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gainer by the proceeding, nor, indeed, that any agricultural policy 

 that in any way approximates to such practice can be correct. It 

 was a pagan practice to burn the dead, and it was in burying their 

 dead that the early Christians most ostensibly differed from the 

 worshippers of idols. As the doctrine of a final resurrection of 

 the body led them to tliis change of practice, so the doctrine of a 

 resuscitation of organic atoms leads us to bury the evanescent 

 forms of vegetables in the bosom of the earth, and patiently to 

 await their reappearance in the coming harvest. 



B. V, IvERsoN, of Columbia, Georgia, to Henry Meigs, Secretary 

 of the Farmers' Club: 



February, 1855. 

 I send you a plan for a fence with the seeds of the Mimosa, a 

 tree I liave. This is a rapid grower; straight when staked; livesj 

 I was about saying, always ; does not put up from the roots; has 

 no scions or shoots. In six years will do to nail the plank on; 

 can be topped, and never grow higher than six or eight feet ; can 

 be trimmed easily to have a small head ; producing little or no 

 shade. These trees will grow any where, stand any cold and 

 wind. Stock wont bark them. In fine, where rail timber 13 

 scarce these trees would be most valuable. They bear for six 

 weeks a pink flower, beautiful and fragrant. The tree is propa- 

 gated from its seeds. Below is a rough idea of this fence. 



B. V. I. 



The idea is, the tree is the post trained first straight, and set 

 out 10 feet apart, and plank nailed on like a paling. When the 

 plank rot put on new ones. Outside and cross fences can be 

 made in the above way. 



NEW USEFUL PLANTS. 



[Le Bon Jardinier for 1855. Paris. Extract3 translated by H. Meigs ] 

 Sorgho Sucre — Holous- Saccharatus — Jindropagon-Saccharatus — 

 or, in plain Engli.-h, a ne^v grass from China, introduced by M. 

 Montigny, the consul of France, at Chang-Hai. Tiiis grass la 



