European variety would not succeed in its native soil. Such a soil, such a cliniate 

 must W fitted for the pear tree, and a little care and attentive culture would soon 

 put an end to all doubts and dissenting opinions on this interesting topic. 



[Our valued correspondent knows what he .says; he is a devoted lover of all hor- 

 ticultural subjects, but especially has he studied the pear at home and abroad. — Ed.] 



THE GRATE. 



niLE writing the article on the " Progress of Ilorticulture" 

 in the last number, the cultivation of the Catawba & Isa- 

 bella grapes for market might have been successfully dwelt 

 upon. Dr. Underbill who supplies New York with these 

 grapes from his vineyard at Croton Point, on the North 

 River, writes to the author of that valuable work, *< A 

 practical treatise on the Culture and Treatment of the 

 grapevine, By J. Fisk Allen," that when the greater 

 part of the community who can afford it partake freely of 

 this delightful fruit, which they will in a few years, if 

 they can obtain it, it is my belief, from a close scrutiny into the vine and progress of 

 the grape culture on the Atlantic sea coast," (he might have said, in the United 

 States,) a hundred vineyards will not supply the demand for this fruit in New 

 York, Philadelphia, and Boston, at renumerating prices." It is understood that 

 his culture has been very profitable. 



Mr. Allen's work may be perused with great advantage ; himself a successful cul- 

 tivator, the book would seem to have been the result of much practice, reading and in- 

 quiring, and in recently looking over it again we find the contents full of various 

 information and instruction. He quotes the remark of Dr. Underbill that " An 

 Isabella grape vineyard properly planted, with acclimated vines, and planted as they 

 should be, will, in this climate, r/ivc a more certain annual crop than Indian corn." 

 In fact, nature seems to have pointed out to us, by the abundant growth everywhere 

 of native grapes, that we might safely employ our time in America in producing wine- 

 If slow to improve the idea, now that the way to do so has been pioneered in the 

 West and the South, there is little doubt that it will be prosecuted to ultimate and 

 entire success in places where, as yet, it has not been thought of. Dr. Kirtland finds 

 on the shore of Lake Erie, at Cleveland, Ohio, the grape-vine ripens its fruit equally 

 well, if not better, than at Cincinnati, there being, in his opinion, a conservative 

 property in the waters of the Lake which suits the culture. We find the best native 

 kinds succeeding perfectly as far north as New York, and also in North Carolina, 

 west at St. Louis, and we can see no reason why it should not be a profit 

 ure in all the intermediate points. Mr. Allen has inquired, and he gives 



