■WoDEXETHE. — In describing, or, rather, attempting to describe Woch7uthe in a former page, 

 we found it impossible, in a limited space, to give an idea of half its beauties. There was 

 one little matter, however, that we must refer to as an ingenious application of a portion of 

 the Horticulturist. In erecting new summer chambers for niimerous guests, Mr. S. ingeni- 

 ously employed some of our colored engravings of fruit to assist the frescoes of the ceilings. 

 Groups of flowers taken from French paper-hangings, form the main features, and, at the 

 comers, appear conspicuously a pear, plum, or peach, witJi their rich and correct coloring, 

 forming a very beautiful finish when the whole is covered with a delicate varnish. The 

 conceit worked well in practice, though, we presume, few subscribers would be willing to 

 part these pictures from the volumes where they belong. Mr. Sargent's house is a model 

 on which we may some time descant. 



The Pomological Convention, at Rochester, is now over ; it occurred just as we were going 

 to press. At one time, we thought of delaying our publication, in order to insert its proceed- 

 ings, but found it would make confusion, and, that the Horticulturist having obtained a 

 reputation of late for punctuality, many readers would be disappointed, and, after all, an 

 imperfect and hurried report would be the result. In our next, we shall endeavor to give 

 the particulars. The next event, in our vicinity, is the 



National Agricultukal Exhibition, at Philadelphia, under the able generalship of Colonel 

 Wilder, respecting which all are now on the tip-toe of expectation of a show to outdo itself. 

 It is a little too much in the horse and cattle line, perhaps, for some, but its completeness in 

 other particulars is expected to redeem this feature, even to those exclusively horticulturally 

 inclined. 



Mr. Chorlton, on Grapes, receives a flattering notice from the Chro7iicle, but, as usual, 

 the editor has his fling at America. It says of our grapes : " The process of hybridizing 

 seems to promise advantages, notwithstanding the bad quality, as we think, of the native 

 American grapes. Their mucilaginous pulp, and strong musky or foxy flavor, render them 

 unpalatable here." No doubt, because you have not half sun enough to ripen them. It 

 would be just as correct to depreciate the pine-apple, because it won't ripen in the open aix 

 in that paradise of smoke, London. (See Mr. Chorlton's reply, page 484.) 



The Pepper Vine. — A correspondent reminds us, regarding the Ampelopsis bipinnata, that 

 in Torrey and Gray's Flora of North America, the Ampelopsis hipinnata of Michaux is given 

 as Vitis bipinnata. It grows in damp, rich soils, from Virginia to Georgia, and west to 

 Arkansas. Stem upright, or somewhat twining. Berries globose, as large as a small pea, 

 blackish when ripe, and slightly hairy ; a much handsomer plant than the A, hederacea. 



Tlie Ampelopsis cordata is the Vitis Indivisa of Torrey and Gray's Flora. It has a cordate, 

 somewhat three-lobed leaf, three to four inches broad, and coarsely serrate. It grows in 

 swamps, in the Southern States, and west to Louisiana and Arkansas. It has a long, twining, 

 smooth stem, and a berry a little larger than a pepper-corn. 



