Important

His Majesty, the Emperor of France, has "graciously expressed his consent to the proposal that he should be elected an honorary member of the Royal Agricultural Society Of England," and a diploma and sixteen bound volumes of the Transactions of the Society have actually been forwarded to him I He is a capital farmer, and irrigates with his people's blood; he may some time take it into his head to manure with " superphosphate" from English bones, as the English did with the bones from Waterloo. - Figaro.

An Important Item

From the single port of Norfolk, Va., there were shipped during June and to the present time in July, 97,000 packages of early fruit and vegetables, valued at $336,000.

Importation Of Sparrows

We notice that two or three hundred sparrows were imported from England this last March into New York, but do not know by whom. Can any one tell us where they are.

Imported Trees

B. P., (Philadelphia.) If the trees are much dried up, head back the ends of the shoots and bury them, root and branch, for a few days in sandy soil They will soon absorb moisture and become fresh again-then take them out and plant them just before a rain.

Importing English Sparrows

I do not personally know how much truth there may be in the writer's objection to the sparrow. J am not an ornithologist, but I have heard those conversant with that study and knowledge, class the sparrow as only preying upon insects. I had supposed that the covering of fruits with nets, etc, in England, only related to the amateur or gentleman's grounds, where choice specimens were to be preserved. Is it possible that the grower of acres of small fruits for marketing has to protect them with netting ? If that is to be so here, heaven protect us from the sparrow, or even the jenny wren, for our cultivators have enough to contend with now, let alone buying out a few dry goods establishments to cover in their strawberry beds.

Improved Sweet Corn

We find the following in the Working Farmer, from the pen of Professor Mapes - who not only writes good editorials, but cultivates, as we hear, on his (arm near Newark, some rather remarkable crops - such as are, for product per acre, not often seen in that state. The Stowell Sweet Corn will, we should think, be much sought after.

Improvement In Southern Fruits

At a recent meeting of the Potomac Fruit Growers' Association, held in Washington City, Mr. Sanders, superintendent of the experimental gardens connected with the Agricultural Department, said: "They have an idea in Western New York that that is the only region for making fine winter fruit; but that is a mistake. I should say that the hills of Virginia and North Carolina are the best region in the world. In the future, Southern fruits will be taken North for cultivation. The great trouble has been the planting of Northern varieties in the South, but Southern pomologists have of late been paying attention to Southern seedlings, and now they have a list superior to the Northern list. Some day the North will be astonished at the show of Southern fruits".