Transactions Of The Massachusetts Horticultural Society For The Year 1859

We are indebted to Eben. Wight, Esq., Corresponding Secretary, for a handsomely printed copy of the above. It is a credit to all concerned in it. We have run our eye through it, and find that it contains, in the reports of various Committees, etc, a great deal of useful information, well worthy of being preserved and given to the world. It presents the Society in the aspect of an active, useful, and "live" institution, with the handsome surplus of $90,000 in the treasury, and an income of some $5,000 a year from Mount Auburn Cemetery. The Society has recently presented a petition to the Legislature, through Marshall P. Wilder, Esq., asking for a grant of land on Back Bay for the purpose of erecting a new Hall, Conservatories, a Botanical Garden, etc. We hope the Legislature will have the wisdom to grant it.

Transactions Of The New York State Agricultural Society - 1853

For this volumne we are indebted to the Secretary, B. P. Johnson. From a slight examination of the book, we are led to believe it is the best ever issued by the Society. The Reports from County Societies are more practical than in some previous volumes, and we notice some excellent papers on agricultural subjects, among them one from C. N. Bement, on the culture of Indian Corn. We have marked some passages, and shall refer to this volume again.

Transactions Of The Ohio Pomological Society. Meeting Held Aft Columbus, January 11th And 12th, 1853

We are glad that this Society is determined to prosecute its labors. There could be no stronger proof that they are much wanted than the pages of this report. Nomenclature is really in a sod condition. The lists of fruit presented, show some large collections. R. Buchanan, of Cincinnati, 43 varieties; A. L. Benedict, of Morrow county, 66 varieties; W. B. Lispey, of Morrow county, 25 varieties. In all, the collection of apples must have been very extensive. The discussions are not quite so practical as those of the Illinois meeting, but nevertheless have elicited many useful facts, which we shall notice hereafter.

Transactions Of The Ohio Stats Pomological Society, Sixth Session, Held At Columbus, December 5th And 6th, 1854

We find these proceedings eminently practical and useful. We give an extract this month - "List of fruits recommended for Ohio" - and shall return to them in our next Patent Office Report - Part 2, 1858.

We are indebted to the Hon. H. L. Stevens, M. C. from Michigan, for a copy of this report, a volume containing much valuable information concerning agricultural affairs, gleaned from all parte of the country. We regret to see it disgraced by some paltry drawings of fruit, corn, etc., printed in colors. Such things should either be let alone, or executed in a manner creditable to the state of art in this country, and to the taste and intelligence of the people for whom the book is printed, and who pay for it. We regard the expense of printing over 100,000 of these plates as much worse than thrown away. Will the commissioner look to this ?

Transactions Of The Windram County (Ct.) Agricultural Society For 1852

In this pamphlet is embraced the Constitution of the Society, list of members, reports of committees, besides a very instructive address on "The Economy of Agricultural Education" by Rev. W. Clift. The following sentence is the first that caught our eye in looking over this address:

"Agricultural science, as it gives our rural population increasing intelligence and wealth, will cultivate their taste for the beautiful in nature and art; and benefit the old parish by making itattractive. The beau ideal of life can never be realized in a city, or even in a village. The beautiful in nature, such as greeted the eyes of the first human pair, can find no congenial place there. There is not room enough for the grand old trees, on which time ever sheds a holier light; for the gardens, the orchards, the walks, the fountains, the shrubbery, and all the glad green things in which a cultivated taste loves to embower its home. These things are only to be realised in the country".