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great nursery last spring, about $100, principally of the Dela- 

 wares, now growing beautifully. But he is not satisfied with 

 them, and I found him digging — don't be alarmed — he was not 

 digging them up, but he was digging up a great, fruitful bed of 

 strawberry plants, to make room for more Delaware grape vines, 

 80 satisfied is he that this will prove to be the greatest wine 

 grape in America. I don't know but it will be a breach of confi- 

 dence, but I hope to be forgiven for telling that Mr, Hite received 

 last year for some of the surplus products of his little plot of ground, 

 $400 in cash, which was more than enough to pay for hired labor 

 and manure. I tell this to encourage others to go and do like- 

 wise. From Mr. Hite's well-earned reputation as an artist, I 

 would have gone to him for my miniature portrait ; but who 

 would think of going to an artist to learn horticulture ? Yet I 

 have learned a good deal, and in my opinion every one here 

 might learn in the same way something to their life-long advan- 

 tage. Adjourned. 



H. MEIGS, Secretary. 



July 23, 1860. 

 Present, 50 members. Mr. Andrew S. Fuller, of Brooklyn, in 

 the chair. 



FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. 



The Secretary read a letter from the Rev. Mr. Adamson — who 

 on a recent visit to the city of New York, was a constant visitor 

 at the Club, and took a lively interest in its deliberations — detail- 

 ing the effects of the oidion on the grape vine, demonstrating 

 fully that this disease of the grape vine is not, as many have sup- 

 posed, confined to the northern climate. Dr. A. mentions the 

 receipt of a case of seeds and plants from Dr. Livingstone, the 

 great African traveler in the interior of Africa. In return, a lot 

 of American seeds have been transmitted to Dr. Livingstone, to 

 be planted 'in the interior. 



The following communication to a Capetown paper is from 

 Dr. Adamson : 



" Mr. W. Gibbons' interesting report on the botanical gardens 

 was laid before Parliafnent last week. The following are the 

 most important paragraphs of it : 



" There are now in the garden many plants of timber and trees, 

 pincipally coniferse, raised from seeds received from India, Aus- 

 tralia, and elsewhere. It is proposed to distribute these gratis 



