FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL NEWS. 371 Von Thaer's celebrated System of Agriculture has been translated by Messrs. Shaw & Johnson, and will soon be issued from the London press. Stock in Western Australia in 1842.-Horses, 1,096; horned cattle, 4,122; sheep, 60,380; goats, 5,613; swine, 1,913; English population, 3,649. Horses for Germany.― Several large exportations have just been made to Germany, selected principally from Yorkshire. case with some that bloomed the past summer; this has been nained also Beauty of the Prairies. Rivers is that By the steamship Britannia we are in receipt of our name given to it by Mr. Feast. No. 2 only occasionally European journals to the 5th of November. gives autumnal flowers. No. 1, owing to most of the MARKETS. Ashes. The business in Pots has been imported plants dying, is more scarce than the other comparatively trifling the past month, though at a slightly varieties. All these roses are perfectly hardy; they advanced rate; Pearls have been brisk, and consider-will form fine pillars and pendulous standards.—Cataable transactions in them. Cotton remains the same as logue of Selected Roses by T. Rivers. at our last, and the sales languid; if any change should take place, the market evidently portends a trifling reduction. Stock on hand at Liverpool, on the 1st of November, 854,000 bales, against 716,000 at same period last year. Flour has advanced 6d. per barrel. Provisions. American Beef is in great favor in England, 2,700 tierces having been sold the past month, an amount considerably greater than during any similar period since we commenced exportations. The stock on hand was light. We have only to exercise a little Test for Sulphate of Ammonia.-Heat a piece of more care in cutting and putting up our beef, to monop-iron to a moderately red heat, and having placed upon olize the British market. Pork is less in demand. The it a small quantity of the sulphate of ammonia, if the reason of this simply is, our hogs packed for the English same be genuine, it will immediately all volatilize; if market are too large and too fat. They want nothing not genuine, the impurities will remain. This simple there to exceed 200 lbs. weight, and wish the fat on the method can be easily applied by every one, and will be sides well intermixed with lean, such as a partially the means of saving farmers from frauds. fatted young Berkshire usually makes. Lard in good request, and has slightly advanced. Tallow, fair sales. Cheese is very active, the demand thus far exceeding the supply. Kentucky Hemp of a good quality is quoted at £27 ($131) per ton. Indian Corn 25s. per quarter (75 cents per bushel). Rice without change. Turpentine, an important advance. Tobacco dull. Money was in more demand, and the rates of discount had advanced from 2 to 3 per cent. American Stocks. Nothing doing worthy of notice. Trade was very active, the manufacturers having more orders for three months to come than they can supply. The Weather for seed sowing was propitious, and it is anticipated that a greater breadth of wheat will be sown this year than ever yet known in the British isles. A good growth of aftermath had followed the excessive drought, which has lessened the price of hay. Professor Liebig.-This distinguished chemist has been making another visit to Great Britain, and was hospitably received wherever he went. He made an admirable speech at a public dinner given him at Glasgow, and has now returned to Germany, the duties of his professorship forbidding a longer stay abroad. We wish he might be tempted to take a trip to the United States another year. Smut in Wheat.-The opinion which now obtains is, that the disease is produced by the minute seeds of a parasitic fungus, which, being carried by the wind, enter the plant by the fine openings of the epidermis or outer skin, and are propelled by the rising juices to every part of it, and eventually convert the recently formed grain into a useless and injurious mass. Prairie Roses.-This is a new group of climbing roses, which promises to be of much interest. Mr. Samuel Feast, of Baltimore, U. S., has had the pleasure of raising the above named varieties from the seed of the single Michigan rose, rosa rubifolia; they are all of vigorous habits, making shoots in one season more than 12 feet in length. No. 3 is the most perfect and beautiful of the whole, giving clusters of flowers containing from twelve to twenty each; at first they are finely cupped; in a day or two they become imbricated, like those of the Duke of Devonsire. It seems to resist the hottest sunshine, and the flowers remain on the plant for a longer period than usual with any other rose: in wet weather, however, they are not at all bright in color, as was the Comparative Value of the Potato.-One hundred pounds of potatoes are equal, for nutriment, to: Meat without bone, Parsnips and Carrots, Cabbage, lbs. 25 28 35 - 190 300 - 400 The experiments of Berry & Herring establish the fact that 3 lbs. of potatoes are equal for nourishment to 12 ounces of bread and 5 ounces of meat. Value of Irrigation.