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As the couQtry from which it comes is now the siibject of na- 

 tional intent, and as I see by the report of the interesting pro- 

 ceedings of the Farmer's Club of the 7th ult., the seeds of that 

 country claim the attention of the members, I hope these will not 

 come amisSj and that they may be placed in such hands as will 

 report to your institution its merits next fall. I inclose a part of 

 4he stale, that you may see its habits of growth and its produc- 

 tiveness. It requires more room than I gave it for a full devel- 

 opment of its form and productiveness. 



With my best wishes for the advancement and prosperity of the 

 ©bjects to which your institution is so honorably devoting itself, 

 I remain very respectfully, yours, (Signed) A. H. ERNST. 



P. S. — I almost forgot one important point I had in view — it is 

 to thank you kindly (for I presume it is to you I am indebted) 

 for oocasional papers containing reports of the interesting discus- 

 sions at the meeting of your " Farmers' Club." Such discussions 

 are exceedingly interesting and instructive 5 and while thanking 

 you for the papers, it occurs to me to remind you of your kind 

 ofter, when in your city last September, to present me a set of the 

 published transactions of your Institute. I shall prize them 

 much. It was-my intention on my return home from Boston, to 

 have remained a day or two in your city, when I should have 

 seen you again, and taken them with me ; .but it so happened that 

 I was coiastrained to leave in the morning before you or any of 

 the officers »f the Institute had leaclied the office. I left a note 

 requesting that tiiey be sent by express.- a. h. e. 



The Japan peas were not recognized by any of the members. 



riiey v/ere distributed to tlie following gentlemen, with the in- 

 Juacftion to return to the Club one tenth part of the product, for 

 distriJ)ution iu 1854, viz : 



Hon. Richard Bacon, Simsbury, Connecticut. 

 Hon. Robert Swift, Livingston, New- York. 

 Professor James J. Mapes, New Jersey. 

 Messrs. Hovey k Co., Boston. 

 Mr. Amos Gore, New Jersey. 



