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ones are yet ns sound as ever, and just beginning to color. On the Quince this Pear is all that 

 can be dosired, and I can not do wrong in advising orchardists to jilant it on the largest scnle. 

 Ten acres, containing 1,000 trees, would, at eight or ten years after planting, bo sure to yield a 

 not income of $2,000 or $3,000. Tlie tree is a great bearer, and, though a moderate grower 

 when young, acquires vigor with age. 



Doyenne d'Ifivcr d'Ahnron — This is another long keeper, not generally so large ns the Eastrr 

 Beurre, but fair and haiulj^ome, and ripens off to complete excellence in the spring. The tree is 

 of very robust growth, and productive. 



Farther notes hereafter. Geneske. 



The Concord Gh.vte. — I saw in the February number of the Iforticuldirisl an advertisement 

 of tlie Concord Grape, where its merits are set forth in verj- glowing terms. I hope it will prove 

 equal to what is claimed for it. Mr. IIovey says it is four weeks earlier than the IsahiUa. I 

 think this is doubtful. You will find, on file in the American office, that Mr. Lovecilmt put ripe 

 Isabella Grapes in the show-case in the Arcade on the sixth day of September last. Mr. Booth 

 also says that he had Isabella Grapes ripe the first week in September last, in proof of which ho 

 refers to his memorandum book of that time. When I pruned Mr. Ebexezer Watts' vines this 

 winter, he told me that he had packed thirty boxes of his Isabella Grapes about the twentieth of 

 September last. lie is not at home just now, or I would have more accurate information. It 

 would be doing an injustice to the Isabella to allow the impression to go abroad tliat it does not 

 get ripe till a month after the third of September — the time ilr. IIovey says the Concord Grape 

 was ripe last season. Jas. Lexnox. — Rochester. 



It is not at all uncommon for the Isabella to ripen hero, in favored exposures, early In 

 September. But there must be a wide difference between Concord and Rochester, in 

 regard to tlie ripening of fruits; for Mr. Bull says that he lias cultivated the Isabella fif- 

 teen years, without ripening it, and that tlie Concord ripens on the lOtli of September. 



Grapes. — According to my experience, the most productive way of growmg the American 

 Grape is to let it climb into a tree.* In April, 1839, I planted out some Isabellas, from cuttings 

 of the previous spring, on the south side of a close board fonce, and allowed them to run tcild, for 

 an experiment, into some Peach trees on the other or north side of the fence. From that period 

 to the present they have never been touched by a knife, for I liked to see them riot in their 

 native luxuriance. They annually bear in immense profusion ; so enormously, indeed, that it must 

 be witnessed to be credited. They have, however, nearly destroyed their supporters, which, ot 

 course, I could not prune on account of the Grapes; but the latter hide the long, naked branches 

 of the Peaches consequent upon the desuetude of the pruning-knife. C. E. — Sandwich, C. W. 



I^fttttn (KarlJtn. 



A KIND friend and correspondent, who forgets neither the cultivation nor the literature 

 of th3 garden, sends us the following. Many thanks to him for such a seasonable contri- 

 bution ! 



The Poet Cowper on Hot Beds. — In this go-ahead world of ours, who reads that poet of 

 nature, Cowper? He is, I fear, voted a Httle old fashioned, which he never can be to the calm 

 and contemplative lover of the country. To such as do not know it, I may say that he has 

 given as good a description of how to make a hot bed, as any writer on gardening ever 



* But not the way to get the finest fruit — Ed. 



