HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 847 



The Emily — (Raabe s No, 2) — Bunch large, not very compact, occasion- 

 ally shouldered; berry below medium, from three-eighths to one-half an inch 

 in diameter; round; pale red; flesh very juicy, with little or no pulp ; 

 flavor saccharine and delicious; quality "best," for an out-door grape. 

 Fruited in 1850 for the first time. 



The Raabe — (Raabes No. 3) — Bunch small, compact, rarely shouldered; 

 berry below medium ; round; dark red, thickly covered with bloom; flesh 

 very juicy, with scarcely any pulp; flavor saccharine, with a good deal of 

 the Catawba aroma ; quality "best." Although the Raabe originated in 

 the same bed with the Brinekle and Emily, its unequivocal Catawba flavor 

 and native leaf induce us to believe that it sprung from a chance seed of the 

 Catawba that oad accidentally gained admission into the bed. This opinion 

 is strengthened by the fact that the Catawba was in bearing in Mr. Raabe's 

 garden at the time he planted the seed he received from Germany. It 

 fruited iu 1850 for the first time. 



The Clara — (Raabe s No. 4) — Bunch medium; not compact; berry me- 

 dium ; round ; green, faintly tinged with salmon when exposed to the sun ; 

 flesh tender, juicy ; flavor rich, sweet, and delicious ; quality "best." 

 Fruited the present season for the first time. 



From Bcnj. Gulliss — The Gorgas Peach, two and one-half inches by two 

 and three-quarters ; roundish, with a slight prominence at the apex; dull 

 greenish white, clouded and blotched with red on the exposed side ; cavity 

 wide, rather deep ; stone free; flesh whitish, slightly stained at the stone, 

 juicy; flavor saccharine and exceedingly luscious; quality "best;" period 

 of maturity middle to end of Sept'r. This fine serrate variety originated 

 with Benjamin Gulliss, N. E. corner of Pine and Schuylkill Eighth streets, 

 from a stone of the Morris White , planted in 184G. It fruited in 1850 

 for the first time. 



From II. B. Lindley, Athens, Ohio — Enormous specimens of an apple, 

 labelled Rhode Island Sweet, but which we regard as Lyman's Pumpkin 

 Sweet. Some of them were more than three inches long, and nearly four 

 wide, and weighed 17 ounces ; seed small, short, plump, oval; flavor sweet 

 and pleasant; quality "good." 



From Wrn. Graham, gardener to the Philadelphia Blockley Almshouse — 

 The Graham Grape\; an accidental seedling raised by Mr. Graham. It 

 sprung up in 1845, and fruited in 1850 for the first time. Bunch of me- 

 dium size, shouldered, not compact ; berry half an inch in diameter, round, 

 purple, thickly covered with a blue bloom; contains little or no pulp, and 

 abounds in a saccharine juice of agreeable flavor; quality "best." The 

 leaf indicates its native parentage. It is probably a natural cross between 

 the Bland and Elsinborough, both of which were in bearing in the garden 

 where it originated. 



From Abraham Wismer, near jNorristown, Perkiomen township, Mont- 

 gomery County — The Perkiomen Shell-bark. This is the largest variety of 

 Shell-bark we have met with, measuring an inch and three-quarters long, 

 one and five-eighths wide, and one thick, and with the hull on two and a 

 half inches long, two and three-eighths wide, and one and seven-eighths 

 thick ; reversed oblong — cordate; shell thin; kernel of "best" quality. 



From Wrn. Canby, Wilmington, Delaware — more specimens of the deli- 

 cious Seedling grape, described at the close of the ad interim Report for 



