134 Seedling Grapes. 



Such a conservatory should have stood at a distance from any 

 wall or other building, and have been entered by ascending a 

 step or two, rather than descending. It would then have had 

 a noble and imposing appearance. 



As an experimental garden, it is complete in every depart- 

 ment ; but as a garden of design or taste, it possesses little 

 that is worthy of its name. 



(To be continued.') 



Art. II. On the production of hardy Seedling Grajycs by 

 hybridizafmg the native with the foreign grape. By W. 

 W. V. 



It is abundantly manifest that Horticulture is attracting 

 just now a very large share of public attention. Experimen- 

 tal attempts have been at various times made, to improve or 

 modify the character or quality of fruits and flowers ; in 

 some instances with a full or limited measure of success, in 

 others with no good results whatever. It is highly interest- 

 ing, eyen though we fail to endeavor to make good better., 

 nor can there be presented to the mind of an intelligent man, 

 a subject more worthy of a liberal portion of his attention, 

 than the probability of succeeding by hybridization^ in pro- 

 ducing a fruit superior to its parents, and at the same time 

 so changed in its character, as to be hardy, where it has been 

 previously known only as partially so, or not at all. 



For how long a time has there been an anxiety to possess 

 a grape as vigorous as the Isabella, of as free growth in the 

 open air, requiring as little care, (some think they require 

 very little^ and as good a bearer, with the additional quality 

 of the fruit's being as far superior to that variety as the Black 

 Hamburgh is acknowledged to be. Frequently have we 

 been told that the desideratum has been obtained, and under 

 •a host of names have these new sorts been offered to us with 

 not one quality to recommend them but the change of appel- 

 lation ; it has been " Napoleon," alias " Isabella," and every 



