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$5, and as effective as the most expensive kind, and not likely to get out 

 of order, and can be transported as easily as a watch, with as little danger 

 of injury. It is made to hang up on the wall of the house, and occupies 

 but little space, not mere than a large apple, and it would undoubtedly- 

 pay every farmer back its cost every month in the year ; and the cost, 

 which has prevented so many buying from a barometer, is now entirely 

 within the reach of any one disposed to have such a useful implement 

 about the house. 



Mrs. Chapman presented peas, which, she stated, grow very large and 

 very fine. These have a light blueish color, and are much shrivelled. 



Subject for nest meeting, "Strawberries, Roses, and Fences. 



T!ie Club adjourned to next Monday. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



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June 13, 1859. 

 Present, 100 members. Rev. D. Campbell in the chair. 

 The Secretary read the following translations, &c., made by him: 



[Jouraale de la Society Imperiale et Centrale. Paris, 1859.] 



Minutes. — The sitting, as always, opened at 2 o'clock P. M. 



Mons. Payen in the chair. 



Earthen ware tickets, to attach to plants, exhibited. 



Insects attacking the heart of the strawberry stem — sometimes the 

 leaveb and flowers — causing considerable damage, were exhibited. They 

 are the Cetoi?ie stictique, a small species of Lamellicorne, found almost 

 everywhere among us, especially about dung heaps. 



The Secretary General lamented the decease of Madame Loudon, a cor- 

 responding member, and justly celebrated for her important horticultural 

 publications. 



Mons. Dumas has seen the immediate effect of the Insecticide powder of 

 the chamomile, Pyrethrzim willemot. All perish promptly where it is 

 spread. It is now well cultivated for insect killing. 



Fragari^ lutidcE, transparent strawberry, has been introduced into 

 England by the celebrated horticulturist, M. E. Van Houtte. It is 

 thought that it may become valuable by means of fecundation from a good 

 strawberry. 



SEEDS OP FRUIT TREES. 

 [From the *' Hamburger Garten und Blumenzeitung." March, 1859.] 



In the Congress of German Pomologists and Grape-growers, at Wies- 

 baden, last October, among many other questions treated, that of seeds of 

 trees was considered. Nuts of fruit, and seeds especially, hardly preserve 

 their vitality more than from two to four years, unless kept in a very dry 

 and x^ool place. It is, however, best always to plant fresh seed. In the 

 Congress the following mode was much insisted on : That is, a trench of 



