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On the 27th of March he picked a cucumber eleven and a half 

 inches long. On the 29th, one of sixteen inches long. On the 

 30th, one of fifteen inches long, leaving on one of thirteen inches 

 length. 



SUBJECT FOR NEXT MEETING. 

 The forest trees of America for timber, for shade and for orna- 

 ment — sumach, new plants, the locust borer, and a remedy. 



The club then adjourned to Tuesday, February 18th, at noon. 

 ^ H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Farmers' Club, February 15, 1853. 



Present — Messrs. Tallmadge, R, L. Pell, Judge R. S. Livingston, 

 Van Wyck, Pike, of New-Jersey, S. B. Halliday, of Providence, 

 Gore, of New-Jersey, Dr. Underbill, of Croton Point, Dr. Church, 

 Mr. Dickey, Mr. Archibald, and others, to thirty or forty 

 members. 



President Tallmadge in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The President laid before the club a communication from which 

 the following are taken. The Rev. Chauncey E. Goodrich, of 

 Utica, has applied himself to the introduction of new sorts of 

 potatoes with great zeal, knowledge, industry and success. His 

 experiments have been very numerous. We make room for the 

 most successlul of them. He aimed at a renewal of that precious 

 tuber, from the original of South America, and he states : 



1 . The importation of new tubers from those congenial climes 

 of which (so far as we know,) it is a native. 



- 2. Its reproduction from the seed-ball. Illustration of these 

 methods, as tried. 



3. Grand seedling Bogotas of 1852 ; from No. 2. Many hun- 

 dred sorts ; hardy, bears seed-balls ; flesh generally much whiter 

 than the parent ; some ten or twelve quite white, and sufficiently 

 early for general use ; and will probably prove valuable. 



