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by Thomas Snyder, very fine. Some fine joe-a^, by Abigail Pool, near Bur- 

 lington, N. J. Tile following were deposited by Anthony Felton, and were 

 of the very best quality ; viz. : chard, tomatoes of every variety, squashes ; the 

 Egyptian, the Maltese, the China, and the South Sea broccoli ; lettuce, Lima 

 beans, carrots, parsneps, potatoes, celery, radishes of every kind, curled kale, 

 peas, turnips, peppers of various kinds, and endive. There was some very 

 superior celery, by Francis Briell, N. J. Dahlias, by Andrew Dryburgh, 

 Robert Buist, W. B. Wood, S. Cooper ; Horace Binney, Esq. ; J. B. Smith, 

 Esq. ; T. Landreth, A. Parker, Mr. T. Heiskel, D. Maupay, Samuel Reeves ; 

 Salem, N. J. ; and some very choice kinds from George C. Thorburn, N. Y. 



Of the above numerous gardens in and around the city we may well be 

 proud ; and the country is materially benefited by the Pennsylvania Horticul- 

 tural Society, in exciting such laudable emulation among our gardeners. 

 The advantages possessed here are great, more so, perhaps, than in any other 

 place of the Union; and we ought duly to improve them in cultivating hor- 

 ticulture in all its departments of beauty and usefulness. 



Upon the whole, the exhibition, in all respects, gave more general satisfac- 

 tion than any of preceding years. The Society has every reason to draw from 

 its results motives of the highest encouragement for the future. Respect- 

 fully submitted. — G. Watson, Recording Secretary. Philadelphia, October 17. 

 1837. 



Products of the Vine in, Ohio and South Carolina. — On eighteen square feet, 

 less than half an acre of ground, Jacob Resor, Esq., at his residence, about 

 seven miles below this city, on the river, has raised, this season. Cape and. 

 Catawba grapes, sufficient to make six hundred and seventij-scven gallons of 

 pure wine ! besides a large quantity consumed in the family, and otherwise 

 disposed of, estimated to be sufficient to have made the amount full 700. 

 gallons. It is to be remarked that this is the first bearing searion of the 

 vines. The Isabella and Cape yielded at the rate of fifteen hundred gallons 

 to the acre ! the Catawba was less productive, from the rot having destroyed 

 many of the grapes. Mr. Resor values his crop of wine at one thousand dollars; 

 a pretty handsome remuneration for half an acre of ground, and ten days' 

 labour. {Cincinnati, Ohio Gazette, Oct. 1837.) 



Mr. M. Herbemont of Columbia, South Carolina, states, in the Southern 

 Agriculturist for October last, that he made at his farm 750 gallons of wine, 

 and 528 gallons from his garden. The last was from one sixth of an acre, 

 or at the rate of 3168 gs. to the acre. The produce of two of the vines in 

 his garden is so great, that, if he had not the most respectable witnesses of 

 the fact, he should hesitate to name it. They produced 130 gallons of wine, 

 and even more." Mr. Herbemont has long cultivated the vine, and the utmost 

 reliance may be placed on his statements. The wine is of the flavour of Madeira. 



— J. M. Philadelphia, Nov. 21. 1 837. 



Mr. Fessenden of Boston died of apoplexy in the beginning of November, 

 1837. He was a very useful man, and for many years conducted the New Eng- 

 land Farmer, Vi(\\\diXto weekly sheet; and latterly, the " Horticultural Register." 



— Id. 



Grafting the Orange on the Pomegranate. — Mr. Andrews of Boston, U. S., 

 consul at Malta, was recently in this city ; and confirms the fact I formerly 

 stated to you, on the authority of a friend who had visited that island some 

 years since ; viz. that the red flesh oranges of Malta derive their hue from the 

 pomegranate stock, on which they are engrafted ; and promises to send you 

 undeniable certificates of it. Brydone, in his fifteenth letter, also says that 

 " the Maltese oranges deserve the character they have of being the finest in 

 the world : many of them are of the red kind, and much superior to the others, 

 which are too luscious. They are produced, I am told, from the common 

 orange bud engrafted on the pomegranate stock. The juice of this fruit is 

 red as blood, and of a fine flavour." It is singular that the call you made, on 

 the cover of a number of this Magazine, for a reference to some work in- 

 which the fact was stated, should not have produced one to Brydone. That 



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