-A small field of poor and almost valueless land in Scotland being irrigated, the second year the burthen on an imperial acre being weighed, it was found to have yielded 9,680 lbs. of well dried hay. Hints to Lovers of Flowers.-A most beautiful and easily attained show of evergreens in winter may be had by a very simple plan, which has been found to answer remarkably well on a small scale. If geranium branches are taken from healthy and luxuriant trees just before the winter sets in, cut as for slips, and immersed in soap and water, they will, after drooping for a few days, shed their leaves, put forth fresh ones, and continue in the finest vigor all the winter. By placing a number of bottles thus filled in flower baskets, with moss to conceal the bottles, a show of evergreens is easily ensured for a whole season. They require no fresh water. Earliest Known Potatoes.-Mr. Sterling of Kenmure, Scotland, states, that seedling potatoes were raised by Gerard, the English botanist, in 1590. This is 20 years earlier than they were introduced into Ireland by Sir Walter Raleigh. Chinese Poultry Yards.-Immense numbers of ducks are reared by that part of the Chinese population who spend their lives in boats upon the rivers; and these birds, salted and dried, form one of the chief articles of diet in the celestial land. They are kept in large cages or crates, from which, in the morning, they are sent forth to seek their food upon the river banks. A Great Layer.-A small common hen, the property of Mr. Grierson, slater, Dunbar, has, from the commencement of the laying season last spring till the close of the present harvest, produced the wonderful number of two hundred and eight eggs. but they are objectionable, on account of the damp moisture which they contain. A dry, cool, and airy room, free from all atmospheric changes, is the only place where fruits can be preserved for any length of time. Shell Fruit, as walnuts, nuts, chesnuts, &c., may be preserved for a year or two by being divested of their outer shell, and thoroughly dried. In jars, or tin cases, put in a layer of charcoal or dry sand, then a layer of nuts. Proceed in this way until they are full, properly securing each lid, to prevent the admission of air; when finished, bury them in the open ground, or in some cool and dry cellar.-Gardener's Chronicle. Food Necessary to Supply the Waste in Animals.Practice says that an ox requires 2 per cent. of his live weight in hay per day; if he works, he requires 2 per cent. a milch cow, 3 per cent.; a fatting ox, 5 per cent. at first, 4 per cent. when half fat, and only 4 per cent. when fat; or 4 on an average. Sheep grown up take 3 per cent. of their weight in hay per day to keep in store condition; and growing animals should never be stinted. Science has ascertained, by the most carefully-conducted experiments, that a full-grown man voids, in his urine alone, about oz. of nitrogen every 24 hours, and that a small quantity passes off in the solid excretions and by the skin. The carbon consumed by the lungs to keep up animal heat, averages about Extraordinary Production of Peas.-In the course 11 ounces in the 24 hours; and the saline and earthy of last week, as I was taking in some peas for seed, matter voided is in direct proportion to the amount curiosity induced me to count the number produced taken in the food. It appears that the food consumed from several peas separately; and among others, I give by an ox, horse, or sheep, is in direct proportion to their you the following as a sample:-I found one pea had weights when compared with man. Hence we find that produced 94 pods, containing altogether 344 peas; anan ox would require, to replace the daily loss of mus-other 99 pods, containing 368 peas; a third had procular fibre, from 20 to 24 ounces of dry gluten or vegetable albumen, which would be supplied in The consumption of carbon by a cow amounts to 70 ounces; and that of a horse to 89 ounces on an average in 24 hours, which is supplied by the starch, gum, and sugar of the food consumed. Fatty matter is required to supply the fat of the animal, and this also exists more or less abundantly in all vegetable food. Earthy phosphates and saline substances are found in the inorganic portion of all vegetables, and these supply the daily waste of bone, &c., of the body. Hence we see that the animal requires a variety of substances, all of which exist in greater or less abundance in its daily food. Table showing the relative value of different articles 50 to 60 Oats, 200 400 Indian corn, - 20 to 50 40 duced 102 pods, containing 418 peas; and a fifth had produced 105 pods, containing altogether 432 peas. The lengths of the haulm, measured from the ground upward, are as follow-first, 2 ft. 2 in.; second, 2 ft. 10 in.; third, 2 ft. 6 in.; and fourth, 3 ft. Extraordinary Produce.-A few days since, Mr. Jackson, of Borwick Hall, was in a field of barley on his farm, when he found a single barley-corn which had thrown up seventeen stems, on which were no fewer than 550 corns! The field was thinly sowed where this plant grew.