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the worlds above us, we of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Club, of 

 the American Institute, may deeply demonstrate the structure of 

 all bodies of our mines, farms, forests, fruits, meats, diseases, &c. 

 The admirable success of Ebrenberg, in this department of sci- 

 ence, points to further discoveries. 



The London Farmers' Magazine^ of Feb. 1858, contains twenty- 

 seven pages devoted to the " Cattle plague, Steppe-murrain, or 

 Rinderpest," now prevailing on the continent of Europe, in Hol- 

 land, Eelgium, Hamburg, Westphalia, Hanover, Lubeck, Meck- 

 lenburg, Schwerin and Strelitz, in Saxony, Prussia, Cracow, Ees- 

 sarabia, Galicia, Moravia, Eohemia, Wurtemburg, Rhenish Prus- 

 sia and Bavaria. 



It is considered unlikely to cross the channel to England. 

 Great care is every where taken to arrest its progress by destroy- 

 ing the infected cattle. 



The American Institute was reproached by a few men, of bad 

 taste, for exhibiting noble animals in our Crystal Palace last fall. 

 At the Sydenham Palace, which is worth thirty millions of dol- 

 lars, there is an immense exhibition of poultry this winter. The 

 ears of visitors were dinned by the " deep ophicleides and double 

 bass of the Cochins and Bramah Pootras, and the shrill Piccolos 

 of the Bantams — from the trumpets of the ducks and geese to the 

 Bassoon modulations of the turkies and hautboys of the pigeons. 

 To give an idea of the immense number of fowls now in the long 

 spacious gallery at the south extremity of the palace — Spanish 

 fowls, 254 ; Dorkings and their chickens, 502 ; Cochin Chinas, 

 265 ; Bramah Pootras, 112 ; other breeds too numerous to men- 

 tion. Ducks, 12 lbs. each; a turkey, 35 lbs. 



Le Bon Jardiniere^ 1858, presented by Mons. Vilmorin to the 

 American Institute. 



We translate the following passages, viz : 



NOVELTIES. 



Abutilon Marmoratum — Dahlias of 1857 — We recommend the 

 following : 



Augustein Lelemier Rose amaranth, salmon hue; Calypso Ten- 

 der Rose, with white centre; Comte de Morny, velvet violet, pur- 



