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"which grew so compactly as to appear at a little distance to be perfectly 

 solid. 



Mr. E. Williams, New Jersey, exhibited seedling apples, much resemb- 

 ling Rhode Island greenings, thongh with a sharper acid, reported as oidy 

 second-rate for eating, but excellrnt for cooking. The tree is a very free 

 bearer. Some pears exhibited by the chairman, from trees which he bought 

 for Easier Beurre, were decided by Mr. Carpenter and Mr. Bergen to be 

 Beiirrc d'Aiijou. Some Duchessc pears from a tree allowed to bear all the 

 fruit that set, showed the bad policy of that practice, the fruit being only 

 about half the usual size, 



Mr. Carpenter made a statement that in Mr. Knox's vineyard at Pitts- 

 burgh, Pennsylvania, vines planted six feet apart — 1.295 per acre — yielded 

 fifteen pounds per vine ; which would give a result of 19,425 pounds per 

 acre. 



Dr. Trimble thought it wrong for the club to tell of such large yields. 

 Mr. Solon Robinson thought it best always to tell the truth. Mr. George 

 Bartlett thought the club might positively assert that ten tons per acre 

 could easily be produced. 



The One Hundred Dollar Prize for Apples. 



Mr. Carpenter announced that the Greeley prize of $100 for the best 

 bushel of apples was open to all the world, that some had already been 

 received, that others would be, and that all received would be examined 

 by the committee on the first day of each of the months of November, De- 

 cember, January and February, and afterwards exhibited to the public at 

 the rooms of the institute, 



A Glass Fruit Jar. 



Mr. Williams exhibited a glas fruit jar invented by Griffin & Titus, New 

 York, which was examined and approved by the club. The cover is of 

 glass, ground into the jar, and made perfectly tight by a gasket of India 

 rubber. The top is held on by a curiously formed piece of malleable iron 

 which operates as a screw upon the neck of the jar. It is a fact worth 

 knowing, that after jars become perfectly cool, there is no need of outside 

 pressure, and the screw clamps may be removed and applied to others. 

 This appears to be the most convenient form of jars yet exhibited. 



How TO Send Insects by Mail. 



Dr. Trimble desires to call particular attention to the proper mode of 

 sending insects by mail. One lately sent to Mr, Robinson in a bottle was 

 nothing but a mass of mold. Others sent in loose paper in letters were 

 crushed out (jf all shape. They should be put up in pasteboard boxes. 



The Circulation of Sap. 



Mr. S. Crosby, La Grange, Indiana, at the last meeting presented the 

 following (pieslions to the club, in hopes to get an answer upon scientific 

 and rational principles : 



"Does the sap in trees remain stationary or dormant when the timber is 



