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FRENCH NOTIONS OF THE AMERICAN CENSUS.

according to the order in which they stand on the minutes.

3. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys belonging to the Society, and pay over the same on the written orders of the President. 4. The Secretary shall, with the assistance of a reporter appointed by him, keep a record of the transactions of the Society for publication.

5. There shall be an executive committee of five members, who shall confer with the President and assist him in conducting the affairs of the Society during its vacation.

2, Address of the President.
3, Election of Officers.

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6. State Fruit Committees, consisting of five members each for every State, Territory or Province represented, and a general growing corn and supporting stock, the chairman over all, shall be appointed bienni- Journal des Debats says: ally; it shall be the duty of the State Fruit Committees to forward to the general chairman, every biennial meeting, State Pomolological Reports, to be condensed by them for publication.

7. A standing committee on Native Fruits, consisting of seven members, shall be appointed by the President immediately after his election. It shall be the duty of this committee to report annually on native Fruits, and also to examine, and, before the close of the session, report on all new seedling varieties that may be exhibited, and to make an ad interim report on those that were exhibited in an unripe condition at the meeting of the Society, but had subsequently attained a state of maturity; and on such other seedlings as may have been submitted to their inspection during the Society's vacation.

8. A standing committee on Foreign Fruits, consisting of seven members, shall be appointed, whose duties shall be similar to those of the committee in by-law seventh. 9. A standing committee on Synonymes, consisting of seven members, shall be appointed biennially.

10. Vacancies occurring in committees shall be filled by the chairman of each, and in case of his death or inability to serve, his place shall be supplied by the President of the Society.

11. The members of this Society shall pay two dollars biennially, and twenty dollars paid at one time shall constitute a life member.

12. Order of Business.

1, Credentials of Delegates presented.

In the returns of the agricultural productions of the country, maple sugar is down for 32,759,000 pounds, and wine for 141,295 gallons. That amount is not very terrible for our wines, nor for Sherries and Madeiras, of which the Americans drink a large quantity. It is in Ohio and Pennsylvania that it is principally concentrated, and its quality is admitted to be below mediocrity. It is surprising that hitherto, notwithstanding all

the efforts made, North America can not produce wine fit to drink. The vine is indigenous to the country, and grows there to an immense size-indeed, to such an extent that the Scandinavians, when they touched on the new continent, some centuries before Columbus, were, above all, struck with the appearance of the vines, and, in consequence, called the country Vinland, or the land of the vine [!] The bunches of grapes are of immense size, but the wine is detest

able [!] The plants from Europe soon detheir experiments, and it is not impossible generate; but the Americans are continuing that they will succeed in the end.

-As the present result has shown, when we send choice samples to Europe. An American editor justly adds his comments to the above extract:

Perhaps the writer would change his opinion about the quality of American wines, if he were to taste the specimens of recent manufacture from the vineyards around Cincinnati. The following paragraph, from the New York Times, gives the facts, in brief, relative to a new branch of rural industry

in the United States-the cultivation of the vine :

"The first largely successful experiment at wine-making in this country, was at Cincinnati; developed only a few years ago, chiefly under the auspices of Mr. Nicholas Longworth, an old and wealthy citizen of Ohio, and enthusiastically devoted to the grape culture. It has now grown into a business of public importance and large private profit. There are twelve hundred acres in cultivation, within a circuit of a few miles round Cincinnati. The annual produce is now about a million and a half of bottles of pure native wines, equal to the finest Hocks, Champagnes, and Red Wines of Germany and France.

Mr. Longworth's Catawba Champagne is the most generally known at the East, of the Cincinnati vintage. Its popularity has so steadily increased as to create a demand much beyond the ability of Mr. Longworth to supply; and at this no one who has tasted the wine can be surprised."

A Small Southern House.

[SEE FRONTISPIECE.]

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On the Ground Plan, No. 1 is the entrance hall; No. 2, a large and well lighted closet; No. 3, the principal parlor; No. 4, the dining room; No. 6, a large and light pantry, with space for store and china closets; No. 5, the kitchen; No. 7, the scullery, in which, if a cellar were excavated, might be the staircase leading thereto.

In the entrance hall is situated the staircase, running up with an easy curve, concentric with the half octagon end of the apartment. Under the stairway is a large hall closet; and in the hall is an inclosed vestibule, and an entrance to the kitchen. The hall would make a pleasant third room, particularly for afternoon occupancy, the sun being entirely off its sides, as it is to the east, and the inclosing screen forming the

A HOUSE on a small scale-of which, say the accommodation would be found sufficient with four principal rooms on each floor, each sixteen by eighteen feet, excepting the corners-might very economically and advantageously be arranged in the form of a cross. The plan would, in fact, show four apart-entrance vestibule could be made to fold ments, all radiating from a center; that center containing the escape flues for smoke, and the fire-places for each of the rooms, together with provision for means of artificial ventilation.

