The Express.
London, England, 1857-07-04 00:00:00

LITBRATURIA

M Awned, ac Agriculture and Climate. By
Ronenr Itrocria.. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles
Black.
Mr. Russell's book contains none of those traria-
Atßatio social sketches which sou have cl ways been
led to look for when the name of America is men-
tioned. Oin.sling and brandy cocktail ; the regular
down-caster, and the Yankee swell ; the bowie-knife
and the revolver a la Arrowsmith ; the go-ahead
stosin-boat and its uncertain boiler; the inquisitive
boy. and the •" help" that knowther social position
in a free country; all disappear, and in their place
we have manures, crops, farmers, and clear-
ing!; and everything pertaining to a rigid
agricultural survey of North America and the
Canada'. A few of the notorietics are, of course,
touched upon, such as Niagara, the Maine liquor law,
and tho Lowell factories; bit very briefly,
_and
in the general style of the book—straightforward
and businesslike, without flourish or ornament, like
a Mincing-lane trade circular. But although scarcely
the work to lie on a club table, and satisfy the era.
sings of the yawning idler, a more valuable pro-
duction for emigrant farmers, and indeed emigrants'
of all kinds, could scarcely. have been issued
from the press It bas a practical and homely value
irrespective of its importance as an addition to the
library of science and research.
The following extract shows the great activity of
the horticultural trade in the States:

I visited Hope Hamar which are the !egret, I believe,
in the world. extending over 250 scree of ground. lien ass
obtains some Ides of the enormous number of fruit tress that
are manually planted in the Northern States. Anecdote is a
better fruit than gran country, sad licerticultace is orally
a favourite pursuit among those who are engaged in agri-
ratan. The Inn of Hem and Company, who own ther
nurseries, frequently supply single order. for 100,000 apple
trees to the western nurserymen, who retail them la the
newly settled districts.
The following information about the wheat pests
of tapper Canada and the value of land is valuable,
especially at the present time, when the completion
of the Great Trunk Line, and its through booking
system with this country, afford increased facilities
for emigration :
Rod and mildew ere the great enemies which the Casa •
than farmer errata, IS raising wheat, and these diners
are far wore common as new than Id cultivated lead. le
Canada, as well r throughout the United Slates, Lad
becer, better suited for raising wheat, after the *Ares is
partly worn off. The bast preventive of rust and mildew is
to sow early, for if the crop is late, the heats of July are apt
to ripen it prematurely at whatever stage of forwardness it
may be. Though it is only the 23rd September, the sowing
of wheat is goacently concluded in this thrift ; the
part of it is already above pound, and
_in scene thriratger
pleats are tittering and lashiog bemortil. The_ crops of
wheat the beat light soils ray eras IS to 30 ramie to
the acre, and on the clay lend 40 an samstintee The
value of land has advanced of We very oessiderebty la
the plains of Diunfries. Seven yeas ago a farm, a few miles
trews l'aria, consielfsg of 175 acres, long vertised at
V. 10s. per ear, was sold this year for tae. The usual
wane, however, et value in Jenne worth 71. per acre
three yews age, Is that they are now worth llt ; but of
erne the rise is the ialgtthearber of the towns We been
enormous. Lap hamar have been made by speculating
m land in Cards, bat there are ones aimpeeable cir-
cumstances craward with date bemires, foe poor emigrants
squat down urn it, end great dilisultim are saperimed
in removing them. One of the weelthier /mere in Ca-
nada confessed to rats, that he had away. Sound It eider
able to compound with squatters.
The rubjoined sketch of the French in Lower
Canada, shows the universality of their chief
•

