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piness in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, at the present mo- 

 ment. 



Yours, ■ 



John Lodge, of Westchester, exhibited a bunch of young wine 

 apples, half destroyed by the Rose or Cherry bugs; nearly the whole 

 crop of this year will be ruined. He recommends throwing unslaked 

 lime, or boiled tobacco juice over the trees, in order to destroy the 

 bugs. He will try it and let us know the result. 



Chairman. I have an onion in my garden which has now con- 

 tinued its growth for three years, living through the winter. 



Judge Van Wyck. I do not doubt the longevity of the onion. 

 The cereal grass seeds have been known to retain their vitality for 

 €ight hundred years. 



Chairman. Seeds have been found seventy three feet deep in the 

 earth, which being of an oily nature, seem to have thereby retained 

 their vitality. Seeds are found preserved on mummies by the 

 asphaltum and other embalming materials used in the preservation 

 of the mummies. Some of the finest grains have been produced 

 from such mummy seeds. 



R. L. Colt, of Patterson, N. J., states in a letter to T. B. Wake- 

 man, that the late rains have clothed the whole country around him 

 with beautiful green. That wheat, rye and oats, look well; potatoes 

 never looked better; have a fine display of blossoms; that last year 

 there were few blossoms; that he saved but a few seed balls; that in 

 1845 he could not procure any in Jersey for love or money. Mr. 

 Colt is sadly disappointed in the promise of fruit. There were but 

 few blossoms of apples or pears, and the cold winds of May caused 

 the young growth to look as if fire had passed over it. Cherries are 

 deficient. As for peaches, a new enemy has appeared on his farm; 

 a bug like the lady bug has punctured almost every peach. He says, 

 " I am going, not to the far West, but to the near West, Chicago. 

 1 deem it all important that we show to our Western brethren, that 

 we are in favor of internal improvements, and I am satisfied that the 

 outlay for the next five years shall be a Western outlay! and, rely 

 upon it, that they from the West will repay us with compound interest. 



" I have heard much said of the benefit of salt applied to plum 

 trees. I have tried it, dressing the surface four feet in diameter 



