form, W\uix gonorally roundisb, with Ji 

 short, stout stalk. Color — bright yel- 

 low. It frO(]ueiitly varies from this 

 form, being somewhat pyramidal, with 

 a longer and more slender stalk, and 

 has occasionally a blush on the sunny 

 side. 



The Summer Calchasse, [Ccdchasse 

 cVBte), ripening also latter end of Au- 

 gust, is likely to prove good. It is 

 distinct in form, resembling the Louf/ 

 Green. 



The Jalousie Fontenay Vendee ri- 

 pens about the same time as the Bart- 

 lett, and is a very excellent Pear, a 

 good grower, and remarkably produc- 

 tive, succeeding well both on Quince and Pear. 



"We iniglit mention several other Summer Pears which are in American collections, 

 but these are the most important. 



The " Revue Horticole " for November last, gives a drawing and description of a 

 new variety — Brlffunt — which resembles the B. Giffard^ and ripens first of August. 

 It has been originated by Mr. Briffant, gardener at the Sevres porcelain manufjxctorw 

 The varieties we have mentioned, might be classified, for convenience, as follows: 

 Best, axd wortiiv of general cultivation. — Madelaine, Doyenne d'Ete, B.'ood- 

 good, Beurre Giffard^ Rosfiezer, Tyson, Ott, Brandyivine, Manniny's Ulizabet/t, Jalousie 

 Fontenay Vendee, and Bartlett. 



Very good, valuable for their productiveness, vigor, etc. — Dearhorn^s Seed- 

 liny, Moyamensi)iy, Julienne, Summer Francreal, Rousselet Sluttyart, Beurre Gun- 

 bault, Andrews. 



Not sufficiently tested. — Westcott, Duchess of Berry, Summer Calebasse. 



DUCHESSE DE BERRT D ETE. 



NOTES ON THE CULTURE OF THE FOREIGN GRAPE. 



BT A. MESSEE, GENEVA, N. T. 



At the end of the Grape season, I feel inclined, from habit, or a better reason, to make 

 a few comments on the past, but not to put on airs of importance, for I have but a 

 small vinery, and nothing to recommend my speculations to the public but a love for 

 the study of veyetahle xHiysioloyy, and a habit of careful obseiTation. It is well, also, for 

 gardeners in difierent latitudes, and with difierent facilities for producing fruit, to "com- 

 pare notes." Sucli opportunities have been useful to me, and I suppose to others also. 

 In my house are ten or eleven fruit-bearing vines, on which about one hundred clus- 

 ters were alloAved to mature. A part of these vines are six years old from the bud, 

 and others only four years. The number of bunches was regulated by the age 

 strength of the vine. In 1853 some of them were over-cropped, and therefore care 



