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riety, that even under this hot sun of two months' baking the ground, 

 our subsistence is secure. The Irish do not love our Indian corn. 



My friend Mr. Cursor has a pear which he calls Columbia, (too 

 modest to give it his own name,) which he will present to the Fruit 

 Convention. He has sold them, occasionally, for a shilling apiece. 

 His Spice Sweeting Apple is a delicious one. His Red Apple, of 

 a sub-acid flavor, is also excellent. He has raised for the market, 

 more than half a century. He breaks his own horses and oxen, and 

 makes his own cider, and is still a hardy man. 



Mi\ Wakeman presented a letter fiom Sydney Weller, of Brinck- 

 leyville, Halifax county. North Carolina, on the subject of the vine- 

 yard, urging their extension, and the making wine, and thereby re- 

 taining millions of dollars w'hich now go abroad for wines. 



Longworth, of Cincinnati, says the grape crop succeeds well one 

 year in four. But our Scuppernong grape is as sure a crop as any 

 we have. I propose to give to your Institute a treatise on vineyard 

 culture, if you approve of it. I shall try to send a box of my grapes 

 and ray vines to your Convention on the 10th of October. I have 

 not failed in making my wines these twenty years. This year I make 

 from fifty to sixty barrels of improved wine. 



Charles Henry Hall. — I move thanks to Mr. Weller. 



Judge Van Wyck. — I second. 



Carried unanimously. 



Charles Henry Hall. — There is a considerable difference of lati- 

 tudes between North Carolina and Ohio; and great difference ap- 

 pears in wines, at little difference of soil, location, &c. Longworth, 

 of Cincinnati, has produced Hock wine which is not excelled by 

 Europe. 



Mr. Kelsey exhibited a mill-stone of his patent. It is formed of 

 Rosendale hydraulic cement with flint and burr stones. 



Judge Van Wyck. — Mr. Weller mentions the failure, to some ex- 

 tent, of three out of four crops of Isabella and Catawba grapes; 

 and in Europe they ordinarily fail in their grapes one crop in five. 



