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Mr. Barry said, that a few years since, lie was 

 convinced, from the show in the market, that Ho- 

 vey's Seedhng satisfied the Boston people. Brighton 

 Pine should he grown with it as a staminate. The 

 Belmont cultivators allow it to spread, — do not clip 

 the runners. The great secret is to use new land 

 and make an annual crop of it. 



Pyramidal Training of Grapes. — We have 

 often heard the remark that the Isabella Grape 

 hears better when allowed to extend itself among 

 the branches of trees, — this is doubtless for the rea- 

 son already given, namely, plenty of room for its 

 growth. This mode has been lately modified, by 

 providing supports for the vine similar to those often 

 provided for ornamental climbers, by inserting into 

 the ground the stem of a tree, with the branches 

 trimmed and cut off at a uniform length from the 

 body, but tapering upwards in the form of a pyra- 

 mid. The vines, properly trained on these, and 

 thinned during the summer, present a beautiful 

 display when loaded with the ripened purple clus- 

 ters. The best kinds of wood for these supports 

 are cedar and locust. The former gives the hand- 

 somest shape, but Locust trees may be occasionally 

 found that answer an excellent purpose with some 

 care in the training. — Country Gentleman. 



Summer Apples adapted to the Soil and 

 Climate of the South.— The following varieties 

 have been tested, and found to stand the heavy 

 rains of last spring, not one speck of rot or sting of 

 an insect could be found in them. I had a full op- 

 portunity of testing them at General Griffith's 

 place, near Jackson, Miss. : 



Astrachan Red. — Fruit above medium ; round- 

 ish, flattened ; greenish yellow in the shade, but 

 mostly bright crimson, overspread with fine white 

 rich bloom ; flesh pure white, tender and crisp. 

 Ripens first of June. 



Bevans Favorite. — Fruit medium ; Flesh rich 

 yellow, of a high aromatic flavor. Bipens 15th of 

 June. 



Early Harvest. — Fruit above medium, round ; 

 skin very smooth, greenish white, changing to straw 

 color as it ripens ; flesh white crisp and juicj^ Bi- 

 pens 15th of June, and continues on until the first 

 of July, 



Early Joe. — Fruit below medium ; skin smooth, 

 yellowish, shaded and striped with red ; flesh white, 

 tender and juicy. Bipened this summer the 16th 

 of June, and continued until the 5th of July. 



Red June [Carolina). — Fruit medium; skin 

 smooth, shaded with deep red, changing to purple 



on the sunny side ; flesh white, tender and juicy, 

 with a brisk sub-acid flavor. Bipened the 10th of 

 June this summer. 



Early Pennoch. — Fruit large ; skin light j^ellow, 

 splashed ar.d shaded with hght red ; flesh white, 

 with very pleasant flavor. Bipened last of June. 



Primate. — Fruit medium ; skin greenish white, 

 with a crimson blush on the sunny side ; flesh white, 

 very tender, with a mild sub-acid flavor. Bipened 

 the 5th of J uly. 



The Yellow Horse Apple rotted very bad this 

 summer, and has for tho last three summers proved 

 a failure. — Jas. Parker, in Southern Ruralist. 



Apples Half Sweet and Half Sour.— In the 

 American Institute Farmers' Club John G. Ber- 

 gen revived the oft-exploded notion that Apples 

 can be grown, at the will of the cultivator, so as to 

 be partly sour and partly sweet. Such had been 

 lately exhibited to him by Mr. Kimball, of Brook- 

 lyn, which he said grew upon a tree in Connecticut, 

 and that the origin of the sort was the uniting of 

 two buds, one sour and one sweet, which being in- 

 serted in a stock grew into a tree which produced 

 these hybrid Apples. 



Solon Bobinson said, to put an end to this mat- 

 ter, I make this public proposition, — that whoever 

 will produce an Apple, by inserting the halves of 

 two buds from sweet and sour trees, so distinctly 

 marked that it shall be indisputably produced by 

 such union, — for instance, the sweet half shall be of 

 a red Apple, and the sour half a white, yellow, or 

 green one, or showing any other characteristic of 

 distinction which mark the parent trees, — he would 

 pay the first producer of such Apple $100, when- 

 ever it is exhibited before this Club, with sufficient 

 proof of the manner of budding and growth. 



HoRTicuTURE IN BRAZIL.— They have had a 

 great Art Exhibition in Brazil. A correspondent 

 of a daily paper says, in reference to the Horticul- 

 tural department : 



" One side of the quadrangle has been fitted up 

 to represent a part of a Brazilian forest. Some rare 

 tropical trees and plants are admirably grouped ; 

 a great variety of parasites a;e scattered among the 

 branches, on Avhich are seated life-like birds ; snakes 

 and other reptiles abound, and the tiger appears 

 ready to spring upon his prey, A stream comes 

 trickling over the moss-covered roots into a pool, in 

 and around which are rare acquatic plants. An In- 

 dian of the Amazon valley with his bow-gun, and h 

 squaw with a papoose in her arms, seated in a ham- 

 mock, suspended from the branches, assist to com- 



