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of his letter, our comments make him appear ; but he is careless 

 in his punctuation. The difBculty about making himself under- 

 stood comes out of that dash after "126 square feet — " and a 

 want of a comma after plants. 



Now, let us reconstruct this sentence for the benefit of all 

 future writers, as well as those who misunderstood the first 

 statement : 



" The space of ground occupied by the plants, is just 126 super- 

 ficial feet less than one-tenth of an acre." 



This is plain. The other is not. 



Wm. S. Carpenter read a letter from Mr. C. to the same efiiect. 

 The bed was 128 feet by 33 feet, which Mr. C. finds 132 feet less 

 than one-tenth of an acre. The cash results were $116.14. Mr. 

 C. thinks that he can grow 400 bushels of Wilson's seedlings per 

 acre on land thoroughly prepared by trenching. 



THE FEEJEE TOMATO. 



Mr. Carpenter show-ed specimens of this tomato, which is one 

 of the most solid and meaty of all the varieties ; and exactly like 

 the kind of which seeds were sold last spring at high prices 

 under the name of " the perfected tomato." It was a cheat, so 

 far as the name is concerned, and so far as it was represented to 

 be an entirely new sort. 



A NEW SEEDLING GRAPE 



"Was introduced by Mr. Reynolds, of New Jersey, now nearly 

 ripe. It is very sweet, small size, but has a thick skin. 



CICADA THE LOCUST. 



Dr. Trimble — I found yesterday the eggs of the locust are 

 beginning to hatch, and the young insect is as perfect in shape 

 as the old ones, of a perfect white color, and no larger than one 

 of the eggs. 



THE POTATO ROT. 



The Secretary asked the question whether any members of the 

 Club had observed the potato rot disease anywhere this season? 



Only one person reported having seen any symptoms, and that 

 slight upon the Prince Albert sort. 



Mr. Carpenter said that he had lately traveled in several coun- 

 ties near here in this State, Connecticut and New Jersey, and 

 had not seen or heard of the disease anywhere, although he had 

 inquired of a great many persons. Mr. Carpenter advocates 

 early harvesting of potatoes, before the vines are entirely dead. 



