458 THE MAGAZINE OF HORTICULTURE. 



Kennes, B. Superfin, B. d'Anialis, Retour de Rome, Lodge, 

 Noiiveau Poiteau, Comtesse d'Alost, Abbott, Kirtland, Comte 

 de Flandres, Counsellor Ranwez, Chas. Van Hooghten, Win- 

 ter Nelis, Columbia, and Gros Colmar Van Mons. 



New Grapes. — Several new hardy grapes have made their 

 appearance this year for the first time, showing that we are 

 soon to have a sufficient variety to give us fine fruit from the 

 middle of August to the end of the season. We shall report 

 upon them in another number. The Delaware grape was 

 exhibited in very good condition, fully ripe at the same time 

 as the Concord. The Concords, though ripe, were not quite 

 so large as last year. 



The Rebecca Grape. — Under this name a new grape 

 was exhibited at the annual exhibition, which attracted much 

 attention, and which promises to become a most valuable ac- 

 quisition. It is a white grape about the size of the Diana, 

 and with bunches about as large ; in flavor fully equal to 

 that superb grape. It is an accidental seedling, found in a 

 garden in Hudson, N. Y., and has now been in bearing four 

 or five years. It ripens at the same time as the Diana, and 

 will undoubtedly mature throughout the New England states. 

 We shall give a full account of it in a future number. 



The Union Village Grape. — This is another new and 

 very fine hardy grape from Ohio, where it is said to have 

 been raised by the Shakers of Union Village. The bunches 

 are as large as the Black Hamburgh, and the berries nearly 

 double the size of the Isabella, round and black. It ripens 

 before the Isabella, and promises to become a popular variety. 

 These accessions to our hardy grapes will enable us to pro- 

 duce this fruit in abundance and perfection where heretofore 

 we have only had the half ripened Catawbas and Isabellas. 



The Fourth Session of the American Pomological 

 Society was held at Rochester on the 24th September and 

 continued three days. There was a large attendance of 

 Western nurserymen and cultivators, and the session was one 

 of much interest. The lateness of the month precludes us 

 from giving any notice of its doings. The show of fruit was 

 not so large as was expected, owing to the extreme cold of 



