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As to the Lawton blackberry, one word. A single root bas grown stalks 

 on which were fifteen quarts of the berries. 

 The same subject to be continued. 

 The club adjourned to the 3d Monday of August. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Aug. 16, 1^58. 



Present — Messrs. Doughty, Van Vleek, Brower, of Jersey ; Cavanagh, 

 Burgess, Fuller, Field, Paine, of Long Island ; Capt. Porter, of the U. fe'. 

 Navy ; Witt, Bruce, Wra. B. Leonard, John W. Chambers, Chilson, Dick, 

 Lawton, of New Rochelle ; Solon Robinson, Dr. Waterbury, Isachar Coz- 

 zens, Walter M. Oddie, of Bedford ; James Barbour, Meade, Prof. W. 0. 

 Morris, Martin E. Thompson, Prof. Nash, Steele, of Jersey city ; Moore, 

 Godwin, Rev. Mr. Adamson, late from South Africa ; Mr. Lowe, and oth- 

 ers — sixty-five members in all. 



William Lawton, of New Rochelle, in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secre- 

 tary. 



The Secretary read the following extracts, translations, &c., made by 

 him from the woi'ks received by the Institute since the last meeting of the 

 club, viz : 



[Journal De La Societe Impenale et Centrale D' Horticulture, Napoleon 3d, Protecteur, 



Juae, 1858.] 



CABINET MAKERS' WOOD OF ALGERIA. 



The most remarkable wood exhibited at the World's Fair of 1855, in 

 Paris, was the Callitris qnadrivalvis, commonly known as the Thrica. 

 (This is a Conifer-Pinacea, grows on Mount Atlas. H. Meigs.) 



The first specimens of the knobs were those of Mons. Marechal who took 

 the medal of silver gilt. These knobs (Coupes) constitute the most beauti- 

 ful cabinet work known. The only one to be compared with it is Amboyna 

 wood, of very high price. The entangled fibres of the Thrica knobs twisted 

 and wound in every direction, they are magnificent. The fibres seem to 

 be felted in such a way and so intimately that which ever way you cut it, 

 it is never broken nor disjointed. The wood is very compact and marvel- 

 lously adapted to cabinet work. 



COTTON IN ALGERIA. 



The great efforts of our government to grow cotton in Algeria, have 

 already succeeded so far as to prove ineontestibly the fact that we can pro- 

 duce cotton here equal to the first qualities of the cottons of the United 

 States, as appeared at the exhibition of 1858, by the important house of 

 Dollfus, Miez & Co., of Dornach. 



The Central Nursery of Algiers sent to National Exhibition twenty va- 

 rieties of cotton, from the shortest staples to the long stapled Georgia, aud 

 from a very fine prolific cotton. 



