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Oats, 131,567,000 bushels. 



Indian corn, 56,000,000 



Rice, 1 ,500,000 



Other grain, 17,000,000 



Pulse, 11,000,000 



Potatoes, 142,500,000 " 



Wine, 622,500,000 gallons. 



Tobacco, 845,507 cwt. 



Flax and hemp, 3,098,000 



Linseed, 579,253 



Hops, 72,599 



Olive and seed oil, 647,258 



Wool, 444,568 " 



Horses 3,230,000 



Mules and asses, 116,210 



Bulls and oxen, 3,795,348 



Cows, 6,615,136 



Sheep, 16,801,545 



Goats, 2,275,900 



Swine, 7,401,300 



Beets used in making sugar, five millions of caituers, of 123^ lbs. each, 

 117,500,000 lbs. She imports grain, and wool, and flax, and live stock ? 

 Austria ought to export. 



Wilson's seedling strawberry. 



The Southern Homestead, of Nashville, Tennessee, June, 1859, says ; 

 At a recent meeting of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society, at 

 St. Louis, Wilsoii's Albany Seedling Stamhiate has sustained its reputa- 

 tion nobly. But no one sort can give as much satisfaction as half a dozen, 

 if only for protracting the season. The Albany berry is a very large, dark, 

 firm berry, not of first rate flavor, but wonderfully productive. An admi' 

 rable Market Berry I 



[Revue Horticole. Paris, Mny, 1859.] 



Horticulture is every day making new conquests. It advances by little 

 and little, and with patience, but each step gives us a definite result. In a 

 brief article in the Journal of the Society of Horticulture of the Depart- 

 ment of the Moselle, M. Belhomme has remarked on the great care 

 required in the amelioration of certain species now spread everywhere, 

 and that we never should despair of success in our efforts to improve 

 plants. The carrot, parsnip, celery, carried from Europe to Central Ame- 

 rica, have required seven, nine and even twelve years culture there before 

 they become as good as they were when first planted. It is believed that 

 the Bulbous chervil, of same family with parsley, carrot, parsnip, skirret., 

 called " Anthriscus-Cercfolium," — formerly used as a pot-herb, — can, by 

 culture, have its now small bulb made as large as carrot or parsnip. 



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