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seeds before him — the spechnens of phiiits and drawings tf plants 

 being about one thousand in number. 



Barley grown from one grain yielded a mass of stalks and grain 

 which weighed seven pounds and one-half when dry. I have 

 seen ninety stalks of barley grown from one grain, and in another 

 instance two hundred and twenty (Dr. Morse said 225) stalks from 

 a single grain. The growth in height is about three and one-half 

 to four feet. The heads contain from forty to sixty grains each, 

 so that one grain yielded somewhere about six thousand grains. 



Mr. Hawley, of San Jose, made a report of an agricultural ex- 

 hibition, in which he states, that at the rancho of General Vallejo, 

 called Buena Vista, (Fine View) there had been raised upon less 

 than six acres of land, nine hundred and sixty-five bushels of bar- 

 ley, or about 07ie hundred mid sixty bushels per acre. From two 

 acres of land were raised eighty thousand pounds weight of on- 

 ions, or twenty tons weight per acre. Mr, Horner, one of the great- 

 est farmers there, told me that he believed that he could raise on 

 one acre, sixty thousand or even seventy thousand pounds weight. 

 He had sold the crop of one acre at half a dollar a pound, and 

 received from it, $20,000, for that crop was forty thousand pounds 

 weight of onions. 



Dr. Underbill, of Croton Point. — We are anxious to obtain cer- 

 tainty in reference to the vegetable productions of California, 

 which in many respects vary from and exceed all known to us.' 



Mr. Shelton. — The potatoes are large and very- fine. I have 

 taken fifty from a field which weighed from one and a half to four 

 pounds weight each. 



Mr. Dye. — I wanted to obtain a fair sample of the onions raised 

 on the farm of Messrs. White, Kearney & Co. Those which I 

 took and such as I saw in bags — I believe, wa-ighed, on an aver- 

 age, over one pound a piece, and one of them weighed three 

 pounds and a half. I intended to send some of these to this In- 

 stitute, of which I have the pleasure of being a member. I am 

 asked how we cook the large potatoes ? I reply that we found 

 by experience that we could not cook the large ones whole. 



