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Cooked by steam, or roasting in hot ashes, it has the ap- 

 pearance and taste of the best of our common potatoes. Two 

 pieces of the root, as large as the common Dutch potatoe, were 

 boiled together, with a potato of same size, and the ignames were 

 done in ten minutes, while the Dutch potato was twenty minutes 

 n cooking. This is a valuable property, saving time and fuel, 

 and that is one reason why the potato was so much valued origi- 

 nally. And this igname keeps well from one year to another. 

 The igname has been successfully cultivated in Algiers. 



Many of the dioscoreas have the property of multiplying by 

 these bulbs, which become detached from the plants when at ma- 

 turity. 



Prof. Mapes spoke of the very excellent qualities of the Stowell 

 evergreen corn, and invited members of the Club, to call at his 

 city office, 143, Fulton street, and accept some for trial. 



The Secretary remarked, that he had suffered a loss of some 

 plants in hot beds, by burning. Large drops of water accumula- 

 ted on the under sides of his glasses, and injured by the focal rays 

 of the sun, many young, vigorous dahlia plants, soon after the 

 first introduction of this seed from London 



He saw at an agricultural fair in New Haven, a few years ago, po- 

 tatoes, three inches in diameter, grown that year from the seed, by 

 very early planting in hot bed and transplanting to open air. He 

 had raised new potatoes from the seed balls, but it was three years 

 before they attained a fair size. Those were so prized as to bring 

 Jive shillings a bushel here, while the ordinary potatoes in this 

 market commanded but two shillings a bushel. Mine were admi- 

 rable for their quality, but in a few years got the black heart and 

 waxy qualities. 



Prof. Mapes raised sweet potatoes, by laying them in hot beds, 

 hardly covered with soil; putting out abundant shoots, which he 

 pulled off and set in the ground in open air; thus have a very 

 large supply of shoots from few potatoes. 



Paul Stillman observed, that, by such management of the sweet 

 potato, four hundred bushels have been obtained from one potato. 



