

Dr. Wylie's Seedling Grapes. — We have before mentioned the very 

 remarkable hybrid grapes produced by Dr. Wylie, of Chester, South Carolina. 

 About forty varieties were exhibited by him at the meeting of the Pomological 

 Society at Richmond. It would have been a good day's work to thoroughly ex- 

 amine and test such a collection, and the committee on native fruits were there- 

 fore obliged to content themselves with the remark that " They were for the 

 greater part of such excellent character as to preclude the committee from 

 deciding which was the best. One, however, Peter Wylie, No. i, was of a par- 

 ticularly excellent character. The committee feel that too much can scarcely 

 be said in praise of Dr. Wylie's persevering elTorts in the improvement of the 

 grape." 



Certainly the doctor has either some very remarkable varieties, or a very 

 remarkable grape climate, or both. It remains to be seen how they will succeed 

 in other localities, especially more northern ones ; but we may add that when 

 we inquired of him what ones he thought most likely to succeed at the North, he 

 named the Peter Wylie, of which the committee thought so highly. 



We had the pleasure, on the 29th of August, of sitting down with Hon. M. P. 

 Wilder, and examining carefully several varieties of these grapes which he had 

 just received from Dr. Wylie. Thinking that the notes then made will interest 

 our readers, we append them. The parts in quotation marks are the remarks 

 made by Dr. Wylie on the different kinds, and are followed by the notes made 

 at the time mentioned. 



" Royal Muscadine, or Red Frontignan, and Clinton, No. 3. A great and 

 never-failing bearer. This is the same which was shown to you and others as 

 Clinton and Foreign, No. 3, at Philadelphia, in 1869. I have concluded, in 



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