Southern planter : devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and the household arts . ne door west of BrownsHotel, Pennsylvania Avenue, where all interest-ed in the cause of Agricultural improvement areinvited to call when in Washington city. Alarge number of Agricultural newspapers, peri-odicals and reports, (liberally contributed,) areplaced on file for public inspection, and the Li-brary is also free to all who may desire toexamine it. Models or Drawings of Agricul-tural Implements, and other objects of interest,are placed on exhibition without charge. Gentlemen who may wish to become LifeMembe
Southern planter : devoted to agriculture, horticulture, and the household arts . ne door west of BrownsHotel, Pennsylvania Avenue, where all interest-ed in the cause of Agricultural improvement areinvited to call when in Washington city. Alarge number of Agricultural newspapers, peri-odicals and reports, (liberally contributed,) areplaced on file for public inspection, and the Li-brary is also free to all who may desire toexamine it. Models or Drawings of Agricul-tural Implements, and other objects of interest,are placed on exhibition without charge. Gentlemen who may wish to become LifeMembers of the Society, can do so by paying orremitting ten dollars to the Treasurer, Hon. French, Washington city. This will entitlethem without any further payments, to the fullprivilege of membership—among these are :free admission to all exhibitions of the Society,the annual volumes of published Transactions,the Monthly Bulletin, and the large and elegantDiploma. The fee for Annual Membership istwo dollars, which ensures the receipt of the 1859.] THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 57. %\t ganfytin tyhntti. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, Happy New Year. Since the issue of our last No., another year,with all its concomitant circumstances of joy,grief, and toil: of pleasures, disappointments,and trials, has fled into the dim shadow of thepast. We may remember, but cannot recall itshours. Yet time has laid upon us the burdenand responsibility of both the number and occu-pation of its days. Happy he who, in a retro-spective glance, finds nothing to regret of greatermoment than the increase of grey hairs, whichserve to warn him of the sure approach of lifeswinter, and an honorable old age. Of timepast, the recording angel has made up his ac-count; and we trust that in his sympathy forerring humanity, he has dropped a tear overthe list of our short comings, and blotted outthe record forever, leaving lifes page unblem-ished by marks of misspent time. In tendering to our patrons the complimentsof the sea
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