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Professor Mapes proposed as a subject for the next meeting of 

 the Club, the small fruit — blackberry, raspberry and strawberry. 

 Adopted. 



Judge Joel Turrill, of Oswego, New-York, presented to the 

 Club Russet and Greening apples j)roduced on his farm. His 

 orchard contains about eight hundred apple trees. The Russet 

 is the Roxbury. I plough the orchard, and have put on at one 

 time tvYelve hundred bushels of ashes. My trees are old ; one 

 "which gave ten barrels last year is about sixty-five years old. 



The apples here presented were preserved in a very damp 

 cellar in two difterent ways — one in barrels, the other on shelves 

 one by one. You see that some of them are shrivelled — those 

 were kept on the shelf; those which are quite smooth and round 

 were kept in barrels. 



The members of the Club tasted the apples, which were of a 

 large size, and declared them to be very fine, and gave their 

 thanks to Judge Turrill. 



Subject for next meeting, on the 13th of April, blackberry ^ 

 raspberry and strawberry. 



The Club adjourned to Tuesday next at noon. 



H. Meigs, Secretary. 



American Institute, ) 



Farmers^ Club, April 13th 1852. I 



George Dickey, Esq., in the chair; Henry Meigs, Secretary. 

 Mr. Meigs read the following papers prepared by him: 



TIMBER. 



[0 Auxiliador Da Industria I^aeional, Eio De Janerio^ 1851.} 



From the file presented to the American Institute by Senor 

 Luiz Henrique, E. d' Aguiar, Consul General of BraziL 



Signs by which Ave can tell when a tree has reached its maxi- 

 mum of growth, and is beginning to decline. 



