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or parsnips. All of them are considered as originally salt water 

 plants; salt water products have been found to be the best manure 

 for them. The Islands of Jersey and Guernsey have produced 

 the greatest crop of carrots and parsnips, having the full benefit 

 of the ocean in air and manure. On the sea board and near our 

 great cities and markets, where the most suitable manure for these 

 plants can be easily and cheaply obtained, and the best prices for 

 them all, without as much labor and expense, as they would cost 

 on farms located farther in the interior, here they might be in- 

 troduced and perhaps pretty generally cultivated. 



Mr. Meigs proposed clover as the next subject. Adopted. 



A tin case, neatly covered tightly, with strong paper, full of 

 ecdinary seeds, put up in fine conditipn, sent by the Honorable 

 Mr. Ewbank, Commissioner of patents to this club, were distrib- 

 uted among the members. 



John W. Chambers, Clerk of the Institute, delivered to the club 

 the potatoes of South America, with the tollowing report. 



SEED POTATOES FROM CALLAO. 



In November 1850, Captain Phineas Windsor, of the ship An- 

 gelique, recently arrived from Callao, at Baltimore, forwarded to 

 the American Institute of the City of New-York, potatoes of four 

 different kinds, said to be the choice^ of all Peru, also specimens 

 of the wild potato of Peru. The specimens having arrived late 

 in the season, and having also made sprouts from one to two 

 inches long, it was deemed advisable by the officers of the Instit- 

 ute to place them in the hands of eome ojardener for preservation 

 and propagation. They were accordingly placed in the charge of 

 Mr. William Kent, of Prospect Hill, Long Island, who furnishes 

 us with the following statement. 



" After receiving the potatoes from the American Institute, I 

 placed them in my green house. They were very much shrunk, 

 and had long tender shoots from the eyes. The produce is from 

 those shoots. The shoots before mentioned, I placed in small 

 pots, and early in the season I turned them into the garden. They 

 made good plants and seemed to grow three or four times. On 



