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Pears in Oregon. — I notice in your account of the meeting of the Pomo- 

 logical Society, in the November Journal, you speak of pears weighing twenty 

 ounces. We have pears that weigh four pounds, and some five pounds. I wish 

 you could see some of them. G. IV. C, Portland, Oregon. 



We wish we could see some of these enormous pears. We recollect seeing a 

 monstrous specimen from California a few years ago, but we think the weight 

 was far short of five pounds. But how about the quality of these monsters ? 



Mildew on Grapes. — I have read accounts from all parts of the country of 

 the mildew of one or all varieties of grape grown in each locality the last wet 

 season. My experience being more favorable, I thought it worth notice. On 

 one of our lake shore sand ridges I set out, two years ago next March, on a new 

 clearing, withotit trenching or ploughing, five thousand grape roots, of the follow- 

 ing varieties : Delaware, lona, Israella, Allen's Hybrid, Diana, Norton's Vir- 

 ginia, Wehawken, Martha, Joanac, and Black Hamburg. They have all grown 

 finely, without rust or mildew, notwithstanding the extremes of drought the first 

 season and wet this year. So mild are our winters that the vines are not taken 

 off the treUis. Even Black Hamburgs do not winter-kill. I picked unfrozen 

 Delawares December i. Yours truly, H. E. B. 



South Haven, Michigan, December 3, i86g. 



A CORRESPONDENT informs us, in reply to the query of "Ruralist" in the 

 Journal for October, 1869, that it requires four quarts (diy measure) of fresh 

 black cap raspberries to make a pound of dried fruit. Doolittle's were the kind 

 used. 



W. P., Enfield, N. H. — The lighter colored of your two apples is the West- 

 field Seeknofurther ; the other, neither we nor several of the best pomologists in 

 the country, to whom we have submitted it, have been able to identify. 



Beat this who can. — I picked from a four-year-old Delaware vine forty-five 

 pounds of luscious ripe grapes, of the finest qualitv I have ever seen, berries 

 unusually large. The vine covered a trellis eight feet long and four feet and a 

 half high. W. C. B. 



Gi-KN Island, Albany County, N. Y. 



This is certainly an enormous crop, and we would like to know the effect pro- 

 duced on the vine next summer by bearing it. 



