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Letters were road from Geo. Suckley, of New York ; R. 

 Kennicott, of West Northlield, 111. ; William Stimpson, of 

 Washington, D.C.; and from Hon. T. Davis, M. C, forward- 

 ing documents of 35th Congress. 



The Chair occupied a portion of the evening in reading the 

 articles on " Grafting with Fruit Buds," and the " Hubbard 

 and Autumnal Marrow Squashes," which appeared in the 

 February and March numbers of Plovey's Magazine of Horti- 

 ticulture, commenting on the articles as he proceeded. He 

 fully agreed with the writer of the first article, respecting the 

 alleged value of the practice, which, however, was neither new 

 nor exclusively a French invention, as claimed under the 

 name of Graft Luizet ; Mr. Hovey, in the above article, 

 shows conclusively that, many years previous to the date of 

 the claimed discovery, the late Capt. Josiah Lovett of Beverly, 

 had practised it with success. The Chair also brought for 

 ward from his own recollection, instances of the same prac- 

 tice, and called upon any pomologists present to offer any 

 facts known to them on the same process of fruit culture. 

 Mr. Lovett's well known enterprise and eminent success 

 in his use of the method (which we have reasons to think 

 was shown him by Mr. John M. Ives, and employed, previ- 

 ously, in his own nursery grounds in North Salem,) should 

 be a matter of interest to his fellow citizens. The article 

 was recommended to general perusal for its value and the 

 circumstances connecting it with the interests of the Es- 

 sex Institute. 



The Chair, related what he knew of the origin of the cel- 

 ebrated Autumnal Marrow Squash, which that gentleman was 

 so prominent in extensively distributing. He spoke of the 

 first description as it appeared in the New England Farmer, 

 (1834,) written by himself — and of the beautiful and accurate 

 wood cut, executed by Dr. Geo. A. Perkins of this city ; 

 of the enthusiasm of the late Hon. John Lowell, in regard 



