AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 337 



f Jauinal de la Societe Imperiale et Ccntralc d'Hortieulturc, Napoleon 3d, Protectenr, 

 Paris, September, 1857. 



MINUTES OF THE SITTING OF 27th AUGUST. 



Mons. Payen in the chair. 



The President — Many preventives and remedies for grape vine 

 malady have been heralded and tried ; but none have equalled 

 sulphur, which does cure, if not by one application, certainly by 

 a little more. 



Cabbages and onions, grown in the experimental garden from 

 seeds sent from Roscoff, Russia, were on the table. 



Mons, Pissot said, these cabbages are not large, but they are 

 much finer than other fall cabbages for the table. That the onions 

 are distinguished for hardihood, for they stood the winter out in 

 the fields not only without damage, but that they even grew a 

 a little. Those from the seed, all showed the peculiarity of being 

 double bulbs, but in the spring only one of them flourished. 

 They were not covered at all all winter. The seed is sown in 

 May. 



Mr. George Roth, of Moscow, stated some interesting facts rela- 

 tive to the culture of this onion in Russia. At Roscofi", a town 

 distant about fifteen leagues from Moscow, where are almost all 

 the gardens which supply the markets of that ancient caj^ital of 

 the empire, these onions are raised on a large scale, so great is 

 the demand for them. But notwithstanding their hardihood, the 

 gardeners take them in. 



Mons. Pissot exhibited an entirely ripe squash from seed (in 

 the experimental garden) from China; it is small, and has but 

 one merit, that of color, a very bright orange, and their seeds of 

 a beautiful red. 



The President invited those who had tried the sorghum, (Chinese 

 sugar cane,) to state results. 



Mons. Bourgeois had fonnd difiiculty generally in ripening their 

 seeds, near Paris, but it was excellent for forage. 



The President did not believe that the sorghum would be profit- 

 able for its sugar, in the greater part of France, but that we were 

 not yet in possession of facts sufficient to settle the question in an 

 economical point of view. The eider obtained from it is not com 

 [Am. Inst.] 22 



