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tive moist lands where we can grow more osiers than we want. 

 While I am pp and the subjects of new plants is in order, I re- 

 new the urging of our farmers to give us American madder ; it i3 

 a profitable crop easy of culture— of a certain and unalterable 

 value, as a dye nothing can take its place, and we have the right 

 soil for the production of it for a world's supply. Why then 

 continue to import it 1 



Dr. Church : We cannot dispense with it as a dye. 



Judge Van Wyck : The letter which President Tallmadga re- 

 ceived from Ogdensburgh for the use of the Club, proposing a 

 remedy for the potato blight, accompanied with appropriate re- 

 marks, and which our secretary has just read, will receive the 

 thanks of this Club, as all similar communications do. Any rem- 

 edy for that destructive disease, if it does not operate as a cure, 

 . but only as a palliative, is important. Thousands have been used 

 since the rot commenced, in different parts of the world, and 

 they have all, as yet, been found to be either temporary or local 

 only in their effects. Sometimes, after escaping the blight a year 

 or two, it would break out afresh, in the place where originally 

 used, and often with more virulence than ever. If tried in a 

 distant locality, it was all tlie same ; and frequently in the new 

 place begins its ravages the first year after planting. Weather 

 no doubt has some influence on the di.sease. If very wet or very 

 dry, it effects the tuber, and brings it on, or renders it more vio- 

 lent. As the President very properly observed, manures, too, do 

 this, either applied in a bad state, or without judgement, and at 

 the wrong time. All this is no reason for discouragement; but 

 the world should persevere, on a subject of so much importance, 

 in discovering and applying remedies. Ultimately, success may 

 ciown its efforts. 



The procuring of new and useful plants, either foreign or trans- 

 planted them from one distant part of our country to another, or 

 sending and transmitting seeds and cuttings : the importance of 

 this v.'as fully evinced at one or two late meetings of the Club, 

 when three gentlemen of great respectability and intelligence, 



