EDITOR'S T.UJLE. 



niittee ; Wm. Ileaver, with S. S. Jackson on the flower committee ; and Peter Melendy on poultry. 

 Gov. Corwin is to deliver the address." 



" To the Cincinnati Horticultural Society : — Our brother Foote, the great advocate for the supe- 

 rior quality of the White Seuppernong grape of North Carolina, I am jjlcased to say, has now an 

 ojiportuuity to prove its superiority as a table grape. Tlie question of its wine qualities I yield, 

 by admitting that it would be a greater miracle than the Rochester knockings if it is not superior 

 as a wine grape to its table qualities. You last season saw the famous Connecticut Charter Oak 

 grape, for wiiich some of our brothers paid from three to five dollars per root. You will readily 

 admit that if thickness of skin and hardness of pulp are desirable qualities, the Seuppernong is 

 superior to the Charter Oak Fox grape. The leaves came with the grapes, and to j>rove them 

 genuine I send you fresh leaves of the Seuppernong in my garden, sent me from Carolina. I send 

 you witli them one of my Fox grapes (Minor's Seedling), that the great superiority of the Seup- 

 pernong may be stated. I send you a bunch of the Marion grape, Lee grape, and blue-black 

 Cliillieothe Seedling, that you may state their relative qualities as t.able grapes. Also the Union 

 Village grape, to test its size, thinness of skin, softness of pulp, and its abundance of juice, in 

 comparison with Mr. Resor's extra sized Black Ilamburglis, raised under glass. I also send a 

 bunch of the Arabia Seedling grape, sent me by express by Mr. James M. Hannah, of Salem, N. J. 

 I send a bunch of the Isabella grape, to test the quality of the Marion, the Lee, and the blue- 

 black Chillicothe Seedling with it, as they all boar a resemblance to it. They are all, in my 

 opinion, superior. If the Marion retains its qualities of the last two years as a table grape, I shall 

 deem it wcrLh a million of dollars, if as hardy east a? the Isabella. It is a much better bearer 

 than the latter, ripens uniformly, the bunch and berry larger, and I deem it of far superior quality 

 for the table. I do not send the Express grape, as it is not ripe. The others would have improved 

 on the vine for two weeks." Respectfully, N. Loxgwortd. 



"September 10, 1853. 



On motion, adjourned. J. C. JEFFERIES, Secreiari/. 



FnuiT Exhibited. — Apples — By R. Buchanan — Baldwin, Alexander, Gravenstein, Summer 

 Queen, Red Fenouillett, Hariison, Newtown, Spitzenburgh, Red Bellefleur, Ashland, SchoU's Red 

 Winter, Sweet Pearinain, Minister, Satch, Blenheim Pippin, Prior's Red, White Bellefleur, Yellow 

 do., Belmont Delight, Maiden's Blush, Fall Pippin, American Golden Pippin, Red-Ciieeked do.. 

 Green do., Dutch Codlin, Golden Spice, Fallawater, London Sweet, Rhode Island Greening, Hol- 

 land Pij^pin, 14 varieties, names unknown ; in all, 44 varieties. 



Pears — Bartlett, Seckel, White Doyenne, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Stone's Seedling, one, name 

 unknown. 



Plums — Flushing Gage, Blue Gage, Canada Red, Diamond, Blocker's Gage, Blue Impcratriee, 

 Yellow, and two, names unknown. 



Pears — By SL S. Wade — White Doyenne, French Butter, Napoleon, Swan's Orange, and Au- 

 tumn Superb. 



By A. M. Ernst — Seckel pears. 



By M. W. Carey — ^Two very large and beautiful apples, called the King Pipi)in. 



By J. C. JefFeries — Bartlett pears. 



By P. S. Bush — Yellow Egg plums. 



Grapes — By N. Longworth — Isabella, some of the berries, as usual, unripe ; Seuppernong, pro- 

 nounced Muscadine, of the Southern States, a very inferior grape in every quality except size of 

 berry; Union Village, or Shaker grape — bunch medium size, berries larger than the best Black 

 Hamburgh grapes from the hot-house of Wm. Resor, black, round, skin and pulp as delicate as 

 Black Hamburgh, flavor agreeable, rather acid and musky, but inferior to Black Hamburgh ; 

 Marion — resembling Isabella very much, but with a larger and better ripened bunch, and a 

 sweeter and more musky flavor; Lincoln — bunch small and closely set, berry small and black, 

 with thin skin and pulp, flavor inferior; Blue-black Chillicothe and Lee — both pronounced Isa- 

 bella ; Arabia — inferior in size and every quality to Isabella. 



From Wni. Resor — Splendid samples of Black Hamburgh and Victoria grapes, from under 



From George Graham — Very good Black Hamburg grapes, grown and ripened in the open 



