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single bunches of flowers, pinch off the ends of the branches ; they will 

 then flower, but grow no taller. 



GRAFTS. 



William S. Carpenter. — I have here several varieties of scions from my 

 orchard, to present to members. One of which, from France, is a very 

 early variety, of excellent fruit, without a name. 



The Secretary. — Then let us name it. I propose that we call it the 

 Carpenter apple. This was agreed to unanimously. 



Mr. Carpenter also presented, and highly recommended, scions of the 

 GiflFord apple, which ripens in harvest time, and is of fine size and excel- 

 lent quality. It is a variety not well know, but one that I must highly 

 recommend. 



THE FOOD A MAN CONSUMES. 



Solon Kobinson said ; Alex. Soyer's Modern Housewife gives the fol- 

 lowing calculation as the probable amount of food that an epicure of 

 seventy years might have consumed. Suppose his gastronomic performan- 

 ces to commence at ten years, he will make 65,700 breakfasts, dinners, and 

 suppers, to say nothing of luncheons and exti-a feastings. To supply the 

 epicure's table for sixty years, Soyer calculates he will require 30 oxen, 

 200 sheep, 100 calves, 200 lambs, 50 pigs; in poultry, 1,200 fowls, 300 

 turkeys, 150 geese, 400 ducklings, 263 pigeons ; 1,400 partridges, pheas- 

 ants, and grouse ; 600 woodcocks and snipes ; 600 wild-ducks, widgeon, 

 and teal ; 450 plovers, ruffes, and reeves ; 800 quails, ortolans, and dot- 

 terels, and a few guillemots and other foreign birds ; also, 500 hares and 

 rabbits, 40 deer, 120 Guinea fowl, 10 peacocks, and 360 wild-fowls. * In 

 the way of fish, 120 turbot, 140 salmon, 120 cod, 260 trout, 400 mackerel, 

 300 whitings, 800 soles and slips, 400 flounders, 400 red mullet, 200 eels, 

 150 haddocks, 400 herrings, 5,000 smelts, and some hundred thousand of 

 those delicious silvery whitebait, beside a few hundred species of fresh- 

 water fishes. In shell-fish, 20 turtle, 30,000 oysters, 1,500 lobsters, or 

 crabs, 300,000 prawns, shrimps, sardines, and anchovies. In the way of 

 fruit, about 500 pounds of grapes, 360 pounds of pine-apples, 600 peaches, 

 1,400 apricots, 240 melons, and some hundred thousand plums, green- 

 gages, apples, pears, and some millions of cherries, strawberries, raspber- 

 ries, currants, mulberries, and an abundance of other small fruit, viz : 

 walnuts, chestnuts, dry figs and plums. In vegetables, of all kinds, 5,475 

 pounds weight, and about 2,434| pounds of butter, 684 pounds of cheese, 

 21,000 eggs, 800 plovers. Of bread, 4^- tuns, half-a-tun of salt and pep- 

 per, near 2^ tuns of sugar. His drink, during the same period, may be 

 set down as follows: 49 hogsheads of wine, 13,683 gallons of beer, 584 

 gallons of spirits, 342 gallons of liquor, 2,394| gallons of coffee, cocoa, 

 tea, &c., and 304 gallons of milk, 2,736 gallons of water. This mass of 

 food, in sixty years, amounts to no less than 33| tuns weight of meat, 

 farinaceous food and vegetales, &c. ; out of which I have named in detail 

 the probable delicacies that would be selected by an epicure through life. 

 But observe that I did not count the first ten years of his life, at the 



