The soil is made up of abrasions and disintegrations of Gncisic and Limestone rocks and sand, sparingly mixed with clay; forming what agriculturalists denominate "Light Loam" -- a soil especially adapted to the growth of cereals -- yielding abundant crops to generous cultivation. But in such narrow limits, we cannot have a wide range in the variety of soil; in fact, we have very little more than such variety as is produced by Hill and Vale, or wet, damp, hilly and rocky -- which is not so much a variety of soil as a difference in the state of the same soil.

We necessarily infer that such conditions are not favorable to a prolific Flora.

There are other features, however, that must not be overlooked, that ought to give rise to variety in the plants growing in the county.

The territory is washed on one side by the Hudson -- a long river flowing through nearly the whole length of the eastern side of the State. On the other side, the coast of the Sound gives it the sea beach and the salt marsh Three railways extend through it from north to south; one of which is part of the great highway between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans ; one of the others, by its connections, reaches the shores of tlie Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the third extends through the middle and reaches Canada. We should, therefore, expect that the Flora would be enriched and greatly enlarged by seeds brought and sown along the lines of these great railways and floated to the shores by the waters of the Hudson and Long Island Sound. In this, however, we are disappointed ; for it is remarkable that a very small number of plants are growing in the county, that have been introduced by the means above mentioned.