But the rooms thus coming together to a center, would require a space left from which to radiate, amounting to a cube of the width of their ends; this would waste room. I would propose, therefore, that the corners of the rooms so connecting be cut off, leaving the inner end in the form of a half octagon. The cube then would only be that of the straight side of the octagon; say five feet square,-sufficient to contain all flues and ventiduets, and making an economical arrangement for the rooms. Passage ways would be saved by the ends thus coming together, one room opening into the other by a door placed in the sloping side.

back, if framed with slats, as a Venitian blind. From this projecting ten feet, a terrace floor would run round on three sides of the parlor, stopping against the corresponding projection on the west. This terrace would be screened from the sun by a peculiarity in the construction of the roof, which I propose should run straight through from north to south; not broken out at the projecting portions east and west, but extending clear over them, and continued the necessary width all along. Thus, over those portions of the building setting back, the roof would extend ten feet or more-thirteen in fact, as the projecting ends would require at least three feet to protect them; and this projection of roof would shade the terrace below. On the southern side, where the gable of the roof would show, I would propose a floor, on the level of the chamber

LAYING OUT GROUND.

floor, extended over the terrace below, making a more effeetual shade, and giving a pleasant walk out from the bed-room. At the gable ends the roof might be supported by rustic posts, with interlacing knotted limbs between their upper ends.

In the center, the chimneys so gathered together would allow a large flue in their midst for ventilation. The fire necessary at some portion of each day for culinary operations, would give sufficient heat to cause an upward tendency to the column of air within ihe central shaft, which should communicate by apertures above the floor, and and under the ceiling of each room.

The chamber accommodation of the floor above would comprise one large bed-room over the parlor, one over the dining-room, two over the kitchen, and a small one off the hall, the staircase not requiring the whole of the space. If needed, additional attic rooms might easily be obtained in the

roof.

CHAMBER PLAN.

In the Chamber Plan, No. 1 is a large room over the parlor, one of its sides being left square, for the sake of forming a more convenient shape for a bed. The windows of this room would open upon the balcony floor, as would also those of chamber No. 2, and the one in the hall, No. 7.

No. 2 has a coneenient recess for a bed, against the pier necessary for a chimney and ventilating shaft in the center of the building; and connected with this room is a large dressing-room, No. 3. No. 4 is a large and pleasant room for servants, and is over the kitchen. No. 5 is a good sized bathing and dressing-room. Nos. 6, 6, are large and airy closets, for linen and other clothes;

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and No. 7 is the hall or vestibule, which, by reason of its pleasantly embayed window, would be a charming place for the lady of the house to sit in.

A home constructed upon this plan, with simple rustic posts supporting the roof and veranda floors, with the battened sides and with sharp roof, would look highly picturesque, and be of moderate cost. Here it would require an expenditure of about sixteen hundred dollars.—Rural Homes.

Rules for Laying Out given Surfaces.

THESE can be of little use to the surveyor, but may be of utility to refer to, especially to those who are not versed in the surveyor's art. In landscape gardening and rural embellishments a few such rules are often indispensable. In measuring land surfaces, the chain of two or four rods is used. A proper chain is 4 rods, or 22 yards, or 66 feet, or 100 links (of 7.92 inches) in length; and a square chain contains 16 square rods, or one-tenth of an acre. A wooden rod, 16 feet in length, or a tape or rope of the exact length 16 feet may likewise be used. The square acre contains 160 square rods, or 10 square chains, (of four linear rods each.)

To lay out an acre in the form of a square, measure one way, (say north,) 12 rods and 16 2-10 links, or 12 rods and 10 7-10 feet; then measure at right angles to this, (say east,) the same distance. To lay out the same in form of an oblong, measure one way 20 rods and the other 8, or so that one side multiplied by the other shall equal 160.

To lay out, 1st, an acre, 2d, one-fourth acre, 3d, one-eighth acre, in the form of a circle:

1. Fix a center, and with a rope (radius) 7 rods and and 33 links in length, trace the circle (of one acre) on the ground.

2. For acre, use a measure 3 rods and 14 links in length.

3. For acre, use a measure 2 rods and 13 links in length.

To lay out, 1st, an acre, 2d, one-eighth acre in the form of an equilateral triangle:1. Make each side of the triangle 19 rods and 5 links in length for an acre.

2. Make each side of the triangle 6 rods and 20 links in length for acre.

A plot of ground may be laid out having

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the form of an ellipse or over, in the follow-keeping it tight, and it will trace out an eling manner, viz.: Set three stakes, not in a straight line, but say at the three corners of If proper I will send some simple rules for a triangle. Around these stretch a rope or surveying land and for multiplying chains, cord. Then take away one of the stakes, links and rods, etc., with remarks on the which stake move along against the rope, use of the compass.

SALISBURY.

The Garden.

BULBS.

utility in the cultivation of beautiful flowers There is more good sense and practical than most people imagine. Whatever refines and simplifies the taste, and enlarges the sphere of innocent and rational enjoyment, is always useful in social and intellectual life, though it may not be necessary to mere animal existence.

