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Isaac Q. Underbill. Take grape cuttings eighteen inches long, set 

 them in the ground, slantinof, leaving two buds out. They ought to 

 be covered with hay or straw, lightly, from June to September. 



D. Jay Browne. Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati, recommends the 

 northern slope of ground for a vineyard in Ohio. 



Mr. Kirkland, presented a seedling apple, which was tasted and 

 pronounced a good fruit. 



D. Jay Browne, remarked, that it was better than the majority of 

 apples. It was approved by the club. 



Judge Livingston. I recommend to our farmers to plant their po- 

 tatoes early ^ it appears that such escape the disease more than late 

 planted ones. 



Judge Van Wyck. The potato disease is so capricious, that it is 

 extremely difficult to say what the rule should be, at any rate I ad- 

 vise that we follow the practice of the successful farmer. 



John Campbell, of Coxsackie, presented apples called Seek-no-fur- 

 Ihers, and French pippins, they were tasted by the members of the 

 club, and pionounced good. 



Mr. Chapman, of Perth Amboy, N. J., presented grafts of Belle 

 Fleur apple, None-Such apple, a fine greenish table apple, ripe in Oc- 

 tober and November. The To Kalon, a superior reddish grape, per- 

 fectly hardy. 



Mr. Isaac Q. -Underbill, presented grafts of the Jersey sweet apple 

 known in Westchester, as the hard or bake apple. The Lndies blush, 

 the best early tart apple yet known, a seedling — a large reddish ap- 

 ple, a seedling, from W. Post of Secaucus, New-Jersey. 



Abraham Van Bockecak, presented some Baldwin apples, which 

 were tasted by the members of the club, and were declar€d to be the 

 best exhibited, and of an excellent qualily. 



George H, Swords, of No. 116 Broadway, of this city, presented 

 specimens of lead wire, for the purpose of securing vines and plants. 

 They are sufficiently tenacious to answer the purpose of securing the 

 vines, &c., and give as the vines swell. These wires of various 

 sizes are sold at twenty-five cents a pound. 



