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Mons. Naudin. Agriculture, is in our day, a very complicated 

 science, borrowing lor the most part from every other. Besides a 

 knowledge of vegetable physiology which it claims imperiously from 

 every one who takes that career; it also demands an exact apprecia- 

 tion of the different soils, of climate, of local circumstances which 

 often powerfully influence the productions of the earth. We nmst 

 understand the effects of various manures, what kinds of animal we 

 ought to raise, &c., and in fact, in order to be a good farmer one 

 ought to be a meteorologist, mineralogist, chemist, natural philoso- 

 pher, and an economist. And it is to these grave and important 

 questions, that the professor of the garden of plants at Paris takes 

 such pains to call the attention of the people. 



France, says he, is one of those countries in Europe which de- 

 monstrates best this great truth, that agriculture is a complex art. 

 With her vast plains of the tertiary formation, her masses of granite 

 mountains, her oceanic regions in the west, her oriental provinces 

 participating in the continental climate of the centre of Europe, with 

 such a varied mineralogical nature of soil, and above all, with her 

 north and south regions, what a study does she present for the philo- 

 sopher and for the learned farmer. 



For some years past, some of our large proprietors and amateurs of 

 evergreens, have endeavored to introduce into their plantations, exo- 

 tic species, for the greater part originally from Mexico, Himalaya 

 and California, among which we find many new pines and firs. 



Revue Horticole, Paris, 1847. 

 Translations hy H. Meigs, Secretary of the Farmer^s Club of the 

 American Institute, April 16fh, 1S47. 

 The Royal Horticultural Society of London, has joined to its mag- 

 nificent garden, one institution of which the advantages cannot be 

 disputed, that is, a library formed exclusively of books for the use of 

 young persons who are destined to become gardeners. The Hall is 

 tapestried with plates of national history, principally of botany and 

 vegetable physiology. Dr. Lindley knows well the difference between 

 an ignorant gardener and one well instructed, even when both have 

 equal ability in practice. He insists on the necessity of the young 

 people of the present generation possessing the greatest possible 

 amount of general instruction. A school like this which will be- 

 come the nucleus of complete horticultural education, placing within 

 the reach of all our young gardeners, instruction up to the height 

 of the intellectual wants of our epoch, should be placed in all our 

 principal cities as well as in London. 



