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The Messrs. As pin walls offered to the Institute gi-atuitous freight 

 of the splendid vegetable productions of that gold field, our Cali- 

 fornia — tliose vegetables distinguished from tliose of all the globe 

 by their enormous Brobdignagian growth. Some cunning agronomes 

 love to think that they should li]i;e to raise such vegetables by the 

 same special manure, for that an acre manured with about twenty 

 cart loads of gold dust would raise beets of sixty-four pounds 

 weight (one of which we had on our table at the Repository re- 

 cently.) But our mine of vegetable riches is the convpost heap. 



I beg leave to ask for Lawton, of New Rochelle, a bow from 

 the lovers of blackberries for his zeal and indomitable industry in 

 making extensive the very valuable berry called by his name. 

 It ranks as a fruit among the upper ten, and its claims to that 

 rank, whether called Lawton or not, will be voted by every tongue 

 which tastes its delicious pulp. How can one man tell the merits 

 of the thousands of American production here. I give it up! 

 Our inventions continue to penetrate other countries. Austri. 

 avails herself through her intelligent Consul -General, of all that 

 is useful among us. She has recently established extensive fac- 

 tories of agricultural implement and machines from our models, 

 preferring them to those of Em-ope and her own together. 



A citizen of Maryland is now here with recommendations from 

 Secretary Marcy, and other most respectable citizens, endeavoring 

 to establish in tliat beautiful island the '^siemprefeliz yfel isla de 

 Cw6a," {ever happy and faithful^) the Queen of the Antilles! a 

 depot for all the productions of our country. He adverts to the 

 valuable measures for like purposes taken by the Rev. J. C. 

 Fletcher, late Secretary of Legation to the Brazils, to cause a 

 mutual exchange of the two countries in such good things. 



The Institute is always pleased to establisli relations of this 

 kind with all the nations of the earth. It is justly said, learning 

 and virtue are of no nation exclusively, have a free passport over 

 all the globe, but materials fall under restrictions for tax pur- 

 poses, and others wliich we wish to remove. We have said 

 steadily for years that we are ready for real free trade, at all 

 times with any brotherly minded people. 



You will find here samples of the sea island cotton plant with 

 its balls, and the rice plant from Sullivan's island, South Caro- 

 lina, sent by the Hon. .lacob Bond Ion. 



But how enumerate ! 



Here is utility rendered splendid by our people. Behold the 

 multitude of articles of the first necessity, made in the best man- 



