

OCTlBER 





Grape Crop. — There is great complaint from almost every quarter con- 

 cerning the grape crop, the wet weather having affected the grapes very unfavor- 

 ably. A gentleman from Maryland informed us last week, that in his vineyard 

 of eight acres, devoted principally to Catawbas, the rot had destroyed nearly all. 

 In Massachusetts, many small vineyards of Concord and other varieties have 

 been nearly destroyed from mildew and rot. Our own crop will be nearly a 

 failure : no variety has suffered so much as the Concord, — rot of the fruit more 

 than mildew of foliage. We understand that along the lakes, and in some other 

 portions of the country, the crop is uninjured, and will prove as good as usual. 

 It is very seldom that we have as much wet weather as during the past month 

 or two. Many crops have been injured by the excessive rains. 



The King of Striped Hollies. — The French journals mention a tree, 

 growing in the garden of the Deaf and Dumb School of Nantes, which is proba- 

 bly one of the largest which exist. It belongs to the finest variety, with large, 

 plain leaves, edged with gold. It is twenty-six feet high, and pyramidal or coni- 

 cal in shape ; and its branches, which touch the ground, are so close, that it is 

 impossible to see through it. The proprietor of this fine plant asks a thousand 

 francs for it. 



Vineland, N.J., which was a wilderness less than ten years ago, but now 

 numbers over ten thousand inhabitants, has produced, the past season, nearly 

 i/iree hundred thousand boxes of strawberries. 



