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a light sprinkling of salt ; stir the groitnd often ; by following this 

 method I have raised good and large cabbage twelve years in suc- 

 cession on the same land. The soil should be clay, loam and sand, 

 of equal parts. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — There must be something in the lime prescrip- 

 tion. I have myself received fifteen letters, twelve of which advised 

 lime, the remainder salt. I have frequently tried both, and without 

 effect. Still, I shall next year make further test of all directions that 

 may be sent, and will gladly award the prize to whosoever it may 

 belong. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — I tried lime in Brooklyn, putting it in the seed- 

 bed very thick, but club root came all the same. 



The Eumelan Grape 

 Was shown by Messrs. Hasbrouck & Bushneil, of " lona," near 

 Peekskill, N. Y., including specimens of each quality, extra numbers 

 one, two and three, whicli were afterward distributed to members of 

 the Club. The extra one year old vines were such as are seldom 

 grown, but a member of the Club who has visited lona Island, where 

 they were grown, claims to have seen several thousand there of equally 

 good quality. Even the number three in quality were much better 

 than we have often seen sold of other sorts for number one. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller said, he had seen and tasted the fruit of the 

 Eumelan in previous seasons, and had formed a very high opinion of 

 its quality. The first he saw this year was at a meeting of this Club 

 early in September, and it was the first ripe grape shown here this 

 season. At Philadelphia he saw some good bunches of it which were 

 shown at the exhibition of the American Pomological Society, and had 

 heard the quality of the fruit highly praised by all who have tasted it. 



Mr. J. ^. Lyman. — I feel it the duty of this Club, when a new fruit 

 is introduced which gives promise of so general success as the Eume- 

 lan grape, and there are those among us who know its value, to give 

 full reports for the benefit of thousands who look to our printed 

 reports for the information they so much want, and which will be of 

 great benefit to them. I for one highly commend those who have 

 risked much in the dissemination and general trial of the Eumelan, 

 and congratulate them upon the success that has crowned their efibrts. 

 A grape of ordinary quality that will succeed everywhere, like the 

 Concord, is a national blessing, and much more so the Eumelan,^which 

 promises to be equally adapted to general culture, and is of the highest 

 quality. 



Adjourned, 



