40 Stuartia Pentagynta. 



out thrown over them. Two pounds of pure white sugar to the gallon 

 will bring it up to eighty degrees, which is heavy enough for ordinary 

 use. Let this he for thirty-six or forty-eight hours, stirring up the mass 

 well occasionally, so as to expose the husks to the atmosphere. Keep 

 a lid on the vat or tub all the time. Press it, and put it into clean 

 casks, treating same as the other, and, when ripe, it will be a fine red 

 wine — just the thing that will be drank all over the length and breadth 

 of the land as soon as red wines happen to become fashionable. But 

 at this time we must regulate things according to public taste, and 

 therefore make white wine out of all the grapes that will do it. 



A good guide in this matter is, that any grape that will leave the 

 stem clear when a berry is pulled oft' will make white wine, if properly 

 managed. But if the stem has color when exposed, — as Creveling, 

 Clinton, Norton, Marion, etc., have, — there is no use attempting it. 



The white Concord, first alluded to, was again brought out a year 

 and a half after its first appearance, and again proved a victorious com- 

 petitor in quite a crowd of Concord samples, showing that it would 

 keep — a fact doubted by some, at first. 



STUARTIA PENTAGYNIA. 



By Francis Parkman, Jamaica Plain, Mass. 



Stuartia pentagynia, called also Malachodendron ovatum^ is a 

 native of Virginia and other southern states. Nevertheless, it is per- 

 fectly hardy in the neighborhood of Boston, provided the soil is not too 

 wet, and the situation not too exposed. It is a very beautiful shrub, or 

 small tree, growing to the height of twenty feet in its native place, 

 though rarely so large here. It loves a peaty soil ; but will grow tol- 

 erably well in garden loam, if light and moderately moist. It blooms 

 in August and September. The flowers are white, and about four inches 

 in diameter, with a dense cluster of anthers in the middle, sometimes 

 yellow, and sometimes of a purplish color. A large plant covered 

 with these creamy blossoms forms one of the finest garden ornaments 

 imaginable. 



It grows at first rather slowly, but, when well established, makes long 

 and vigorous shoots. We hear it complained of, in some quarters, as a 

 shy bloomer ; but, in our own experience, it has never failed to give a 



