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ble ; these unchangeabilities fight for their side as if they were afraid that 

 if they admitted this possibility, all their plants would do nothing but change. 

 Mr. Hovey announces the fact that as the committee " most emphatically 

 &c." pronounced that plant was not his seedling, therefore, all that has been 

 written by our side "has been deduced from a series of gross and unwarrant- 

 able errors." We undertake to say in an equally emphatical, unreserved and 

 unequivocal manner, that if not Hovey's seedling, the committee did not 

 know what it was. They pronounced it the Cushing, which Mr. Cope stated 

 he had turned out of his place as worthless several years before. But this 

 discussion is useless ; we see no remedy for the people- who will not believe 

 the assertions of others as honest as themselves, but what we before recom- 

 mended, namely, the study of botany. 



The Culture of the Grape, and Wine Making. By Robert Buchanan, 

 Moore, Anderson & Co., Cincinnati, 0. 1854, 12mo. cl. 63ets. 



We have received from the publishers the fifth edition of this valuable 

 manual, which contains a great deal of useful information on laying out a 

 vineyard, choice of position and soil, pruning and diseases of the Vine, and 

 other things pertaining to grape growing. 



Also the processes used in making and fining wines, and statistical accounts 

 of the cost and product of vineyards in this and other countries. 



The author, Mr. Buchanan, has a merited reputation as a wine grower, and 

 a record of his observations cannot but be useful to those who cultivate grapes 

 for wine making. 



There is an appendix containing articles on the same subject by Messrs 

 Longworth, Rehfuss, and Mosher, and others. We hope to see the manufac- 

 ture of wine become in this country a large and profitable business. 



An essay on Strawberry culture follows, by Mr. Longworth, which is an 

 exposition of the peculiar views entertained by that gentleman. 



The Journal of Agriculture, W. S. King, Editor, is published at Boston, 

 at one dollar a year. The reputation and known abilities of Mr. King, the 

 Secretary of the United States Agricultural Society, are sufficient guarantees 

 of the usefulness of the work. 



The Working Farmer, New York, J. J. Mapes, Editor. With the March 

 number commenced the sixth volume of this very useful and interesting pa- 

 per. Each monthly issue contains twenty folio pages of original and select- 

 ed matter. It is published at 148 Fulton street, N. Y., at one dollar per 



annum. 



