ifASSAcnusETTS IIoRTiouLTURAL SociETT. — "We are pleased to learn, from the proceed- 

 ings of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, which -we publish this month, as reported 

 in Hovet's Magazine, that the difficulty respecting the award of premiums to Messrs. 

 HoYEY & Co., has been settled by a sort of compromise. The vote of censure passed upon 

 Mr. HovEY in May last, is rescinded ; but it strikes us, that if it has been found to be an 

 unjust vote, it should be expunged from the record. Mr. IIovey has a right to demand 

 this ; but that is none of our business. The Society has adopted a resolution to prevent 

 similar difficulties in future. 



Grapes from California. — I send you by express two bunches of Grapes, just received from 

 "W. B. OsBORN, Esq., Los Angelos, California. The Grapes were packed iu "Red-wood" sawdust, 

 as Mr. OsBORN had exhausted all his hard wood dust in a box he shipped me by the Yankee Blade 

 which was lost. They are a little affected by the saw dust. He says : " The Grape season com- 

 menced in August and will soon close (Oct. 26). An ocean steamer has been freighted every 

 week with Grapes to San Francisco market. Prices have averaged about thiee cents a pound in 

 the vineyard. Our people are busy making wine and brandy. Those who are judges, say no 

 better is made than from those of Don Louis Vignes, Dr. Uoover, and Mr. Wolfskill. One 

 thing is certain, the California wines made at Los Angelos are pure juice of the Grape. I ;hall 

 send you a box of the wine after vintage." 



I think this is a very good Grape, but whether it will succeed here may be doubtful, e cept 

 in hot-houses. Several of the bunches weighed two and a half pounds. When the wine comes 

 I will advise you. B. P. Johnson. — State Agricultural Rooms, Albany. 



The Grapes accompanying this note are undoubtedly foreign — European Grapes which 

 were introduced there by the early Spanish settlers. 



The bunch is very large; berry large, round, dark purple, with a white bloom; crisp 

 juicy, sweet, but the flavor totally spoiled by the Hed-tcood saw dust in which they were 

 unfortunately packed. We are greatly obliged to Col. JonNSOx for the opportunity he has 

 offered us of seeing these Grape?, but we hope next seasjn ihat he wld secure samples 

 packed so that the flavor may be saved. 



New Seedling Grapes. — Two new varieties have been produced by that well-known \me ul- 

 turist, J. F. Allen, Esq., of Salem. One is a white Grape produced by a cross of some exotic 

 variety on the Isabella. This has been exhibited at the meetings of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society this year, and its quality has been unanimously pronounced delicious. The s in 

 is thin and tender, the seeds few and small, with no hardness of j)ulp, and the flavor very sweet 

 and luscious, without any foxiness. It is about the size of the Isabella. Mr A.'s other seed- 

 ling is purple. It is not so sweet as the former, but sweet enough for many jjalates, and of a 

 very high, vinous flavor. It is of medium size, and globular form. 



Tliese varieties have been produced in a cold vinery. Either of them are ten days or t ' o 

 weeks earlier than the Isabella grown in the same situation. The}' are now to be tried in the 

 open air, and should they succeed here, they will be a great acquisition. — Boston Cultivator, 

 November ith. 



We had the pleasure of seeing those varieties here referred to, and regarded them at the 

 time as likely to be valuable. They appeared (one of them at least) to bo in reality a cross 

 between the native and foreign Grape. We have also heard of some other new sorts that 

 have recently turned up around Boston, and of which we expect soon to hear something. 

 The prospect now is a rush of seedling Grapes. 



Allen's Hybrid Grape. — The horticultural friends of Mr. J. F Allen have been for some years 

 aware that he has been experimenting, to produce a hybrid Grape, possessing the requisites 



