Mr. Charles Joly ex-President of the National Horticultural Society of France, describes his visit to the great exhibition at Florence, which he styles the Ghent of Italy in its floral features. He says Italy has not the rivers, the coal, and the other advantages which give strength to manufacturing industry in the North - but it is far in the advance in its attention to agriculture, horticulture and the sciences which aid and protect them. She established at Pisa in 1544 the first Botanic Garden, as well as having in the long time past given us Pliny, Virgil, Columella and Palladius. Among modern distinguished agricultural savants she gives us Beccari, Tozzetti, Cantoni, Todaro and Terraciani. She has six schools for teaching grape culture, a school for olive culture, twenty-three schools of agriculture, and twenty botanic gardens. The orange and the mulberry are the most precious resources - while the vine is almost providential in its influence on the existence of Italian civilization. Legunes enter largely into the agricultural art.