The original tree is healthy and vigorous, and retentive of its foliage. The trunk 

 is twenty-nine inches in circumference at the surface of the earth, and twenty-four 

 inches at four feet above the ground. Young shoots — yellowish. Buds — medium 

 size, triangular, greyish. Foliage — large, lively green, flat, obtusely acuminate, 

 slightly waved, Avith large, light-colored ribs. Petiole — rather long, pale green, 

 firmly adhering to the support, which is of moderate size. 



[We are happy in being able to present so complete an account and description of 

 this new American Pear. We had an opportunity of seeing and tasting it at Boston, 

 and regard it as an important acquisition. — Ed.] 



GRAPE-CULTURE IN COLD VINERIES. 



BY AMATEUR. 



I CHEERFULLY comply with your request by giving "Notes of Experience in Grape 

 Culture;" but in doing so, I feel that little can be added to the many sensible articles 

 already published in the Horticulturist, particularly the practical ones of Mr. Chorl- 

 TON, Vol. VII., p. 94, and of Mr. Suydam, Vol. VIIL, p. 78 ; yet in the language of 

 your correspondent, Mr. Cleveland, "If all whose experience enables them to com- 

 municate /acis would but publish them, it would go far in establishing a true standard 

 of the quantity of fruit a vine may bear with safety, as also the ]>eriod at which it may 

 begin fruiting," &c., &c. Coinciding in these sentiments, and believing that many 

 are deterred from cultivating this delicious fruit from causes that might be removed 

 through a more free dissemination of knowledge, is another incentive to my contrib- 

 uting these notes, premising that the resu'ts are from actual experience in a "cold 

 grapery" situated in the latitude of New York City, where neither artificial heat, nor 

 putrid, noxious carcasses, have been brought into requisition. 



My house is constructed in the curvilinear form, similar to Mr. Van Rexsselaek's, 

 at Clinton Point, and of Mr. Green's, at New Brighton. It is 50 feet in length, 20 feet 

 in breadth, and 13 feet to the apex of the curve or ridge pole, and contains fifty vines. 

 It is located to run due north and south, which is decidedly preferable, in this climate, 

 to the former east and west locality, as it secures a longer period of the sun's rays 

 without its scorching effects at meridian, and concentrates a more equable heat during 

 the day. 



My vine border, which is the essential element for success, is composed nearly as 

 recommended by Mr. Chorlton, with the addition of about fifty barrels of refuse 

 charcoal or sweepings ; a quantity of refuse potash in sawdust, as obtained from the 

 floors of inspection ofiices ; two bags of guano — nearly 400 pounds; and it was made 

 one foot deeper than his. Vines one and two years old from the eye were planted 

 about the first of April 1852, then cut back to one good eye, from which canes run ^ 

 the span of the house to the wall plate opposite (about 30 feet) before the period of y{ 



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