AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 369 



Mr. Judd tliought that any material about the post would be 

 frozen with it, and of course lifted with it. 



Mr. Servoss called the attention of members to a tree feller, 

 which chisels out posts from timber, and which will chisel down 

 a stout tree in a few minutes. The machine can be examined at 

 the depot of the New Haven road here. 



Same subject ordered to be continued. 



The Club adjourned. H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



March 3, 1857. 



Present — Messrs. Pardee, Judge Scoville, Swan, Stacey, Darling, 

 Dr. Smith, Solon Robinson, Newell of Eoston, Dr. Charles T. 

 Jackson of Boston, Consul Cowden, Doughty of Jersey, Brower, 

 do, Hon. John G. Bergen of Long Island. Dr. Edgar M. Peck, do. 

 Dr. Wellington, Mr. Barney, Secretary Leonard, Mr. Chambers, 

 Prof. J. J. Mapes of Jersey, Thomas W. Field of Brooklyn, Mr. 

 Smith of Chenango, Mr. Blot, Geo. E. Waring, Jr., President Pell, 

 WageLer, and others — 44 members. 



President Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following extracts and translations made 

 by him from the articles received by the Institute from Europe 

 and elsewhere since the last meeting of the Club, viz : from The 

 Journal of Agriculture and the Transactions of the Highland and 

 Agricultural Society of Scotland. January, 1857 : 



GUANO, AMMONIA— THE LABORATORY. 



It is found in the analyses of guano and other manures, that 

 in guano from Peru 100 tons contain 16 tons of ammonia, worth 

 <£955, almost $1,000 worth. 



Potash is comparatively rarely found in manures. Peruvian 

 guano contains about three per cent. 



[Journal De La Societe Imperiale et Centrale D'Horticulture, Paris, 1856. Napo- 

 leon 3d Protecteur.] 



From. The London Gardeners^ Chronicle. 



The Lilium-giganteum has flowered lately in the garden of 

 Mr. S. Townshend Boscawen,at Lamarron, near Truro, in Corn- 

 wall. The plant appears to be the most beautiful one of the 

 kind that has ever flowered in Great Britain, and perhaps in 

 Europe. It has surpassed its usual size in its native country. 



Dr. Wallich, the distinguished botanist, discovered this flower 

 and described it in his " Tentamen Florse Nepalensis Illustrse,'' 

 a work printed in Calcutta, in 1824; but the honor of introducing 

 into Europe belongs to Colonel Madden, who sent the seeds of it 

 to England in 1846 or 1847. 



