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Speaking of science applied to vegetation, I wish to be understood 

 as specially indicating the utmost importance of so compounding soil 

 of such elements as are known to be necessary, some for the growth 

 of the wood, and others, that of the fruit, and which chemistry by 

 analysis will direct. When we have made our Uttle vintage, we then 

 give free ventilation, so that our vines may, during the winter, take 

 their necessary repose. 



We have been told that England has produced bunches of grapes 

 weighing thirty pounds. If so, it would require two men to carry 

 one on a pole between them as did the bunches of Canaan. But a 

 bunch two feet long and of six to seven pounds weight would soon 

 weary the arm extended, necessarily, to carry it clear of the 

 ground. A dead horse was buried in the out border, sixteen feet 

 from a vine, and we found the roots to reach it in the second year. 

 Our grape house is eighty feet in length, and we never use artificial 

 heat in it j the sun upon the glass will keep the temperature within 

 ten to twenty degrees of Fahrenheit higher than that outside, and 

 which is regulated by ventilators. We have in it eighteen varieties 

 of grapes. 



It is our belief that this modern improvement in the vinery, as 

 distinguished from the greenhouse, is coming into use, and will pro- 

 duce grapes at a cost so small as to bring the fruit into common use. 



This plan of distributing perfect seeds and grafts I like, and shall 

 order some from our place next week. 



Subject for next meeting — grafting, inoculating, seeds and planting. 

 The club adjourned to this day week. 



H. Meigs, Sec'y. 



Farmers' Club, April 2nd, 1850. 

 Judge Robert S. Livingston, in the chair. Henry Meigs Sec'y. 



The Secretary communicated the following articles : One, relative 

 to the growth of clover in and near the tropics. He observed how 

 striking the absence of green pasture in those latitudes, to a northern 



