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into cold water ; then drain the water off, and squeeze it out till 

 quite dry. Take a good tablespoonfnl of flour, and a piece of 

 butter about the size of a Walnut, mix them Avell near the fire, 

 and boil them in a pipkin. Put this mixture with the vegetable, 

 and about a tcacupful of water, for fear of burning ; add a little 

 salt and pepper, and boil till done. So, I think, the German mode 

 of boiling Beet-root the true one to obtain the fine saccharine 

 flavor, and it has been much approved at my table, though " never 

 heard of before." — Ibid. 



Prodigious Potato. — The Independance Beige informs its readers 

 that " in the Belgian Colony of St. Thomas, a Potato has been 

 grown weighing more than 50 lbs." Good-bye, Big Gooseber- 

 ries. — Ibid. 



The American Pomological Society — Sixth Session. — Ix confor- 

 mity with a resolution passed at the last meeting of this National 

 Association, the Sixth Session will be held in Corixthiax Hall, in 

 the city of Kochester, New York, commencing on Wednesday, the 

 twenty-fourth day of September next, at 10 o'clock A. M., and 

 will continue for several days. 



Among the objects of this meeting are the following : — To 

 bring together the most distinguished Pomologists of our laud, 

 and, by a free interchange of experience, to collect and difftise 

 such researches and discoveries as have been recently made in 

 the science of Pomology — to hear the Reports ot the various 

 State Committees and other district associations — to revise and 

 enlarge the Society's catalogue of Fruits — to assist iu determin- 

 ing the synonymes by which the same fruit is known in America 

 or Europe-;-to ascertain the relative value of varieties in differ- 

 ent parts of our country — what are suitable for particular locali- 

 ties — what new sorts give promise of being worthy of dissemi- 

 nation — and, especially, what are adapted to general cultiva- 

 tion. 



The remarkable and gratifying progress which has been 

 attained, of late years, in this branch of rural industry, is, in no 

 small degree, attributable to the establishment and salutarj^ in- 

 fluences of Horticultural and Pomological Societies. It is, there- 



