Let Hene Sit Where Thby Choose

I have long been a keeper of poultry, and an observer of their habits; and I have arrived at the conclusion, thaT hens are most prolific when left to their natural instinct, as I think the following interesting circumstance will prove: One of my hens (a pullet of a late brood last year) formed herself a nest among the ivy on the top of a wall nine feet high, and on Sunday last, August 31, from sixteen eggs brought out fourteen strong, healthy chickens of every color, though the hen is a cross between the Gold-Pencilled Hamburg and the Gray'Dorking. During the time of sitting, she was seversl times exposed to violent storms, and the wall faces the high road, with constant traffic.

A Letter From Muscatine, Iowa

"We have seen it stated, that there was Soon to be started "A Nurterymen's Express." In the far west we feel the want of such an express very much. The western people will go largely into the cultivation of trees and shrubbery. Experience has proved that almost every variety of tree and plant cultivated in New York and Pennsylvania will do equally well, and, as a general thing, grow more thrifty. The warm weather of fall and spring sometimes injures the Peach. No portion of our country has ever been settled where so much attention was given to fruit growing as in the northwest; and our labors have been crowned with great suocess. The Northwestern Fruit Growers' Convention, held at Chicago last October, as well as every Agricultural Fair, is a plain demonstration that we do not live upon corn and pork alone, but we have a taste for fruit also; and our western soil and climate are quick and bountiful in the great luxury of fruit S. F.

Letter To Hugh Blank

A pleasant letter; but the writer, I think, errs in classing the men who have gardeners, etc., as the "horticultural lighthouses." As a rule, I think it may be said our most enthusiastic horticulturists are those who do not hesitate to graft, bud, and plant with their own hands. I have seen many a zealous horticulturist set his choice trees and grafts personally, even when his gardener stood by. Many a choice fruit and flower of beauty and perfume grace our lists that owe their origin to the labors of the zealous, independent of show, working ruralist, and not to the pretended scientific professional gardener, who learned his art in the employ of the Duke of Cabbage, and can find nothing in this country as they had in "hold Hengland."

Liebig's Modern Agriculture

The English edition of this work has been forwarded to us, and we shall take an early opportunity of making our readers acquainted with portions of its contents.

Richard Peters, of Atlanta, Ga., will accept our thanks for favor received.

Life Of Dr Adam Clarke

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