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highly probable they are of the same class, and I have merely 

 made these remarks to corroborate your views showing that 

 the Bland is a native." 



In addition to the foregoing exceedingly fine variety of the 

 Bland family, the author has to state that a strong probability 

 exists of the discovery of a fine white variety of the same class. 



MARYLAND PURPLE. 



This variety I received from the same source whence I ob- 

 tained the preceding one. It is a native of Maryland, where 

 it was found growing in the woods ; the berries are stated to 

 be of tolerable size, of a purple colour, and remarkably sweet 

 and juicy, and attain to maturity in October. It was not 

 brought into garden culture until the past year, but had at- 

 tracted particular attention where growing in a wild state. 

 I had proposed to give to this the appellation of Pleasant' s grape 

 after the worthy contributor ; but as he states that the partial 

 opportunities as yet afforded for examination have not been 

 sufficient to speak decisively of its merits, I decline such course 

 in this case, but with the determination to adopt that title for 

 one of the finest unnamed varieties in my possession, as soon 

 as I can make the selection of one worthy of it. 



LOUISIANA. PR. CAT. No. 387. 



This title has been adopted for a vine received from the in- 

 terior of the state whose name it bears. It has not yet pro- 

 duced fruit here, and details on that head cannot therefore be 

 given at present. 



GRISWOLD'S SEEDLING. 



This vine was reared from the seed of a foreign variety by 

 John Griswold, Esq. of Columbia county, in this state; the 

 berries are blue, and the vine produces abundantly. 



