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Farmers' Cluhj JVovemler 9thy 1852. 



Judge Van Wyck in the chair, Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Present, Dr. Enderlin, the late associate of Liebig, Dr. Under- 

 hill, of Croton Point, Dr. Satchel, of Aecomac, Virginia, and 

 others. 



The Secretary read the followirig paper?, translations &c., re- 

 marking that the wisest nations are now busily engaged in natu- 

 ralizing in their various countries, all sorts of useful and beauti- 

 ful plants from the most delicious flower to the largest tree. And 

 why shall we not avail ourselves of the products of all soils and 

 climates of the earth, and let all of them become members of our 

 great Union 1 embracing as it does all climates and conditions 

 for the vegetable world. 



RcToe Hortieole, Paris, Ang. , 1852. 



NEW FRUITS AND PLANTS. 



Laurns Persia or PcroCa gratissima. 



This is a tree of medium size, grows in the West Indies, where 

 it bears the name of the Advocate or Lawyer. The fruit is about 

 the form and size of a pair. The only specimen we have is in 

 the Rautonuet Garden, where it is about five metres or about six- 

 teen feet high — stands near the south side of a wall. Two years 

 ago it bore ripe fruit — the flowers having been artificially fecun- 

 dated. There is a larger number of them in the experimental 

 garden at'Algiers, v^here they are trimmed into pyramidal forms 

 like the pear tree. They bear flowers and fruit in abundance. 



Eriobotyra Japonica, is now common in the gardens of Hyeres 

 (Hyeres is near Toulon) and Toulon. On the 12th of May last, 

 some of its fruit began to ripen. Great quantities fully ripe, were in 

 the markets of Algiers, on the first of August. It is not a fruit 

 of the highest qualities — but it relishes much, succeeding early 

 as It does the preserved fruits of winter. W^e recommend it for 

 our gardens in the south of France. 



Sida Arborea — a hot house bush in Paris, grows freely at Hyeres, 

 some twelve feet high, is covered the greatest part of the year 

 v.ith fldwers of great beauty— purple veins in deep orange color. 



