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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[June, 
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in order, to begin with July 1st, though it is always better 
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ume complete. Certain it is, that nowhere else, in no 
book, or elsewhere, can one get so many fine engravings, 
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cents as can be found in the first half of this volume 
of the American Agriculturist. Our pages arc all electro- 
typed, and we can print off as many new copies of past 
numbers as are called for. S^~ The next half of this 
volume shall in no tvise be less valuable than the first half ; 
but if, ivilt be just as much better as our very best efforts can 
jwssibly make it. 
Mr. Ci»nieroni"s Horses. — There not be- 
ing space enough on the first page to allow ns to describe 
all the animals in the engraving, we give the remainder of 
the article here : Glennevis, the upper left-hand horse, was 
bred by Gen. Angestinc in England in 1866, is of a rich, 
dark brown, with black points ; overlB^ hands high, and 
growing rapidly ; is perfectly sound, with excellent shoul- 
ders, great propelling powers, and very fine .action. His 
pedigree is a very rich one. Warminster, at the lower 
right-hand side, was imported by Mr. C. in 1865. He is 
a dark bay on short legs; stands lSVi hands ; long and 
level ; powerful quarters, back and loins ; bis get are very 
promising — certainly the finest-looking of the season, and 
some of them out of trotting mares show wonderful 
action, and are highly valued. His pedigree is rich in 
the favored strains of Eclipse, Herod, and Matchem, of 
which he combines no less than 35 strains. He is at 
Clifton this season, and the price for his services is $100 
for thorough-breds, and $50 for common mares. Rebecca, 
in the upper right-hand corner, is a chestnut, foaled in 
1853. She was got by imported Glencoe out of a sister to 
big Aleck, by Medoc. The fine chestnut colt at her side 
is by Leamington, and she is now in foal to Warminster. 
— We have not space to write of these noble horses as 
they deserve. — Thorough-bred blood mingles with that of 
every other race, ennobling and strengthening it. It is a 
mistake to suppose that " blood " is of no advantage to 
trotting stock. The contrary is true emphatically. A 
letter la before us from a rather noted horseman in Con- 
necticut, in which the following occurs: "Warminster's 
colts are, without exception, the largest and best I ever 
saw in this country. Prices have already been offered 
for yearlings of four times the amount that three-year- 
olds from the same mares can be bought for. Most of 
these about here, though from mares not speedy, show 
fine trotting action." As a rule it will pay better to send 
any really good mare, not of unusual size, and not Yery 
small, to a thorough-bred, rather than to a common stallion. 
6t Xhe Patrons of Husbandry." — 
"J. C. M., 1 ' and others. — We know nothing of this or- 
ganization beyond a report of an address made in its 
favor before the N. Y. Farmers' Club. If this address 
was correctly reported and the person fairly represented 
the organization, we sec very objectionable features in 
the plan. There are, however, some excellent men con- 
cerned in the movement, and those who think they can 
do good by an organization of this kind. 
Strawberry Inhibition. — Messrs. B. 
K. Bliss & Son propose to inaugurate their new store, 
Nos. 23 Park Place and 20 Murray Street, by an Exhibi- 
tion of Strawberries. Yery liberal premiums are offer- 
ed, and Charles Downing and other well-kuown horticul- 
turists have consented to act as judges. The precise day 
of the exhibition will be announced in the daily papers. 
Premium lists may be obtained upon application to 
Messrs. Bliss. We have no doubt that amateurs as well 
as market growers will generally avail themselves of this 
opportunity to exhibit their productions. 
I*eacla Culture by J. Alexander Fulton, 
Esq., Dover, Delaware: Published by Orange Judd &Co. 
The Delaware Peninsula is now the great center of 
successful peach culture; and this work gives in minute 
detail the course pursued by the growers of that favored 
region in establishing the orchards from which the north- 
ern markets are mainly supplied with peaches. The 
work covers the whole ground, from planting the seed to 
marketing the crop. Besides a full account of orchard 
cultivation, there are special chapters upon training, and 
growing the peach under glass, and a full descriptive 
catalogue of varieties ; Pp. 190. Price $1.50, by mail. 
A Horticultural Scliool.— Mis6 Emma 
Marwedel has opened a school at Brentwood Station, L. 
I., for the purpose of giving instruction in horticulture 
to the youth of both sexes. Miss M. has had experience 
in the industrial schools of Germany, and has the counte- 
nance and support of many of our best citizens in her 
present undertaking. We are glad to learn that she has 
received an encouraging number of applications for ad- 
mission. Our fashionable ladies' boarding-schools have 
been mainly devoted to teaching the arts of husband-ry. 
Horticulture is now to have a chance. 
Advice about Investments. — It is im- 
possible for us to advise one to make this or that purchase, 
to mortgage his farm for a certain purpose, or to giro 
counsel in other matters, where a knowledge of the indi- 
vidual as well as his enrroundings is necessary to the 
forming of a correct judgment. Many letters asking 
euch advice must remain unanswered. 
&.et Poisons AIobic. — The N. T. Evening 
Mail has the following : " A few drops of cologne, bella- 
donna, or aconite, taken on a lump of sugar two or three 
times a day, will, it is said, give exceeding brilliancy to 
the eyes. A word to the wise, etc."— The Mail is such a 
well-conducted paper that we are surprised that it should 
give publication to such dangerous stuff as the above. A 
physician would not give belladonna or aconite two or 
three times a day without closely watching it. 
