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the iV. Y. Journal of Commerve, upon the same subject, given last 

 winter, we gave experiments tried upon the cultivation of foreign 

 Grapes, which occasioned great loss to the cultivators, and also 

 gave some ststistics of the amount of money lost in attempting 

 to cultivate foreign Grapes in the open air. In regard to our ar- 

 ticle upon the cultivation of Flowers, if we made quotations, they 

 were so woven into our memory from reading Oriental literature, 

 that we know not from whence they were taken. We beg leave to 

 differ from our worthy critic, and think he lays himself open to 

 criticism in njaking one remark, " That flowers were Nature's ar- 

 tists." We think Nature the artist, and flowers the gorgeous pro- 

 ductions of her handiwork — the " chef de ouvres," if you will al- 

 low the quotation. 



D. W. Ray. 



The Vine and the Wine of Georgia. — The Augusta Constitu- 

 tionalist publishes a letter from the Hon. Mark A. Cooper, giving 

 an account of a recent visit to the vineyards of Dr. Anderson and 

 others, of Wilkes. 'These vineyards,' he says, 'were planted 

 from the slip, in the spring of 1853, and now produces grapes of 

 the most admirable quality.' Each vine has on an average of 45 

 clusters of the very largest size, the flavor surpasses anything I 

 have known. The vineyard was an experiment of one-fourth of 

 an acre, with a setting of 150 vines per quarter, or 1,000 to the 

 acre. Owing to dry weather only 130 lived and are in bearing. 



I am not premature in the conjecture that in ten years more 

 the wines of Georgia will meet those of France and our Atlantic 

 ports, and soon thereafter they will make good the completion by 

 going to European markets ; so that what has just been achieved 

 by her flower mills and farmers, will also be eflected by her vine- 

 yards and wine presses. 



Grasshopper Traps. — In our rides in the grasshopper country, 

 we saw thousands of the deep holes which had been dug in the 

 earth by the Indians, to entrap their luxurious (?) food. These 

 holes contain about a bushel and a half, and we believe we saw 

 holes enough in Yuba, Butte and Sutter Counties, to have collect- 

 ed fifty thousand bushels of Grasshoppers. The Indians will grow 

 fat this winter, — California Farmer. 



