ZINFINDAL GRAPE. 



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ventilated, and fitted up in an excellent man- 

 ner, are to be found in the neighborhood of many 

 of the larger towns. Boston is in the ad- 

 vance in this matter ; and we hope it is a 

 " notion," that will rapidly spread to other 

 parts of the country. 



The FRONTISPIECE for this number is a 

 reduced copy from a design in a beautiful 

 quarto volume, on schools and school-houses, 

 by H. E. Kendall, Esq., architect, lately 

 published in London. It represents a small 

 school-house, in a style admirably suited to 

 harmonize with rural scenery. It is built of 

 stone, at a cost of £270, but might with pro- 



priety, in this country, be built of wood for 

 about half that amount. "We offer it as 

 a study for those interested in this sub- 

 ject. 



The work in question contains fine designs, 

 beautifully executed, and of much architec- 

 tural merit. In most of them the house of 

 the school-master or mistress adjoins, or forms 

 part of the same building which contains the 

 school, — an arrangement which not only in- 

 creases the importance and good effect of the 

 building, but adds very materially to the fa- 

 cility of preserving the school and all its sur- 

 roundings in the best possible order. 



ZINFINDAL GRAPE— THE CURL IN THE PEACH LEAF. 



BY CHARLES ROBINSON, NEW-IIAVEN. 



Dear Sir : I notice that in the Horticultur- 

 ist for the present month, (p. 568,) you speak 

 of the ZinfindM grape, as being endorsed by 

 the late President and Secretary of our Hor- 

 ticultural Society, as " better for open cul- 

 ture than the Isabella." 



If such were the case, it is passing strange 

 that the fact should not not have transpired 

 here. Surely, when inquiry has been for 

 years constantly made here, as elsewhere, for 

 a grape such as your readers have reason to 

 believe that to be, it will require hard knock- 

 ing to induce me to believe that our President 

 has been all this time cultivating just such a 

 fruit, and while we, his associates in horticul- 

 ture and pomology, have met with him semi- 

 monthly, for the purpose of testing the quali- 

 ty of fruits and for consultation and inquiry 

 upon this precise general subject, that not a 

 whisper should have been heard from him in- 

 dicative of so high an estimation of that fruit. 

 Not even a suggestion that It was at all com- 

 parable in its general properties for open cul- 



ture to the variety so extensively disseminated 

 among us. 



That our Secretary, Mr. Gabriel, did not 

 thus misrepresent that fruit, I am assured 

 from his own lips. In fact, he has never cul- 

 tivated it except under glass, and there I think 

 but one year. At the convention he did not 

 speak of it at all, in reference to open to open 

 culture. Probably Doct. Munson was also 

 misunderstood by the reporter. 



Unfortunately, cultivators are too often In- 

 duced by overdrawn descriptions to incur large 

 expense and much trouble and care in the 

 purchase and rearing of articles, which, after 

 the salesman has made his full profit, result 

 only in disappointment. Such unfortunate 

 misdirection of effort is too apt to induce an 

 inveterate disgust for all suggestions out of 

 the beaten track. 



Too often, indeed, persons of a sanguine tem- 

 perament are impressed with an idea that a 

 certain article, or some particular remedy, or 

 it may be some peculiar mode of culture, is 



