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nion that the small seedling now called after the ChairmaDj, 

 the Livingston pear, is one of the first in point of rich flavor. 



The club then adjourned to December 19, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Deeemher 19, 1854. 

 Present — Messrs. Robert L. Pell, President of the Institutej. 

 Hon. R. S. Livingston, Prof. Mapes, Solon Robinson, Griifin and 

 Gore, of New Jersey, Coleman, of Brooklyn, Paul Stillman, of the- 

 Novelty Works, Messrs. Waring, Vail, Lowe, George B. Rapelye, 

 the Consul at Lyons, Mr. Goodrich, Samuel Fleet, Prof. Youmans,, 

 Drs. Waterbury, Newton and Taylor, Col. Travers, his son Tra- 

 vers, and others— in all fifty-one. 



President Pell in the chair. 



Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



According to the rule for desultory communications for the 

 first hour, the Secretary read the following prepared by him, viz r 



[Annales de la Societe Imperialo D'Horticulture de Paris, September, 1854.] 



GRAFTING BRANCHES OF TREES. 



By Mons. le Baron Marinville. 

 I have the honor to lay on your table the principal portion of 

 a lateral branch from my Pyramid pear — the Summer Madeline 

 — on which, in August, 1853, I had grafted (in escutchion) a 

 large branch, two years old, fiom one of my pyramid magnificent 

 Beurr3 pears. The graft appears to flourish, and I ordered my 

 gardener, Berthault, to take particular care of it, to give all liber- 

 ty to the sap, and to support the pears as they grew if necessary. 

 The tree on which I grafted bore abundantly its own fruit, and 

 my grafted branch bore twelve fine magnificent Beurres. One of 

 them was accidentally detached. This is an unequivocal appli- 

 cation of the precious grafting methods of our experienced col- 

 leagues, Messrs. Forest and Luizet, by means of which I have 

 gathered, these three years past, fine and abundant fall and win- 



