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CULTIVATING PEACH TREES. 



Dr. Trimble said that he had an orchard one year very fully 

 set with peaches, and Avhile so he put on a quantity of manure, 

 and plowed it in, breaking the roots, on purpose, to prevent the 

 trees, which were young, from bearing a heavy crop and it had 

 the effect. 



The next meeting will discuss the proper manner of cultiva 

 ting corn and fruit, and the pest of fruit-growers. 



The catalogue of seeds, plants, &c., by Alfred Bridgeman, was 

 presented ; and Mr, Meigs took this opportunity to say, that 

 frauds in the sale of seeds and plants are proverbial, not omit- 

 ting those furnished in the market of Barataria by the honest 

 and Avise Don Sancho Panza, the Governor of that distinguished 

 Island of the admirable Cervantes De Saavedra. A fraud of this 

 sort robs a man of his time more precious than life ; he waits in vain, 

 the promised Beurre pear proves a choak ! Not one in a hundred 

 thousand men is a careful and accurate observer ; he looks abroad 

 and defines nothing, stars or insects all one. Science so limited 

 in its knowing ones, is confined (said John Baptist Say, in 1804, 

 one of the most approved political economists) to so small a number 

 of men, that all of* them in France can find perfect accommoda- 

 tion in the smallest room in Paris. The Club adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



May 28, 1860. 

 Present — 72 members. Dr. Trimble in the chair. 



GIANT ASPARAGUS. 



Mr. Peeks, of Oyster Bay, exhibited specimens of a giant aspa- 

 ragus, grown at Oyster Bay, and originated from seed at Matini- 

 cock, L. I., the bed of which is now some thirty years old. Some 

 of the stalks are nearly an inch in diameter. He stated that he 

 had about four acres, which he called only a " small patch," be- 

 cause some others had more than twice as much, and he had been 

 told that one man near Jamaica has seventy acres. His bods are 

 made upon good potato land, plowed deep, and highly manured 

 with stable, or hog-pen manure. At one year from seed, the 

 plants are set in rows four feet apart, and fifteen or twenty inches 

 apart in the rows. We trench fourteen inches deep, with manure 



