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Mr. Christian V. Muncly, Metucliin, New Jewey. 



Dr. Nathan Shelton, Jamaica, Long Island. 



George Dickej, Esq., New York. 



Jacob P. Giraud, Esq., Bergen, New Jersej. 



Elijah P. Kimball, Esq., Flatlands, Long Island. 



D. F. Manice, Esq., Brushville, do , 



S. S. Ay mar, Esq., Jamaica, do 



Alderman Jones, New York, (for his son's farm in Illinois.) 



On motion of Mr. Nash — a subject for next meeting — " Forest 

 trees for shade, for timber, and for ornament." American mad- 

 der continued, and sumach. 



Adjourned to first Tuesday in February next. 



Farmers^ Club. February I ^ 1853. 

 President Tallmadge in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 

 Present thirty to forty members. 



The president stated^the subject before the Club to be our for- 

 est trees, for timber, shade or ornament, new plants, madder, 

 sumach. 



Solon Robinson recommended tlie works of Michaux on the 

 flcst point, as containing the most complete and faithful 'asfcomnts 

 of most of our forest trees, that his drawings of the leaves of the 

 oaks, (among other,) were so perfect that any- person, with a 

 drawing of his before him, can immediately, (by c-omparison with 

 the leaf of an oak,) know the peculiar species. There is one 

 oak, the burr-oak, which the speaker had examined, whose acorns 

 were among the best known, for their fine quality as food, espe- 

 cially for swine. It is sweet, nutritious and fattening. It is in 

 our western States, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and in a scatter- 

 ing growth — wood soft when green — but as hard as live oak when 

 dry. The trees are not very large — the greatest diameter, I have 

 noticed, was about thirty inches. 



The secretary read the following papers prepared by him : 



