No. 244-1 *07 



April 26, 1849. 



farmer's club of the AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



R. L. Pell, of Pelhara, in the chair. Henry Meigs, secretary. 



The secretary read (he following translations from the French, 

 made by hira : 



Revue Horticole, Paris, JVov. 1848. 



The question of grafting upon a graft is decided. Every one 

 knows that when we have grafted fruit trees, which afterwards 

 show that their fruit is inferior, we re-graft on them. Such re- 

 grafts grow perfectly well, and we are not mi:>taken in saying that 

 this operation gives a sensible improvement in the quality and size 

 of the fruit. The labor of Van Mons and of Girandon, who for 

 many years have experimented upon it, convinces us that by this 

 means very satisfactory results are obtained. 



Revue Horticole, June 1848. 

 The climate of the north of China presents very great similarities 

 to that of the south of England, and the north of France. In the 

 south of China, the lowest temperature is in January and February, 

 7° 20 centigrade ; Fahrenheitj 19^ ; greatest heat in July and Au- 

 gust, 31 cent.. Fab., 80°. Annual amount of rain, upwards of 30 

 inches. 



Head Cabbage of Angraville. — The Horticultural Society at Cler- 

 mont publishes that this cabbage is an excellent variety, and differs 

 essentially from all we are acquainted with. Its head is of about 

 the size and shape of the heart of an ox ; the leaves resemble the 

 winter cabbage. When sown in autumn with the York cabbage, it 

 bears the winter well, and heads next spring. It has a better taste 

 than the York, and is equal, if not superior, to the best cabbages of 

 autumn. It has another advantage, which is, that it heads well in 

 summer and in the fall, so that successive sowings of seed from the 

 month of September until June, we have excellent heads, without 

 interruption, from May to November ; but when headed, it does not 

 bear winter's frost well. 



Mr. Meigs presented seeds of the Lentil, and observed that this 

 ancient leguna had been used in Paris and elsewhere as a valuable 

 remedy for dyspepsia, and a wholesome food It is grown the same 

 manner as peas nearly. 



