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but one long sraall root with only a few fibres branching therefrom. 

 Varlo strenuously recommends the then newly discovereci marvellous 

 advantages of what he calls trench ploughing (subsoiling), and 

 trenching with the spade; this he says is making a trench two or 

 three feet deep, putting in manure, then the top soil, turf, &c. and so 

 on, so that the bottom becomes the top, thus the whole field, so that 

 it becomes a sort of hot bed; the fermentation of the buried vegeta- 

 tion and manure keeps the ground warm. 



Chairman — The turnip fly is a great evil in England. 



Mr. Wakeman — I call the attention of the Club to the circular 

 just issued by the Institute, relative to the 21st Annual Fair of the 

 Institute in October next. The central point of the exhibition will 

 be Castle Garden, the floor of which with its galleries, covered bridge 

 and a building for the play of machinery by steam power, outside 

 of but adjacen": to the Castle; altogether give us a surface of about 

 fifty thousand square feet, or over an acre. Here will be the vast 

 assemblage of articles, and among them we look for beautiful man- 

 ufactures from the hands of apprentices for whom we give in pre- 

 miums five hundred dollars. 



Our Cattle show will be at the new Washington Drove Yard, at 

 44th street and 4(h and 5th avenues. Here are thirty acres, between 

 two and three acres of pens watered by the Croton; stable sample 

 for cattle and other stock, a hotel of first rate excellence resorted to 

 by the first breeders in the country, and everybody can ride to it 

 from the Castle for sixpence a piece ! Our Ploughing Match will 

 be at White Plains; the field of battle on 28th of October, 1776. A 

 great and a new feature of the Fair will be a central fruit conven- 

 tion, consisting: of delep^ates from Horticultural and other kindred 

 societies, bringing samples of the best fruit, new fruits, &c. This 

 convention will sit at Judson's Hotel, 61 Broadway, within five 

 minute's walk of the Castle. We shall obtain the aid of citizens of 

 e highest ability to speak of the great cause of American industry. 

 We shall have original odes with original music. 



Samuel F. Halsey presented timothy grass, beets, carrots, celery, 

 corn, and nutmeg melons, the growth of his farm near this city. 



Last year had thirty-six melons on one vine, grown in my guano 

 manure ; water melons of the greatest size. He will send a speci- 

 men of some to the Club. 



