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A Jersey farmer said that he had pursued the course recommended by Prof. 

 Mapes, in an old orchard, but without success. I would be very glad to 

 know what to do to prevent the decay of apple trees. I have not used the 

 subsoil plow, nor under-draining. 



Prof. Mapes. — I only run the subsoil lifter furrows some four feet apart, 

 without disturbing the soil. Lime and manure should not be applied at the 

 same time to orchards. The plowing is an important part of the treatment. 



Mr. Yeeder — A German, working for me, practices removing the 

 earth from the apple tree roots in the Fall, and that has completely 

 renovated an old tree on my farm. I have great faith in the value of 

 cutting off the long runners of tree roots. 



Adrian Bergen. — I wish I could make the apple trees on Long Island 

 produce as they did thirty years ago. The trees have generally failed. I 

 believe apple trees are failing all over the land. It is not all owing to want 

 of lime. There is something beside this that affects apple trees. 



Mr. Veeder. — I know one apple tree that bore, two years ago, in 

 Schenectady County, seventy barrels of apples. 



Eichard Van Houten, of Paterson, New Jersey. — My father loved an 

 orctiard, and made one, of our most valuable apples, chiefly pippins, about 

 forty years ago. Of late years it has, as well as many other orchards, 

 shown unequivocal marks of defect and decay. Having heard of the suc- 

 cessful renovation of the apple trees, by Prof. Mapes, I followed his exam- 

 ple and used all the knowledge I could get, but I failed ; and there is 

 extensive failure in Jersey, the causes of which, and the remedy, are much 

 wanted. 



The questions for next meeting the same. 



The Club adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



April 11, 1859. 



Present — Messrs. Pell, Pardee, Solon Robinson, Wright, Clough, Law- 

 ton, Livingston, Steele, Roberts, Brewster, Adrian Bergen, John G. Ber- 

 gen, Prof. Nash, Fuller, Lowe, Dr. Holton, Freeman, Stacey, Ross, Col. 

 Travers, John Campbell — 50 in all. 



Judge R. S. Livingston in the chair. H. Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following papers : 



[Journal de la Soci.'te Imperiale et Centrale d'Korticulture, Napoleon III., Protecteur. 



Paris, 1859.] 



This noble society includes in it 1,854 members. S. A. I. Princess Je- 

 rome Napoleon and the Prince Napoleon, the Princess Mathilde, the two 

 Kings of Siam, S. A. Datu-Tummong-Gong Daing Ibrahim. In. Ma'-ajah de 

 Singapour, et caetera, S. A. Tuanvin van Thoobeker, the eldest son of Datu 

 Tummong, S. A. Tuanvin van Abdulrahman, the second son, and a large 

 number of the nobility of Europe. It has 112 corresponding societies, of 

 which two are in the United States, viz : the American Institute and the 

 Smithsonian Institute. 



