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Mr. Wakeman presented the circular of the Repository of Arts of 

 Hartford, Connecticut, signed by the committee, consisting of Messrs. 

 Erastus Ellsworth, A. M. Collins, Lorenzo Bull, Solomon Olrastead, 

 James B. Hormer, Horace Goodwin, jr., and N. H. Morgan. They 

 propose to have in the repository the best models, drawings, designs, 

 specimens and descriptions of every improvement in agriculture, 

 manufactures, mechanics and the arts, and every thing of utility 

 among us. Direct to the chairman, Lorenzo Bull, 142 Main-street, 

 Hartford. 



Mr. Wakeman observed that this plan merited encouragement, for 

 -every such undertaking was good for us and for all. 



Col. Clark remarked that the plan of such repositories was fir 

 introduced by our worthy corresponding secretary, T. B. Wakeman, 

 by whom that of the American Institute was established. 



Mr. Wakeman. We take a deep interest in the establishment of 

 a new system of education, that is, agricultural schools, uniting all 

 the useful scien-ces with practical work on a farm. And I am pleas- 

 ed to learn from Albany that our application for such a school with 

 an experimental farm in or near this city, finds favor among the 

 members of our Legislature. And also that we have reason to expect 

 from Congress a favorabfe report upon the application of our last 

 convention of farmers, gardeners, and silk culturists in October last, 

 for a grant of land in Florida for a farm, to be employed for the 

 purpose of a gradual acclimation of plants, in pursuance of the 

 plan formerly adopted by Congress at the instance of the lamented 

 Doctor Perine. 



J. C. Hastings, of Clmton, Oneida county, New-York, presented 

 Kirkland seedling apples and red Canada apples, both of which can 

 be kept until June. These were tasted by the members, and were 

 deemed so good that a resolution was unanimously adopted, request- 

 ing from Mr. Hastings grafts for distributioi^. 



John Lodge, of Morrisania, presented grafts of a new seedling 

 apple, from a tree only three years old. The fruit resembling the 

 old Newtown pippin. Mr. Lodge requested as a particular favor, 

 that those who have good fruits, would bring grafts of them to the 

 club for exchanges for others. The modes of grafting as laid down 

 in the Farmer and Mechanic newspaper, it followed, will be suc- 

 cessful. 



