Notice To Subscribers

The large addition of new subscribers, and the prompt manner in which most of our old ones have renewed for 1862, have been very gratifying. There are still some, however, who have not yet renewed; we send them the present number, with the request that they will please inform us whether they wish to continue.

Notices Of New Fruits

We have some items of useful information concerning new fruits, from our correspondents, which, with a few other notices, we have brought together in a chapter, under an appropriate heading.

Notices Of Various Vegetables And Fruits Pomeranian Cabbage

Remarkable for its conical tapering form, very compact and firm to the apex. It is very hardy, and likely to prove valuable in situations too cold for the Battersea and other cabbages, grown in the neighborhood of London.- Journal Hor. Society, vol. 5, p. 280.

Notices Or Books. Flora's Dictionary

Messrs. Lucas Brothers, of Baltimore, have issued a new edition of Flora's Dictionary, by Mrs. E. W. Wirt, of Virginia, with 500 wood engravings, and 66 groups, colored from nature; the title and presentation plate are printed in colors, making a capital Christmas or New Tear's book.*

The Illustrated Annual of Rural Affairs and Cultivator's Almanac for 1866, by J, J. Thomas, has been published by Luther Tucker & Son, of Albany, N. Y., in a neat and handsome cloth-bound duodecimo. It is a very useful manual for the country.

The Western Agriculturist is the name of a new weekly paper, published at Pittsburg, Pa., by David Ramaley. It promisee to be a valuable addition to the agricultural periodicals now so useful and numerous.

Novel Experiment

Dr. Daubeny has been trying to throw light on a question often raised by geologists: Whether organic life ever existed in the series of rocks below the Silurian - in i other words, whether the lowest rooks were deposited before the appearance of animal life. If not, the rock should exhibit traces of phosphoric acid under chemical analysis; but chemistry not having resolved the question, the doctor has made an indirect attempt to arrive at a conclusion by sowing barley in tubs filled with comminuted fragments of the various rocks, watching the growth, and testing the crop when ripe. The results hitherto are negative; and so far as they go, both series of experiments lead to the inference that animals did not exist at the time when the rocks in question were deposited.

Novelties Announced In The English Journals

Lucombe, Pinoe & Co., of Exeter, England, advertise a new Fuchsia under the name of "The Double Snowdrop Corolla'd Fuchsia" (Galanthi flora-plena) having a pure double white corolla, resembling a fine large double Snowdrop, with rich scarlet sepals.

The New Chinese Potato (Dioscorea batatas) - is advertised at fifty cents per tuber, or fifty dollars per one hundred. It seems to attract considerable attention. Dr. Lindley regards it as likely to prove valuable for garden cultivation. It will, no doubt be tested here this coming season.

The Chinese Sugar Cane (Holcus saccharatus) - spoken of as likely to prove useful for distillation instead of grain, and containing a large amount of fibre that may be employed in the manufacture of paper.