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was shown by the saccharine test at Hammondsport, Oct. 28. lona grown at the 

 Lakes beat the Walter grown at Poughkeepsie two degrees ; one and a half 

 pounds of lona, and seventeen ounces of Walter. Next morning, the same par- 

 ties tested seventeen ounces of the same lonas. The Walter beat it by eight 

 degrees. This is the first season we have ever seen mildew on the Walter, the 

 young vines being slightly attacked. 



When any particular shall appear in its character or habits differing from 

 this statement, we here say, we will refund the money paid for the vines. 



Many of Rogers's varieties are acquisitions ; Salem, and Nos. 9 and 41, 

 equalling loua as table-grapes, and much earlier ; leaves hardy as Catawba. 



Israella, early, possessing but little character; leaves suffer much with 

 mildew. 



Adirondac, nearly as good as Isabella, and much earlier in most localities ; 

 leaves hardy as Isabella. 



Diana Hamburg, not acquainted with. 



Ives. — We ate specimens of this grape at Painesville, O., at the Lake-shore 

 Exhibition, sweeter than any lona we ever tasted, equalling in saccharine-matter 

 the most perfect Delaware ; foliage hardy. 



Concord and Hartford, too well known to speak of 



Eumelan, cross of Isabella and Clinton ; small, with skin so bloody it cannot 

 be eaten or handled to any extent without staining lips and fingers ; fohage 

 affected with green-knot like Clinton. The Eumelan, Lincoln, Elsingburg, and 

 Lenoir, good for making up a variety. A. J. Caywood. 



Poughkeepsie, N Y. 



Propagating Vines by Eves. — When the proper time arrives for pruning, 

 preserve the prunings by sticking them in the ground, or in a flower-pot filled 

 with rather moist but not very wet soil. In January, or early in February, you 

 may prepare the eyes by making on the back of the shoot, opposite the eye, 

 a cut with a sharp knife, bringing the knife out almost three-quarters of an inch 

 below the eye. The same proceeding is to be repeated, bringing the knife out 

 above the eye, and you have an eye with a portion of wood above and below it, 

 and slanting from the back to the side on which the eye is situated. The eyes, 

 when prepared, are to be inserted in pots or pans filled to within an inch of the 

 rim with turfy, light loam ; the eyes being placed either horizontally or vertically, 

 about an inch and a half apart, and covered with half an inch of fine soil. They 

 should be placed in a house or frame where there is a hot-bed, in which they 

 should be plunged ; the temperature being not more than 90°, nor less than 75°. 

 The top-heat may be from 6o° to 65° at night, and 75° by day, and 80° or 85° 

 with sun-heat. The soil ought to be kept moist, but not wet, until the eyes 

 have begun to grow ; then keep it moist, affording a light syringing morning 

 and evening. When the eyes have pushed a few inches, they may be taken up 

 carefully, and potted off singly; and if kept in a hot-bed, and a moist atmos- 

 phere is preserved for a time, they will grow freely. The young vines thus pro- 

 duced must be repotted as often as the pots become filled with roots. Give 

 them their last shift about June. 



