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ory. You know the value of the American black walnnt. It is 

 our northern mahogany, highly useful (o our lands, a good lire 

 wood, beautiful for furniture. The prevailing opinion as to its 

 life is, that it matures at one hundred years, and decays at one 

 hundred and fifty year^. Its fruit is good. Many of our piae 

 trees are ornamental, some of well known excellence as timber. 

 Returning to preserved vegetables — we know that green corn is 

 now preserved so well that my family have enjoyed it in all sea- 

 sons of the year. 



Amos Gore, of New Jersey : How long is madder in ripening ? 



. President Tallmadge : It is good the third year. I observed 

 the madder crops in France, some years ago. The crop looked 

 much like a beet crop in the distance. They were growing it for 

 the American market. I felt that our great country ought to 

 save them the trouble. We must grow it. I, for one, am ex- 

 tremely desirous that we should do it. 



Mr. Robinson : California, with her powerful growths, would 

 toake fine madder, I think. 



Mr. Cornell, of New Jersey : There are great differences in the 

 growth of madder ; so much so that the price varies from as low- 

 as three cents a pound to fifteen or twenty cents a pound, for the 

 best. 



• President Tallmadge : Suncach is one of the subjects before us. 

 I do not like sumach ; it is a nuisance to our lands ; it grows 

 everywhere, and in my opinion its uses are no compensation for 

 its evil properties. 



Mr. Cornell : It grows on poor land. It would, in all proba- 

 bility, greatly better on good fertile soil, and cultivated. It is an 

 American, and I like it for that. 



Dr. Church : Mr. Swift, of Ohio, thinks that a madder crop 

 can be perfected in three years ; that it costs one hundred dollars 

 an acre to grow it, and when grown it is worth three hundred 

 dollars. It demands a rich, well pulverized soil ; it spreads, and 

 sends down new roots. The crop sells for fifteen cents a pound. 



