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Prof. Mapes proposed, as the subject for next meeting, " The 

 Potato — The best sorts and the best mode of Cultivation." The 

 rot interdicted! 



Adopted, and the club adjourned to Tuesday, June 6, 1854, at 

 noon. 



June 6, 1854. 



Present — Prof. Mapes, Mr. Solon Robinson, Mr. Berrian of Illi- 

 nois, Mr. Chester Coleman of Brooklyn, Mr. Barney, Dr. Welling- 

 ton, Mr. Waring, Capt. Holmes, Messrs. Bergen and Bennett of 

 Gowanus, Mr. Geo. B. Rapelye, Prof. Hooper, Mr. John Lodge, 

 Mr. J. W. Chambers, and others — between 30 and 40. 



George B. Rapelye in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Meigs read the following translation by him. 



[From La Patrie, Paris, May 5, 1S54. Keceived from onr corresponding member, Dr. John 

 G. Adams.] 



BRUSHING OFF THE OIDIUM THE GRAPE DISEASE. 



Read to the Imperial and Central Agricultural Society and the So- 

 ciety for Encouragement of Agriculture^ 8fc., on the bth of April j 

 1854. By M. Gutrin-Meneville. 



Mr. Delamarre, who is animated with the desire, along with 

 others, to give aid to our agriculture, volunteers the columns of 

 La Patrie to its service, has called my attention to the experi- 

 ments made at Neuilly by Mr. Regnault, to remove the oidium 

 from the diseased grapes by means of a bird's wing or a soft brush. 

 T went there to see the experiment with the editors of the scien- 

 tific department of La Patrie. Mr. Regnault showed us his Chas- 

 selas grapes, ripe and in very good condition, on the same vines 

 bearing bunches not experimented on, lost and covered with the 

 oidium. All the other grape vines in the garden were ravaged 

 by the disease. This result called for a committee from the Im- 

 perial Society of Horticulture to examine fully. The committee, 

 after seeing the grapes of Mr. Regnault, inade an unfavorable re- 



