436 Domestic .JYotices. 



me. Such a storm, so early, is not recollected by the oldest inhabitants." 

 — Yours, J. A. P. 



Sino:ular deviation in the grou^th of the Grape. — We have received 

 (voin a correspondent in Portsmouth, the following account of" the same, 

 accompanied with specimens of the fruit: 



" I have sent you, as a curiosity, some purple grapes, which grew on a 

 white Sweetwater vine. I am certain of the fact, as 1 took the grapes 

 from the vine myself. There is an Isabella standing near ; but these 

 grapes were twelve feet from any Isabella. You will perceive that part 

 of them have the form of the Isabella, and some of them of the sweet- 

 water. The color of one grape is mixed. The vines have stood where 

 they now do for several years, but nothing of the kind has ever taken 

 place before. The mixing of fruit in the grajie is new to me. It is noth- 

 ing unusual with the squashes, and it has takeu place with the apples — an 

 instance of the russet growing on a limb of the Baldwin. But in this 

 case, tiie limbs of the two trees interfered." 



We tasted of the grapes, and some of them had a strong flavor of the 

 Isabella. Have any of our correspondents ever known of such a singu- 

 lar anomaly .'' If so, we should be glad lo hear of it. — Concls. 



Large Cauliflowers. — We lately noticed some fine specimens in Quin- 

 cy Market. One weighed upwards of tu'elve pounds. — lb. 



Ji splendid shotv of Dahlias lately took place at the store of Mr. G. 

 C. Thorburn, New York. We have been informed that there Avas up- 

 wards of a thousand blooms ; the flowers were sold, and brought sixty 

 dollars. — Conds. 



Exhibition of Dahlias. — A number of beautiful dahlias were lately 

 exhibited in New York. There were about three hundred blooms, em- 

 bracing one hundred and thirty kinds, one hundred and twenty-four of 

 which were seedlings. The following account of the same is from the 

 New York American : — 



" We reconnnend to all lovers of flowers, to visit the unequalled col- 

 lection of dahlias, from the garden of Buel & Wilson, of Albany, now at 

 A. Smith's, florist and seedsman. No. 388 Broadway. 



" There are, we sup]iose, some one hundred and fifty different sorts, 

 varying in shade of color, from pure white, through pale and bright or- 

 ange, red and scarlet, up to the most gorgeous purjile. They are ar- 

 ranged with great taste, in a box filled with wet moss, in which the flow- 

 er stems are imbedded, and present a most beautiful coup deceit indeed." 



Fennsylvania Horticultural Society. — The sale, on Saturday last, of the 

 flowers, fruits and vegetables left from the e\hi!)ition, amounted to $107. 

 The whole receipts in three days exceeded $^1500. The number of vis- 

 iters, including members who did not pay, and visiters on gratuitous tick- 

 ets, could not have been less than 7000. From a Philadelphia paper, 

 dated Oct. I7th, we cojiy the following: 



Imperial Tokay Grapes. — " Each vintage," saj^s an article about the 

 Imperial ToUay, "produces three kinds of wine; the first, that which 

 flows spontaneously from the grapes themselves, which may be called 

 the essence of Tokay; this is considered the best kind of the three, and 

 what makes it so, is its flowing spontaneously from the grapes." Some- 

 thing like this is observable in regard to that most delicious of all fruits— 

 the peach. In going through a peach-orchard, with fruit-knife in hand, 

 and plucking, paring and eating at pleasure, that peach is the sweetest, 

 the most luscious, particularly if it is a clingstone, when the skin has 

 bursted, and the juice is candied over the cleft or fissure in the peach. — lb. 

 Gama Grass. — I send you specimens of Gama grass. I have it in all 

 soils. With us it is worthless, as much so as fiorin, which made two 

 hours noise in the world and then expired. Yours, J. Lowell. — Roxbury, 

 Aug. 22cZ, 1335. 



