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Bize, but not so email as straws, at about one-third the price of 

 mine. If Mr. Brown will send a three-cent stamp to Dr. Grant 

 and get his catalogue, he will see what sort of vines, and the 

 price, are sent to order, and I think that this club will unani- 

 mously agree with me that his vines may be taken as a fair 

 standard, and that the people who are anxious to plant vines 

 should not be cheated by having inferior ones palmed off upon 

 them. It is that that discourages them, and sets back the grape 

 cultivation more than all that w^e have said in its favor for years 

 can set it forward. 



Not only in vines, but in all the products of the nursery, there 

 has been cheating enough in the vicinity of this city — if Sodom 

 and Gomorrah burnings were fashionable in these days — to call 

 down a shower of fire and brimstone large enough to overwhelm 

 the whole tree-growing fraternity. And I don't know where I 

 could put my finger upon five of them honest enough to avert the 

 ehower. 



If there is any dissent to my opinion of what buyers have a 

 right to expect as a good vine, I hope members will express it, 

 and let me put it on record. If our authority is worth anything, 

 let- the country have the benefit of it. 



To these sentiments the club made no objections, but some of 

 the members thought them eminently just. 



THE CURCULIO. 



Dr. Humphrey recommends burning tar, mixed witji sulphur, 

 under trees infested with curculia, to get rid of this pest. 



The Chairman exhibited plums, all of which are marked with 

 the curculio thus early in the- season. 



CORN CULTURE. 



Wm. Lawton called up this subject. 



The Chairman said that he had always found it advantageous 

 to plant corn early. It is much less work, as a general thing, to 

 tend it. In protecting fields from crows, he has found the best 

 remedy to tie young crows to strings stretched across the field. 

 Their calls drew a great many old crows which came to see what 

 the matter was, and went off and kept off that year and the 

 next. 



Mr. Feek stated that a very troublesome case of crow depre- 

 dation was cured by suspending young crows dead, which so 

 alarmed the old ones that they left in disgust. He finds tarring 



