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Andrew S. Fuller. — The plant spoken of last, the dodecatheoii media, 

 as the American cowslip, is not the one that grows in wet places all over 

 New England, bearing a yellow flower and known as cowslip, but an up- 

 land plant, which is very common at the West, and is worthy all the praise 

 given to it by the writer. 



LIME FOR FRUIT TREES. 

 Solon Robinson. — Here is another inquirer after knowledge. F. Hotch- 

 kin, of Sullivan county, N. Y., wants to know if " lime in a liquid state is 

 injurious to fruit trees ?" He does not say how he wants to apply it, nor 

 what he means by liquid lime, but he may be assured that lime will not in- 

 jure fruit trees in any way that he pleases to apply it, on the ground, at 

 the roots, or in powder on the tops, or iu a liquid state on the trunks. 



FRUIT TREES— TO PROTECT FROM ANTS. 

 Wm. Davis, Marengo, Morrow Co., 0., offer the following plan for pro- 

 tecting fruit trees from ants, which, he says, have killed many trees 

 for him. It is the same plan pursued in this city to make loafers, and then 

 get rid of them — that is, feed them with whisky, and make them drunk, 

 and then v/ipe them out. He says : " Mix whisky, molasses and water, in 

 equal parts, and fill a tumbler about tAVO-thirds full, and set it partly in 

 the ground at the foot of the tree infested by ants. When it gets full of 

 the drunkards, scoop them out and kill them." We suggest feeding them 

 to fowls. 



KEEPING WHEAT FLOUR. 



A. Mr. Ross stated that he manufactures wheat flour that will keep sweet 

 ten years — that he has flour now ten years old as sweet as when it was first 

 ground. He has taken numerous medals and prizes for his flour, as the 

 finest, handsomest exhibited. He grinds upon a convex and concave pair 

 of stones of only a foot diameter, and has so little wheat in the mill at once 

 that it does not heat, which is what injures flour ground in the ordinary 

 way. The flour of his mill comes so cold from the mill that it is ready to 

 pack immediately without cooling. 



A committee was appointed to visit his mill, at No. 211 Centre street, 

 and examine the process by which he alleges he makes flour that is so much 

 better than that ground in ordinary mills, and report the facts to a future 

 meeting of the Club. 



The next meeting will be held next Monday noon, at the Union (Cooper 

 building), and one of the questions to be discussed is, the relative value of 

 various fertilizers. 



Adjourned. HENRY MEIGS, Secretarij. 



Ayril 2of.h, 1859. 

 Present. — Messrs. Senator Crolius, Renwick, our President, Dr. Holton, 

 Mrs. Holton, Solon Robinson, Witt, Bruce, Mr. Leonard, Wm. Lawton, 



