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nong grape-vine, which has fruited this season. It was produced by impreg- 
nating the white Frontignac with the Scuppernong. I have growing several 
seedlings produced by impregnating Herbemont with the staminate hybrid 
Scuppernong above referred to, one of which I expect will bear next summer. . 
I have often made grape seedlings bear in one year from the seed by inarching 
on strong shoots of old vines, when the seedlings were only a few inches high. 
I expect to publish, in the course of the summer, the progress of my experi- 
ments. In hybridizing native and foreign, I have more hope from the Scupper- 
nong than any other species. I have fruited a hybrid produced by impregnating 
the Clinton with foreign, which is equal in size to the Black Hamburg, and 
pronounced by Parsons & Co., (to whom I sent a bunch last summer,) “su- 
perior to Black Hamburg in flavor and its equal in texture.” The Clinton 
hybrids are free from mildew. I have never been able to fertilize the Scupper- 
nong with any other species, but have produced hybrids by fertilizing foreign 
with Scuppernong; but out of six vines of bearing size that have bloomed not 
one has borne fruit, being defective in their reproductive organs, although re- 
markably healthy vines. Some were hermaphrodites, but their stamens pro- 
duced no pollen; others were males (staminate) and their stamens produced 
perfect pollen, with which I have impregnated both native and foreign, and hy- 
brids of native and foreign. I now have a most interesting strain of Scupper- 
nong hybrids coming on, and this spring attempted to impregnate Scuppernong 
with my staminate hybrid Scuppernong, with the hope of producing a valuable 
strain in that direction. 
A correspondent, writing from Butler county, Missouri, sends us the follow- 
ing as a preventive of blight on grapes: ‘“ Saturate the leaves with air-slacked 
lime when the dew is on them, and if washed off by the rain renew the applica- 
tion. This preventive has never failed with me, and I now have fine grapes on 
vines from which all the fruit dropped before I tried the lime.” 
THE POTATO BUG. 
De Kalb county, Ill.—The potato bug is making fearful ravages with the 
potato crop here. It is the same bug that came over the plains from the vicinity 
of the Rocky mountains, and is “ marching along,” carrying destruction in its 
train. We know of no remedy here other than “eternal vigilance.”” We whip 
them off from the vines, also pick them, and use quicklime; but to the lime 
they pay no regard. Probably the best method is picking and burning. Ma- 
chines have been invented further west, where the crop was destroyed last year, 
which collects them in a box, and then they are burned. 
Putnam county, Ili —The potato bug is doing great damage in this county. 
Probably one-third of the vines are now destroyed, and the bugs are still in- 
creasing in numbers. 
CHANGE OF COTTON SEEDS. 
A correspondent, writing from Henderson county, Texas, says: ‘‘I know 
from experience that a change of cotton seed, much more than climate, affects 
the quality and quantity of the crop produced. Let any one who cultivates 
sandy land, where the cotton stalks grow tall, (and it grows as the timber grows,) 
exchange cotton seed every two or three years with his neighbor who cultivates 
stiff, lmy land, where the cotton spreads and the joints are short, and both 
parties will be convinced of the advantage. A stranger, the first year, could 
point out the row where the exchanged seeds begin. ‘The same is equally true 
of corn, wheat, rye, and barley.” 
GRASSHOPPERS IN NEBRASKA. 
Nebraska City, Neb—The season has been cold and backward, yet favorable 
for small grains, until the grasshoppers—or, as some call them, the red-legged 
