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"I refer particularly to tlie practice of forcing tlie growth of the stock 

 and young tree after grafting, by high manuring. I also refer to the prac- 

 tice of using scions in grafting from young, rapidly-growing nursery trees, 

 whose wood is not well ripened, instead of taking them from old, bearing 

 trees, whose wood is of mature growth. I also refer to the practice of di- 

 viding roots, in root grafting, into small pieces, 



" The same objection seems to mo to lie against the -present mode of cul- 

 tivating grapes from buds, and forcing their growth by heat and manures." 



REMEDY FOR THE BUG PEST. 



A letter from Jackson, Michigan, states that the dust of a flouring-mill 

 smut machine, sown upon bug invested plants, will prevent their depreda- 

 tions better than any other dust application. Its odor and taste are offen- 

 sive to the insects. 



The next meeting will be held on Monday, Feb. 27, and the subject of 

 spring crops, generally, will be in order. 



The Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



February 27, 1860, 



Present, 75 members. Mr. Pell in the chair. 



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

 the foreign and home articles received by the Institute, since last meeting, 

 viz : 



TRANSPLANTING TREES. 



The Scientific American, of the 25th February, 1860, copies from an 

 Indiana paper what I know to be a good rule. I have practiced it on 

 thousands of the tenderest plants, having transplanted in the clear sun- 

 shine of a dry, hot day, young peppers and egg plants, the most difficult, 

 without arresting their growth one day, and without coverings. 



The place for the tree is excavated to the proper depth, and of a width 

 to received the suitable roots. This hole must be filled with soft water, 

 the tree set in, and the earth sifted over the roots until enough ; move the 

 tree gently to and fro, on all sides, that the soft, wet earth may be on all 

 sides of every root and fibre. This plan is more tedious than common 

 transplantation, but it would be profitable even on cabbage plants, by acres. 



AMERICAN WINE. 



Connecticut is said to make 200,000 gallons of wine a year from her 

 own grapes. Her tobacco crop is worth $300 per acre. France has four 

 million acres of vineyard j the crop, in good years, is worth 140 millions 

 of dollars. 



Strawberries (it is asserted,) have yielded 160 bushels per acre — sold for 

 $1,300. Judge Howell, of Canandaigua, has a pear tree of the Virgaleu, 

 which has not failed of a crop in 40 years — averaging, the last 20 years, 

 20 bushels, worth $60. The tree is 70 years old. In the State of Missis- 

 sippi there is a pear orchard of 15,000 trees. A southern gentleman sends 



