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not more than eight inches by five. We have been studying out, this very 

 evening, some articles written with rusty, dull ink, on both sides of immense 

 sheets of foolscap paper ; and the vexation we experienced is second only to 

 that our friend the printer will undergo. 



In brief, we may say that editor and compositor both will bless the man who 

 uses black ink, small sheets of white paper, and writes only on one side. 



Will some of our friends take the hint .'' — Ed. 



We have received from W. C. Flagg, Esq., of Alton, III., specimen bunches 

 of the Herbemont, Norton's Virginia, and Taylor's Bulliot Grapes. They are 

 all good clusters, and tlie Herbemont very fine ; its grapes being what Charles 

 Downing, we think, called them, — " bags of wine." 



The Norton's Virginia is not a particularly pleasant grape to eat; its reputa- 

 tion depending on its wine-making properties. 



We cut down our only vine of the Taylor last year. It did not bear enough, 

 and its grapes never ripened. 



Those that Mr. Flagg sends us are larger than any of our own, and are quite 

 edible. — Ed. 



F. E. H., Copiot County, Mo. — Our advice in regard to removing and 

 transplanting grape-vines more than four years old has always been of one 

 tenor ; viz., don't do it. It is impossible to remove and reset a large vine in a 

 satisfactory manner, unless at an expense altogether too great for profit. A post 

 and wire trellis with three wires eighteen or twenty inches apart has always 

 been our favorite. 



G. S. C. — Your plant is one of the many species of begonia ; but the speci- 

 men sent is not sufficient to enable us to name the exact kind. 



F. W. L., Portsmouth, Va. — We receive inquiries occasionally about the so- 

 called Main Grape ; and, in answer, usually refer people to tlie opinion we ex- 

 pressed in this magazine for October, 1867. This opinion we have not yet seen 

 good reason to charge. We are watching a vine in full bearing very carefully; 

 and, if we can speak differently about the variety this fall, we shall do so. 



Strawberry-Grower. — What is the largest number of boxes of straw- 

 berries that you have ever known to be produced to the acre ? — Six to seven 

 thousand boxes is the largest quantity we have ever known raised on an acre, 

 while four to five thousand is a very good crop. We do not believe the average 

 amounts to over twenty-five hundred boxes. — See, however, Mr. Barry's story 

 in our " Notes and Gleanings " for this month. 



R. R. Thomas, Muscatine, lo. — The seedling double petunia came duly to 

 hand. It is very good, white with purple centre, and seems well worthy of 

 propagation and a name. 



