432 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



February 16M, 1858. 



Present — Messrs. Lawton, of New Rochelle, Solon Robinson, 

 Dr. Waterbury, Amos Gore, of New Jersey, the venerable Benjamin 

 Pike, of New Jersey, Drs. Smith, Wellington and Bartlett, Messrs. 

 Smith, Adrian Bergen, of Gowanus, Hon. J. G. Bergen, of Gowa- 

 nus, T. W. Field and Dr. Peck, of Brooklyn, Mr. Davoll, Prof. 

 Mapes, Messrs. Olcott, Stacey, Aycrigg, Leonard, Chambers, and 

 others; about fifty members. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



[Journal de la Soclete Imperialeet Centrale d'Horticulture, Napoleon Third, Protecteur. 

 Paris, December, 1857.] 



Extract translated by Secretary Meigs. 



Mastic-liquid in cold weather, is of great importance in arbori- 

 culture, and brings now a pretty high price. To obtain it, we take 

 840 grammes (nearly two pounds) of common resin, melt it slowly 

 over a fire, being careful not to heat it so much as to make it throw 

 off its spirit of turpentine. When it is clear as a syrup, add 301 

 grammes (eleven ounces) of spirit of wine. Mix them well, and 

 then as quick as possible pour the whole into a bottle, and stop it 

 up tight. The alcohol is to be added, sufficient to keep it fluid. 

 This, applied to trees, forms a perfectly sure covering, which in 

 time hardens a little. One application is enough for grafts. A 

 much smaller quantity of it than of any other material is suflBicient. 

 Youns: wood, cut, cicatrizes well under it. 



Prof. Mapes remarked, that he uses nothing else for a long time 

 past on his grafts. 



Chauncey E. Goodrich, of Utica, presented a written and a 

 printed article on the culture of potato from seed, &c., and on 

 motion, (on account of other matter pressing for hearing,) were 

 laid on the table. 



Dr. Bartlett, editor of the Albion, presented for Mr. Wilson, 

 from his new farm at Deer Park, L. I., (one of the most condemned 

 tracts,) two ears of yellow eight-rowed Indian corn, grown with 

 ordinary culture, last year, upon land immediately after it was 

 cleared of its covering of bear or scrub oak. These ears are 

 eleven inches long, and six inches round at the butt. 



