DOMESTIC NOTICES. 



Grapes. 



Under Glass, M'liite Frniitigiinii, 



Black Hiiinimig, While Muscui ol'Alex'dria. 



Bliick Priiire, 0)>eii Culture. 



Black Fioiiligiiaii, Calawlja, 



Chas«ela« de Koiilaiiiebleau. Isaliella. 

 Grizzly FroiUignaii, 



Raspberries. 

 Fa>ti)lf, Reil Antwerp, 



Fraiicoiiia, Yellow AiUwerp. 



Strawbetrits. 

 Boston Pine, Jeiiiiey's Seedling, 



Hovey's Seedling, Large Early Scarlet. 



Currants. 

 Black Naples, AVliiie Dutch, 



May's Victoria, AVhite Grape. 



Red Dutch, 



Gooseberries. 

 Crown Bob, Houghton's Seedling, 



Early Sulphur, Iroii-nioiiger, 



Green Gage, l.aurel, 



Green Waliiut, Warrington, 



Red Champagne, AVoodward's While Smith. 



New varieties which promise well. 

 Apples. 

 Autumn Bough, Mother, 



Hawley, Norllierii Spy, 



Melon, Smoke House. 



Pears. 

 Brandywine, liimon, 



Brande's St. Germain, Manning's Elizabeth, 



Beurre Gifl'ard, Nouveau I'oileau, 



Chancellor, Onondaga, 



Doyenne Boussock, Oit, 



Doyenne Goubault, Pralt, 



Ducliesse d'Orleans, Paradise d'Automne, 



Ducliesse de Berii, St. Michel Arcliange, 



DiUer, Ste\-en«' Genesee. 



J alouisedeFoiilenay Vendee, Striped Madeleine, 

 Kinlaiid, Van Asseiie. 



Plu^ns. 

 McLaughlin, Rivers' Favorite, 



Prince's Yellow Gage, St. Martin's Quelche. 



Cherries. 

 Bigarreau !\Ionstreuse de Early Purple Guigne, 

 Bavay, Reine Hortense. 



Grn/KS — Diana. 

 Rrjspherries — Knevelts's Giant. 

 Straivberries — Burr's New Pine. 



To onr Volume. 



Go little volume, M'ith thy brolhers join, 

 Advise the world — nor deem thy mission small. 

 Would that the hands that early traced 

 Thy first born pages, had too, penned thy lastl 

 ' Twas not to be. The great omniscient mini> 

 Who fixes, well for us, each age's weal. 

 Recalled to Peace, the energies addressed 

 Through many a year to Rural Beauty's Shrine. 



Jealous that one whose hand had on her Banks, 



Ofl drawn forth Beauties she knew not her own. 



Our glorious Hud.son claimed his ebbing life, 



And hushed his last soft sigh in cradled sleep 1 



Regret not, friends, the loss of one we loved; 



Remember thai our loss is gain to him, 



And think more kindly on his favors past. 



Which Dealh has hallowed to sweet Memory's care. 



A Downing lived : — A Downiiig's dead! 



His country mourn's a loss slie can't redeem, 



And Nature smiles, remenib'ring that his life 



Was through her spent in Wor.'-hip to her God. 



Vines in Grape House.?.— Sir: I beg to claim 

 yottr indulgence, while I trouble you with a few 

 questions, an answer to which, either yourself 

 or some of your able correspondents, will per- 

 haps, kindly furnish through the Horticulturist. 

 I entered a situation near this city, on the 2nd of 

 August last; I have under my care threegrape 

 houses — the houses have a lean-to roof, and the 

 vines planted some in the house and some out; 

 the greater part of the vines are foreign; some 

 Sweet "Waters planted three or four years ago, 

 bore a few bunches — but every leaf on the vines 

 dies,scorched very much ; some young vines,also 

 foreign, planted in the spring of 1851, were the 

 most miserable things I ever saw, every leaf 

 burned and scorched, and only made two or 

 three feet of miserable poor wood. I have had 

 vines under my care for twenty years in Eng- 

 land, and never saw anything like this. I only 

 arrived in this country last May, and conse- 

 (juently have not had any experience here. The 

 border, I am told, is thoroughly drained and 

 made of rotten manure, and light sandy peat; 

 I am told by my predecessor, that the vines 

 have been liberally supplied with water; I have 

 no thermometer, but I am sure the heat must 

 be above 100° often, and my impression is that 

 the sun is too powerful for them ; in this, my 

 predecessor does not agree. I may say the 

 Isabella and Catawba grapes, are in a flourish- 

 ing state by the side of these vines: the vines 

 have been pruned on the spur system. I 

 should be glad to know of a radical cure for 

 this. I should be glad to know if any of your 

 correspondents have had any experience with 

 canvass for a shade for foreign vines. The 

 situation is near the lake shore; the sorts of 

 foreign vines are Muscat, Black Hamburg, St. 

 Albans, Frontignan, &c. I see no difference in 

 the sorts. The vines are trained some on raft- 

 ers and some on the back wall. I am, sir, your 

 obedient servant, C. Chicago, III. 



Mr. Dunlap's New Store in New-York. — 

 111 passing up Broad waj' a few days since, we call- 

 ed in to see the new establishment Mr.Tlios. Dun- 

 lap has opened opposite his former premises, 

 and were agreeably surjirised to find attached 

 to his seed store, a well proportioned green- 

 house, recently erected, into which a select 

 collection of plants for winter and early bloom 

 in the year, were just removed. The jilan 



