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real wine. This excited the masses among vine-growers that something 

 yet better might be produced. Many varieties have been produced since 

 then. The Iviana was the first that excelled the Catawba in quality, and 

 earliness of ripening its fruit ; and it is surprising that this grape, which has 

 so many good qualities both for table and for wine, has not been more 

 extensively planted. C. jf. May. 



Warsaw, Hancock Countv, III. 



( To be continued.) 



LILIPUTIAN ENEMIES. 



Some of the most astonishing phenomena of Nature are the results of 

 an aggregation of minute forces. So insignificant are these when examined 

 singly, that it is scarcely credible, that, when indefinitely multiplied, they 

 could become a beneficence or a terror. A single snow-flake floating in 

 the air might be taken as an emblem of fragility and evanescence ; yet 

 myriads of them unite to stay the rush of a rolling engine as abruptly as a 

 granite hill, and to build up a towering berg which crushes an oak-ribbed 

 ship like an egg-shell. An atom of oxygen is scarcely appreciated in the 

 chemist's nice scales \ yet the immense numbers that mingle in the atmos- 

 phere give life to all breathing creatures, and feed the conflagration of cities. 

 Should the farmer, when viewing some of his treasures through a powerful 

 lens, discover an infinitesimally minute round body, so small as even un- 

 der that magnifying influence to be scarcely apparent, he would hardly 

 credit the fact, that in that little pellucid ball, so small that his unassisted 

 eye would utterly fail to perceive it, lay the cause of his crop's failure and 

 his own ruin. Yet such is the origin of the many pests which infest the 

 farms and gardens of the world. 



The various species of fungi which are grouped together under the gen- 

 eral names of rust, smut, bunt, and mildew, belong to the lowest and sim- 

 plest of all. Rust is the familiar term given to the yellow, brown, or reddish 

 powdery masses which are found on the leaves or stems of a great variety of 

 plants. Although mere coatings of adherent dust in appearance, they ex- 

 hibit, under the microscope, a regular structure ; and many of them are 

 beautiful objects to behold. The genus Uredo infests the leaves of hosts 



