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with thanks. A committee of distribution was appointed, consisting 

 of Messrs. Isaac P. Trimble, Prof. Tillman, Joseph B. Ljraan, Hor- 

 ace Greeley, and William S. Carpenter. Members of the Institute 

 and others engaged in agriculture who desire to make trial of this 

 fertilizer, and who will report the issue of their experiments to the 

 club, are invited to leave their address with the secretary, J. "W. 

 Chambers, and a memorandum of the quantity they wish to have 

 shipped. 



AprLE Grafts. 

 Mr. Daniel B. Bruen, ITewark, IST. J., now brought forward a 

 number of cions of the apple, and read in connection therewith a 

 report, of which the following is the substance : This is the Harrison 

 apple ; its origin is in Orange, Essex county, E". J., and named after 

 Simeon Harrison, owner of the farm. It is the most celebrated cider 

 apple known. It bears large crops, fruit small. Eight bushels 

 produce one barrel of cider ; it is very rich in saccharine matter. 

 This, the Campfield aj)ple, has its origin in Kewark, named after 

 Matthew Campfield, one of the first settlers of Newark, almost 

 universally used in the proportion of one-third with the Harrison 

 apple in manufacturing the celebrated I^ewark cider. The fruit is 

 rich in saccharine matter, and keeps well until spring ; good for 

 cooking, very little better for table use than a well-soaked cork from 

 a cider bottle. The Orange apple is not a good cider apple ; ripens 

 September to December. The King apple originated near Sag 

 Harbor, Long Island, some 150 years ago. Is not a cider apple, 

 though a favorite for the table and family purposes. The Granny 

 "Winkle does well when mixed with the Harrison to form cider, first- 

 rate for cooking for table use. The Ped streak does well to mix with 

 the Campfield and Granny Winkle to make fine cider. It is as 

 sprightly and efiervescent as champagne. The apple will keep 

 almost as long as a leaden bullet, and is as difficult to bite. Porter 

 apple not rich enough for cider. It originated in Newark. A most 

 superior one for cooking and table use. 



^ Making Cider. 



The proper mode of manulacturing cider is but little understood 

 out of New Jersey. Walden, in his soil culture, says that "the 

 careless way of making cider is too well known;" he properly 

 describes the time for gathering apples, and taking care and prepar- 

 ing the fruit to be manufactured into cider, and is correct in saying 



