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Large Vine. — Mr. J. A. Watson mentions in " The Gardener's Chronicle " 

 a large vine growing on Mount Salevi, in Switzerland, which has been found to 

 increase in size of stem at the rate of an inch annually. In March, 1867, the 

 circumference of the stem at four feet from the ground was a hundred and four- 

 teen centimetres, or three feet ten inches English. The branches have covered 

 and monopolized several large trees, and have had no pruning nor care of any 

 kind for years : still the produce last year was four hundred bottles of first-class 

 red wine. This, at \s. a bottle, is £20 sterling ; and, calculating the number 

 of square yards covered by the vine, is at the rate of over £300 sterling per 

 acre. 



The Goodale Fear. — This variety was introduced by S. L. Goodale of 

 Saco, Me., who sent it to the Fruit Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 



Society in 1864. It was raised from a seed of the M'Laughlin by E. Goodale 

 of Saco. The tree is a good grower, and quite healthy and hardy. The fruit, 

 as will be seen from the engraving, is of large size, sometimes weighing ten or 



