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great interest, moved all the visitors to the expres- 

 sion of delight and praise. The soil selected is 

 generally a atiWer clay than is found at Put-in-Bay. 



Here the tour of the Committee and visitors 

 ended. To complete the survey of this vicinity, we 

 will g.dd a few words. 



Around Sandusky only the Catawba shows much 

 disease. There is more apparent on soils contain- 

 ing much organic matter, all other things being 

 equal, as drainage, location, &c., than on heavier 

 clays. The Delaware and Hartford show no rot, 

 Ives and Isabella none. Generally here and on the 

 Islands, though the drought has been terribly 

 severe, the vines have made excellent growth. Of 

 late, the leaves of the Catawba and Isabella have 

 curled and blighted somewhat, the effects of mil- 

 dew or drought. We've had no fogs, and on the 

 Islands no dew, yet equally there is blighting of the 

 leaf. There is ample foliage left in health to ripen 

 the wood and fruit. In fact the Catawbas to day, 

 (Sept. 15th) are pleasant to the taste, almost pulp- 

 less, fully two weeks in advance of ordinary seasons. 

 There will be a fair crop on Kelly's Island. Here 

 are the oldest vineyards and rather heavy losses 

 from rot. No disease on the Delaware and a fine 

 crop. Concord and Hartford bearing heavily. The 

 Mottled at Mr. Carpenter's is a very gratifying 

 sight. They are healthful in vine and bend under 

 the weight of well compacted and numerous clusters. 

 An lona vine in bearing s.:ows miHew and rot. 

 No. 15 Rogers appear quite diseased, Nos. 4 and 

 19 healthful and very promising. No. 3 is now 

 nearly ripe and very pleasant; bunch too loose. 

 No. 1 mildews on leaf and berry. Soil stiff clay 

 with southern aspect, close upon shore. 



The Kelly's Island Wine Co., has a capital of 

 $100 000 and more. It has already bought up 

 grapes largely for wine. Has no difficulty in dis- 

 posing of its vintage at very remunerative rates. 



VARIATION IN SEEDLINGS. 



BY W. H. MILLS ESQ., HAMILTON, CANADA. 



The readers of your Magazine, I trust, will not be 

 surprised at the enunciation of a theory which to 

 many may appear new, on account of its recent pro- 

 mulgation, yet it has the highest authority for its 

 sanction. I believe in common with a certain class 

 of thinkers, that there is nothing new under the 

 sun ; that special intervention of new creations can- 

 not possibly take place. That certain immutable 

 laws govern matter. The ever past, the endless 

 future, will add nothing to or take from its sura 

 total. But in its broadest and most comprehensive 

 sense, I would inculcate the thought that the mole- 



cular condition of matter is subject to ceaseless 

 motion, in the elementary as in the aggregate. 

 That only through this theory can we account for 

 the variations in the uora of our planet, (the doc- 

 trine is applicable to all matter). The philosopher 

 of the present day, having not only the experiences 

 of the past, but the wonderfully increased experi. 

 mental experiences of the present, and other favor- 

 able conditions of investigation, brings to bear 

 a number of facts to show the reciprocal relation 

 and motion of matter. 



Let the reader then divest himself of all thought of 

 quiescence in matter, and bear in mind, that its 

 conditions are constantly changing ; and by another 

 imperious law that, of indestructibility, must exist 

 in some other state of being when no longer required 

 to perform its present function. The process of 

 change is rapid or slow — dependant upon the for- 

 mation of the compound. Pursuing this idea of 

 perpetual motion in matter, a profound conv'ction 

 seizes our judgment that all things are convertible 

 and that you and I, reader, can claim a lineage con- 

 siderably older than the present historical record. 

 That motion produces heat, Hght, electricity, mag- 

 netism and affinity — that these are convertible terms, 

 that is, one can change into the other. 



This potential energy called motion is derivable 

 from the sun. Speaking of the relationship of the 

 sun to life (and life is motionj, Dr. Tyndale, in his 

 lectures on heat considered as a mode of motion, 

 sets forth in the strictest mechanical truths " that 

 the sun rears the whole vegetable world, and 

 through it the animal ; the lilies of the field are his 

 workmanship, the verdure of the meadow and the 

 cattle upon a thousand hills. He forms the mus- 

 cle, he urges the blood, he builds the brain. His 

 fleetness is in the Lion's foot, he springs in the 

 Panther, he soars in the eagle, he slides in the 

 snake, he builds the forest, and hews it down, the 

 power which raised the tree, and which wields the 

 axe, being one and the same. 



The clover sprouts and blossoms, and the scythe 

 of the mower swings by the operation of the same 

 force. The sun digs the ore from our mines, he 

 rolls the iron, he rivets the plates, he boils the wa- 

 ter, he draws the train, he not only grows the cot 

 ton but he spins the fibre and weaves the web. There 

 is not a hammer raised, awheel turned or a shuttle 

 thrown that is not raised and turned and thrown 

 by the sun. His energy is poured freely into space, 

 but our world is a halting place where this energy 

 is conditioned, here the Proteus works his spells, 

 the self same essence takes a million shapes and hues, 

 and finally dissolves into its primitive, and almost 



