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which was supplemented by remarks from Mr. Crandall, of the college, on 

 "Grapes in Out-of-the-way Places," and by W. K. Gibson on "Ornamental 

 Uses of the Vine." 



The session of Wednesday evening opened with a short paper from T. T. 

 Lyon on 



PROPAGATION OF THE CHERRIES, 



in which he described the usual modes of nursery propagation and the 

 stock used for the purpose. 



BIRDS AND CHERRIES 



was the theme of an address by James Satterlee, taking decided ground in 

 favor of the birds, a position in which he was warmly sustained by several 

 speakers, although others doubted or dissented. 

 W. W. Tracy talked about 



CUCUMBERS, 



but seemed to prefer that after consequences should be discussed by those 

 who eat them. 



A special order having been arranged for this hour the conduct of the 

 meeting was given into the hands of Professor Bailey, who occupies the chair 

 of horticulture at the Agricultural College. He remarked that the subjects 

 to be discussed by the young men whom he would introduce had been 

 marked out by the students themselves; that his aim in teaching horticulture 

 was to lead the young men to see and investigate and think for themselves. 

 k*-He then introduced Mr. H. H. Winde, who gave an interesting account of 

 the 



HARDINESS OF SOME PLANTS, 



as indicated by the experiences of the past winter, especially with such as 

 have been recently introduced or are but little known, 

 Mr. A. Pettet was then introduced and spoke of 



SOME EXPERIMENTS IN GRAFTING. 



The experiments described were mainly cases of grafting upon dissimilar 

 stocks apparently for the purpose of determining the extent to which the use 

 of these stocks may become practicable or to determine the amount of influ- 

 ence that may be exerted by the stock upon the ciou and vice versa. 



Mr. E. W. Eedman was next introduced and read an interesting paper on 

 the 



BOTANY OF THE HASPBERRT AND BLACKBERRY. 



This was followed by the introduction of J. 0. DufEey, who gave a 

 description of 



A FIRE HOT BED 



which had been constructed and used at the college as a substitute for a 

 manure hot bed. 



