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POMOLOGY, GARDENING, FORESTRY, HORTICDLTURE, RURAL ARCHITECTURE, BEES. 



Vol. II. Des Moines, Iowa; Leavenworth, Kan., August, 1871. No. 8 



MARK MILLER, 

 MUor and PiMUher, ■ - Ues Moines, Iowa. 



DR. ,1. STAYMAN, 

 Ai90Cial« Editoj, • • Leai'i'nworf/i, Aransas. 



DR. WM. M. HOWSLEY, 

 Corrtfpondimj Editor, - - Leavenworth, Kansas. 



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Tbe Criticisms of the Grape Cnltnrist. 



By the AsaooiATE Euitoi!. 



We noticed in the May number of tlie Grape Gul- 

 turist, that we had been rather severely criticised 

 by friend Husman, on our report on grapes, read 

 before the Missouri Valley Grape Growers' Associ- 

 ation, and published in the April No. of the Pomol- 

 0G18T. We always admire frank, candid and fear- 

 less criticism, and if properly done, it should lead 

 to beneficial results, but we remember an old saying 

 which has lost nothing by its antiquity, that appears 

 very applicable at the present time, and will bear 

 repeating. " First cast out the beam out of thine 

 own eye ; and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out 

 the mote out of thy brother's lye." If we had 

 been writing on orthography and had read our own 

 proof his remarks on spelling some of the techni- 

 cal names of the species of grapes might have been 

 more appropriate, but we have done neither, and if 

 we had we did not set up claim to infallibility. 



However much we; regret to find typographical er- 

 rors in our productions, it appears impossible to 

 always avoid them. 



But criticLsms of that character come with poor 

 grace from an editor, particularly when he commits 

 the same kind of errors, adds to our report, mis- 

 quotes from it, and then criticises his own mistakes. 

 We would refer him to his own article, page 103, 

 second line from bottom, where he will find " hat " 

 for " that," and in January number, 1869, he will 

 find the species of grape named \(tstkmlis, to occur 

 eight times, and in every instance wrong, thus "Aes- 

 tividu" instead of aMvalis. On page 37, February 

 number, 1871, he will find A'abrusca for Labrusca. 

 On page 194, July number, 1870, vinifari for vini- 

 fera. And on page 100, May number, ninth line in 

 our report he will find the word " wliere " added, it 

 not being in the original article. Such errors we 

 should pass by except to show that friend Husman 

 is not himself free from the errors he charges oth- 

 ers. But while we are willing to pass by typo- 

 graphical and grammatical errors, we cannot pass 

 by those of misquotation and misconstruction. 

 Whether they are errors of the head or heart, we 

 care but little, for we hold it to be the duty of a 

 critic to know what Tie is doing, if not for his own 

 sake it should be for the gublic good, as well as for 

 to show respect to his opponent. 



Mr. Husman asserts that we say that " The Ca- 

 tawba, Isabella, Delaware, and tlielr seedlings will 

 not succeed, and that the cause for them failing is 

 in that they are not pure native species." 



He then comments as follows : " We may grant 

 the former, but emphatically deny the latter asser- 

 tion." Now friend Husman, this will not do, al- 

 though we were somewhat diverted in reading it, 

 but it is too tame to think you can make us or the 

 public believe it as a correct quotation, after read- 

 ing what we did say, which is as follows: 



" From numerous observations made, and facts 

 collected, the Catawba, Isabella and Delaware 

 grapes and their seedlings will not succeed un- 

 der these extreme conditions of temperature and 

 moisture." 



