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down to tlie simple point of figlit or no fruit. You can't show me 

 an orchard in this eection where they had peaches last year and will 

 have any this. There is no possibility of southern Illinois, or our- 

 selves, having a crop next year. I am getting discouraged. Persever- 

 ance and energy, will save us ; nothing else will. I remember the 

 time when, in this neighborhood, a man would have been kicked out 

 of society if seen with his boots blacked. I hope to see the time 

 when he will meet the same treatment should he harbor curculios. 



Americais^ Wood Peeserving Com'pant. 



■ The agent exhibited various specimens of larch, pine and other 

 wood saturated by a new process understood to be of resin, or some- 

 thing similar, giving the wood density and a fine color. The process 

 is said to be carried on at a small cost, and if it is what is claimed, it 

 must be of great value to the country. Further information is to be 

 given next week, on which occasion J. B. Lyman is to read a paper 

 on tbe destruction of our forests. 



Isabella grapes, grown b}' Mr. P. L. Pell, Esopus, N. Y., were 

 exhibited, ripened by a new process, ten days in advance of the 

 season. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — This is probably by ringing the bark which is 

 not new, nor are the grapes ripened, for they are congested with a 

 species of dropsy. 



Adjourned. 



September 23, 1868. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 



Tomatoes. 



Mr. Isaac Hunting, Pine Plains, Dutchess county, X. Y., referring 

 to an account published of William Parmelee's superior tomatoes 

 raised on a sandy plain near Xew Haven, says that he has the Feejee 

 variety and they grow to immense size. One of them weighed eigh- 

 teen ounces. 



Mr. Wm. Lawton asked how to prevent the vines from occupying so 

 much space. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — The treatment is analogous to that of grape 

 vines. When they have set three or four bunches, or as much as 

 they will ripen, nip out the terminal shoots with the thumb and fin- 



