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TRANSPLANTING OF TREES. 



Prof. Mapes said a friend of his, who was a careful experi- 

 menter, had mentioned a circumstance to him which he would 

 state as a subject of reflection for the Club. This gentleman 

 thought last year that he would try an experiment in transplant- 

 ing trees in the night. He took ten cherry trees, in bloom, and 

 commenced at four o'clock in the afternoon to transplant them, 

 transplanting one every hour until two o'clock. The trees that 

 were transplanted during daylight lost their blossoms, while those 

 transplanted in the night retained their blossoms, and bore full 

 crops of fruit. Later in the season he took ten pear trees, with 

 the fruit on them, one third grown, and transplanted them in the 

 same way. Every one transplanted after dark held its fruit, while 

 the fruit dropped from the others. 



Adjourned. 



[Same subject as last week.] 



January 27, 1862. 

 Mr. Edward Doughty, of New Jersey, in the chair. 



FLAX. 



Mr. Burgess exhibited a linen sheet which had been fifteen or 

 twenty weeks in the year in actual use for twenty -nine years. It 

 appears now likely to outwear any ordinary sheet : it cost twenty- 

 two cents per yard : it is warmer to sleep under than a blanket. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I am satisfied that we have no fibre, excepting 

 perhaps silk, of equal durability with flax. Two tons of flax 

 straw, producing seven hundred lbs. of fibre, can be grown upon 

 an acre. This is worth, as produced by the Sanford machine, 

 about $15 per hundred, showing a profit of over $100 per acre to 

 the farmer, for the seed will pay all the expenses of growing the 

 crop. Unlike the root crops, the demand for the result is unlim- 

 ited. We may supply the world with it if we find it sufficiently 

 remunerative. A specimen of fibre has been handed me by Chas. 

 A. Bunting, from the inner bark of the palmetto tree, which seems 

 to be strong, and valuable for many purposes. 



FRUIT JELLY. 



Mr. Robinson exhibited a specimen of jelly, made from the Iron 

 apple, a pleasant, well flavored sour apple, and colored with cran- 

 berries, as a good substitute for currant jelly, both in taste and 



