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The members tasted the plums and universally declared theM 

 to be excellent, and unanimously voted thanks to Mr. Briscoe and 

 Mr. Pomeroy. 



The club then adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary, 



September 26, 1854. 



Present — Prof. Mapes, Dr. Bartlett, late of Albion, Messrs. 

 Griffing, of Jersey, Trye, of Long Island, Paul Stillman, Pardee^ 

 Amos Gore, of Jersey, Vail, of do.. Judge Van Wyck, &c. — 22 ia 

 all. 



Mr. Griffing, of Jersey, in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary, 



The Secretary read the following translations and selection 

 made by him : 



[Revue Horticole, Paris, June, 1854.] 



REMEDY FOR POTATO DISEASE. 



M. N. C. Bollman, Professor of the Agricultural Institute of 

 Orizoretki, &c,, 1853: 



After such numerous fruitless attempts, one certainly is scepti- 

 cal as to any such discovery. But accident has led to the fol- 

 lowing experiments, which seem to meet the approbation of Lind- 

 ley and othi3r Englishmen cultivators. 



Bollman, the Russian agriculturist and professor, had invented 

 a machine to plant potatoes. It had a serious fault — it broke off 

 the young shoots from some of the eyes of the potatoes, and evea 

 bruised the potatoes also. In 1850 he dried his seed potatoes, 

 that his machine might not damage them as it had done. He 

 put them for three weeks in a hot close room. He planted these, 

 and had as large crops as his neighbors, and all free from disease^ 

 while his neighbors' crops were all more or less diseased. Mr. 

 Bollman thought that this exemption of his dried potatoes from 

 the rot was probably accidental, as in millions of other cases. In 



