Food For Travellers

"Wholesome water, and wholesome, fresh fruits, are not to be obtained by the traveller, in the largest part of the United States. Bacon, fat, and salt, is the stock article of diet. He must satisfy his appetite with this, or with coarse or most indigestible forms of bread. In either case, he will have an unnatural thirst, and the only means ordinarily offered him, at country-houses, for satisfying this, will be an exceedingly dirty and unpalatable decoction of coffee, of which the people usually consume an excessive quantity; or alcoholic liquors, of the most fiery and pernicious description.

There is no reason, I believe, why every farmer in the Union should not now make a wine for his family use, which, with most persons, would be most advantageously and economically substituted for coffee and tea, and which use would soon make more palatable than any other beverage, for ordinary purposes." - Olmsted's Seaboard States.

For Show And Beauty

Purple Damascus; Reine de Nice; Flame-colored Tokay; White Nice; Syrian.

To this list many would add Black Morocco, but, without fire-heat, it is a bad setter.

If we could cultivate only one grape, it would be Black Hamburg. If three - Black Hamburg, Muscat of Alexandria, Fontainbleu or Royal Muscadine. The Muscat of Alexandria, only with fire-heat, and, without it, White Frontignan.

For The Spring of 1857

Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, Vines, Plants, etc, for sale at the Columbus Nursery, one and a half miles south of the State House, on High Street, Columbus, Ohio. By M. B. Bateham & Co. Ellwanger & Barry, Rochester, and M. B. Bateham, Columbus, Proprietors.

Lewis Ellsworth & Co.'s Descriptive Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Shrubs, and Plants, for sale at Du Page County Nurseries, Napierville, Illinois. Much attention seems bestowed here.

' Priced List of Plants for sale by W. C. Strong, Brighton, Mass. A large catalogue, and an extensive list.

Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. By Thomas S. Kirkbride, M. D.

Foreign Pears

The following new Pears are described as follows in the English Gardener's Chronicle, by M. De Liron d'Airoles, of Nantes. Several of them - such as Beurre Clair-gtau, Nantais, Duchesse de Berry, Conseiller de la Cour, Bon Gustave, Josephine de Malines, etc - have fruited in this country, and proved to be valuable. M. D'Airo-lEs descriptions are the most complete we have met, except of the few described in the Annals de Pomologie.

Foreign Seeds And Roots

Mr. Browne, who was sent out to Europe some three months since, for the purpose of procuring seeds and agricultural information for the use of the Agricultural Department at Washington, has returned. He has travelled during his absence through portions of England, France, Belgium, Holland, Prussia, Hamburg, and Denmark, having made arrangements for tte purchase of various seeds, roots, and cuttings suitable for the several climates and seasons of the United States, some of which have already been shipped, and will soon arrive. The seeds, it is understood, are principally to be distributed among members of Congress and the different agricultural and horticultural societies of the Union.