no Notes and Gleanings. 



The Lake Shore Grape Growers Association. — At the meeting of this 

 society last week, 1 had a better opportunity of examining and carefully testing 

 the Eumelan grape, and formed a more favorable opinion of its quality than I re- 

 ceived from the specimens I tasted in Philadelphia. If the vine proves hardy 

 and healthy, its earliness and superior quality, as compared with any other grape 

 of its season, will render it popular and valuable. Rogers's Hybrid No. 5 was 

 also on exhibition in tine condition, and was awarded a first premium. Members 

 of the committee expressed the opinion that it was probably the best of all the 

 hybrids ; and from experience with it, and most of the other numbers in my 

 grounds, I am inclined to concur in this opinion, and to add that it has also proved 

 the hardiest in winter and healthiest in foliage. The Croton, white, and Senas- 

 qua, black, hybrids from Mr. Stephen Underbill, were also on exhibition, and 

 were deservedly much admired, both for beauty and excellent quality. Should 

 they prove hardy and healthy in foliage upon extended trial, they will be real and 

 valuable acquisitions to our list of fine grapes. The quantity of fruit on exhibi- 

 tion was not equal to that of former years, but the quality was superior, very fine 

 specimens of nearly all the popular varieties being on exhibition. 



Ceo. ]V. Campbell. 

 October ig, iS6o. 



Obituary. — Benjamin Dann Walsh, senior editor of the American Entomol- 

 ogist, died at Rock Island, 111., on Thanksgiving Day, November 18. Mr. 

 Walsh was born in Frome, Worcestershire, England, September 21, 1808, and 

 was therefore in his sixty-second year. He graduated at Trinity College, Cam- 

 bridge. Though his entomological career dates back scarcely a dozen years, 

 how faithfully and perseveringly he labored the record of those years abundantly 

 testifies. His constant aim was to rouse agriculturists to a sense of the immense 

 losses they sustain from the depredations of insects, and to impress upon them 

 the necessity of a more general knowledge of the habits of these pests. In Sep- 

 tember, 1 863, in conjunction with Mr. C. V. Riley, he started the American En- 

 tomologist, which has done more to diffuse a knowledge of insects than any other 

 publication. The account of the Apple Maggot, contributed by Mr. Walsh to 

 this Journal (vol. ii. p. 338), is, so far as we know, the earliest published ac- 

 count of that pestilent insect. 



We have only recently learned of the death of Joshua Pierce, of Washington, 

 D. C, which occurred at his estate of Linnean Hill, April 11, 1S69, at the age of 

 seventy-four. Mr. Pierce's taste for horticulture was early developed, and con- 

 tinued through life, and he was for many years the leading horticulturist in the 

 District. He was one of the founders of the American Pomological Society, at 

 some of the earlier sessions of which we have met him, and well remember him 

 as a gentleman of amiable disposition as well as enthusiastic in horticulture. 



