3^0 The Framhtghani Grape. 



Eight gallons of pie-plant juice, with four of molasses, diluted with twenty 

 of water, will make a barrel of vinegar, with three or four weeks' fermenta- 

 tion in the hot sun of August. To give a good color to the vinegar, add 

 a quart of the juice of red currants or red beets. After apples are ripe 

 enough for pies, there is little demand for pie-plant ; and the remaining 

 stalks can be converted to a profitable use in thus making pie-plant vinegar. 



Alexcxftder Hyde. 



THE FRAMINGHAM GRAPE. 



We have fruited this variety for three years past ; and we are forced to 

 the conclusion, that the opinion we expressed when we first saw it is correct, 

 — that it is a reproduction of the Hartford Prolific. It very closely resem- 

 bles it in foliage, wood, bunch, berry, and general habit ; so that we defy 

 any person to pick it out in a vineyard of Hartford Prolifics. We do not 

 say it is identical, or that it was not a new seedling, and that the person 

 who introduced it did not act in good faith ; but we do say that it so 

 closely resembles the variety we have referred to, that it was entirely use- 

 less to introduce it. It has the same bad habit of dropping its fruit that 

 its supposed parent has, and is no better in quality. This year, it failed to 

 ripen well ; but it usually matures. It will be wholly forgotten in a few 

 years when we get varieties as early as this, and equal in quality to lona 

 and Rebecca. 



