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R. Gr. Pardee. — I agree that this is a rather loose way of determining a 

 question ; but perhaps it will be expected that we should express some 

 opinion. If there is any better way of getting at it, I shall be happy to 

 agree with that proposition. 



Solon Robinson. — I will name that better way. Let this question be 

 continued till next meeting, which shall be next Monday, and appoint a 

 committee of five now, who shall take the matter under advisement, and 

 report to the Club next Mouday their opinion, and then we will agree 

 with it or not, just as we like. 



This proposition was agreed to, and the following named gentlemen 

 appointed as the Strawberry Committee: S. W. Huntsman, A. P. Cum- 

 ings, R. Gr. Pardee, Dr. Knight, John G. Bergen. 



ROSES AND FLOWERS. 



This was one of the subjects fixed upon for discussion, but there was no 

 time for it, and it was, with the other subjects of this day, continued till 

 the next, and a fine collection of roses, peonies, &c., brought in by Mr. 

 Prince, and others, were distributed, very much to the satisfaction of the 

 large number of women present, who, although not taking part in the dis- 

 cussions, added great interest to the meeting, which was the largest and 

 most interesting we have had in, the new rooms. 



Mr. Meigs. — I cultivated a Chili strawberry many years ago. Middling 

 size, figure more like a large raspberry, pale flesh-color, exceedingly fine 

 flavor. I covered the beds with the refuse sweepings of the bark, dirt, and 

 little chips of a winter's wood pile. The crop was profuse. 



Mr. Huntsman. — The cross between South American and English straw- 

 berries is good. Yet our North American will not cross with the English 

 strawberry, according to Mr. Prince. 



Mr. Meigs availed himself of the occasion to remind members of the 

 hiigh eminence of horticulture, by adverting to the history of the Prince 

 Garden, at Flushing. In the time of the grandfather of eur present 

 Prince, the British army having defeated our army in the battle of Long 

 Island, marched to Flushing under General Howe, and on the 29th of 

 August, 1777, two days after the battle, the General stationed a guard 

 for the protection of the garden. That Prince was a lineal descendant of 

 the celebrated Thomas Prince, who was Governor of Plymouth Colony i^or 

 eightee'n years, after 1G21. The garden was called the " Linnaean Botanic 

 Garden." 



So much for ihe honor of a garden ! The same army passed over to 

 New York, and converted the church (now our Post Office) into a circus, 

 tore away all the pews, and galloped about inside ! 



In 1776, the Prince garden contained full grown fruit trees, of which 

 no less than thirty thousand were of the English grafted cherry. 



Next subject, " Summer Fruits and Flowers." 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



