368 Visconsin Grapes. 



Dwarf June Berry.— Our attention has been called to this fruit by Mr. B. A. 

 Matthews, of Knoxville. The plants came from Michigan on an order for Blueberry 

 plants, through a Davenport man, and the mistake, or rather imposition, was not 

 detected until the plants bore fruit the present season. Mr. B. writes : 



" The Dwarf June Berry, by the way, is no humbug, it bears prodigiously, and I 

 am told sells in the Davenport nuxrket very readily for the same price as raspber- 

 ries ; the fruit looks more like tlic Blueberry than the fruit of our common Jtuno 

 Berry. A person unacquainted with either the Blueberry or Dwarf June Berry 

 might not discover the cheat. The fruit of the Dwarf variety is much the largest, 

 and when ripe is a deep blue-black, while the fruit of the common sort is quite red. 

 The Dwarf June Berry is nothing particularly new, although it is not very generally 

 known, or it would perhaps be better appreciated — that is, among people who like 

 the fruit of the Shaddock. The common sort is not a sure bearer in this country." 



Michigan Fruit Crop. — A correspondent of the Western Rural thus writes 

 concerning its abundance and profit : " One gentleman, who pays $!)(3 per year as 

 rent for a house and small tract of land, informed me to-day that his sales of peaches 

 already amount to over $380. with about 8100 worth yet on the trees. A farmer 

 adjoining the corporation, who has an old orchard which has not always been under 

 proper cultivation, this year reports sales to the amount of $1,000, with much fruit 

 yet to ship; one farmer with but a few acres of indifferent trees gets $500 for his 

 crop ; another $700. Mr. L. H. Bailey has sold over 300 baskets — double the 

 amount he anticipated, while his apple orchard, instead of yielding 1000 bushels, as I 

 reported a few weeks since, is now sure to exceed this large amount." 



Vine Grafted on the Mulberry. — All the strange inventions do not originate 

 on this side of the water. The London Garden mentions a recommendation to graft 

 the vine on the Mulberry, as a security against the attacks of the Phylloxera, so 

 destructive to the roots of the Grape, the Mulberry being remarkably free from the 

 work of insects. The Garden recommends that the author of the remedy first ascej-- 

 tain whether the vine can possibly be grafted on the Mulberry, a contingency which 

 may appear to him of little importance, but on which nevertheless the success of the 

 plan depends. The Country Gentleman ventures to recommend a more certain remedy, 

 provided it should be successful — grafting the Grape on iron posts. 



A New Cabbage Worm. — A correspondent of the Ohio Farnipr speaks of a 

 new worm that threatens destruction to the cabbage. He describes it of a pale green 

 color, about an inch long, of rapid growth and ravenous feeders, and soon makes 

 clean work of a field of cabbages. 



Wisconsin Grapes. — The Editor of the Western Farmer acknowledges the 

 receipt of some large grapes — some of the Delaware berries are represented as large 

 as average sized Catawbas, Clusters of Ilogers No. 4. 1 lb. 8 oz., Delaware 11 oz. 

 Wisconsin is some on grapes surely. 



