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In regard to treatment of peach trees, care should be first taken to plant 

 the seeds in the right position, which is always point end downward. In 

 trimming peach trees our best growers trim the young stalk to a straight 

 stick, so that it will put out branches evenly all round. In transplanting 

 be careful never to set the tree below the cotyledon. In trimming, do it in 

 spring, and shorten in two kinds of the new wood the first and second year ; 

 and don't cut next to the double buds. Make your trees stiff in the limbs, 

 so that none bend over like a willow when in fruit. In Jersey, after trees 

 have borne four crops, they are given up and new ones set. Some of the 

 large peach orchards are very roughly planted in Jersey. But I would 

 plant peach trees just as I do pear trees, in four foot holes. I would prune 

 grape-vines in the fall, in all cases, so far as possible. The middle of No- 

 vember is the right time. The cuttings may be kept in a cellar or 

 in dry soil. The best way to prune pear trees is to pinch in the buds in 

 summer. 



Adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



March 26fh, 1860. 



Present sixty members. Adrian Bergen, of Brooklyn, in the chair. 



The Secretary read the following translations and extracts from foreign 

 and domestic works received by the institute, since the last meeting, viz : 



We have recorded in our transactions of 1859, the illustrious act of 

 Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia, in clothing his hills and mountains 

 which have been naked of trees at least one thousand years, with_/iue mil- 

 lion of trees ! We deem this a truly royal paternal act, and we send him 

 our volumes and a note of high respect, viz : 



{Copy.) 



United States op America, State op New York, ) 

 City of New York, American Institute. J 



Sir : — We have recorded in our Agricultural Transactions, published by 

 our State of New York, the noble and royal acts of your Majesty, in re- 

 placing with new forests, those long lost on your hills. We are charmed 

 with the act, as one of magnificeiit good to millions, and as claiming even 

 in America, yet so nohly forested our admiration. 



Be pleased to accept our volumes and the most sincere assurance of our 

 profound respect. We salute you hoping that political trouble may not 

 disturb your paternal care of the vesture of your mountains and plains. 

 For the American Institute, 



Your Majesty's ob't sev't 



H. MEIGS, Recording Secretary. 

 Victor Emmanuel, King of Sardinia. (79 years of age.) 



