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ground of his vineyard deeply, three times since May last. He 

 gave to the committee both wine and brandy made by himself 

 from these grapes. He calls the grape the Greenburg, from the 

 Dame of the place near him; but as it is a new variety and owes 

 its present establishment among us to the great care and industry 

 of Mr. Couzens, we prefer to name it (as all botanists do new 

 plants discovered by them after themselves,) the Couzens grape. 

 This vineyard although small, is comparatively great among us, 

 for notwithstanding all the efforts of our people from the vineyards 

 of Vevay to this moment, fame is charged with few titles to the 

 gratitude of the Republic for the large culture here of the second 

 of the three greater gifts of God to man in the temporal way, viz : 

 " Corn, wine and oil." Longworth of Ohio, Underbill of Croton 

 Point, &,c. 



Mr. Couzens merits our thanks for setting so excellent an ex- 

 ample to us; and may be one of those who set agoing system of 

 national importance. We can easily imagine the vineyards like 

 Ms on both banks of the Hudson for 150 miles. 

 By order of the committee. 



JOHN A. BUNTING, 

 M. DARLING, 



Lieut. W. A. BARTLETT, U. S. Navy, 

 HENRY STEELE, of Jersey city, 

 JOHN V. BRO WER, of Jersey city, 

 Judge SCOVILLE, 

 ADRIAN BERGEN, of Gowanus, 

 H. MEIGS. 

 The Club adjourned to 1st Tuesday of November next. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary, 



Jfovember 18, lS56. 



Present — Messrs. Dr. Waterbury, Solon Robinson, George An- 

 drews, Stacey, Wagner, John M. Bixby and others. 



Dr. Waterbury in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following translations and extracts made 

 by him, viz : 



