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endure neglect, but with proper care every garden in this city 

 could have its Golden Chasselas or Black Hamburgh trained up 

 to the second story. 



Mr, Cavanach, of Brooklyn, knew no reason why the Golden 

 Chasselas should not be cultivated, A gentleman in Brooklyn 

 intends to fence off his garden with board fences eight feet high, 

 and place foreign grapes on their south side, and make a business 

 of cultivating them, 



Mr. Carpenter believed 99 out of a 100 would fail in cultivat- 

 ing the foreign grapes. 



Mr. Cavanach would not advise any one to plant the Chasselas 

 while we have the Delaware, Hartford Prolific, &c. 



Mr. Roberts stated- that Fowler & Wells planted a Golden 

 Chasselas in 1855, which has borne every year since, and which 

 has never been protected at all. For a garden, for variety, it 

 might succeed, but he would not recommend it for a person wish- 

 ing but one or two vines. 



Dr. Trimble said that the grapes had failed in Europe for some 

 years passed, and inquired whether that disease had followed 

 them to this country, or whether the failure here arose from the 

 extreme changes of our climate. This winter, in twelve hours, 

 the thermometer rose from 7^ degrees below zero to 45 degrees 

 above, and we have similar extreme changes in summer. 



Mr. Andrew S. Fuller of Brooklyn, replied that the foreign 

 disease had not followed the grapes to this country, but that the 

 sudden changes in temperature were the cause of the failure. 

 One hundred years thorough trial, every foreign grape having 

 proved a failure, ought to be enough to satisfy anj^body. We 

 have 300 varieties of American grapes ; and if that is not enough, 

 we can sow the seeds and get as many more. 



THE SPAN-WORM. 



Dr. I. P. Trimble of Newark, N. J. — You have but few singing 

 birds in cities, and for that reason caterpillars become very 

 troublesome, and, unless checked by some Ichneumon, or parasitic 

 insect, will go on increasing rapidly until famine does its work. 



I have known some kinds of caterpillars in such numbers upon 

 trees as to consume the foliage before they were fully grown, and 

 in their attempts to reach other trees to be entirely at a loss as 

 soon as they reached the ground, — their instinct, so surprising on 

 other occasions, now entirely at fault. Their helplessness on the 

 pavement was pitiable, and they soon perished. 



