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such an event as the last.) Besides, the chesnntj both here and 

 in Europe, that is certain kinds of it, is hard and compact, and 

 when well seasoned, all the sap dried out of it, there is no more 

 durable timber ; it will last longer, it is said than oak, a strong 

 circumstance to show that it cannot be naturally a short lived 

 tree; it attains not only great age, but great size, is long in grow- 

 ing, and certain kinds of it first rate for timber ; all kinds of it 

 are good for this, but certain kinds better than others ; good sea- 

 soning is what all timber requires, to be good ; our timber does 

 not always get this ; we are too much in a hurry with it, as with 

 many other things, done too quick to last. 



At one of the last meetings of our Club, when madder was be- 

 fore us, I stated that, from the best information, in the latitudes 

 of New York and Ohio, and north of these, it was four years, or 

 the fourth year after planting before the article came to maturity. 

 I have seen since, in a very late English periodical of high repu- 

 tation, that in Alsace, Germany, on the Rhine, and where they 

 raise a great deal and very fine, it is ripe or fit for use the very 

 second year after planting. If this be correct, it will make quite 

 a diifereuce on the profit of the culture of it, one half at least in 

 favor of the grower, by getting his results the second year from 

 planting, instead of the fourth. 



The secretary remarked the rapid growth of the elm. When 

 a scholar in the grammar school of the learned Jared Mansfield, 

 (afterwards professor of matliematics at West Point,) he was 

 stopped on his way to school, in 1795, by senator James Hillhouse, 

 of New Haven, and requested to hold some elm saplings in the 

 holes dug by the senator to receive them, on Temple street, while 

 the senathDr filled in the soil about their roots — the saplings being 

 about the size of a maw's thumb. I told him that I should be 

 punished for being too late at school, he bid me run ! My excuse 

 was most readily admitted by the good mathematician, Mansfield. 

 A lew years since I examined them, and was surprised at their 

 growth. They are of great size. 



Jules Lachaume, of Yonkers, presented his cooked Julienur 

 soup, carrots, parsnips, parsley, cabbage, string beans, celery and 

 turnips. . They were tested by many of the members, whose 



