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Subjects for tlie next meeting, August 4tli : " The relations of 

 ammonia to vegetation," " Small fruits" and " Irrigation," by 

 Mr. Robinson. 



The Club then adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



August ith, 1857. 



Present — Mr. William Lawton, of New Rochelle, Hon. John G. 

 Bergen, of Gowanus, Messrs. Solon Robinson, Stacey, Field, of 

 Brooklyn, Dr. Edgar F. Peck, of Brooklyn, Mr. Antonides, of 

 Jersey, Dr. Smith, of the Times, Messrs. Dowie, of Andes, Dela- 

 ware county, N. Y., D. W. Davis, Olcott, Dr. Waterbury, Messrs. 

 Wm. R. Prince, of Flushing nursery. Long Island, R. G. Pardee, 

 and others; twenty-eight in all 



Mr. Lawton in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following translations, &:c., made by him, 

 from works received by steamers from Europe, since the last meet- 

 ing, viz: 



[Revue Horticole, Journal d'Horticulture Pratique, Paris, June, 1857.] 



EXHIBITIONS OF FLOWERS, FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AT 

 THE CITY OF MANS. 



The exhibition, which was worthy of all praise, contained the ' 

 interesting one of the pisciculturists, viz, a monumental fountain, 

 surrounded by a jet of water, surrounded by aquatic plants. On 

 the borders of the fountain there were thousands of Rhine salmon, 

 salmon trouts and common trouts, eels, born and brought up in 

 the pisciculture establishment. Ten thousand of them would 

 not be enough for one fry. If God spares their lives, these fishes, 

 objects of a young and interesting industry, will soon populate 

 (stock) our streams and rivers, thus affording to our farmers a 

 new source of profit and pleasure. 



THE EXHIBITION AT VERSAILLES, 



Was a happy success. We will not accuse Mons. Allviteau of 

 having committed a criminal oftence in producing green roses. 

 But we do blame such an odd taste in collectors, for it seems to 

 us to prefer the ugly to the beautiful. The very extraordinary 



