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or some of that class of fertilizers. Please let us country gardeu- 

 ers have the much desired light 



" Yours, truly, L. W. PAINE." 



Mr. Fuller, (a garde)ier of Brooklyn.) — I generally spread 

 straw or leaves over the ground for the seed bed of celery, in 

 April, and burn it off. This serves to give a little potash, and 

 also to kill insects. I sow the seed in trenches, lightly covered, 

 and thin out so as not to let the plants touch. I transplant in a 

 wet time — the last of July or first of August — into trenches six 

 or eight inches deep, and four feet apart, the earth being deeply 

 disintegrated previously. I manure in the bottom of the trenches, 

 and afterwards use ashes and salt. The plant having its native 

 locality near the sea, bears a tolerably large dressing of salt. I 

 use guano sometimes, but have never measured the quantity, and 

 do not think it important how much is used, so that it does not 

 come in contact with the plants. It may safely be used dry, well 

 mixed with the soil, or in a solution of about two pounds to a 

 barrel of water. One of the most important things about celery 

 culture is, that from the time the seeds sprout the plant should 

 continue to grow without any check in transplanting or after 

 culture. 



Mr. Pratt, of Williamsburgh, explained the mechanism of his 

 patent steam plow, by drawing on the blackboard, &c. A large 

 roller precedes the machine, and by means of its size and weight 

 holds on the soil with sufficient force to move the plows which 

 follow it. One man manages the whole, and can plow suitable 

 land the ordinary depth, forty acres in one day. 



Doubts were expressed by some of the members. 



Paifus L. Waterbury, M.D., who had proposed the continuation 

 of the discussion on the artificial propagation of fish, exhibited a 

 sea bass, so opened to view as to enable him by means thereof to 

 explain minutely its vitals, its heart, gills, &:c., and, by drawings 

 on the blackboard, the peculiar organization of its back bone. 



The regular subject of the day, viz, " the treatment of stock," 

 being called — 



Mr. Pell, the Chairman, remarked : You are all aware that the 

 quality and kind of food given a cow, has immediate influence 



