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the sap back and form laterals. So with vines, such as melons 

 and squashes, pinch the terminal bud and laterals will be formed, 

 and upon these laterals fruit will be grown. So a grape vine will 

 run all over the side of a house and produce little or no fruit if 

 it is not pruned. If we put a bud into a tree and it grows 

 vigorously, it cannot but produce the same kind of fruit, because 

 the fruit lies in that bud and the sap only helps to elaborate it. 

 If we get a stock that is too thrifty it will develope apples very 

 large, very watery, and very apt to be deficient in flavor. It is 

 x-ery rarely that we get a large and fine Spitzenbergen apple. It 

 is not the fault of the graft but it is from the influence of the 

 soil. It is very difficult to ascertain how far the stock affects 

 the fruit, because we have not yet learned how far the effect is 

 due to the soil. 



POTATOES. 



Prof. Nash. — Nature teaches ua how to preserve potatoes. 

 "When you leave a potato in the ground below the reach of frost 

 it is better in the spring than any that you can preserve. From 

 October, when they are ripe, until May, they are in a cold and 

 moist condition. Remove the potato without any delay to a 

 moist place, regulating the temperature so that it shall be cold 

 continually and yet not freeze, and the potato will be as good in 

 May as in October. 



Mr. Carpenter. — My experience has been that different potatoes 

 require different treatment. There are some varieties whose 

 best season is early and they will be poor in the spring, whereas 

 other varieties will be better in the spring than in October. 

 The Prince Albert, for instance, is better in the spring. The 

 Western Red is a miserable watery potato in the fall, but quite 

 late in the spring is a good eatable potato. The Jenny Lind is a 

 very poor potato in October, but by being kept in the cellar un- 

 til May or June becomes almost equal to the Peach Blow. I am 

 satisfied that in raising potatoes a change of seed is requisite for 

 the best results. I procure it from the West if I can, every year, 

 and I think I have seen the benefit of it. Indeed this will apply 

 to almost every thing we plant. Changing the seed will be a 

 material benefit. I think that if I had been obliged to pay 

 $10 per bushel for my seed potatoes it would still have paid me. 



Dr. Trimble remonstrated against the doctrine of changing 

 the seed. 



Mr. Andrews stated that the President of the Agricultural 



