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iiiattor, iIrv would demand tliem botli. Is it not economy to provide for the public health? 

 Most siuvIt it is; mid if no provision is now made for vacant ground, where jicople can 

 enjoy fresh air and healthful exercise, what will become of them by and by, when the 

 whole island is densely occU[)ied? "Will it bo possible then for such innneuse masses of 

 human beings, crowded together in the midst of lilthy streets and alleys, to avoid ei>idemic 

 diseases? and would not one season of cholera cost more than both the talked-of parks? 

 No large city in the world is so desticutc of public grounds as New York. "NVc hope this 

 will not long be so. 



The Conxokd Gkm'E. — This famous new (ira[)e is one of the leading topics of tlie times 

 iu the horticultural world. We find various opinions in regard to it, even among the 

 Boston gentlemen who have seen it from its first appearance. AVe liave, during the last 

 few weeks, received several letters on the subject. One says : " Those who purchase the 

 Concord Grape, T^ith the expectation that it will equal in size tlie cut that appears in the 

 Mafjuzine of Iforticulture, and other papers, or in merit the terms used in the advertise- 

 ment, will be greatly disappointed. The Grape, cither in bunch or berry, is not by vne- 

 third as large as pictured; nor is the Grape generally commended here." Another says: 

 "The best judges have never considered it more than a Grape for preserves." 



Personally, Ave have no knowledge of the Grape whatever, and can not say a word either 

 for or against it. "We have the opinions of very respectable gentlemen, newspaper articles, 

 and committee reports, speaking highly of its merits; while other gentlemen, of the high- 

 est standing, say that the public should be cautioned against believing in either the extra- 

 ordinary size or excellence claimed for it by its friends. Mr. Bull himself, who we believe 

 is perfectly honest in the matter, though, like other peoi)le, liable to be carried away by a 

 partiality for his own productions, assures us that he has entire confidence that it will j)rove 

 to be all that is claimed for it ; and that his own neighbors are buying it, by the half dozen, 

 at five dt)llars each. Mr. B. sends us the following note, iu reply to a correspondent, who 

 expressed a doubt, in our last number, as to the Concord ripening four iceels earlier than 

 the halella. 



"I observe, in the Jrarch nuinbor of the Ilortlcidturisf, an article on the new seedling Grape 

 ConC'irJ, signed Jamus Lennox, who doubts if the CVwcorJ does reallj- ripen four weeks before the 

 Isabella, wliieh, he gays, ripens at Koehcster about the same time the new seedling does at Con- 

 cord. Will you allow me a little space to state the data ui)on which my statement is founded? 

 so that your correspondent, and others, may see for themselves all the circumstances of the case, 

 and arrive at an intelligent conclusion in regard to it. 



" I have had the hahella, Diana, Catawba, and many other varieties, growing in my garden 

 for many years. The Isabella, on the open trellis, never ripened a single bunch. Five years 

 since, I planted it against the house, in a border prepared in the best manner. In this position 

 it docs ripen its fruit, generally ; but, two years since, it failed, even there. The Cutawba. though 

 a(/ain<t the Imhsc, never ripens ; the Diana, in the ojien border, ripens, with difTiculty, about the 

 first of October. It ripens on the seaboard a few days earlier. They have all of them been 

 well cultivated, and annually pruned. The Concord has grown on the open ground, where it 

 has never failed to give a full crop of ripe fruit by the tenth of September ; while the Isabella, 

 above spoken of, gave its earliest bunches of ripe fruit October sixth, and the main crop was 

 gathered October fifteenth, not without some red berries, even then. The Isabella ripens at 

 Boston about the first of October. 



" Whether the same difference in the time of ripening the Isabella and the Concord will pre- 

 vail at Rochester, can only be determined when the Concord shall have been gj-own there. I 

 not sec any good reason why tlie Concord should not be as much earlier than the Isabella at 

 tcr as it is at Concord. E. W. Bull. — Concord, Mass." 



