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most of these is about six inches aboie the ground. The second and upper- 

 most about thirteen inches higher. 



On planting the vine it is trimmed until no more than two well constitu- 

 ted eyes are left above the ground, and when the most vigorous of these 

 has pushed out a shoot of six or eight inches in length, the other is pinched 

 off, leaving no more than two leaves. This is done in order that the whole 

 of the sap shall be thrown into the shoot which is preserved. The latter 

 is fastened to the lower wire as soon as it is long enough to reach it. At 

 the end of the first season, before burying the vine in the ground, it is 

 separated from the wires, and the single stalk is cut off to the lenght of 

 about one foot. The next spring, when the vine is uncovered, it is fastened 

 again to the lower wire, and gently twisted in order that the buds, which 

 develop themselves on the two sides, may send their shoots vertically 

 upwards towards the upper wire, to which they are fastened when they 

 attain that height and a sufficient woody consistence to permit it. They 

 are pinched off at the first half above this height, and are not allowed to 

 exceed this height during the continuance of vegetation. 



As respects the eyes which throw out shoots, horizontally, they are fas- 

 tened in that direction to the lower wire. 



The pruning of the second autumn is performed as before, immediately 

 before the vine is buried. Upon detaching it from the wires it falls, by its 

 own weight, to the ground. All the lateral branches are cut down to two 

 eyes, and the horizontal shoots to the length of 12 to 18 inches, according 

 to their strength. The pruning of the succeeding years is performed upon 

 the same general principles. 



■ Treated in this way, M. Marguerritte obtained from his vines about four 

 bunches for each running yard. 



Abstract of a Report on the Cultivation of Asparagus, at 

 Argenteuil, near Paris, by M. Gauthier. 



TRANSLATED BY THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE INSTITUTE. 



The first cutting was sold 28th March. The beds were ten years old; 

 the kind, the ameliorated early rose of Argenteuil. 



The product was considered very large, but is estimated in a local measure, 

 of which no dimension is given. 



The plantations of 1861, from seed sown in 1860, were found to have 

 given and taken more than a metre (39 in.) in height, while the best Dutch 

 variety, sown at the same time and treated in the same manner, had no 

 stalks longer than ten inches. The roots are planted in rows, between 

 rows of vines, and the reporter infers that this method is much better than 

 planting several rows in a bed. An accidental cutting exposed the roots 

 ^of one of the rows, which had penetrated five feet into the ground. 



The soil was a sandy loam, much enriched by long continued application 

 of the street manure of Paris. 



Rev. Mr. Weaver submitted to the Club some specimens of the Adriondac 

 grape from Mr, John W. Bailey, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., and asks that it be 



