222 TOANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



'' Two hundred and forty-five bushels potatoes sold for fifty 

 cents per bushel, $122.50, 



" The variety is red cups, a fine potato, cooking white and 

 dry. I shall now sow this ground with wheat, and seed it down 

 with grass, using a small addition of manure, with a fair prospect 

 of a good crop of wheat next July. 



September 10, 1860. 

 Present, 59 members. Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter in the chair. 

 A letter was read from Mr. George G. Fosshet, West Stock- 

 bridge, Mass : 



" I have been an attentive reader of the discussions in the 

 Farmers' Club, and have derived no inconsiderable amount of 

 information from that source within the past year. I have been 

 informed that it is customary for those desiring information, to 

 address questions through you or some other member to the 

 Club. I have therefore taken the liberty to inclose herein a 

 specimen of a w-eed or plant, which I should be glad to have you 

 exhibit before the Club, that they may discuss and answer the 

 following questions for the benefit of farmers in this and the 

 adjoining counties in the State of New York. The plant grows 

 from eight to eighteen inches high, covering the wdiole ground 

 in a dense mass, to the exclusion of all kinds of grass and grain. 

 When it has once taken root, it will frequently over-run whole 

 fields aiid even farms, to the great damage of the owners. The 

 questions wdiich I propose to ask, are : What is the name of the 

 weed ? What is it good for ? What will destroy it or prevent 

 its growing? 



" Also the following additional questions : 



"At what time of year should the seed of evergreens be sown, 

 as, for instance, Arbor Vitae? 



" How can seed be raised and saved to produce double flowers, 

 when the double flowers do not produce seed ; or how can double 

 flowers be made to produce seed such as balsams, dahlias, &c. ? 



"I have tried in vain to raise seed from the Camelia-flowered 

 balsam, but I find the double flowers do not produce seed, but 

 only single blossoms, and I very rarely succeed in getting seed 

 from a fine double dahlia. 



" If there is any w^ay that can be divulged to us people here 

 in the country, whereby we can save seeds from such flowers, we 



