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from the root of the vine of about three or four inches puts about five 

 pounds of the mixture of these salts, on about ten square feet about 

 the root. Of these salts he takes ten pounds of silicate of pot ash, 

 and one pound of the double phosphate of potash and lime. This 

 composition supplies the vine for a long time with the portion of 

 potash required by it. It is a good plan, he says, to put every year 

 about the roots, some grape marc, that is the residue of grapes after 

 the wine has been pressed out. 



Sonne vines are always rich in wood and poor in fruit. We may 

 yet by proper manures, make such vines bear plenty of good fruit. In 

 the application of the fertilizers, care is necessary as to the quantity 

 of the dose ; for too much of the good thing is hurtful to the vines. 

 We desire to estabhsh the scientific rule — practice must carry it out. 



Dr. Antisell, in reference to the application of bone manure, re- 

 commended the liquor of bones, so called, which is produced by dis- 

 solving bones in sulphuric acid, one part with two parts of water. 



Dr. Antisell, from the special committee on the employment of 

 immigrants, made a partial verbal report, and said that the governors 

 of the alms-house had recommended a separate institution for the 

 management of this important business. A grand jury has also done 

 the same thing. It is stated on authority, that one hundred thousand 

 pe^-sons in this city, receive more or less from the public charity ; 

 that the alms-house only relieved sixty thousand persons. The com- 

 mittee will probably be ready with a full report at the next meeting 

 of the club. 



Mr. Elliot. — Yes ! in 1847, it appears from the report of the 

 then commissioner of the alms-house, that one hundred thousand 

 persons received relief from that institution alone. The future 

 demands energetic operations. The flood of immigration, vast as it 

 is, is but beginning. 



Mr. Carter. — It appears that between the^ 1st of January, and the 

 lOth of March, 1848, out door relief was furnished by the alms- 

 house, to fifty- six thousand eight hundred and forty-eight persons. 



