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*> implies, are shaped like those of the fig, but smaller in size. The r©j 

 s " flowers are of a rosy purple, and are produced very abundantly. It S(j 

 is the best of the perennial " morning glories." It has succeeded well 

 with us this season in a green house, kept in a warm place, but shelt- 

 ered from the direct rays of the sun, in a soil composed of the most 

 part of rotten turfy loam, enriched with a little rotten manure, and 

 mixed with sharp sand. 



If you consider these notes useful, I shall be happy to continue 

 them. Thomas Meehan, Gr. to Caleb Cope, Esq. 



Luculia Gratissima. — This beautiful plant has just flowered in the 

 houses of J.F. Knorr, Esq., West Philadelphia. To most of our gar- 

 deners it is familiar, but this is perhaps only the second time it has 

 ever flowered in this country, it having bloomed wilh Mr. Buist about 

 fifteen years ago. It is certainly a most attractive plant, having a 

 large terminal head of deliriously fragrant pink flowers, each being 

 an inch and a half broad. Each head lasts about ten days. 



LECTURE ON AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. 



BY JOHN DONAGHY, 



Superintendent of the Glasnevin Model Farm, and Teacher of Agriculture to 



the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland. 



(Concluded from page 113.) 



Notwithstanding the taunts which have been, and which are still 

 being levelled at those who advocate the propriety of inculcating on 

 the minds of young farmers the principles of those physical sciences 

 which have relation to agriculture, I cannot perceive why the appli- 

 cation of scientific knowledge to the operations of this important art, 

 should be less necessary than it is to those of any other industrial pur- 

 suit, whether manufacturing or commercial. Liebig, the celebrated 

 German chemist, says, on this point — " The great desideratum of the 

 present age is practically manifested in the establishment of schools in 

 which the natural sciences occupy the most prominent places in the 

 course of instruction. From these schools a more vigorous generation 

 will come forth, powerful in understanding, qualified to appreciate 

 and to accomplish all that is truly great, and to bring forth fruits of 

 universal usefulness. Through them the resources, the wealth, and 

 the strength of empires will be incalculably increased." 



We can readily conceive that in newly settled countries, with a 

 virgin soil to cultivate, a thin population to support, only a nominal 

 rent to pay, &,c, defective modes of tillage may suffice for a time in 

 supplying the wants of the inhabitants. But we are not to expect a c 

 similar result in an old country, with a dense population, the compe- G\ 



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