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Chairman. — jWhy do the Virginia peaches do so well? 



Chairman.— —The Virginia peach pits are valued for planting. I 

 had a large lot of peach tree roots which the owner had given up 

 as ruined by mice, having gnawed off the bark close to the ground. I 

 grafted those roots and the grafts grew 3 feet the first season. I have 

 about 1,500 of them. I grafted two on each root, mean to let cne 

 stand. 



Chairman proposes the care of stock in winter and spring, 

 between hay and grass, as the farmer's saying is, for our next sub- 

 ject. 



Adopted. 



The report of the 20th Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, at Faneuil Hall, in SeptembeJ, 184S, was re- 

 ceived and laid on the table for the examination of the members. 



Report also from the New-Haven Society. 



The Club then adjourned. 



February 6, 1849. 



Hon. Jas. TALLMADGEjPres't Institute, in the Chair; H. Meigs, Sec'y. 



The President. — I venture to call attention for a moment to the 

 happy and remarkable situation of our city, relative to its supply of 

 every production of horticulture, by steam power, on railroads, river, 

 &c. — all the little fruits, however delicate, are brought to us in great 

 abundance in fine condition — distances from thirty to one hundred 

 miles. Any information as to horticultural products is desirable. I 

 present to the Club the statement of the results on twenty-nine and 

 a half acres — the garden of the Bloomingdale Asylum on this island, 

 for last summer. On this spot, by the labor of six men and one wo- 

 man, the market value of its productions was $4,343.11, and the 

 profit $2,141.56. 



Whatever can be found to stimulate the works of the farm and 

 the garden, is important. 



