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following table : — Allen 95, Catawba 102, Concord 96, Delaware 

 99, Hartford 90, Anna 122, Clinton 107, Diana 108, Isabella 105, 

 Northern Muscadine 93, Rebecca 97." "Blossoming averages 

 about the 15th of June." 



Mr. Wilder said that though gentlemen may believe that well 

 ripened wood will never be injured, there will come a winter when 

 even the hardiest, Concords and all, will be injured if exposed. 

 Mr. Barnett had quoted Du Breuil and other foreign authors, to 

 which a gentleman had made exception, as inapplicable here. 

 But Mr. Wilder said that the laws of vegetable growth, as given 

 by those writers, were unchangeable, and applied as forcibly here 

 as in Europe. And he further remarked that the essay and its 

 discussion had proved a matter of much interest to him, for which 

 he made acknowledgment. 



The essay was illustrated by diagrams on the blackboard, 

 and drawings on the cover, and the discussion was longer and 

 more animated than any previous one. The meeting adjourned 

 one week for further consideration of the same subject. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, January 15, 1876. 



In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents the chair 

 was again occupied by William C. Strong, Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Discussion, who called on John B. Moore to open the 

 discussion. 



Mr. Moore said Mr. Barnett's essay was very well written, and 

 though he differed from many of the positions taken in it, he felt 

 much satisfaction in listening to it. 



Mr. Barnett wanted a soil both warm and moist, which is an im- 

 possibility, for the effect of water is to make the soil cold, but 

 probably he did not mean a wet soil. He wanted a sheltered place 

 for his vines, which Mr. Moore agreed was desirable. He had the 

 vine bed filled with lasting fertilizers, forming almost such a 

 border as those formerly made for foreign vines in houses. Now 



