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they get out of the ground ; the onl}' remedy is to drown them out 

 by sprinklin<:; freclj' three times a day with a hose until the plants 

 get three or four leaves. Owing to the ravages of this Ilea he had 

 frequently sold plants to cultivators to whom he had previously 

 sold seed. He had sold cauliflowers from under glass for four 

 dollars per dozen. 



Mr. Rawson said that he knew of no remedy for the cabbage 

 maggot, but the cabbages will recover from the injuries caused l)y 

 it. He recommended to heap the earth round the cabbages by 

 means of a plough and hoe, and then tread it down, half-covering 

 the head. He had known a crop saved in this wa^' after the 

 first of July. 



He transplants all his celery ; he sows in drills only to raise 

 plants for sale. He sows in the shade of a fence, digging the 

 ground lightly and treading it down hard ; then he rakes it so as 

 to make the surface verj- fine, sows and covers very lightly, and 

 waters frequently. It should have sun half the day. It may be 

 sown on the north side of a fence used for protecting hot-beds ; he 

 takes down his fences about the time the celery plants come 

 along. 



A paper by Edward L. Beard, on "The Progress of Orchid 

 Culture in America," was announced for the next Saturday. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 6, 1886. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, Henuy P. Walcott, in the chair. 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the American Pomo- 

 logical Society, presented a cop}' of the Proceedings of that 

 Society at its Twentieth Session, September 9-11, 1885. Mr. 

 Wilder said tliat he had great pleasure in doing this personally. 

 When President of our Society, he was authorized by it, as Chair- 

 man of a ('umniittec in connection with Couunittees ajipoiuted by 

 the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New Haven Horticultural So- 

 cieties, and the Board of Agriculture of the American Institute, to 



