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the best memoir on the improvement of agriculture in Holland, without 

 having had an opportunity of bestowing it ; and the same subject is pro- 

 rogued to the end of the year 1827. The Dutch nation, Harte observes, 

 have always been more noted as practitioners than writers. 



NORTH AMERICA. 



The Society for the Encouragement of Horticulture, Agriculture, Sec. in 

 the Island of Jamaica, invite cultivators of vegetables, fruits, and flowers, to 

 send specimens of any of them for examination on Monday the 1.3th 

 November next, for which prizes will be awarded according to their respect- 

 ive merits ; and, in addition to the above, premiums will be given for the 

 best specimens of honey and wax, bleached and unbleached, according to 

 their respective qualities. The specimens to remain the property of the 

 person by whom they are sent ; but if by a slave, to be accompanied by a 

 certificate from his owner or overseer, of their having been grown in the 

 ground of the individual producing them. The specimens to be sent to the 

 circulating library by nine o'clock in the morning. {Neivsp.) — " Perhaps 

 you will insert the above, to elicit farther information on the subject. In 

 Brian Edwards's History of Jamaica you will find some account of the 

 botanic garden in Jamaica, which was at one time in a very flourishing 

 state." (T.R.Liverpool.) — An account of this botanic garden, which no 

 longer exists as such, will be found in Encyc. of Gard. § 499. 



" The Berberis aquifolium has flowered for six years past in the open gar- 

 den here. In my next I shall send yon some remarks on it, and also on 



" Madura aurantiaca, the female of which has been sent to Europe in 

 abundance, but the male plant is not only not in Europe, but not in any 

 botanic establishment in this country but my own." — {W. Prince, Lin. 

 Bot. Gard. N. York, March 5.) 



Farming in Susquehanna " is very unlike what it is in England. Timber 

 there is very valuable ; here it is an incumbrance, and we destroy it as 

 expeditiously as possible. One of our labourers will cut it down, chop it 

 so small as to be manageable, burn it, and clear off an acre in two weeks, 

 or less. The first crop repays all his labour in getting it. This is all we 

 aim at ; and after the timber has been burnt on the ground, we sow our 

 grain and grass seed without ploughing, and harrow them in. This you will 

 think is very slovenly farming. My estate consists of a square of 50,000 

 acres of excellent land, but I can cultivate but a small part of it myself. I 

 am very anxious to find a person from Europe who would purchase a part 

 of it, or become a partner with me in a part or the whole of the concern, so 

 as to farm on a large scale. I am a native of this state, and have resided six- 

 teen years here. But I am fond of social life, and can imagine the great 

 advantage of the co-operation of several gentlemen in almost every pur- 

 suit, and more especially in such situations as mine, where the seclusion 

 of a pastoral life would be pleasantly and profitably relieved by society, and 

 the company of persons of similar feelings with myself. My exertions relax, 

 and I become indolent from want of excitement. When I first came, all 

 this part of the state was a wilderness ; it is now formed into a country 

 containing about 500,000 acres of land, with a population of from 12,000 

 to 14,000 souls, of whom about one-fourth are on my estate. I have sold 

 several lots of 200 acres each. Montrose is our capital; it is 140 m from 

 N. York, and 1 60 m. from Philadelphia. A stage arrives from the latter 

 city thrice a week. It may be mentioned, as an instance of the rapid in- 

 tercourse between your country and this, that I read your Gardener's Maga- 

 zine in thirty days from the date of its publication." — (/?. H.Rose, Silver 

 Lake, Susq. Pennsyl. Nov. 26th, 1826.) 



