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raised by keeping the plants a foot apart than by allowing them 

 to grow nearer to each other. 



Mr. Robinson said that he could warrant three new seedlings 

 to be proof against winter killing ; Prince's Eclipse, Prince's 

 Scarlet Magnate, and Prince's Climax. These berries would bear 

 a bigger crop of vines than any other kind, and less fruit. Yet 

 there is a great abundance of the fruit, for it is utterly worth- 



Mr. Fuller. — Gentlemen will see now how I happen to be so 

 bashful about my seedlings. Mr. Prince has puffed his berries, 

 and you see the result. I have been so much afraid of just such 

 a blast myself that I have resolved to disseminate nothing until 

 it has proved itself to be good. 



Mr. Gale. — I am glad to see that we are progressing ; that we 

 are finding out that mulching is good. Some kinds of strawber- 

 ries were killed by the warm weather we had in the first of 

 March, and the cold that followed, although they were mulched, 

 because they felt the force of that hot weather just in proportion 

 to the protection they had during the winter, and felt the subse- 

 quent cold for the same reason ; so that this fact does not mili- 

 tate against the principle of mulching. 



Subject for next meeting. — The subject selected for the next 

 meeting, was "Corn, Fruits, and Flowers." 

 Adjourned. 



July 1, 1861. 



Mr. George H. Hite, of Morrisania, in the chair. 



Mr. Robinson read an invitation from the Brooklyn Horticul- 

 tural Society, to attend an exhibition of fruits and flowers at their 

 rooms on the evening of Tuesday, July 2d. 



MILDEW OF GOOSEBERRIES. 



Dr. Trimble exhibited a specimen of gooseberry that had never 

 mildewed in his garden. It is under a tree, always in the shade. 

 The branches lie upon the ground, and yield a profusion of fruit. 

 No care whatever is taken of it. Some years ago he had had a 

 bush upon which the fruit never mildewed ; but upon dividing it, 

 and cultivating it, the mildew attacked it. 



