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due course of time formed a fine tree. Flower buds will inva- 

 riably blow on being cut off and immersed in water. 



Chairman — How can 3'ou manage to grow apple-trees from 

 cuttings? 



Mr. Pell — Any small sized limb wliicli bulges at its connection 

 with the tree, and which has on it fruit buds, may be transplanted 

 in Spring, and will bear blossoms and sometimes fruit the same 

 year. 



Chairman — Supposed that the bulge contains the means of quick 



development of roots. 



Mr. Pell — Perhaps so. The bulge sends forth roots with great 

 rapidity. 



Mr. Pike, of New-Jersey — I rather think it is owing to an ac- 

 cumulation of sap. 



Mr. Pell — I leave it to your experience to decide, sir. The 

 apple contains much water which must be sweated out in order 

 to keep. About half of which comes out at the first sweating 

 which I give it, and the other half at the next. A single bruised 

 apple in a barrel will decay and endanger all the rest. 



The Secretary — Many years ago, I found an apple burled in my 

 garden, about fifteen inches deep. The ground had been frozen 

 where it lay, to the depth of two or three feet. Thisap[)lej there' 

 fore, must have been for some weeks frozen solid ; but it was now 

 as fresh and sound as when on the tree. I have found potatoes 

 at that depth sound in April. It is owing perhaps to the slow 

 process of thawing. Cold preserves without limit. The mam- 

 moth of Russia found in ice in 1809, must have been there four 

 thousand years, and its meat, skin, hair, &c., were sound. Ani- 

 mals devoured the flesh as soon as they could get at it. 



Mr. Pell — I have kept apples sound by burying them in earth. 

 I am informed by a gentleman that he sent a number of barrels 

 of apples which had been filled in with cider to Europe, as an 

 experiment, to keep. They appeared perfectly sound, but on 

 handling, they were totally ruined — mere mush, like rotten ones. 



