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the runners kept carefully cut off. The seed-bed must be made 

 in a shady spot, and kept well watered. 



The Chairman asked Mr. Fuller if, among all his seedlings, he 

 had got one superior to any other ? 



Mr. Fuller. — If I thought I had, I would not say so — there is 

 so much humbug about introducing new things, I recommend 

 the cultivation of seedlings, because we have not yet reached 

 perfection in strawberries, and I do not despair in getting a 

 ncAv one as prolific as the Wilson and as high flavored as the 

 Swainstone. The gentlemen who examined my seedlings, last 

 week, decided that some of them possessed superior qualities. 

 So I think, but I shall not name any of them until another year 

 of careful trial. Then, if others still think them worthy of cul- 

 tivation, they will be given to the public. 



PRESERVED FRUITS. 



L. H. Spear, of Braintree, Vermont, exhibited a number of 

 specimens of fruits put up without sealing. They are cooked to 

 about the same degree, and keep as well as fruits in sealed cans. 

 The process is a secret, but is very inexpensive and efficient. 



The strawberry question will be continued next Monday. 



Adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



June 25, 1860. 

 Present — 58 members. C, M. Saxton, of New Jersey, in the 

 chair. 



JAPAN AND ITS TRADE. 



The Secretary, Judge Meigs, read the following papers, upon 

 trade with Japan : 



A hasty remark last Monday, discouraging trade with Japan, 

 induces me to say that our charter is to promote agriculture, 

 commerce, manufactures, and the arts. 



Our first duty is raising the best and greatest crops, and the 

 next duty is to supply all nations from our surplus. One hun- 

 dred years ago we sent to the world more breadstuffs than w© 

 did last year, and we were renowned for the results of our com- 

 merce with Indians for furs and skins I I see no reason then for 

 neglecting the opening trade with the thirty millions of Japanese, 

 any more than that with our savages, or that with thirty millions 



