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The best way to gkaft Grape Vines. — Having had some experience in grafting 

 desirous of informing your readers of my mode of procedure. I 

 have visited several vineries in this State, and having had conver- 

 sation with the proprietors, I have learned from them how very 

 important it would be to grape-growers to be able to change one 

 variety for another by an easy and sure way of grafting. 



My practice is as follows : — I try to have the eyes of my stock 

 and scion swell at the same time. Thia I do by putting my scions 

 in wet sand, and leaving them in the vinery. As soon as the eyes 

 move, I take a sharp knife and cut ray scions wedge-shaped, leaving 

 only one eye. I next take my knife, holding the point down, 

 making au incision in the stock as at 2, 2, fig. 1 ; the scion is cut as 

 at fig. 3. I then fit ray scion into the stock, as at fig. 4, being 

 careful to have the bark of both in close contact. I next tie with 

 strong bass mats, and cover all over with grafting wax, as at fig. 5, 

 to prevent air and moisture getting to the incision. 



This mode of grafting has the advantage of having the stock 

 bearing fruit while the scion is making bearing wood. I have 

 worked two vines this season, in the forcing-house of Mr. Joseph 

 Bkeck & Son, and they are beginning to grow. 



I am willing to give any information that may be required con- 

 cerning the above description. Bonnakd Denis. — Brighton, Mass. 



the vine, I am 



Osage Orange Hedges. — Lately I have seen miles of attempts at Osage Orange hedges in 

 Illinois. It seems to me Osage Orange promises little, if any, better than the Honey Locust. — 

 Both are by nature trees ; both seem to be resolved to be trees or nothing. Hedges can be 

 readily made of either, that will turn cattle for a while, and, except just a little fixing, hogs too. 

 But in a few years the large trees have killed the small ones, and then cattle and hogs go through. 

 Top-pruning may retard tliis event, but not stop it. Root-pruning might help, but for most farm- 

 ers I doubt its utility. Who has seen an Osage Orange that for ten, five, or even three j-ears, 

 has been kept a good fence? Let us hear! R Nichols. 



Our friends lii the West will let us hear. Meantime we will say that, although both the 

 Osage Orange and Honey Locust are trees, they can, by proper treatnaent, loth be made 

 into good hedges. The Thorn is a tree, yet who will say that it cannot be grown into a 

 hedge. Friend Nichols is mistaken, we think. 



The Dillee Pear. — I regret that I am obliged, in justice to myself, to address a few lines to 

 you, Mr. Editor, for publication in your journal, in reply to some remarks that Mr. C. M, Hovet 

 has thought proper to make, on the 59th page of the Ilagazine of Horticulture for the present 

 year, viz: 



" DiLLER Pear. — Two years ago, this was thought one of the finest Pears. Mr. Walker, of 

 Roxbury, then declared that the 'sight of it was enough to make your mouth water.' We 

 never saw it. It is now rejected from the list that promise well. How a Pear in two years 

 could fall off from 'one of the best Pears ever tasted' to a itjected variety, is somewhat surpris- 

 ing to us." 



Kow, Mr. Editor, it having been the pleasure of Mr. IIovey thus to bring my humble self 

 before his readers, with the intention, as it appears to me, to show that I was ignorant of the 

 ies tliat constitute a good Pear, or that I made a statement which I knew was not true ; 

 further, that as Mr. IIovey has not given all the facts in the case, but has designedly, I 



