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The Genesee Farmer for 1856. — 'With the January 

 number of next year, we shall enlarge the Genesee Far- 

 mer so that it will contain at Jeast one-third more matter, 

 and improve it in many ways that it will not be necessary 

 now to mention. The best talent and the most extensive 

 experience the country affords are engaged for its pages. 

 We call upon our friends, therefore, to prepare themselves 

 for a general and zealous effort to increase our already 

 large list of subscribers. The Farmer will be continued 

 at the same low price, and it will be worthy the con6dence 

 and support of the farmers of the country. During the 

 last two months we have added largely to our subscription 

 list, and our shelves are almost cleared of back numbers. 

 For this result we are indebted to the disinterested labors 

 of our friends. They have our best thanks. 



The Horticulturist. — Since the present publisher of 

 the Genesee Farmer sold the Horticulturist, we have 

 received, and are now occasionally receiving, letters on the 

 subject, and in others the matter is referred to incidentally. 

 When we purchased the Horticulturist of Mr. Tucrer, 

 it had but a little over 2,000 subscribers. We immediately 

 lowered the price from $.3 to S2, and gave much better 

 and more expensive plates, and more of them, thus greatly 

 increasing the expense of the publication. To remunerate 

 us, we expected a large increase of subscribers. After 

 laboring two years and a half we succeeded in getting the 

 subscription up to 4,000 — it should have been twice that 

 number. With this circulation we found that after paying 

 for paper and printing bills and engraving, and an editor's 

 salary, that but little was left to compensate the publisher 

 for his labors. We had no nursery business, or any other 

 business by which we could make money out of the repu- 

 tation we gained by its publication, and having received 

 what we considered a fair offer, we sold the work. Mr. 

 Smith, its present editor, is a gentleman of means and 

 leisure, and edits the work for the love of it. Having, 

 therefore, no editor's salary to pay, we think and hope its 

 present publisher will be sufficiently repaid for all his 

 labor. As the subscription was constantly and steadily 

 increasing, we Ihink the journal will soon be a well-pay- 

 ing establishment. But the first dollar has yet to be made 

 in publishing a Horticultural journal in this country. Mr. 

 Tucker and Mr. Hovev will bear us 6ut in this statement. 



We have the satisfaction of knowing that while we pub- 

 lished the Hurticnlturist it was the best Horticultural 

 journal in the world. Mr. R. P. Smith, the present pub- 

 lisher, is doing his work well, and should be sustained by 

 the horticulturists of the country. 



We make the statement because some erroneous ideas 

 have got out about this matter, designedly or otherwise. 



Clubbing of Cabbage Roots. — We see much com- 

 plaint the present season of clubbing in the roots of cab- 

 bage. By a report made to the London Horticultural So- 

 ciety, we see that charcoal dust is reommended as a sure 

 preventive of ihis disease. 



Show of the Genesee Valley Horticultural 

 Society. — The Genesee Valley Horticultural Society held 

 its fall show on Saturday, the X6th of September, This 

 was one of the best exhibitions of Fruit and Flowers ever 

 made in this country. AVe have not space to particularize, 

 or to enumerate articles, but will say that the show was 

 creditable to the exhibitors and entirely satisfactory to the 

 hundreds who crowded the large and beautiful hall. Mr. 

 UiiMtis, of the Country GeutUman, was present, being 

 on his way home from Philadelphia, where he had attend- 

 ed the exhibitions of the Philadelphia Society for the pro- 

 motion of Agriculture and the Philadelphia Horticultural 

 Society. Mr. H. makes the following comparison : 



" As compared with Philadelphia, the show of plants in 

 pots is very meagre, and there are no peaches ; but in 

 everything else it is intrinsically far superior to any exhi- 

 bition I have ever seen. The dahlias, roses, and phloxes 

 are perfectly exquisite, and some idea may be formed of 

 the extent of the show, when it is known that one nursery 

 firm alone exhibited 138 varieties of roses, 70 varieties of 

 dahlias, and ,02 varieties of phloxes ! ! In fruits. Western 

 New York can beat the world, either in quantity or quali- 

 ty ; and all that need be said of this exhibition is, that it 

 represents better than at any previous show, the horticul- 

 tural skill and taste of Rochester and its vicinity. In 

 pears and apples, the exliibition at Philadelphia is not to be 

 compared with this one, either in number or quality. 

 Pears this season are generally smaller than usual, but it 

 is not the case with the specimens exhibited." 



At the close of the exhibition Mr. Barry made some 

 remarks in regard to the extent and importance of the 

 nursery business, and exhorted the members to be pre- 

 pared for the meeting of the American Pomological Soci- 

 ety, which is to meet next fall in this city. 



In this connection we must be allowed to remark that 

 we have the means to make an exhibition that shall not 

 only please but surprise those who may attend the meet- 

 ing of the Pomological Society. What.we want is more 

 public spirit and less selfishness. More love of the truly 

 beautiful in nature and less love of money, and less busi- 

 ness jealousy. More of soul and less of mammon. 



Review of Libbig's " Relations of Chemistry to 

 AoRici'LTrRE." — A very thorough and able review of this 

 pamphlet has been published in the Genesee Farmer for 

 August and September. It lets the moonshine through 

 much of the fog w ith which art and cunning had envelop- 

 ed the subject. The American publishers of Liebig's 

 work would do the public a service by republishing the 

 review. — Boston Cultivator. 



The review referred to above, which was published in 

 the August and September numbers of the Farmer, was 

 necessarily so long that we feared it would be objectiona- 

 ble to some of our readers on this account. We are much 

 pleased, iiowever, to learn from the numerous letters we 

 have received and from the demand for extra copies, con- 

 taining this article, and from notices similar to the above, 

 that it was not only acceptable, but highly prized by our 

 readers and the agricultural i)ress. So great has been the 

 demand for this ai ti le that we have determined to reprint 

 it in an extra, copies of which can be had on application 

 by mail or otherwise. 



