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I am imformed that large quantities of this willow are imported 

 from France, &c 



If it will command such a price, what crop would be more pro- 

 fitable? 



D. Jay Browne. On Grand Island, in Niagara River, there is an 

 extensive marsh, comprising about two hundred acres, covered with 

 fir, resembling the osier willow. These willows have been used for 

 wicker-work, and were found to be good. 



Mr. Meigs. Will members please to state where, in this vicinity, 

 they can be obtained? 



Isaac Underbill, of N. J. James G. King, of Hoboken, has them 

 on his farm. 



Judge Van Wyck. The osier willow, like the whole family of the 

 willows, is attached to low wet grounds, and the value of it seems 

 not to be generally known. 



Mr. Meigs. I found a very few osier willow cradles in Philadelphia, 

 more than forty yeais ago, and admiring them for their neatness, for 

 their safety to the infant, which cannot injure itself by contact with 

 its yielding nature; I thought it so superior to all the pine, cherry, 

 mahogany and oak cradles I had seen, I bought one, which has now 

 cradled two generations for me, and is fit to cradle ten more. And 

 if handsome baskets and boxes are made of it to bring any suitable 

 produce to market, then the farmer will find a profit in the basket or 

 box, as merchants formerly did by making regular trunks to send 

 their goods in to this country, and as the Frenchmen do by sending 

 us their choicest prunes in boxes, ornamented and useful for other 

 purposes. 



D. Jay Browne. In planting the cuttings of a grape vine, take 

 two slips of about ten inches long, set them in the ground with their 

 tops inclining to each, leave the topmost buds about half an inch of 

 soil, the rains will cause the soil to settle, even with this bud, in a 

 short time. If one of the cuttings should fail, it is probable the 

 other will thrive. 



Judge Van Wyck. Short cuttings having but two buds are recom- 

 meftded, set with one bud under the ground, and one out. 



