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try row. I have now several fine varieties just coining into bearing, one (the oldest) of 

 ■which bore a heavy crop this season. 



The vine is one of the clearest from miMew and rot, entirely native, in appearance 

 vigorous and short-jointed ; holds its leaves late ; is perfectly green now (October 1st). 



This summer was very unfavorable in this region for the grape ; the constant showers 

 in June, with hot days and cold nights, caused most of the common kinds to rot : the 

 Herbemont and Lenoir with me all rotted, not even leaving one full bunch, while only a 

 few bunches of this on the most exposed parts of the vine rotted. 



Fruit, (medium from four to six-eighths of an inch in diameter;) bunches, small or 

 medium, (between the size of Catawba and Delaware ; ) color, when about ripe, greenish ; 

 when perfectly ripe, a rich, yellow, transparent color ; sweet, juicy, but few seeds, only a 

 trace of pulp, and to my taste of a decided Frontignac flavor. I will venture to say, that 

 in sweetness and rich Frontignac flavor, it has no equal in America, in out-door culture. 



It ripens among the very first, hence it was impossible to save perfect specimens for the 

 late American Pomological meeting at Richmond, but still the committee, composed of 

 the first pomologists of our country, spoke in the highest terms of it. I have noticed 

 that after hanging ripe a long time on the vine, it loses almost all its musk or Frontignac 

 flavor, but none of its sweetness. I think it would make a fine raisin. 



GroTTtli of Pines. 



During a recent visit to Lincoln county, we saw in the north-eastern part of Alna and 

 in that portion of Whitcfield adjoining it, quite extensive tracts of splendid pine woods, 

 the trees standing very thick, and running up straight and tall. There were several lots 

 of from fifteen to twenty-five acres in extent, belonging to ditferent parties, and from 

 some of these considerable quantities of timber are now being cut. Years ago the land 

 upon which this pine growth is now standing was covered with a growth of white and 

 red oak, which was cut off for staves. These were manufactured, sold in Wiscasset, 

 shipped to the West Indies and brought back filled with molasses. Nearly all the large 

 oaks along the coast were used for this purpose, and the ground is now producing a 

 growth of pines. Mr. David C. Pottle, of Alna, informs us that fifty years ago his father, 

 while gathering oak timber for staves, drove his oxen and sled over the tops of small 

 pines that are now fortj', fifty and sixty feet high, and that will scale from four bundled 

 to one thousand feet of lumber. Some of these trees are now two feet in diameter at the 

 ground, the average being eighteen inches. The profits of these trees have been as good 

 as money at ten per cent interest, and yet our farmers fail to grow forest or timber trees, 

 thinking they and their children will not get paid for the trouble. Behold the.se facts, 

 and let some of your waste land grow up to trees for your children's benefit and profit, if 

 not for your own. — Maine Farmer. 



irier's Codling ITIotli Trap.— Repl)^ to Dr. Weed. 



Bt D. B. WiEU, Lacon, III. 



Ed. Pomologist and Gardener: — Fair criticism is a jewel, and often very valuable 

 in bringing out obscure points in controversy, but I think Dr. Weed has criticised me 

 rather unfairlj', in fact has not unmildly disputed my word. I have always made it a rule 

 when writing on entomological subjects, to be certain of the facts before I committed them 

 as such to writing, and I am very sure that there is not one assertion made in my natural 

 history of the Codling Moth in the December number of the Pomologist, but what will 

 be found correct by every one who investigates its history and habits as thoroughly and 

 pcrseveringly as I have done. Besides they agree in every particular, save one, with the 

 conclusions of all our best practical entomclogists. No one except myself, I believe, has 

 asserted the belief in a partial third brood in the same season. 



Now to answer Dr. Weed, all who have studied this insect through all its changes know 

 that the first brood of moths is not very numerous, and it would not be very strange that 

 the moths should miss one in a dozen trees in a large orchard, there may have been no 

 eggs laid in the apples on the four trees ; we hardly think we were dolts enough to place 



