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The Chairman said that potatoes left in the ground during the 

 winter, produce next season more tops than tubers. That when 

 the natural ones were transplanted by a farmer of his acquain- 

 tance, he had good crops from it. and no rot! He took the growth 

 from the eyes of the potatoes. 



R. L. Pell. — That is my method, successfully practiced for 

 ten years past. I take a piece of the [potatoe, at the bottom of 

 the shoot, and set it out. The effect of this method is, to give 

 potatoes about five weeks earlier than by the common way of 

 planting. 



Professor Mapes remarked, that in Beatson's pamphlet, pub- 

 lished 20 years ago, this method was fully settled, and a conclu- 

 sion as to its results well founded, viz : that it will not give large 

 crops ; that it is, however, well enough for small families desi- 

 ring very early potatoes. 



Subject for next meeting — The Apple continued, and the Pear 

 added. 



The Club then participated in the Catawba Jelly and the divi- 

 sion of seeds. 



A drawing of the circumference of a potatoe exhibited at the 

 Western World Institute Fair, was exhibited to the Club, being two 

 feet four inches in circumference, and its weight seven pounds 

 and a quarter. This drawing is sent by Andrew Williams and 

 B. F. Stevens, Esq., of California. 



The pears preserved by W. Curtis, of Boston, were presented 

 by R. L. Pell, and tasted by the Club. The 'opinion that they 

 had retained their ripe delicious flavor was unanimous. The ex- 

 ternal appearance of some of these pears was that of being just 

 picked full and fresh from the tree. 



The Club then adjourned. 



H. Meigs, Secretary. 