THE readers of the Review often inquire, as well as continue the species to which "what has become of Dr. KENNICOTT?" they belong. Being charitably disposed, and in full sympathy with him, while obliged to use an amanuensis in preparing the copy for this number, I urge in extenuation that the Doctor has been suffering with an affection of the eyes for some months past. But, lo and behold! while reading that welcome The love of flowers is, in an eminent deexchange from the North-west, the excel-gree, salutary and humanizing; and the lent Wisconsin Farmer, the Doctor appears in his pleasant style, descanting upon the garden, with its beautiful and fragrant ornaments, as though he were possessed of all his faculties in the highest degree of perfection. The following notes of his are seasonable, and are commended for their distinctness and general correctness, and it is hoped that the suggestions will be practiced by all who have not already supplied their gardens with a collection of these beautiful vernal visitants.-ED.

Bulbs.

All nature is full of the beautiful, and the meaning of this is very evident, though not always understood. The Creator has been very good to us, and you may rest assured that flowers were designed to influence man

cultivation, yield a greater profit, in pure little time and expense required for their pleasure and mental refinement, than any other home luxury.

Cultivate flowers, and learn to love them, my farmer friends, if you would add to the pleasures, and increase the sweet influences of home. The greatest and the best have loved flowers, and cultivated them with their own hands; and every right minded the delights of the practice, and its good and observing man has borne witness to influence on others. It has often been said, and can not too often be repeated, that the child taught to love flowers and tend them at home, is more apt to love and respect all home pleasures and duties, than the one whose eyes have never been opened to the beauties of nature, or whose young hands have never planted, watered or weeded a single shrub or flower.

There is no luxury so cheap as green

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leaves and brilliant or deliciously scented | Rows one foot apart, and nine inches in flowers. There is no external ornament so the row, is a good medium distance for sinindispensable to the respectable farm-house, gle bulbs of most kinds intended to be taksuburban cottage, or lordly mansion, and en up every summer. Large ones, like there is no other mere embellishment of a home so universally admired, so entirely appropriate and perfectly democratic, and so completely within the means of the poorest laborer, who owns a rood of God's own beautiful earth, and has the will to improve it.

By the tasteful and careful display of a few native trees, vines and flowering shrubs and plants, or by the purchase of five dollars' worth of them, the log cabin or the rough board shanty can be made more worthy of note than the most costly edifice, with staring brick walls, and not a green tree or a gay flower to soften its hard, dry, money-begotten aspect, or relieve its cold and uninviting entrance. But my sermon is somewhat too long. Let us proceed.

I enter upon this subject now because autumn is the only time for planting some very desirable flowers, and the best time for others. Nearly all the hardy BULBS must be planted late in summer or during autumn, and October is a good month for this work. Many TUBERS are more certain to do well if planted in autumn also. Still, these may be left until spring.

BULBS and TUBERS are sometimes confounded, but a familiar example will show the difference. The onion is a "bulb," the potato a "tuber."

Crown Imperials and Tiger lilies, require more space, and so do all, if you design to leave them several years in the same bed without dividing and replanting.Bulbs may be had of the seedsmen or nurserymen. We have a very good supply at the Grove Nursery, and my excellent friend Jas. Dougall, Detroit, Mich., is especially well supplied with tulips and hyacinths.

The price, under name, ranges from 25 cents to $2 per dozen, seldom over 25 cents per root; and good "mixed varieties" as low as $1 per dozen for such as once cost $1 or more apiece. And this is the best way to purchase them.

THE CROCUS is a very pretty little bulb, quite hardy, and easy of cultivation, and most of the varieties are among the first flowers of spring. Indeed, I have seen a south border gay with them, and an old snow bank slowly melting away on the north side of the same bed. The colors of the crocus are much varied, and often beautifully mixed. The plain colors are white, blue, purple, bright golden yellow, etc.— The crocus is a great bloomer, and will stand the hardest frost when in full flower. There is an autumnal variety that comes into bloom about the commencement of cold weather in the fall, when there is little else in flower.

The beautiful little blue SIBERIAN SQUILL flowers early, (March and April,) but is not common.

For most bulbs to be planted out in October, the soil should be enriched with well rotted manure, leaf mold, etc., and the whole well mixed, deeply spaded and finely pul- THE TULIP is the most gorgeous and most verized a few weeks before planting, so that renowned of bulbous rooted plants. A small the soil may have time to settle and pack fortune has, in times past, been paid for a together. A heavy soil, containing a good single flower, and an immense capital sunk portion of clay, is the best for most bulbs, in a single collection, during the rage of the if made rich enough, and dug two feet deep," tulip mania" in Holland. Five to five and well drained. hundred dollars per root was freely paid; and now, about as good plants may be had at 25 cents each.

Bulbs of large size should be planted from three to four inches deep, small ones from one and a half to three inches, reckoning depth from the top of the bulb when planted. They must always be so deep as not to be easily uncovered by rains, etc.; and as an aid in this, and to prevent injury to the fibrous roots by the lifting power of frost, it is a good thing to tread or pack the bed hard after planting.

The colors of the tulip are infinite, and the "feathering" and blending delicate and chaste beyond the power of imitation.

The Duc VON THOLL flowers early in April during the continuance of severe frosts; but the sweet month of May is the proper tulip season in this region. [April, here.-ED. REVIEW.]

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