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only bit of liveliness that our author ditills
Mama is given, rather as • quotation then so
mrigned emanation :
I fusel Iteleseer Horan a mei low* sod asishblin-
Lr. sansintinke twieresied; re,
9:l9Niedest - less
irkentliplemitet sig zi,.
their kep fer Ss dilth • 6116
OM* Wow r kw as ethilles it
riffig ani.frwrirs4-16—aridr.
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The rei=g .excess of the C aniulian timber
bide is in to the emigrant, se showing the
saMties of the country :
Caned% New Brumes-irk, end Nova S:otia, is the
whale, here very pour 'ML The lumber and .Wulf 014-
Beim have contributed more to their wealth them thew SO-
WNW produce. The immense refte that see essthrity
=liibis When on the St. Lawrence or tle Maws,
the saint et the lumber trade, and whet the
wed ewe W It. The hasher trade is serried es It
lOW% who wed ran wed hones Mr the wok in winter.
The *sir le hews dews mad serer Oa We spot, end Ws
heeled ewer h.wow le the WE et dos Errs swam tint
we awl MS mutt ester as will Gast il dews Is ids Wee
S. the Hoer when the ow melte le sere.. The um weep
es he the weeds sod live he Ws; whs reside deist
=Ose mew Is mewl es welt, and OMNI OM the
le the earn whom they are et week. The
wail f
tho imenhasser le a wry assistog re, and lore is with
awl trawled /obits They Sr 6 the web di vislA
that dews time rtvws friss the itemseee es the ma% Oda
moire ratty or 61W Per
to name thins, us•eihs
lit to reach their taWas both* the winter eidslemes
the Aver.
The sketch of the ameissati scavengers b
sonsing
There are now onwards et 110,010 inhabitemts is Cirlism
=llls Quer a/ the Watt," and the sombre are WM
aegawstins. The wrests we old* with sews of
Ye, ars the die rats, eel ray at the Abate demi
tressreirred belele,hole.4ll,lll:4= lip= Tr
their Oki*" Nod an .i 5• warn= with ropy pie that
161 open the did that N throws out et deem Thus
ride set the pert et soressors, sad, trassiag to se or,
thew milie choose ray etch eel kW. The nowt el then,
brewer, we Ism owl bfflogry-lookirtg, end do set Imp
wee the Wawa who abased is the tit to redone Web
amber Mar g thows aro ' y the grecs et
dWisest elms 4 the west, Om the at tide bird
they pips width ishot the streets et Cirrus&
This picture of the basks in Cincinnati is sot war-
-sing in • enntry Inane one box of geld has been '
for alternate lon te • whole round of banks,
been made to flgun in each nines shoot for '
the grafi deaths NMI Waren:Ms of inquiring
sharcholders i
W hen I was Is Ciwthewil than yr a rue for gold on
moral of the raft sal the =limed VIII peak as three
er free Ikea elm* erseola prming,
_Whale a bird west
Ws ase to thaw sere eterp, I /reuse he terra as the
Wipe of the her via mast wittemlik be arid
join imo. 11th me at the d'art theirs 6 ormesed
NH um to our ini, Haw wrist sew resey,„esil get 11, Ist
not he Wad dust the any es allat IVO Welt IA the acme
doable', a ereveLmwd errig a eis upon thaw. 21th I
Ass& woomisti a thel et rekree, srl at car IMO,
dap as V the walb et the Woe rue gar to ft •6w
days tawWing tows, I heed that all the bole is
Climarseli thdadoesed. Dries the thus Iwe
is Ohia, I net said she hod bass wows
Ira theme Mune. esekl, Imo reisok‘llllC
sr* owl Woke the skteseesey fue the Mower= elate et
the warresey laws
Those who have been annoyed by the purport eye-
tom of the old Oaatiaent (and who has not ?) will
road with intermit this mount of the restrictions of
this kind is the Wood of Cuba i
On the weed themeig sler say waive], I west Ss promo
spryer the the Istwfar. The elks -as rimed with a
11111164 1.111111. b, and bat set • Nth favour been thews
is ws, lAN have, es • stream swill Os other day
milhati elthhisg ern I maw now who 101 lam at the
ellise=es Ryan, wits, N. to the attaiwas, led not
Tr aseilii 4 time lost is Ai wry would
r iiasolie is the wiry, and wadi coosaios
Cresel=las Art elligtemesgairarhs I= at set
Mew Or see awn at ell hors al the do 6 =reek
emir. or at the hiphardol spasm which
We may mention, by dr way, AM woo peat
eringli Georgia, w Art .notingwith wity ei the
Inenaities nonieled by Mr. Arrowsmith, el Liver-
=The recant of the rates of oommartin in-
, sad the value of skilled labour i• MU is
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istereding
Co.wrmi tsarist at lisviziash is twelve par ma-, aak
may of the plasters honey mossy d naMvaapfag for
tae to twosty-kiaz par amt., which la caparlai mai-
sap aid to alma Ibeklutry tale about amble Or
Mama amass, la Cala that it dos ia Mid. tars
able-WWI din Wiled WA to work ea *sew
tits mama maw an twisty clam (11. Ia IllmE=a.
It tliwafore Nan la as patty Mame thrt aid the
Was:a of aims wall he sore amplapel `shah
mom aad wallag It la moist he its endue Mi.
And net alp r was Moor higber in Cabo 610 i°