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refused to conform with these rules. There is no reason 

 why we should not have a national experimental garden, of 

 sufficient extent to grow every useful plant known to the 

 world. Our government expends, annually, money enough 

 upon our imbecile agricultural department to almost (if 

 the funds were properly expended) accomplish this much 

 desired object. There are money and talent, at the dis- 

 posal of the government, sufficient to establish and sustain 

 an experimental garden that would be an honor and 

 benefit to the whole country. 



AIKEN. 



Mr. Elliott says this variety is distinct from Isabella ; 

 but I have not been able to discern it. Perhaps my vine 

 is not correct, but it was obtained indirectly from Mr. 

 Elliott's neighborhood, if not from that gentleman's place. 



ALBINO. 



(Garber's White.) 



Bunch small. Berries large, oval, greenish white, sweet 

 but foxy, not valuable. Raised from seed by J. B. Garber 

 of Pa., about forty years ago. Described in Prince's Treat- 

 ise on the Vine, 1830. 



ALEXANDER. 



Schuylkill Muscadel, 



" Muscadine, 

 Cape Grape, 

 Spring Mill Constantia, 

 Clifton's Constantly 

 Madeira Prime, 

 Fisher's Grape, 

 Winne, 

 Columbian, 

 Buck Grape. 



