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not. I think th'^ originator of the vine should have 

 placed plants in tlie hands of his friends in differ- 

 ent localities, in order that its vigor, hardiness, and 

 the time of ripening should be better known. The 

 public has a right to be well informed on all these 

 points.— Peter B. Mead, in Rural New Yorker. 



FoEETGN Grape, Mrs. Pince's Black Mus- 

 cat. — We have received from Messrs. Lucombe, 

 Pince, & Co., of Exeter, a bunch of that admirable 

 grape, Mrs. Pince's Black Muscat, which was ripe 

 on the vine twelve mo)iths ago. We need hardly 

 say it is now in the state of raisins, and these are as 

 fine, fleshy and delicious as the finest imported 

 Muscatels. We take this opportunity of stating 

 that Mrs. Pince's Black Muscat is one of the most 

 valuable acquisitions in the way of grapes which 

 has been introduced for many years. Imagine the 

 delicious butmiffy old Black Miiscat of Alexandria, 

 with a robust constitution, a thick, stout, sturdy, 

 berry-stalk, a tough membranous, though n t thick, 

 skin, and with the property of hanging till the sap 

 rises again, and you have Mrs. Pince's Black Mus- 

 cat. — Gard. Clironlde. 



Seyeral New Grapes in Ohio. — At the win- 

 ter, annual meeting of the Ohio Pomological Socie- 

 ty, at Zanesville, a good deal of discussion was had, 

 as usual, on grapes and gra, e culture. The follow- 

 ing remarks on some of the new varieties will be of 

 interest t; many of the readers of the Monti Jy. 



LongiDorth — Dr. Warder said this was a very 

 prom ' sing variety, found in the garden of the late 

 N. Longworth, Esq., at Cincinnati. It is of the 

 same class a« the Herbemont, vine very healthy, 

 vigorous and productive, but earlier; the bunches 

 large and s ouldered ; berries below medium, round, 

 black, juicy, very piquent and refreshing ; delightful 

 for the table and promising to make a superior 

 wine. This variety was marked by Mr. Longworth 

 as his No. 20, and as it was deservedly a favorite 

 with him. W^e propo e to give it the name of that 

 pioneer of American Viticulture. 



Lyman — This we find at the same place. The 

 vine has the appearance of the Vi.tk ripnria species; 

 it is remarkably thrifty and healthy, with no signs 

 of mildew on tlie foliage ; very productive, yielding 

 large bunches, (soi e'-imes shouldered ;) of medium 

 sized berries th it are round, dark blue or black, and 

 full of sweet ju ce. This promises to be one of our 

 best wine grapes, and has been cultivated to some 

 extent for thi's purpose near Louisville, Ky. 



>S'am/o,7flt (not Catawba)— Befe. ring to the re- 

 port of the Grape Exhibition, at Cleveland, Mr. G. 



W. Campbell, of Delaware, said he had been told 

 that some'persons had expressed the belief that the 

 Saratoga., exhibited there, was nothing more than 

 Catawba; but he was convinced they were mis- 

 taken. He read a letter from Mr. Fancher, of 

 Lansingburgh, in support of his op nion, and said 

 he had a vine of the Saratoga growing in his gar- 

 den and was certain it was not Catawba. 



Martha and Black Hawk — The Secretary called 

 for information respecting these two seedlings of 

 the Concord, originated by Samuel Miller, of Leb- 

 anon, Pa., and supposed to give promise of value. 

 He believed that Mr. Knox, of Pittsburg, could 

 impart some information respecting them. 



Mr. Knox said he had these varieties on trial, 

 and he believed they would give a good report of 

 themselv. s in due time ; but we had all seen the 

 necessity of not being too hasty in judging of the 

 merits of new grapes, or recommending them to the 

 public before sufficiently tested. The Martha and 

 Black Hawk are respectively white and black ; the 

 vines resembling the parent (Concord) in vigor and 

 healthiness; fruit ripens earlier, very sweet and 

 good. He regards the Martha as sustaining the 

 same relation to other white grape that the Con- 

 cord does to black. 



The lona — ilemarks were made on this variety 

 by a 1 rge number of persons from central and 

 southern Ohio, and some from Indiana and Penn- 

 sylvania, all speaking of the loss of young vines by 

 tlie past winter, and of the injury to the foliage by 

 mildew, preventing the ripening of the wood the 

 present season. But it was draitted that the past 

 summer, at the W^est especially, was remarkably 

 wet and cool, and nearly all varieties of grapes had 

 mildewed badly, excepting along the lake shore re- 

 gion ; and also that the past winter was unusually 

 severe, killing many vines of Delaware, Catawba 

 and other varieties regarded as ha dy. 



Mr. Bushnell, agent of Dr. Grant, said the friends 

 of the lona were quite willing to let the merits of 

 that variety bide the severest test of time, and they 

 had no fear of the result. He did not s ppose any 

 one variety of fine quality would be found to succeed 

 perfectly in all sections of our widely exl ended coun- 

 try, and in all seasons. He spoke of locahties east, 

 where the lona had shown less tendency to mildew 

 than even the Concord, and persons were digging 

 up vines of the latter to make room for the former. 

 And in the neighborhood of Hammondsport and 

 along the sou^h shore of Like Erie, the lona had 

 succeeded so finely that they were preparing to 

 plant it largely for wine as well as for market. 



Mr. Bateham, of Painesville, said he had ob- 



