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Messrs. Editors, — After seeing the recent attacks on the lona Grape, 

 which seem to come from parties prejudiced, or else those who have not given 

 it a fair trial, I deem it my duty to give you a statement of the result of my 

 experience with four hundred lonas obtained of Dr. C. W. Grant, and planted 

 in the spring of 1866. They all grew vigorously, averaging canes from four to 

 six feet in length the first year, with perfectly healthy foliage. The second 

 season, 1867, every vine was living in its place, and made vigorous canes for 

 fruiting the year following. The third season, 1868, the canes being pruned 

 three to four feet in length for bearing, set fruit from every bud. Some of the 

 canes produced as many as forty-two bunches of beautiful clusters, perfectly 

 sound, without any mildew or rot. The result was far better than I obtained 

 from Concords planted at the same time, and receiving the same culture ; the 

 Concords having the advantage of being extra layers. Now, I only wish to 

 say, since enjoying the lona Grape, that ) consider it superior to all other 

 native grapes with which I am acquainted. I also intend to have a larger and 

 better crop of grapes next season from the same vines. The lona, with proper 

 culture, I consider a success. R. B. Stevenson, 



The Winter-Dressing of Orchard-House Trees. — Orchard-house 

 trees, &c., may be kept free from insects by very simple means. As soon as the 

 leaves fall, the trees are pruned, and well washed with cold water thrown upon 

 them by a powerful engine. This washing is repeated two or three times ; and 

 it tends to remove dust, and possibly a portion of the insect ova, tic, which may 

 have been deposited. The house is thrown quite open, and nothing more is 

 done until the buds begin to swell in spring, when the engine is again brought 

 into action on the morning of every favorable day ; the practice being, of course, 

 discontinued as soon as the blossoms begin to expand. 



As soon as the fruit is set, if insects are found to be at all troublesome, fumi- 

 gation is resorted to ; and it is found that with the aid of two simply-contrived 

 but very effective fumigators, using a quarter of a stone of tobacco-paper, which 

 costs five shillings, mixed with a quarter of a pound of tobacco, which costs one 

 shilling, a span-roofed orchard-house eighty feet long, twenty feet wide, and 

 twelve feet high, can be filled with a dense volume of smoke, which kills evej-y 

 thing in the shape of thrips and of green or black fly. This operation is seldom 

 required to be performed oftener than twice or thrice during the season. 



With regard to peach and other trees trained upon walls in the open air, I 

 would recommend in all respects similar treatment to that above described as 

 adopted for trees in the orchard-house ; substituting for the fumigation, in the 

 case of the wall-trees, a thorough syringing with a solution of Gishurst Com- 

 pound, using about four ounces to a gallon of boiling water. This syringing, like 

 the fumigation, will not require to be repeated many times during a season. 



The brown scale will sometimes attack the peach and other trees in the 

 orchard-house. When such is found to be the case, they must be removed 

 mechanically by being scraped or brushed off with a tooth-brush, well washing 

 the part to which they had adhered with a solution of Gishurst Compound made 

 in the manner above directed. — Florist and Pomologist. 