-New Farmers' Journal. To Increase the Scent of Mignionette.-Keep it from flowering for a year, and it becomes a shrubby plant and perennial; it is also much more powerful as to scent.-Ib. Pea 3000 Years Old.-Mr. Grimstone, of the Highgote Herbary, has succeeded in rearing peas from an Egyptian pea found in a vase in a mummy tomb, probably 3,000 years old! He says of it: This pea stems right and left, the mother stems being very strong, so that I should imagine them capable of standing without the use of sticks. This pea is in height about three feet, being fourteen inches from left to right; its tendrils are wiry, and of sufficient strength to keep each other in a standing position when planted in high rows. Its principle in bearing is curious, having its pod only on one side, so that it appears something like a grapevine in miniature.-Ib. Wash for Sunburns and Chilblains.—A small portion of honey mixed with lukewarm water, and allowed to cool, makes an excellent wash for sunburns and chil blains.-Ib. A Grain Reaping, Threshing, and Winnowing Machine, which performs the whole of these operations together, has lately been invented in South Australia. It is said to perform well at the rate of an acre an hour, and requires only two men and two horses to attend it. This is rather too good a story to be true, for it is quite impossible that so much machinery as these united operations require, could be successfully moved with so little power. To Preserve Grapes, &c.-Procure some tin cases of any convenient size, and put in a layer of dry sand or charcoal and then a bunch of grapes, until the case is full; seal down the lid and make all air tight, and bury them to any convenient depth in the ground. This plan will likewise answer for late cherries, plums, gooseberries, currants, &c. These fruits in some gardens are retarded in their time of ripening, by being covered with mats or nets, which is an excellent plan, and ought to be more generally adopted, as it insures a succession. Grapes, peaches, and apricots, in the open air, may be kept for some time hanging on the trees after they are ripe, by the same means, but their flavor will not be good. Red and white currants, in the same manner, will even keep good till the end of December. Ice- Average Product of Wheat in England.-The Quarhouses have been recommended for preserving fruits; Iterly Review estimates this at 26 bushels per acre. Fat and Muscle.-An admirable article on the causes which appear to determine the production of fat and muscle respectively, according to the present state of our knowledge of animal physiology, may be found in the fifth volume of the Royal Agricultural Society Journal, just issued. It is a prize essay by the veterinary surgeon, W. F. Karkeek, and is well worthy the study of all engaged in breeding domestic animals. Editor's Table. EDITOR'S TABLE. German Method of Making Flowers Grow in the Winter. We saw off such a branch of any shrub as will answer our purpose, and then lay it for an hour or two in a running stream, if we can find one. The object of this is to get the ice from the bark, and soften the buds. It is afterward carried into our warm rooms and fixed upright in a wooden box or tub containing water. Fresh burnt lime is then added to the water and allowed to remain in it about twelve hours, when it is removed, and water added, with which a small quantity of vitriol is mixed to prevent its putrifying. In the course of some hours the blossoms begin to make their appearance, and afterward the leaves. If more lime be added, the process is quickened, while if it be not used at all, the process is retarded and the leaves appear before the blossom.-Farmers' Gazette. Production of Hemp.-In 1841 and 1842, the entire receipts of hemp at New Orleans were only 1211 bales; in 1812 and 1843 they rose to 15,000 bales, and in 1843 and 1844 they reached 38,000 bales, or about 5,000 tons-the increase being almost exclusively from Illinois and Missouri. It will not be long before hemp, and also wool, will become important articles of export. Exportation of Indian Corn.-We learn that the quantity of Indian corn shipped from this port to England during the first eight months of 1844, was 190,000 bushels. Same months in 1843, only 35,000 bushels. To Destroy the Curculio.-A correspondent of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society says, that the experiment of saturating the bark of the plum tree "for a short distance" with spirits of turpentine, and tying a rag dipped therein around the tree, has been found to protect the fruit completely from the ravages of the curculio, when all other plums not so protected were destroyed.-Dollar Farmer. To Make Yellow Butter in Winter.-Put in yolk of eggs just before the butter comes, near the termination of the churning. This has been repeatedly tried, and it makes very fine sweet butter. It is kept by many as a great secret, but its great value requires publicity.— Boston Cultivator. Heavy Yield of Wheat.