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It was then unanimously adopted. 



The Chairman. — The whole history of the plough is contained 

 in the American Agriculturist. 



Mr. Meigs said, that as it was desirable that our California Amole 

 plant should be well tried here, he moved one bulb be given to 

 George G. Sickles, and the other to Charles Henry Hall, to plant 

 them, and report to the Club as to their growth, &c. Carried. 



Mr. Sickles presented the catalogue of fruits and flowers for which 

 premiums will be g;iven at the monthly meetings of the New-Jersey 

 Horticulture Society, and at their annual exhibition at Burlington, 

 on the 20th. 21st, and 22d, of September next. This extensive list 

 of flowers and fruits contains nearly all the native and foreign varieties 

 that are known in the United States. 



ANNALES DT£ LA SOCIETE CENTRAL (lATE ROYALe) d'hORTICULTURE DE PARIS. 



Translated by H. Meigs, February, 1848. 



At the session of the second of February, 1848, the Minister of 

 Agriculture and Commerce sent to the Society a number of tubers, 

 which he had received from Peru, where the Indians use it for food, 

 and highly appreciate it. The Minister thinks that the study of this 

 plant, which is new to our section of the world, might be useful. 

 The Peruvians give it the name of Olluco. 



Extracts from the Horticultural Journey through Russia, Pomera- 

 nia, Prussia, Saxony, Bohemia, Denmark and Germany, in 1847, by 

 Mon'r Masson, chief gardener of the Horticultural Society of Paris, 



"St. Petersburg, on the banks of the river Neva, in 59*^ 56' 31 

 North latitude, and 47° 59' 30" East longitude from Paris, occupied 

 a space of about forty-five millions and a half of square metres, o- 

 which flower and pleasure gardens have six millions and upwards, 

 and the meadows and kitchen gardens have more than seven millions 

 of metres. The elevation of this city above the Baltic, being eigh- 

 teen metres, permits the warmth of summer to penetrate the soil 

 deeper, and renders it more suitable for many flowers and legumi- 

 mous plants. 



In 1814, Peter the Great founded, for botanical ^tudy, the superb 

 garden in the Island of Apothecaries, Afterwairds the Emperor 

 Alexander transformed the swamps of the N'eva into delicious prome- 



