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graft, and the time when it begins to bear? If it bears a 

 good crop of fruit the first time, it will not be likely to bear 

 the next year. It will bear alternately. The graft may bear 

 when it is three years old, and again when it is five, and so on. 

 If the graft is taken from a tree that bears on the even years, 

 if it begins to bear when it is three years old, it will bear, 

 whether it is the odd or even year, and so on ; and so with 

 those put in that are taken from odd-year bearers. There 

 may be something in that. Gentlemen who have practised 

 grafting perhaps can tell. 



Adjourned to seven o'clock. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order a few minutes after seven 

 o'clock by O. B. Hadwen, Esq., chairman of the committee 

 of arrangements, who announced the subject of the lecture 

 as "The Climate and Resources of California," by Charles 

 L. Flint, Secretary of the Board. After dwelling briefly upon 

 the topography of the State, its size and general outlines, as 

 modifying climatic influences, giving some statistics in re- 

 gard to the productions and the wonderful vegetable growths 

 which characterize the Pacific slope, and alluding to the vari- 

 ety of drawbacks to farm life there, a great number of views 

 of natural scenery were presented, with the aid of the stere- 

 opticon. In the want of suitable illustrations of the striking 

 features of the Yosemite and the Sierra Nevada mountains, 

 and the noted points of interest along the line of the Pacific 

 Railroad, a report of the lecture is necessarily omitted. 



