10 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



6. Culture of Pears. 



7. do Apples. 



8. do Asparagus. 



9. do Sorghum. 



10. Preservation and ripening of fruits. 



11. Detention houses and fruit rooms. 



12. Country houses and their surroundings. 



13. California wines. 

 1-1. Bee keeping. 



15. Drain tiles and draining. 



16. Management of manures. 



17. Preparation of food for cattle, including the cutting and 

 chaiSng of hay, pulping of roots, steaming of food, &c. 



18. Culture, preservation and feeding of root crops. 



19. Proper fall treatment of clayey soils. 



20. Proper fall treatment of sandy soils. 



21. Culture and care of flowers. 



22. Labor-saving implements. 



23. Mushrooms and their culture. 



24. Truffles, their use, amount imported, &c., &c. 



25. New methods of tilling the soil. 



Many of these meetings have been reported by the Clerk, Mr. 

 Chambers, and will be found in the Transactions of the Institute, 

 and therefore need no repetition here. 



In relation to No. 2 (culture of strawberries), your committee 

 feel pleasue in saying that although it occupied an hour each day 

 for three or more meetings, yet the interest was well sustained, 

 and in no book extant is there as much information given on this 

 subject as was there offered on strawberries. 



No. 3. Grapes included all the known methods of culture, inclu- 

 ding pruning, &c., &c., with practical and didactic operations on 

 vines furnished by the members. Specimens of grapes of all the 

 best known kinds were exhibited and distributed among those in 

 attendance. 



No. 6. Pears and their culture have been more fully discussed in 

 our Club than elsewhere, so far as is known to your committee. 

 Specimens were freely sent for distribution, both of pears and all 

 other fruits; and when items Nos. 10 and 11 were discussed, the 

 display of fruit was highly creditable. 



No 9. Sorghum. The making of sugar from the sorghum and 

 imphee was a most interesting subject, rendered doubly important 

 by the increased manufacture of the West during the last two 

 years. This new industry promises to render the United States 

 quite independent of foreign growers in the production of sugar, 



