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Several hundred grafts procured by a member of the Club, did not 

 arrive in time for distribution from some cause unknown. 



Mr. Wakeman proposed as a subject for the next meeting, Dairy 

 Husbandry, and the continuance of grafts, cuttings, seeds, &c. 



The Club adjourned to Tuesday next, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretcry, 



^pril 27th, 1847' 



Judge Van Wyck in the Chair. 



Mr. Lewis Seymore, of New York, presented marrow beans, ar 

 large and fine pod for eating when green. It has been for fifty years 

 cultivated in his father's family. The beans are large, of a dark 

 yellow, and are runners, requiring poles. 



B. W. North, of Poughkeepsie, has them for sale in considerable 

 quantity. 



Mr. Meigs, read the following translation made by him. 



Revue HoRTieoLE, Paris, Feb. 1847, 

 Translation by H. Meigs, Secretary of the Farmers^ Club. 



Mr. Lecoq. My cowslips* are the product of a considerable amount 

 of seeds which I sowed in 1845. The flowers of which bloomed 

 from the month of November of that year until the end of May, 1846. 

 The seeds were taken from about 1500 plants, of which about 20O 

 were rejected. The rest of them showed but three beautiful varieties, 

 among which I distinguished about one hundred and fifty out of 

 the common; style, and all of them as remarkable as those of which 

 the present drawings are made. It was impossible to see at one 

 view, a more beautiful sight than these presented to the eye when 

 they were all in bloom in April. All the colors were there repre- 

 sented, all imaginable shades of color were there, and the size of 

 the flowers was as astonishing as the variety of their colors. 



I obtained these plants by hybridation, and their diversity was 

 such, that out of the fifteen hundred it was almost impossible to find 



•Ppiiaivcxes, 



