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in the bottom end of the bunch and hang it on the hoop. This 

 position causes every berry to hang away from its neighbor. 



This position is found to give the most perfect chance for pre- 

 servation to each individual berry. One hoop full of grapes 

 may be hung over another ; or we can use square frames with 

 slats across, far enough apart, and hang the bunches on these slats. 

 When they have hung some eight days, they will be free from 

 moisture, if the weather is not too damp. When they are dry, 

 close up the fruit-room hermetically if you can. Examine the 

 grapes every eight days and remove all bad ones. A moderate 

 amount of chloride of lime very dry, as it melts by taking up 

 the moisture of the fruit-room. About thirty pounds weight of 

 it will answer for the fruit-room I have described — that is, about 

 fifteen feet long, twelve feet wide, and ten feet high. All other 

 fruits may be preserved in this room as well as grapes. The 

 grapes intended for preservation must be gathered when fully 

 ripe. 



It is unnecessary to say that the fruit-room has double walls, 

 thick roof, and that frost must not get inside of it. 



It seems to us that the idea of M. Breuil is capable of being 

 profitably executed near our city and others, where purchasers 

 can always be found for large amounts of perfect fruit. 

 That bunches — say the Isabella and Catawba — would find 

 abundance of admirers from Christmas to May day, 



[Translation.] 



THE FUCHSIA. 



On the ■2d of January, 1849, we gave Porchier's interesting 

 account of the origin and culture of this beautiful class of 

 flowers. The account is published in the volume of the tran- 

 sactions of the Institute for the year 1848. Father Plumier, a 

 religious minim, discovered it in America about the end of the 

 17th century — about 160 years ago and named it after a distin- 

 guished botanist by the name of Fuchs, who gave some account 

 of this flower in his botanic work, published in 1803, entitled 

 Nova plantarum Americanarum Genera. By hybridization, seed- 



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