am wrong. But otliomiso, then tho least Imrtful potations wo can introduce and make 

 customary, tlio better. I sincerely believe, from what I have already seen, that our native 

 wiiu^s will meet this object. Tliis is our experience here, and the fact is fully sustained by 

 all who have visited tho wine countries of EurojKJ. Quite an impartial opinion, you will say, 

 coming from a wine-grower II It is not every doctor, however, that likes to take his own 

 me<licine, and I confess, for ray part, that I prefer a cup of buttermilk at dinner, in summer, 

 to the best glass of wine that ever sparkled on tho board. But tastes differ, and many would 

 prefer the wine. 



In looking at this matter in all its bearings, I am disposed to adopt tho views of honest 

 FaihcT Mulroonetj, expressed, some forty years ago, to his flock in a western town. 



The good man had a hard set to deal with — a froUicking, rollicking, drinking congregation 

 as could be found in the suburbs of any city, and they fairly worried the life out of him, as 

 he said. At last, after a strong temperance exhortation, which he feared would have no 

 effect, he closed as follows : " Now, I am afraid all this admonition will be thrown away on 

 you hardened sinners. You know you have been vexing the very life out of me, you 

 haythcn, and sorra the bit do I believe you will heed me ; so, if you ivill drink, and make 

 brute bastes of yourselves, go to Barney CoyWs; he is a dacent lad, and keeps the best 

 liquors in tho town." 



Let us apply this to the native wine. R. Bpchanax. 



Cincinnati, August 19, 1856. 



TuE HoKEY Peach of China. — For the history and a drawing of this fruit I refer to the 

 first volume of the Uorticulturist, page 382. I obtained from my friend Mr. Chas. Downing, 

 about three years ago, cuttings from the seedlings, and on the 30th July last, succeeded in 

 maturing three on the tree ; it corresponds very nearly with the plate, with the exception 

 it has a sharper point, and is not quite so large, which I attribute to the excessive drought 

 we have labored under this summer, scarcely any of our peaches being half the ordinary 

 size ; the tree, or more properly speaking, the bush, is hardly thirty inches high ; but I 

 tliink with ordinary seasons the tree as well as fruit will be much larger. Around the pit 

 the flesh has the appearance of a very ripe fig, half dried, and is as distinct and marked in 

 its taste as honey itself ; one or two would be as many as any person would desire to eat at 

 one time. I flatter myself I have been the first to fruit it in America. I exhibited it on 

 yesterday to the fruit committee of our State Agricultural Society ; all agreed it was the 

 most remarkable, distinct, and richest peach they ever tasted. I consider now that with 

 my two varieties, the Chinese cling and honey peach, I have the rarest and the best 

 peaches on the continent. Henry Lyoxs. 



Laurel Park, Columbia, S. C, August 2, 1856. 



lortitultiirnl ^otieties. 



PcsssYLVANiA HoRTiiTT.TrRAL SOCIETY. — Tbc Stated meeting of this Society occurred, at the Concert IlaU, on 

 Tuesday evening, August 19, 1856, Df. W. P. Brinckle in the chair. Premiums were awarded as follows, viz : — 



Committee on Plants and Flowers. CoHtetion of twelve — to Julin PoUucIc, gr. to ,1. Dundas ; for the second to 

 Chas. Sutherland, gr. to J. Anspach. Collectioji of s-ix — to Mark Hill, gr. to M. W. Baldwin. Specimen I'lunt — 

 to J. Pollock ; second to C. Sntlierland. Tithhi Dinign — second to J. J. Habermelil. Bunkii — the same ; second 

 to Mark Hill. Bouqtiets — best pair to Henry A. Dreer; second to J. J. Habermehl. Nelo Plant — three dollars, 

 for a fine Allamanda Sieboldii, first time shown, to J. Pollock ; one dollar, for Achimeues Am'brosie Verchaffeltii, 

 pretty, to Robert IJuist. Sptciid — two dollars to H. A. Dreer, for a fine basket; to R. Kilviugton, for two table 

 designs; to J. J. Habermehl, for fine German Asters. 



Committee on Fruit. Grapes — three bunches of a black variety, to J. Riley, Asylum ; second, William 

 Grassie, gr. to J. Tucker; for tliree bunches of white to J. Riley ; second to Chas. Sutherland. Plums, twenty- 

 four specimens of six varieties — to J. McLaughlin, gr. to J. B. Baxter. Pearx — the same. ApjjUs, best tlixee 

 varieties — to S. W. Noble, of Montgomery Co. Special Premiums of one dollar to G. W. Earle, for plums ; to 

 J. Lindsay, for Bolmar's Washington Plums ; to M. Hill, for two new varieties of watermelons. 



Committee iin Vegetables. For the best display, by a market gardener, to A. L. Felten. 



On motion, ordered that the President appoint delegates to attend the sixth session of the American Pomolo- 

 gical Society, to be held at Rochester, New York, 26th of September. 



