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necticut, than the Isabella. Dr. Munson | Besides these proceedings of the Con- 

 has cultivated it for years, finds it not apt j gress, this pamphlet contains 36 pages ol 

 to mildew, and ripening more completely j reports from fruit committees in various 

 and regularly than the Isabella. Mr. Par- states, which, though necessarily imperfect, 

 sons said it succeeded perfectly well in the j from the unparalleled shortness of the fruit 

 open air. This grape is therefore worthy | crop of last year, nevertheless contain many 



of trial in other parts of the country. 



The merits of the Red Antwerp Rasp- 

 berry (the large fruited sort) were stated 

 by our neighbor, Mr. Barratt, of Milton, 

 on the Hudson — a village remarkable for 

 its superb crops of this fruit. Mr. B. said 

 the Red Antwerp, " as a market fruit, is 

 better than any other variety, bearing car- 

 riage well, and not being exceeded by any 

 in flavor. It sold in New- York for 22 cents 

 a quart, and from three-quarters of an acre 



facts and suggestions of considerable value 

 to the pomologist. 



We trust the next session of the Con- 

 gress, which is to be held at Cincinnati in 

 September, will be far richer in all respects 

 than either of the foregoing ones. Our 

 friends at the west are making liberal pre- 

 parations for the occasion, and we hope the 

 chairmen of the various fruit committees, 

 as well as amateur and professional fruit- 

 growers, are all busy, accumulating stores 



he had realized S330, at an average of ten of information, to lay before that assembly, 

 cents per basket. There was a cultivator 



in his neighborhood who sold SI, 500 worth 

 from three acres, and that last year — a very 

 unfavorable season — the crop lasting but 

 three weeks instead of five." 



There was a singular discussion about 

 the Early Virginia and Large Early Scarlet 

 strawberries. Mr. Hovey, of Boston, in- 

 sisted they were identical, while Mr. Barry, 

 of N. Y., Mr. Hancock, of N. J., Mr. Mc- 

 Intosh, of Ohio, and the editor of this 

 journal, not only considered them distinct, 

 but rated the Large Early Scarlet a good- 

 sized production, and an excellent sort, and 

 the Early Virginia a small and inferior one. 

 Mr. McIntosh thought the Early Virginia 

 small and worthless, and had rooted out the 

 variety in his collection, and replaced it 

 with the Large Early Scarlet. Notwithstand- 



II. The Farmer's Guide to Scientific and Prac- 

 tical Agriculture. By Henry Stephens. Amer- 

 ican edition; edited by John P. Norton. New- 

 York: published by Leonard Scott &. Co. 

 Thil, as we understand it, is a modified 

 and condensed re-print of " Stephens' Book 

 of the Farm," one of the most elaborate 

 and carefully written of modern treatises 

 on agriculture. 



The work is published in Edinburgh, 

 and re-printed here from stereotype plates 

 sent over by the foreign publishers, at a 

 very low price — So for the whole work, or 

 25 cents a number. Two numbers are al- 

 ready issued, and the others will follow ra- 

 pidly. 



The American edition is edited by Prof. 

 Norton, of Yale College, a name honorably 

 associated with the agricultural interests of 

 the United States. We shall therefor 



ing this, we believe the question of the 



identity of the two sorts is still entertained pect copious notes, calculated to render the 



by Mr. Hovey, and we trust specimens of 



the true Large Early Scarlet, (which we 

 think is hardly known in Boston,) will be 

 sent to the Mass. Hort. Society, to set- 

 tle it. 



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work more useful to home readers. 



Mr. Stephens' Book of the Farm is a 

 most valuable work to the agricultural stu- 

 dent, and to such we can warmly recom- 

 mend the present publication. For the 



