"Mr. S. says: ' These Apples are all raised in my immediate vicinity, or by myself and prove valuable in Michigan.

Apples

By E. Bareness & Sons - (Fruit Farm, Peoria, I11.): Summer - Early Harvest, Carolina Red June, Sweet June, Hocking, Summer Queen, Jersey Sweet Fall and Winter - Bailey Sweet, French Pippin, Rambo, Maiden's Blush, Autumn Swaar, Fall "Wine, Jersey Black, Westfield Seeknofurther, Fameuse, Red Calville, "White "Winter Pearmain, Michael Henry Pippin, Talman Sweet, Baldwin, English Golden Russet, Esopus Spitzenburg, Fulton, "Winesap, Rawles' Janet, Red Romanite, Limber Twig, Newtown Pippin.

Apples

By Wm. Stewart, Sr., Quinéy, I1l; for latitude of 40 deg.: Carolina June, Summer Pearmain, Roman Stem. Yellow Harvest, Summer Rose, Summer Pearmain, Rambo, Yellow Bellflower, Rawles' Janet. Dancer, Carolina June, Jersey Sweeting, Roman Stem, Peck's Pleasant, Buckingham, "Winesap, Newtown Pippin, "Winter Sweet. Golden Sweeting, Maryland Codlin, Maiden's Blush, Red Gilliflower, White Bellflower, English Red Streak, Esopus Spitzenburg, Brown's Sweeting, Rhode Island Greening, Westfield Seeknofurther, Baldwin, Roxbury Russett, Pryor's Red, Fall Pippin, Summer House.

"Mr. S. says: 'The number of each variety to be varied according to the use designed for the orchard; the above selection being for family use.'"

Address of Francis P. Blair, Esq., to the Agricultural Association of Montgomery county, Md. Delivered at the late Fair at Rockville.

We have to thank a friend for a copy of this able Address. We are glad to see rural affairs assume an aspect of new life and vigor in the South. The State and County Fairs of 1853 in Maryland have been very successful, and must have done much to arouse the cultivators of that State, and spur them on to improvement. The following passage in Mr. Blair's Address should be read and re-read by those who are in the habit of looking with contempt on country life:

"Men who have made fortunes in our cities begin now to appreciate the value of country life, however averse or unsuited to it they may have been rendered by habit The common guidebook of Paris, which is put into every traveler's hand, has this note under the head of population: 'Families constantly residing in Paris soon become extinct The effects of this mortality are observed to be more active upon males than females.' What is true of Paris is true of every city in the world. There is not probably a man in London, Paris, New York, or Philadelphia, who can say that his great-grandfather, his grandfather, and his father, successively, lived and died in the city of his residence. There is no such thing as a survivor of three generations that have undergone the decomposing power of a city atmosphere, assisted by city pursuits. A city, then, may be said to die out once in a hundred and fifty years, so far as regards those rooted generations that live, and move, and have their being only within a city's precincts.

Whoever, then, would have succession in his family - that desires to transmit his name and wealth by perpetuating his race - should at some period of his life take his leave of walls and pavements and crowded.

"There is another observation in regard to cities which induces thoughtful men, who tak pride in their posterity, to remove from them when they have accomplished the objects for which they were sought How many millions of children educated in cities with the utmost care have passed away without reaching distinction among their countrymen It is remarkable tha children born and bred in cities generally exhibit precocious talents; they have the easiest acceas to every species of learning; they are stimulated to exertion in the schools by the number o competitors, and by that parental pride, vigilance, and solicitude which is spirited up by the stirring society around; they have the advantage of imbibing an early knowledge of the world and have almost in infancy the manners, the ideas, and self-possession of polished society. Bu although the great cities' of the Old World and of the New World send forth probably one hun dred of these fully-educated youths to teat their strength in the high pursuits of life, for on< country adventurer, yet it is found that almost all the distinguished men who thine in the service of the country, or in the liberal professions, are country-born and bred.

The hot-beds of cities bring forward their plants more rapidly; but those springing from the native soil, and braving the rude seasons and rough culture of the country, are found to have the best stamina. Lool over the list of great men who figured in our revolution, and it will be found that almost to man they were country-born and bred. Search the annals of the revolution in England from the reign of the first Charles to the third William. These were times that tried the souls o men in the mother country. Scarce a name appears that does not owe its celebrity to faculties grown in the country".

Twenty-Third Annual Report of the New Heaven County Horticultural Society for1853, with an Addres by Rev. W. Clift.

This pamphlet shows us that the New Haven Society had nearly four hundred tax-paying members in 1853; that from the 7th of May to the 17th of September, it held weekly exhibitions, with liberal contributions at each, and an Annual Fair in September. We have perused the transactions with much interest, and find many things worthy of note. The Directors may well congratulate the Society on its continued prosperity.

Exports or Committes for 1858, or the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, with the Schedule of Prizes for 1854.

This great Society, the pride of the whole country, prosecntes its labors with undiminished success, and sends us reports full of instruction. The prizes offered for 1854 amount to $2,520, divided thus: Prospective prizes, $750; for gardens, greenhouses, etc., $200; for fruits, $620; for plants, flowers, and designs, $700; for vegetables, $250. This, with the honorable ambition to excel, are sufficient to call out great efforts, and produce great results.

Journ al of the United Statu Agricultural Society.

We have received numbers 3 and 4 of this journal, from Wm. S. King, editor of the Journal of Agriculture. Mr. King is the Secretary of the Society and the editor of the Quarterly. It contains a full and complete report of the First National Exhibition of Horses at Springfield, besides a large amount of other interesting matter. The book contains 280 pages.

Catalogues Received

Select List of Florists' Flowers consisting of Roses, Dahliass Verbenas. Fuchsias. Geranums. Salviae. Chrusanthemums. &c„