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Mr. Elliott. — My father used to let his get ripe, but afterwards 

 he became a convert to the new system of cutting earlier. I cut 

 about six days before ripe. I leave it for some time in stacks in the 

 field, I take 12 sheaves, place 10 of them in a conical form, then 

 unbind the two sheaves and place their heads down over the top of 

 the cone, — tie the top tight and pass bands around the lower end 

 near the heads to keep them in place, I often let these stacks stay 

 out a month. My grain after threshing, (although cut green,) is 

 full, fine and glossy. I sow the bearded brown wheat, common in 

 New Jersey. It is not so good for the millers, who prefer the white 

 bald wheat, which meals down softer than the other, and millers 

 profit more by it. My father used to have forty to forty-five bushels 

 an acre in England. Once we had fifty-one bushels an acre. The 

 most I get in Jersey is little over thirty bushels an acre. 



Charles Henry Hall. — The remarks of Mr. Elliott are important. 

 This sowing wheat in drills, covering the seed two inches deep, 

 agrees precisely with the experiments recently tried by the Institute 

 of France, which demonstrated that depth, two inches, of planting 

 wheat to be the most abundant in crop. 



Judge Van Wyck. — And his use of brine and lime, is also valua- 

 ble in protection from insects. I have seen as fine crops of wheat as 

 ever came under my view, where the seed was merely harrowed in, 

 this, however, was in favorable summers. 



Mr. Meigs. — Mr. Disosway of Staten Island, has received for the 

 Institute, from Chief Justice Benedict of Liberia, Coifee, and the 

 Palm plant, which furnishes the celebrated oil of commerce. These 

 articles will be for the Convention of Fruit Growers at Judson's 

 Hotel, 61 Broadway, on the lOth of October, when and where the 

 members will have the first taste of Liberian sugar. 



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"VVm. R Prince of Flushing, writes, urging the establishment of 



a Pomological garden, under the patronage of the American Insti- 

 tute. He says " France has her Jardin des plants. England her 

 Horticultural Garden at Chiswick, and it is full time that we had 

 one for the developement of all the riches of Ceres and Pomona, 

 which our noble country presents in such abundance. We should 

 stand before the world a leader, and an example to other nations of 

 the earth in this respect, as we already do in the most honorable 

 and enlightened pursuits which can add dignity, comfort and hap- 

 piness to man." 



