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for agriculture, for correspondence with all agricultural societies/ 

 and for some system of agricultural education. The members 

 of the Club were unanimous in their high approbation of this 

 measure. 



The Secretary read the following paper? translated and prepared 

 by himself. 



There are soils so rich in silicates, prone to disintegration, that 

 every year, or every two years, a quantity of silicate of potash 

 is rendered fit for assimilation sufficient for the formation of the 

 leaves and stems of a whole crop of wheat. 



In Hungary there are large districts of land on which, since 

 the memory of man, corn, wheat and tobacco have been cultivated 

 in alternate years, without the restoration of the mineral ingre- 

 dients carried away in the corn and the straw. There are other 

 hills, on the contrary, which do not yield sufficient silicate of 

 potash in two, three, or more years. — Liebig, 1813. 



H. Meigs. We extract the following from the exhibition of 

 the Central Horticultural Society of the Seine, on the llth, 12th 

 and 13th of September, 1851 : 



AMERICAN PRU^'ES. 



[Revne Horticolc, Paris, October, 1S51.] 



Messrs. Jamain & Durand obtained the principal honors in 

 pomiculture." These two able nurserymen exhibited to ns a com- 

 plete collection of prunes of the most celebrated kinds, and among 

 them was the famous Jefferson prune of the United States, which 

 the English and the Am'^rican horticultural journals announce 

 as a rival to our Queen Claude prune. The Coe's Golden Drop, 

 the Tellembay, Queen Victoria, and Pond's seedling were much 

 admired, especially the latter, for its great size. 



TRANSPLANTING LARGE TREES. 



[RcTue Ilorticole, Paris, December, 1851.] 



It often happens that we are obliged to sacrifice large trees, 

 whose place is wanted for other purposes, and yet we fear to 

 transplant them and lose our labor by their failing to live. 



