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Mr. Burr of Washington city, employs an able graftsman in 

 his nursery. He uses stocks of three years' growth to engraft. 

 The yellows in peach trees are produced by red spiders, invisible 

 except with microscope. Tillage generally conquers this evil. 

 Sulphur properly applied, oftsn cures it. The eai-th in the peach 

 orchard must be well stirred. 



Eev. Mr. White of Staten Island, stated his mode of saving 

 cabbages from club-foot. One is to avoid the use of hog manure. 



Mr. Lodge who has been a constant farmer and gardener all 

 his tife time (over fifty years,) said that to raise cabbages per- 

 fectly good, he breaks up well his soil two feet and a half deep I 

 uses some of the phosphates as fertilizers, presses the eai-th about 

 the root of the cabbage with his dibble. Cabbage loves nev) soils 

 and deep tillage! 



The Secretary had seen the effect of hog manure on cabbage, 

 so as to spoil the cabbages entirely. 



Mr. Lodge — And yet it is excellent for onions and leeks ! 



The thanks of the Club were unanimously voted to D. Jay 

 Browne, Esq., of the patent oflB.ce, for large parcels of valuable 

 European seeds, collected there by him — some of which are sent 

 to this Club for distribution. 



Mr. Avery presented fine sweet corn seeds. 



Mr. George E. Waring, jr., stated that Prof. Mapes on deep 

 tilled land on his Jersey farm, grew twelve thousand cabbages on 

 a single acre — they formed a perfect mulch — no ground can be 

 seen. 



Mr. Lodge — We often see great leaves on them with little heads. 

 I plant my drumhead cabbages four feet apart. 



Mr. Vail — But excellent drumheads are raised at two feet 

 apart ! 



Mr. Waring — That's ten thousand per acre. 



The Chairman — Of early Yorks probably. 



Mr. Lodge — The cabbage field wants much of the plow and 

 hard hands work. 



Next subject ordered, " Pruning and Transplanting." Ad- 

 journed. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



April 17, 1855. 

 Present — ^Messrs. Stafford, George Bacon, Prof. J. J. Mapes, Dr. 

 Swift, Mr. Antonides, George B. Rapelye, Hon. R. S. Livingston, 

 Geo. E. Waring, Jr., Solon Robinson, Dr. Edgar S. Peck, of 