"Eating; a Mandarin."— A* Eastern 
correspondent of one of the papers wrote home of 
" eating a Mandarin " under the shade of palms. Like a 
lively chicken the Tribune pecked at, and like a solemn 
goose the Evening Post gabbled at, the poor correspond- 
ent. It never occurred to either of these papers who are 
constantly pluming themselves on their agriculture and 
horticulture, that there is a well-known variety of orange 
called the Mandarin; audit is just as common for people 
in an orange country to speak of eating a Mandarin, as 
it is for us to mention eating a Baldwin. 
Typographical. — Our types behave them- 
solves very well as a general thing, but they did make us 
talk nonsense last month, on page 17S, in an article on 
Seeds. It reads, "Air, without the pressure of which 
germination cannot take place." Of course, it should 
have been presence, instead of pressure. 
Harris on the Pig-. — This work is hav- 
ing a rapid sale, and meets with favorable notices from 
the Agricultural press. The Comatry Gentleman, whose 
good judgment in such matters is conceded, has given 
it two notices of commendation. It is a work written by 
a farmer, for the use of farmers ; and though devoted to 
the Pig, its teachings apply equally well to all kinds 
of improved live-stock. Sent by mail for $1.50. 
Horticultural Exhibition in Suf^ 
folk Co., N. Y.— The ladies of Suffolk Co., and the 
County Agricultural Society will hold a fair at Kiverhcad 
(L. I.) on the 22d and 23d inst. Premiums are offered for 
Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers, and a festival will be 
held on the evening of the 22d. * 
Xhe Strawberry and its Culture; 
with a descriptive catalogue of all known varieties, by 
J. M. Merrick, Jr. Boston : Tilton & Co. One who 
writes upon strawberry culture at the present day will 
find but little to say that has not been said before. Mr. 
Merrick gives his account in a clear and pleasant style, 
and makes, as might be expected, a neat and useful hand- 
hook. The catalogue of varieties, which occupies 70 of 
the 128 pages of the work, shows a great amount of 
painstaking, and is more complete than any other. 
Sundry BIum1>u;>-s. — We have a large par- 
cel of letters and circulars sent out by the u /ac simile'''' 
money swindlers, which have already been shown up 
sufficiently. There must be a multitude of poor dupes 
in the country or these chaps would not continue the 
business so largely. One of the heaviest operators in 
this line calls himself "Bailey & Co., 73 Nassau St.," 
with several aliases. He prints his lithographic letters 
" April 14th, 2Gth," etc. He pretends to send to only one 
"keen, sagacious person" in each State. We have a 
large lot just alike, addressed to many persons in each of 
several States. He "positively refuses to receive letters 
by mail," (he can'tget them from the P. O.) and will lake 
nothing less than $25 for $500, as a first payment— for 
his worthless photographs. Among other new (spurious) 
names in this line, arc Wm. A. Douglass, 718 Broadway ; 
C. C. Alvord, 734 or 7S4 Broadway; Win. Hammond & 
Co., 52 John St., and A. J. Hitchcock &■ Co., 14SFnlton St. 
(b<*th precisely the same circulars as Dailey & Co., except 
the signature) ; James Arnold, Jr., St. Charles Hotel; 
A. H. Morrow, 730 Broadway, etc. In answer to the 
question asked in scores of letters, viz. : " Can't some- 
thing be done to stop these swindlers ?" we reply, 1st, that 
theydo not have, or deal in, counterfeit money, or really 
offer it, though their dupes think they do ; and 2d, while 
they do swindle multitudes out of money for naught, yet 
no one who has been wicked enough to try to buy coun- 
terfeit money and been cheated at it, is going to own up 
his own base efforts, and publish himself a counterfeiter 
by appearing as a complainant or witness against these 
rascals Here are more "Receivers" for Riverside 
enterprise, and a lot of fellows very anxious to sell 
watches for one-fifteenth part of their value— all of them 
humbugs ; but green people keep sending on $5 to $15 
each, expecting to get $100 to $200 watches. When peo- 
ple get anything, it is an apology for a watch, the more 
of which a man has the worse he is off; as they are neither 
good for use nor for sale, except as a swindle J. M. 
Blake, 694 Broadway, sends out red, blue, and gilt pre- 
tended certificates o/ prizes 46, 49, 77, in a " Spanish Lot- 
tery," saying that for $10 (5 per cent) he will forward a 
$200 watch ; and A. L. Webb & Co., 206 Broadway, pre- 
tend to be acting for Blake— the whole thing is, of course, 
a down-right swindle. Wiggins, Bradford & Co., and 
Jas. Carter & Co., are nearly the same thing as Blake and 
"VVebb The so-called " Metropolitan Jewelers' Asso- 
ciation," is a humbug. They (or he) don't send good 
American watches on $2 tickets, nor do any such thing. 
"We know of several $5 Sewing Machines, so-called : 
but we have not seen one worth taking as a girt, much 
less one worth paying $5 for, or $15 for five of them 
R. S. Elcrton, Fourth St., Williamsburg, though he pre- 
tends to, don't do any such thing as send, for $2.65, Gold 
chains worth $50, sets of ladies' jewelry worth $25, Patcut 
