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But without stopping to institute an inquiry into the me- 

 rits of his theory, compared with that of artificial impreg- 

 nation, as practised by Mr. Knight and otliers, we shall 

 recommend to those who would rai?e seedlings, the impor- 

 tance of commencing with the Isabella or Catawba, for one 

 of the parents, and impregnating them with the Sweet Water, 

 Chasselas, or some other early foreign variety. The results 

 will be obtained in a shorter period, and, we believe, equal- 

 ly as favorable as by the method of successive generations 

 alone. 



The cultivation of our native grape has but just com- 

 menced : three or four kinds embrace all that are now 

 found in our gardens. In Prince's T?'eatise o?i the Vine, 

 nearl}^ one hundred and fifty different species or varieties 

 are described or noticed, several of which are supposed to 

 be hybrids between the native and foreign grape: few 

 however, of these varieties, have ever been much cultivat- 

 ed, and their merits, however good, are comparatively quite 

 unknown. The labor of collecting together every variety 

 of native grape was zealously commenced by Mr. Prince, 

 and the information communicated in the Treatise is val- 

 uable, and will form the basis of future inquiries into the 

 character of the different varieties. Mr. Prince commenced 

 the production of seedlings himself, and in 1S30 had a 

 number of thousand vines, but of the success which attend- 

 ed his efforts we are uninformed. A whole chapter is de- 

 voted to the raising of vines from seed, and Mr. Prince 

 takes the same view of the subject as ourselves, and re- 

 commends at least one of the parents to be some foreign 

 grape. 



These rather extended remarks, now hastily thrown 

 out, will be enlarged upon at a future opportunity, when 

 we hope to take up the entire subject of the growth and 

 cultivation of the vine at length. These hints we have of- 

 fered with the hope that they will be impressed upon culti- 

 vators that they may not allow another season to pass 

 without making at least one attempt to raise some seedling 

 plants. 



Diana. — This new variety of the grape, which was 

 brought into notice last year, when it was first exhibited 

 before the fruit committee of the Massachusetts Hort. Soc. 

 is thought by some who tasted it, to be the finest which has 

 been produced, surpassing even the Catawba : we were 



