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pear, cherry, peach, &c. This confirmation of our remarks from so high 

 a source as Dr. Lindley, the editor of the Chronicle, is gratifying, and we 

 hope will tend to produce satisfactory results in relation to planting out 

 new beds, without some other variety near those which are supposed to be 

 barren of fruit. — £</.] 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



The Ohio Grape. — It will be recollected that in early part of the sea- 

 son, we made some remarks in relation to this new variety of the grape, 

 first introduced to notice by Mr. Longworth, of Cincinnati. It was in 

 November, 1842, that we first saw the grape. Mr. Longworth sent us at 

 that time two clusters, but they had been gathered some time, and carried 

 one thousand miles, and we could not accurately judge of the merits of 

 the variety. Upon recollection, however, it occurred to us that the grape 

 seemed very much like the Norton's seedling, a variety we tasted four or 

 five years previous. The similarity of the two appeared so great, that, 

 together with Mr. Longworth's description of the vine, its peculiar red 

 wood, &c., and its unknown origin, we concluded it could be no other than 

 Norton's Seedling ; and at page G8, wc gave our reasons at some length 

 upon this subject. Wishing to satisfy ourselves fully, however, we pro- 

 cured one of the Ohio grape vines, and set it out side by side with our 

 Norton's Seedling, in order to note the growth. For some time after we 

 planted it, it escaped our notice. But in June our attention was again 

 called to the vine, and it was then we perceived for the first time, that it 

 was unlike the Norton's Seedling. The leaf of the Ohio grape being 

 nearly smooth and /hree-lobed, while the Norton's Seedling was rugose and 

 entire. Want of time and room has prevented us from making mention of 

 this until the present time, although from the strong expressions we made 

 use of when we pronounced it the same as Norton's Seedling, we felt it 

 no less our duty than a matter of respect due to Mr. Longworth, to ac- 

 knowledge our error at once. We are now perfectly satisfied the Ohio 

 grape and the Norton's Seedling are quite distinct. Mr. Ernst, of Cin- 

 cinnati, while on his visit here the past summer, saw the two vines grow- 

 ing in our garden, and we then remarked to him, that we had discovered 

 our error and should make some observations on the subject in a short 

 time. 



These remarks we should have deferred until the commencement of our 

 next volume, had not our attention been called to the Report of the Com- 

 mittee on Fruits and Synonyms of Fruits of the Cincinnati Horticultural 

 Society, in which they give some account of the Ohio grape. This report 

 reads as follows : — 



" The Ohio or Cigar Box Grape. — A'ery fine specimens of the grape 

 cultivated imder tliis name, were presented by N. Longworth and .1. E. 

 Mottier, some of the bunches measuring nine inches in length. As there 

 has been some belief expressed by eastern cultivators, that this grape is 

 the same as Norton's Seedling, of Virginia, the committee took pains to 

 examine them together, in Mr. Longworth's garden, where both were 

 pointed out to us by Mr. Sleath, the gardener. The difference between 