-Mr. James M. Underwood, of the town of Middlesex, in this county, cut fifty-two bushels and fifty-six pounds of wheat upon one acre of ground, selected from about thirty, which he thinks will yield nearly the same amount.-Pen Yan Democrat. To Preserve Butter without Salting.-The Arabs melt their butter over a slow fire, which expels all the watery particles; it will then keep without salt; and the Irish have adopted, with success, a similar mode for exportation to the East Indies.-South Western Farm. Linseed Oil.-The Cincinnati Gazette states, that there are five linseed oil mills in that city, and another one in the course of erection. They are capable of making, in the aggregate, 900 gallons of oil per day. Cincinnati supplies the whole west, including New Orleans and Mobile, with the article. The manufacture of linseed oil for export is a new business in the west. It is only a few years since it was obtained from the east in large quantities, for western consumption. Clay on Trees.-Mr. Timothy Hill of Wrentham, who has much experience in grafting and in nursing trees, tells us he finds clay an excellent article to apply to the bodies of apple-trees after scraping off the moss and the rough bark; he prefers this to a wash with potash water. He also says he has killed all the lice, called aphides, that are so very troublesome on the extremities of young trees, by one application of clay. We hope our friends 3731 in great numbers will make trial of this remedy, as ley can not be used on the tender twigs and leaves of trees.-Mass. Plowman. We can not see how clay can be applied to the tender twig either, without great labor and perhaps some injury. Medical Power of Ash.-It is known to some of our readers that liquor from white ash bark is used for sheep that have been poisoned by eating lambs-bane. Mr. Adam Capen of Stoughton, tells us there are on his farm two kinds of white ash nearly resembling each other. That the bark of one is valuable, and the liquor from it is certain cure for poisoned sheep; while the bark of the other is worthless. Will some of our readers give us a hint on this subject, and a description of the true medical kind?—Ib. Biography of an Extraordinary Porker.-We give below from the New England Farmer an extract from a report of the committee on swine at the late meeting of the Essex Agricultural Society. We presume it is from the pen of the chairman, F. Poole, Esq. If the tribe of sus aper don't get immortalized, it will not be for want of comic humor in the histories and descriptions of him by the wits of old Massachusetts. It is apparent now that the lamented Lincoln left his mantle behind him. "Linn, too, has her share of swinish honors, derived from the extraordinary merits of a single individual of the race, of whom the committee have it in their power to present a biographical sketch. We are indebted to Mr. John Alley 3d, under whose patronage this individual was reared and educated, for some particulars of his life. "Of his origin we know but little, except that he was the son of his mother, who died suddenly when he was a few months old and left him an early orphan. He became remarkable for his rapid growth and the excellence of his appetite, and soon arrived at that middle age of swinehood when his porkship appeared a living epitome of good nature and good living. He continued to expand in size until he became a Daniel Lambert of the race, and possessed great weight in swinish society. He was a solid character, and his specific gravity was only equalled by the gravity of his demeanor: indeed, there was nothing waggish about him-but his tail. He now became a worthy member of the I. O. of Fat Fellows, and attained to their highest degree. His corpulency prevented him from travelling, and although he had never been to roam (Rome), he was familiar with the rich stores of ancient and modern Grease. The state of the money market gave him no concern, and he cared little for the rise and fall of stocks-except corn-stalks, which he always appeared anxious to get down. He early acquired a disgust for party politics, by observing the greediness with which some partisans have thrust their snouts into the public swill pail. He even thought that some aspiring individuals had much better have a sty in their eye than the White House at Washington. In his political views there seemed to be something like inconsistency. He was in favor of pro tection, and was a ravenous advocate of home consumption. He also favored large corporations, and at the same time was a strong advocate of retrenchment, and delighted in cutting down celleries. He never was a candidate for any public station, and it is believed that his modesty would have prevented him from accepting the offer of any office, from that of Committee on Swine down to the President of the United States. "Notwithstanding he was ten feet long, from extremity to extremity, the event proved he was not long for this world, and in his last extremity no friend was found to save him from the hand of the assassin. He was rapidly increasing in size until the time of his departure, which was in November last, at the age of two years and six months. At the post mortem examination of his remains, it was found that his enormous bulk had reached the weight of more than twelve hundred pounds! What prodigality of fatness was there! What a mass-meeting of pork concentrated in a single individual! The county of Essex challenges the world to produce his equal. Mr. Alley informed us, with apparent sincerity, that he subsisted mainly on raw Indian meal and potatoes-but the committee had supposed it more likely that he lived on green turtle soup and pound cake, with an occasional meal of boiled salmon and canvass back ducks." Great Yield of Onions.