. — We must not forget their 

 large foliage and brilliant flowers, added to their free 

 and constant blooming — qualities that make them 

 desirable. 



GARDEN IMPLEMENTS FGH LADIES. 



Perhaps we could not at a more appropriate sea- 

 son call attention to the nice collections of Garden 

 Implements for Ladies, which are to be found at the 

 Aorricultural Implement Warehouses. Specimens 

 shown us this spring, by J. Rapaljh &. Co., of this 

 city, are ncatei and better than any we have before 

 seen. 



Fig. 1. 



Fig. 2. 



Fig. 3. 



Fig. 1, is a small Spade, with a handle of the ordi- 

 nary length, so that it can be used without stooping. 

 Fig. 2, is a Garden Fork, for loosening the earth 

 around flowers and plants. Fig. 3, Floral Rake. 

 Fig. 4, Hoe. Fig. 5, Garden Fork, for loosening 

 the earth around small plants and flowers. Fig. 6, 

 Transplanting Trowell, invaluable for transplanting 

 annuals from the seed bed to the place whore they 

 arc intended to bloom, or for any other plant that 

 it may be desirable to transplant 



(Sbitor's (liable. 



To OUR Readers. — Tho present number completes the 

 first half of the year. We have spared neither labor nor mo- 

 ney to make the Genesee Farmer worthy of its extended eir- 

 ciilation. We think we have tho means of making our Jour- 

 nal still more interesting, during the remainder of the year, 

 and we ask our readers, to make another effort to increase our 

 circulation in their respective neighborhoods. We ask this 

 particularly in places where few copies are now tciken. — 

 We can supply back numbers from January with plate of 

 Glass House. With the July number we shall probably 

 commence q series of letters from the World's Fair, illustra- 

 ted with such engravings as may be necessary to a proper 

 understanding of the subjects treated of. Before this num- 

 ber reaches most of our subscribers Mr. Barry will have 

 reached the shores of England, whither he has gone for the 

 purpose of furnishing for our pages a full and correct ac- 

 count of what he may notice that will be interesting and 

 profitable to the American Farmer- To those who read the 

 HoTticulturui Department of this joutnal, we nebd not say 

 that our repoU will be at least equal to any furnished for 

 the American press. Mr. B.'s habit of close observation, 

 practical common sense, and general information on all 

 rural affairs, connected with excellent descriptive powers, 

 warrant us in promising our friends a treat not to be ex- 

 celled. 



The next State Fair is to be held in this city, and being 

 on the ground, we shall be enabled to add to the interest of 

 our pages by a full report of what we may see and hear. 



Wc have been often solicited to take subscriptions for a 

 less term than a year, which for obvious reasons we liave 

 hitherto refused to do. At the request, however of many 

 who for years have interested themselves in the success 

 of the Genesee Farmer, and whose advice we always 

 respect, we have determined to take subscribers com- 

 mencing with the next number, which will be the first of 

 the second half of the volume. The price will be one- 

 half our usual charges for tho volume, 25 cents for single 

 subscribers, $1.00 for five, and $1.50 for eight copies. 

 We are induced to make this offer, because our agents repre- 

 sent that many who have been deterred from subscribing on 

 account of the high rates of postage, will gladly avail them- 

 selves of the reduction of postage by the new law, which 

 takes effect on the 1st of July, to enroll themselves among 

 our subscribers, and obtain a good agricultural paper at a price 

 altogether trifling. 



Agricdltural Implements. — The improvement inagri 

 cultural implements certainly keeps p.ice with the improve- 

 ment in agriculture. There never was before such a fine 

 stock in Rochester, as at this time. We now have three 

 well-filled establishments, Messrs. Rapalje & Co., J. I*. 

 Fogg & Brother, and Briggs & Brother, and, from 

 what we can learn, they are all doing a good business. 



David Hall, of Gaines, N. Y,, passed through this city a 

 few days since with a fine lot of French sheep, of the Tain- 

 tor importation, purchased of Merril Bingham, of Vermont. 

 Mr. H. wishes the farmers in his neighborhood to call at his 

 farm and examine them. 



Rates of Postace oh the Farmer established by (Ae neto law, 

 which takes effect on the Ist of July . 



50 miles 5 cents a year. 



300 ♦' 10 " " " 



1000 « 15 " « " 



2000 " 20 " " " 



The distance between 50 and 300 is reckoned as 300. and so be- 

 tween 300 and 1000, and the rest. 



Mr. Barrt's '• Fruit Garden" can be procured at our office, and 

 as Boon 08 the new Post Office l.iw t.ikes effect, we can send it by 

 mall to any part of the country. Price $>1.25. 



