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Mr. Solon Robinson disputed this point as to the best location, because 

 he believes locations equally good may be found upon the borders of all of 

 the intex-ior lakes of the State, as well as the one upon which Pleasant 

 Valley is situated. Mr. R. II. Williaras and several others concurred in 

 this opinion. 



Careful Packing op Grapevines. 



Dr. Trimble related an anecdote which he thought ought to be published 

 to the credit of Dr. Grant. Some vines sent to a person in Hunting-ton 

 county, N. J., which should not have been over tweoty-four hours on the 

 passage, got astray on the railroad, and did not arrive till the next spring, 

 six months after they were packed, having been exposed all that time to 

 the vicissitudes of rail cars and freight houses. The gentleman expected, 

 of course, to find the vines worthless, but the doctor had lately seen the 

 growth that they had made this summer, and never saw a more vigorous 

 one. 



Dr. Trimble read a part of a letter from Mr. Kilpatrick, of Iowa, about 

 the success of vines in that State, which he attributes in a considerable 

 degree to the careful manner in which they are packed at the nursery. He 

 cautions the doctor not to show the letter to the reporter, for fear he might 

 get his name in the paper. 



A New Cotton Pest. 



Mr. Bryce Crawford, Sparta, Randolph county. 111., sends a sample of 

 cotton grown there, inclosing the chrysalis of a worm which has destroyed 

 the crop, which is unlike the common army worm, and old cotton-growers 

 say tliey never saw anything like this before. This worm, Mr. Crawford 

 says, has entirely blasted the hopes of the cotton-growers in that section. 

 In some fields the worm has destroyed every leaf, blossom and young boll, 

 *' We got our seed from Dixie, and if we have imported a new pest, it will 

 be one more evil arising from our slaveholder's rebellion. I send you the 

 worms in their present stage, expecting that they will get their next dress 

 by the time your Club meets, and some of your professors can tell us all 

 about them." The worms were utterly crushed, so that we could not make 

 out anything about them. Insects or worms sent to the Club should be 

 placed in small paper boxes. 



Substitute for Tea. ^ 



Mr. H. S. Alexander sends specimens of a plant which his family use as 

 a substitute for tea, and which he thinks can be cultivated to advantage. 

 The stalks grow very closely together, and from eight to twelve inches 

 high. 



The Chairman remarked that he had never seen anything that had so 

 much of the odor of Young Hyson tea as these leaves. He took them home 

 for trial, and will report their quality. 



The Flax Pest. 



The plant sent by Mr. E. D. "Wright, Pierpont, Ohio, is the Dodder, fully 

 described in our proceedings some weeks since. It comes from seed as 