-Barnabas Hall, Esq., of Dennis, has raised from little more than five rods of land, 47 bushels of onions-all of them large enough to make a person cry. This is at the rate of 1,500 bushels per acre.-Yarmouth Register. Great Yield of Potatoes.-Mr. Thacher Clark of Dennis, has raised the present year, from one rod of ground, six bushels of potatoes, being at the rate of 960 bushels to the acre. Two potatoes of the size of a hen's egg were placed in each hill. One of the hills produced one half a bushel. of potatoes-one potato weighed 24 lbs., and another 2 lbs. 3 ozs. Pretty fair for Cape Cod sand.-Ib. Great Yield of Cranberries.-The same paper above asserts that cranberries have been grown the present year by Mr. Lovell, in small patches of a few square rods, on land which, ten years ago, was a barren waste. We wish Mr. L. would give us the particulars of his treatment of this land, and how he has made it produce such large crops of cranberries. Part I. To be completed in ten Parts. The content XIII. Allotment System (continued). XVI. Spade Husbandry. XVII. Condition of the Laborers. XVIII. Progress of Agriculture, compared with other Pursuits. including under this head: 1. Draining, Irrigation, and XX. Relation of Landlord and Tenant. XXII. The Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland. In the second Part of his European Agriculture, Mr. Colman has taken up more particularly the subject of practical farming, and proves conclusively, not only greater returns, but a greater profit from land placed under a high state of rotatory cultivation; and the examples he gives to substantiate his assertions, are not from the practice of the large farmer and the rich, but from the humbler class, and more especially those cultivating after the best directions of science, from only one to five acres; thus showing that improvement may be made and wealth gained, even by the poorest in means and possessions. We recommend the Allotment System, as detailed by Mr. Colman, to the earnest study of our own farmers, as concerning them more than anything else yet published in his Survey, saving the Model Farm and Agricultural School in the vicinity of Dublin, Ireland. We think in this his second issue, Mr. Colman has made a valuable contribution to agricultural literature, and we regret that we can not now give some extracts from it. We hope, however, that the public will seek them in the work itself, resting assured that it will be no less gratified than instructed in the perusal thereof. ECLECTIC MAGAZINE; published by Leavitt, Trow, & Co., 194 Broadway. It gives us great pleasure to commend this excellent work, for we know of none other at all equal to it in the value and variety of its selections. No person who has a desire to keep up with the foreign literature of the day can dispense with the Eclectic Magazine; and it will be found of more interest to our readers in consequence of occasional THE AMERICAN POULTERER'S COMPANION.-A pracagricultural articles made up in its miscellany. 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EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY, from Personal Observation, by Henry Colman, Vol. I., Part II. Published by Arthur D. Phelps, Boston, Mass.; Wiley & Putnam, London, England. Saxton & Miles, 205 Broadway, New York, special agents. Subscription price $5, of which $2 is payable on the delivery of a great poultry-fancier for years, and has devoted much time to the breeding, rearing, and diseases of the different varieties of the domesticated feathered race. His book details his knowledge on this interesting subject thus practically acquired; it may therefore be taken as a safe guide in all these matters, and more especially as it is adapted to our own country and its wants; thus making it emphatically the American Poulterer's Companion. Mr. Bement has treated the subject in a lively, agreeable style, and the publishers have issued it in the handsomest style of paper and typography. We are persuaded that the value of its contents, and general beauty of its appearance, will ensure it a deserved popularity with all who take any interest in breeding and rearing poultry. REVIEW OF THE MARKET.-ADVERTISEMENTS. 375 ....................................do. Sheet and bar.....................do. MEAL, Corn.......................per bbl. 2 44 Corn..... .........per hhd. 12 00 MOLASSES, New Orleans .........per gal. 27 66 MUSTARD, American ...............per lb. 16 " OATS, Northern..................per bush. Southern .........................do. OIL, Linseed, American.............per gal. Castor............................do. .............................................do. Lard. 61 4 44 275 "12 25 35 29 66 68 66 75 66 55 1 00 125 66 OIL CAKE.....................per 100 lbs. PEAS, Field. ....................per bush. PITCH... 