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"It seems to rae, says the French doctor, that the science of medi- 

 cine in China, is now very much as h was in Europe 300 years 

 ago. 



"Chinese apothecaries form a very influential corporation in China, 

 and geneially enjoy a great consideration. The quarter occupied by 

 those of Canton, is almost exclusively held by them. The English 

 call their quarter Physic-street. A prodigious activity prevails in 

 this Physic-street. Ginseng, ginseng is the universal panacea. The 

 costume of the apothecaries is the same as that of the rich merchants. 

 A long robe descending to the heels, a fine straw conical hat cov- 

 ered with crapes of horse hair in summer, and with black velvet in 

 winter. They affect an imperturable gravity." 



Mr. Wakeman. — Roswell L. Colt of Paterson, has urged on the 

 United States government the grant of a township of public lands 

 for the purpose of agricultural instruction. 



Mr. Fowler, the distinguished Phrenologist, presented grafts of the 

 Locy apple (named from Mr. Locy) a very fine fruit; also of Virga- 

 lieu pear, of Buff'um pears, and also from various choice imported 

 pears. 



Dr. Underbill, of Croton Point, presented about twelve hundred 

 grafts from his highly cultivated Greenings, Vanderveers, Newtown 

 and Fall pippins, and also cuttings from his grape vines. 



Mr. Meigs. — A thin membrane formed of Gutta Percha, is re- 

 commended for wrapping the grafts, the edges are readily seared with 

 a hot case knife, and thus perfectly unite and exclude all moisture. 



J. S. Skinner, editor of the Farmer's Library, stated that he ob- 

 served several errors in the official report of the last Farmer's Club, 

 which as they related to some of his remarks, seemed to require cor- 

 rection. These errors were no doubt unintentional, but he deemed it 

 proper to place himself correctly before the public, and also in be- 

 half of other persons who are implicated in these misstatements! 



He said that in the experiment of Senator Neill, of Maryland, 

 the word happened to be uncovered, was not correct, that this was a 

 part of the very experiment, and that, therefore, it did not happen, 

 bttt was designed. That the draining ascribed by the report to Mr. 

 Hall, of Delaware ought to have been Major Jones, a farmer of great 



