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In order to re-imburse himself for heavy expenses, the reverend 

 gentleman is obliged to charge something for his new potatoes. 



For his rough purple Chilis, ten dollars a year. This kind' 

 yielded ninety-two potatoes for one, last year, very fine quality. 

 Some cultivated last year, by Mr. Delafleld of Geneva, (near it,) 

 yielded one hundred and twelve pounds weight for one pound. 



Seedlings of r?49 are hardy, productive and good. Price seven 

 dollars a barrel, or three dollars a bushel. The State Society has 

 tested them this year. They yielded from twenty to sixty-four 

 pounds weight for one. 



Seedlings of 1852 are several choice kinds selected from four 

 thousand two hundred varieties, grown from seed balls, mostly of 

 the last mentioned potatoes. This selection was made with great 

 care as to their heaviness, tlesh, yield and mode of growth, and 

 they afford a basis, it is believed, for the entire renewal of the 

 potato crop in our country. My price for them is ten dollars a 

 bushel. 



My potato seed is from the balls of my best varieties mentioned. 

 It has been tested, and is now warranted to yield a very large pro- 

 portion of hardy, productive, and shapely sorts. My price is one- 

 dollar a paper, each containing more than one thousand seeds^ 

 and with directions for cultivating them. They will be sent bj 

 mail to order, postage paid. Each sort is put up separate. 



The Secretary said, in refejence to 



THE JAPAN PEA, 



One of the extensive class of fabacese, consisting of more than' 

 three thousand varieties, according to Lindley, in his Vegetable 

 Kingdom : The following are from Japan — Dolichos hirsutus^ 

 lineatus, incurvus, angularis, (hairy beans) ; cultratus, umbel- 

 latus, (sharpened.) 



Dolichos (Greek) means long. The pea grown by A. H. Ernst, 

 of Cincinnati, is not hitherto known, and is not in the above list. 



