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*^at stake, that since Agriculture is the basis of all national prosperity rV) 

 p and happiness, a paternal and fostering care should be lent to it by ^p 

 the guardians of the public good — and that at least some of the funds 

 appropriated to our great public charities should be directed into 

 channels that will enrich the soil itself from which all wants are sup- 

 plied. Or, should the men whose care it is to aid in any move- 

 ment likely to produce great practical benefits refuse to attend to 

 those duties because it may not have been specified in their oath of 

 office. 



The Convention set on foot by Massachussets or Pennsylvania, and 

 agreed to by most o{ the other States of the Union, has been produc- 

 tive already of some benefit. It has excited in the minds of those 

 interested a little reflection. It was exceedingly well attended. The 

 Bay State with its twenty-five delegates, furnished a president in the 

 person of Marshall P. Wilder, and we question if a better could have 

 been chosen. It is something to have a good head ; and Mr. Wilder 

 has displayed great anxiety for the advancement of the rural arts and 

 sciences. With the co-operation of some of our Agricultural friends 

 who seem a little impracticable on the subject, the United States 

 Agricultural Society organized on a broad basis, and with no section- 

 al interests to promote, might prove a crowning benefit to American 

 and even to universal Agricultuie. What nation can raise such quan- 

 tities of wheat or maize] What country can produce such timber, 

 cotton, barley — such vegetables, potatoes, cabbage, sweet potatoes, 

 melons, cucumbers, water melons — such fruit, strawberries, cherries, 

 apples, peaches, pears, plums, and grapes both native and foreign] In 

 animals show us where are the horses who can work so hard, endure 

 so much hardship as the mixed breed of horses found in this country] 

 The stock of black cattle begins to improve, sheep to be cared for, 

 and in fact all Agricultural improvements to be considered as matter 

 of interest to the tiller of the free soil of America. We have only 

 to improve the stock of farmers. 



NOTES CENSORIAL. 



BY BROUGHAM. 



Mr. Editor — As you have undertaken to edit and publish here a 

 Floricultural Monthly, it has seemed fit that we should resolve our- 

 selves into a "committee of theoreticals " to keep an eye on you, and 

 see that everybody and everything have justice done them. 



A magazine of Horticulture ought to succeed in this city, where 

 I there is so healthy a taste for the beautiful in nature and art, and we 

 9? hope that the "Florist" will continue for many years with a still in- 

 (J^ creasing circulation* \ Your part must be first cared for, and judicious- 



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