No. 200.] 9 



There is in our country unoccupied ground sufficient for such art 

 abundance of fine fruit as will supply our whple population, and add 

 gfcatly to their health and happiness. Let the numberless club^ 

 already formed and forming follow the example, and at their outset re- 

 solve to press its prosecution simultaneously at the proper season, and 

 the orchards and vineyards of America will very soon be the admira- 

 tion of the world. 



Tlie stated meetings of the members of the Institute have been 

 held every month in conformity to the charter. Great unanimity has 

 prevailed in the transactions of the meetings, and a determination to 

 carry into effect the legitimate designs of the association. I'he in- 

 creasing correspondence, with reports of committees on models, and 

 machines of new inventions, and improvements submitted and discus- 

 sed, have been interesting and instructive. The committee on aits 

 and sciences, and also on manufactures, examine and report on all in- 

 ventions, discoveries and improvements referred to them. The inven- 

 tor, discoverer, or fabricator, has only to ask froH> the Institute a re- 

 ference and it is granted of course. The committees are selected from 

 the most scientific and skillful men in this part of the country ; and 

 we are not aware that in a single instance these reports have proved 

 fallacious. 



All ihe accounts of the Institute are submitted to meetings of the 

 members. By the by-laws all monies received on account of the In- 

 stitute are deposited with the treasurer, and they cannot be drawn out 

 without an appropriation by the meeting, and no appropriation can 

 be made without a statement first submitted showing the purposes for 

 which it is wanted. All the accounts are audited by the finance com- 

 mittee, and vouchers required for every item. Their report is sub- 

 mitted to the meeting with the vouchers, and hotli the accounts and 

 the vouchers are subjected to the after examination of any ahd all the 

 members who desire a more minute scrutiny. Hence the charges of 

 the misapplication of the funds of the Institute which have sometimes 

 been made in one or two of our city newspapers, are known to be 

 false, and excite no other sensation among the members of the Insti- 

 tute, than that of detestation for the reckless depravity of the calum- 

 diators. 



A faculty of science has also been established under professors of 

 high attainments within the past year, whose duty it is to give gratu- 

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