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their conviction! Yes, Mr. Chairman, they stand convicted of 



that. 



Dr. Peck, of Long Island, rather doubted ! for lie liad seen 

 splendid gardens and flirms tliere lately, and had been trying to 

 raise a committee to go to the Desert, fifty miles from Brooklyn, 

 and behold Mr. Wilson's magnificent clover, on fifty acres ! It 

 was a splendid field! Mr. Robinson must not shake his head at 

 that! Besides, he knows the fact, only he is afraid to testify 

 against the armed prejudice of the natives. 



Mr. Lawton said he had discovered that gooseberries want a 

 cool manure — that cow dung is such, and he has dug it in about 

 his bushes — has never had mildew on them — his soil has much 

 clay in it, and is and must be thoroughly tilled. 



Dr. Smith remarked, that in England, wdiere the gooseberry 

 flourishes, they rarely apply manure to it. 



Mr. Lawton — Some have tried the experiment of placing cups 

 of W'ater directly under gooseberries, to keep moist by the evapo- 

 ration of the water. 



Mr. Robinson — Cow dung is cool manure; it is usefully applied 

 to wounds of plants, and animals too! 



Mr. Freeman supposed that our late moist, cool spring had 

 made our climate like that of England, well suited to the goose- 

 berry. 



Dr. Smith said that very mistaken opinions as to the climate of 

 England, were very prevalent in the United States. We have had 

 in our America, more snow, wet rainy weather, this year, than 

 happens in England in two years ! 



Mr. Eiliard said tliat mildew on gooseberry was scarcely known; 

 (here is something like it, occasionally, on leaves of the currant. 



Mr. Robinson — Our own native gooseberries and currants, are 

 never mildew^ed ! 



Dr. Peck — Our native wild gooseberry is of fine quality! 



Mr. Lawton — The Brinckle raspberry, before us, is a no])]e fruit, 

 and requires careful culture. Formerly there was a wild native 

 raspberry on Long Island, that used to be brought to our mai-kets; 

 it was red, small, but ol delicious llavor ! What immense fields 

 are in sight of our great city! capable of excellent crops cjf good 

 things, which hardly give us any thing ! lying as the Indians left 



