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universal market berry here is the Crimson cone, which is in favor en 

 account of its ability to bear transportation. The Wilson will, I think, 

 bear transportation equally well. 



Mr. Fuller, (horticulturist.) — I want everybody to try to raise seedling 

 strawberries, currants and gooseberries. There is a chance at least to get 

 one new sort. Last fall I put the seeds of all the pears I tasted at the 

 fair into my pocket. AVhat is the result ? Why 500 seedlings from some 

 of the best known sorts of pears. What if I get one new sort ? So I 

 have planted many other seeds ; and I shall be perfectly satisfied if in all 

 my experiments I obtain one new and good fruit, to leave as a bequest to 

 the world, like this Wilson strawberry. 



The fruit and flower question will be discussed next week ; also, Indian 

 com, in all that relates to its cultivation and use. 



The Club, by unanimous vote, desired the weekly meeting to continue 

 as long as so many citizens attend them. Two of the board of agriculture, 

 viz., Messrs. Mapes and Lawton, assented to it. 



The club then adjourned to Monday, May 10th, at noon, 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



May 10, 1858. 



Present — Messrs. President Pell, Solon Robinson, Thomas W. Field, of 

 Brooklyn ; Hon. John G. Bergen and Adrian Bergen, of Gowanus ; Paine, of 

 Brooklyn; Fuller, of Williamsburgh ; Rev. Mr. White, of Staten Island; 

 Wm. Lawton, of New Rochelle ; Provoost, of Williamsburgh ; Treadwell, 

 Bruce, W. Silliman, of Westchester ; Geo. Rapelye, Mr. Brett, of Brooklyn ; 

 Mr. Carman, Mr. Doughty, of Jersey ; Mr. Chilson, Mr. Hite, of Morrisania ; 

 Mr. Van Wyck, Civil Engineer, Mr. Stacey and others — 56 members in all. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Benjamin Aycrigg, of New Jersey, one of our vice-presidents, submitted 

 the following paper : 



I understand that an opinion prevails to some extent that plants taken 

 from the salt meadows will not do well on the dry ground. 



Such was my own supposition when I saw them transferred from the 

 Newark nursery to a light, dry, sandy soil in my own neighborhood. But 

 finding them succeed better than those from other sources, I, last spring, 

 procured 540 hedge plants and small trees from the same nursery. Out 

 of the entire 540 set out, I have lost but four, or less than one per cent. 



This result, that I suppose unusual, I attribute to several causes, viz : 

 the plants have unusual masses of fibrous roots ; these are all secured 

 uninjured from the soft ground, that may aliiost be called mud. The 

 plants were all in their places the same day that they were taken up. I 

 put them down according to directions received at the nursery, and did not 

 kill them with kindness. 



Any one desiring to see these plants can do so in one hour from this 

 place, and you know the direction. 



Yours respectfully, 



B. AYCRIGG. 



