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The writer confessed that he could not answer the query. 

 Acorns, walnuts and hickory nuts are not blown far by the winds, 

 yet fine groves of timber of these sorts may now be seen on the same 

 lilufEs where, in 1840, he hunted the cows and mowed hay, the 

 grounds being then as destitute of timber as his head was now of 

 hair; and no trees of those sorts growing near enough for the seeds 

 to be carried thence by the natural and ordinary vehicles. 



FEBRUARY MEETING. 

 The February meeting was held at Mrs. Capt. Burns'. 



The chairman of bureau of Culinary Vegetables presented the 

 following list of varieties, which he had found most satisfactory, in 

 being grown in his garden in West Galena, viz ; Asparagus, Ban's 

 Mammoth; Beans, Wax or Stringless; Beets, Eclipse; Cabbage — 

 Early, Henderson's Early Summer; Late, Stone Mason; Carrots, 

 Danver's, new; Cauliflower — Early, Snowball; Late, Veitch's Au- 

 tumn Giant; Celery, Boston Market; Corn — Early Minnesota, 

 Crosby's Early, Stowell's Evergreen; Cucumber — Improved Long 

 Green, (Early Russian, sec); Egg Plant, New York Improved Large 

 Purple, Kohl Rabbi, Early White Vienna; Lettuce — Hanson, Dwarf 

 Green; Onion — Yellow Dan ver's, Large Red Wethersfield; Parsley — 

 Double Curled; Parsnip — Yellow Crown; Peas — McLean's Little 

 Gem, Champion of England; Pepper — Sweet Mountain, Long Red 

 Cayenne; Potatoes — Snow Flake, Early Ohio, Burbanks' Seedling; 

 Turnips — Strap Leaf Red Top; Squash — Early Summer, Crook 

 Neck, Winter Marl>lehead, Fall or Winter Hubbard, Tur])an; Toma- 

 toes — Livingstone's Favorite, Hathaway's Excelsior; Radish — Early 

 French Breakfast, liuist's Yellow Summer Turnip; Rutabaga — 

 Sweet Russian; which list was, by a unanimous vote of the meeting, 

 recommended for use in cultivation. 



MARCH MEETING. 



The March meeting was held at the home of Mrs. D. S. Haines. 



Mrs. 11. P. Corwith, chainnan bureau of Floriculture, submitted 

 an excellent written report on culture of flowers in windows, also on 

 nomenclature and color of flowers. 



