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and cover over others with a paper dipped in the white of 

 eggs. 



The Chairman promised to report hereafter how he succeeded 

 in keeping tomatoes. 



It was suggested that preserving grapes, plums, potatoes and 

 other roots, &c., should also be discussed at the next meeting. 

 TOMATO FIGS. 



To some it may be a new fact, that a variety of figs may be easily 

 prepared from the common tomato, which are quite superior to 

 many of the imported figs in the market. We have seen them 

 after being kept a year, simply wrapped in paper, and found 

 them moist and quite delicious. Mrs. Eliza Marsh, who has put 

 up the best we have seen, pursued tlie following method : 



" Pour boiling water over the tomatoes, in order to remove the 

 skin; then weigh them and place tliem in a stone jar, with as much 

 sugar as you have tomatoes, and let them stand two days; then 

 pour off the syrup, and boil and skim it until no scum rises. 

 Then pour it over tlie tomatoes, and let them stand two days, as 

 before; then boil and skim again. After the third time, they are 

 fit to dry, if the weather is good; if not, let them stand in the 

 syrup until drying weather. Then place on large earthen plates 

 or dishes, and put them in the sun to dry, which Avill take about 

 a week, after which pack them down in small wooden boxes, with 

 fine white sugar between every layer. Tomatoes prepared in 

 this manner will keep for years." 



A few apples cut up and boiled in the remainder of this syrup 

 makes a very nice sauce. 



John W. Hanford, of 125 Ainslie-street, Brooklyn, presented 

 a seedling peach from a tree four years raised from the pit; this 

 tree bore this season twenty peaches of nine to ten inches in cir- 

 cumference. On trying the quality of this peach the ladies pre- 

 sent gave the opinion, which was seconded by the gentlemen, viz : 

 that the peach was a very good one, and ought to bear the name 

 of the raiser, the "Hanford Peach," Avhich was unanimously 

 adopted by the Club. 



Mr. Henry Weld, a recent settler on the banks of the Lake 

 Ronkonkoma, on Long Island, presented fine corn grown on his 

 land near the lake, dressed with common barn-yard manure. 

 Also good red potatoes on same land, without any manure what- 

 ever. These lands are about fifty miles from New- York, and in 

 sight of the Long Island railroad. Those lands, long neglected, 

 are now being settled. The agent, Charles Wood, at 208 Broad- 



