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bind it around tlie tree, say three feet from the ground ; then, when 

 the moth begins to ascend, apply coal tar on the straw and on the 

 body of the tree, say four inches wide ; saturate the straw well with 

 the tar, and it does not become hard as soon as common tar, and an 

 application three times in a week is sufficient. If the Club can 

 answer the above questions at their next sitting they will oblige. 



Mr. P. T. Quinn. — Four pounds of potash dissolved in one gallon 

 of water, will answer the same purpose. Two or three bushels 

 will be enough. An application of eight bushels of salt, instead 

 of three, will be found beneficial to any crop, and will increase the 

 product more than twice what refuse salt should cost. 



Adjourned. 



November 16, 1869. 



Nathan C. Ely, Esq., in tlie chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 

 Seedless Apples. 

 Mr. Lysander Barrett, of French Creek, West Virginia, forwarded 

 a half bushel of this remarkable fruit, and wrote as follows: I trust 

 the Club people will no longer doubt my former communication on 

 the subject. The origin, as I learn it from the owner, is something 

 like this : Eighteen years since he sent to a fruit grower in Monon- 

 gahela county for some grafts of his choicest apples, and among 

 them was the kind before spoken of. He further informed me that 

 the seedless apple trees have never failed to bear fruit every season 

 since the first commencement of their bearing up to the present 

 season, while the ordinary kinds of fruit around it were all killed by 

 the frost in the spring, I was informed that they are a good apple 

 for' cooking purposes, and will keep until the month of February. 

 Those sent you were gathered on the 26th of October, were exposed 

 to all the hard frosts since, and tliese have made them considerably 

 tougher and improved the flavor. They are considered a good apple 

 to cultivate for drying, being much heavier than other apples, and no 

 waste in coreing, &c, 



Mr. Horace Greeley. — Allow me a word. At least fifty years ago 

 I saw it stated that if a limb of an apple tree be stuck in moist 

 ground bottom end up, it would take root and grow, and produce 

 the sort of fruit which our friend describes. I don't believe the story 

 was made entirely out of whole cloth, still gentlemen may have some 



