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years lie made it give the largest crops of wlieat ever yielded by 

 the richest lands iii Virginia. 



Mr. George Dick'^y, proposed for tlic next meeting the subject 

 of '^ Summer management of Fruit.'"' — Adopted. 



Professor Mapes then distributed his strawberries among the 

 members of the Club. 



The circulars of cattle sale of Lewis G. Morris, on 24th of 

 June, were then distributed. 



Adjourned to the regular day, the third Tuesday of June. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary, 



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American Institute, } 

 ' Club, June nth, 1851. \ 



Austin Church, M. D., in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



Mr. Geo. S. Rigg^s, of Baltimore, a member of the Institute, 

 said : Mr. Chairman — In company with Gen. Cliandler and 

 Judge Meigs, I had the pleasure of visiting, on Tliursday last, 

 our worthy Vice President's (Mr. Pell) farm— tlie best cultiva- 

 ted, most beautiful and enchantingly picturesque place my eye 

 ever rested upon. I will merely mention a few ot many wonder- 

 ful productions that came under my especial notice. Mr. Cun- 

 ningham, his intelligent gardener, showed me a basket of Hovey 

 seedling strawberries that he had picked to pre-ent to a neigh- 

 bor. Thirty nine were laid on a Hat surface and covered a space 

 of nine inches by eleven, that is one to every two and a half 

 inches. I saw one weiglied, and found it two ounces, and eight 

 and three-eighth inches in circumference. I say, without fear ot 

 contradiction, that this is the largest and heaviest Hovey seed- 

 ling strawberry ever grown. 



A pie plant leaf measured thirty-one and a half inches by 

 twenty-six and a half inches in diameter; the stalk four and a 

 half inches in circumference, and the whole diameter of the 

 plant sixty-eight inclies, and that, too, in one year. The Cala- 

 fornia potatoe presented to Mr. Pell, by this Institute and plant- 

 ed in twenty-seven hills — one of which, the first (hill.) 1 came 

 to — was forty-five inches in diameter. This Mr. Chairman, i3 



