AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 451 



Mons. Auguste D'Ouville asked for a committee to examine and 

 report on the new patent corn planter of Jeffers, Sparks & Jeffers, 

 of Philadelphia. 



The Chhir appointed Messrs. Field, Pardee and Waterbury. 



Subjects for the 14th of April — " Liquid manures, why some- 

 times preferable;'' " fence posts," and " the origin of the varie- 

 ties of plants and animals." 



Seeds of parsnip presented by the Hon. Joseph Blunt were dis- 

 tributed among the members. 



The Club tlien adjourned to Tuesday, April 14, 1857, at noon. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



Jipril 14, 1857. 



Present — Messrs. Pres. R. L. Pell, Lawtonof New Rochelle, Rev. 

 Mr. Carter, Dr. Wellington, Dr. Waterbury, Mr. Pardee, Mr. 

 Field of Brooklyn, Judge Scoville, Dr. Smith, and others — 18 

 members. (The day stormy.) 



Mr. Pell in the chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary read the following extracts translated by him : 



[Journal Du Cultivateur, Montreal, Canada.] 



From this valuable journal sent to us by our excellent corres- 

 ponding member Mons. Latour, we translate the following : 



ROASTED CHEESE. 



This may be found a useful article, and is prepared as follows : 

 Cut the cheese into slices of a moderate thickness, put them in a 

 tinned copper vessel with a little butter and cream and boil the 

 whole until the cheese is all dissolved, then take it off the fire let 

 it cool a little, then put in some yolks of eggs well beaten. Put 

 some of this on bread and brown it before a fire. 



DEAD LEAVES. 



A careful and wise gardener gathers all these and digs them 

 in, for they are of nature's own best fertilizers. So should all the 

 leaves and trimmings of grapes be buried around the roots of the 

 vines. 



COLORED GLASS TO MAKE SEEDS GERMINATE QUICK. 



Messrs. Lawsons, of Edinburgh, have built a house of stone and 

 covered it with blue glass for the purpose of trying the" vitality of 

 seeds and for early growth. They take from a quantity of seeds 

 which they wish to prove, 100 seeds, and sow them in their blue 

 conservatory, and instead of taking as usual ten or fifteen days to 

 come up, these come up in two or three days. This saving of 

 time is worth to Messrs. Lawsons, $2,500 a year. 