88 ...................................per bbl. 66 1 00 PLASTER OF PARIS.............per ton. 262 66 2 75 Ground, in bbls. of 350 lbs......per cwt. 1 12 PORK, Mess.......................per bbl. 8 25 " 10 00 Prime............................do. 650 66 8 12 3 19 ................................................per 100 lbs. ROSIN.............................per bbl. RY............................per bush. SALT. ............. per sack Common,.................per bushel SHOULDERS, Smoked..............per lb. 3 62 58 75 68 66 69 1 30 1 40 23 66 30 4 66 3 66 6 4 3 3 1 66 35 SPIRITS TURPENTINE, Southern per gal. SUGAR, New Orleans................per lb. SUMAC, American..................per ton 25 00 TALLOW...........................per lb. TAR. ..........................................per bbl. 1 81 TIMOTHY SEED..............per 7 bush. 10 00 " 12 00 Southern ...do. .................... 21" 6 225 66 275 95 66 95 66 24 66 1 03 1 00 25 WHISKEY, American...............per gal. WOOL, Saxony 45 .....................per lb. Merino............................do. Half-blood .............................................do. Common...........................do. New York Cattle Market-Nov. 25, At market, 1300 Beef Cattle (100 from the south), 50 Cows and Calves, and 3000 Sheep and Lambs. PRICES.-Beef Cattle are well sustained, and we quote firm at $4 25 a 4 75 to $5 25 a 5 75, and $6 for very choice. Cows and Calves-Sales at $18 a $30. Sheep and Lambs are a little cheaper. $1 25 a $3 50 and Lambs 87 cents a $ 50. Hay-50 a 67 for best quality of loose. REMARKS.-Ashes in fair demand We quote sheep at Cotton is steady, and the daily transactions of considerable extent. Export from the United States since 1st September last, 203,485 bales; same time last year, 89.425; same time year before, 158, 869. Flour is firm, and large exports from this city-15,084 barrels from 1st to 26th inst. The exports from Canada, principally to Great Britain, a considerable portion the produce of the western states show that from the 1st of January up to the Ist of August, this season, they amounted to 307,000 barrels flour, and 237,000 bushels wheatexports the same period last season were only 50,000 barrels flour and 15,000 bushels wheat! We think it a misfortune to both countries that the trade can not be direct. Hogs. The opening price this year at Cincinnati-the great pork martranges from $2 50 to $3 00 for small choice lots. Buyers are operating very moderately at these rates, thinking them too high. The farmers on the other hand contend that hogs are not as abundant this year as common, and corn is unusually high and scarce, owing to the great floods of the past season. Sugar is heavy, with a downward tendency. The crop in Louisiana was never anything like so large. It is supposed that it will reach from 180,000 to 200,000 hogsheads. The cane is well ripened, and the weather favorable for cutting and grinding. Tobacco is in fair request. Wool somewhat depressed. We think, however, it will soon recover last September prices. Money.-A little flurry has taken place this month in the money market, owing to some specie going abroad, and a greater call for discounts. The banks immediately took advantage of these things, and put up the interest to 6 and 7 per cent. As there are plenty of bills now offering to be drawn against cotton and other produce going forward, we are of the opinion that the exportation of specie must stop. But whether it does or not, having imported $23,000,000 last year, the country has plenty to spare. In consequence of the uncertainty of the present tariff being sustained by the dominant political party just coming into power, many orders have been countermanded, buildings in contemplation stopped, and a slight check given to business in general. This, we think, can not last long, and we doubt whether there will be any material change in the policy of the country. The effect of this check, however, will probably make money less in demand for the coming six months, and bring it down again soon to 4 and 5 per cent. in the cities-in the country it will doubtless continue to rule at legal TO CORRESPONDENTS.-On account of the long index to be made out this month for the whole volume, we were obliged to set up matter for the present No. unusually early; this has left out several interesting communications, which otherwise would have appeared herein. We have no farther room for acknowledgments, and bring our remarks to a close, by assuring our readers that they may expect a rich No. for January, and that this periodical throughout the coming year will be better sustained than ever, and give a greater variety of interesting and instructive matter. LINNEAN BOTANIC GARDEN AND FLUSHING, L. I., NEAR NEW YORK. 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