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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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Containing a great variety of Items, including many 
good Hints and Suggestions which zee throw into smaller 
type and condensed form, for want of space elsewhere. 
WHY FOR NOTHHU? "Winy 
I>o lou Give Three Months 9 Papers for 
Nothing V 9 some of our readers may ask. 
1st. Because we feel sure that thousands of families 
who may be induced by our offer to take the American 
Agriculturist, will give their testimony to the benefit re- 
ceived from reading it ; and thus, through them, we shall 
gain many other friends and new subscribers. 
2nd. Because there is a very large amount of labor to 
be done near the close of a year, and at the beginning of 
a new year, in entering on our books, and properly ar- 
ranging, the great number of names of subscribers whose 
subscriptions are renewed at that time ; and we are will- 
ing to offer these extra inducements for the sake of get- 
ting some of this large amount of work done earlier in 
the season. Help us sweU the list. 
Hot*- to I£emit :— Checks on ^fe^v- 
York Banks or Bankers are best for large sums; 
make them payable in all cases to the order of Orange 
Judd & Co. 
Post Office Money Orders may now be obtain- 
ed at nearly every county seat, in all the cities, and in 
many of the large towns. We consider them perfectly 
safe, and the best means of remitting fifty dollars or less, 
as many hundreds have been sent to us without any loss. 
Registered Letters, under the new system, 
which went into effect June 1st, are a very safe 
means of sending small sums of money where P. O. Mon- 
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seal the letter in the presence, of the post 'master, and take his 
receipt for it. Letters sent in this way to us are at our risk. 
Three Wew Grape Books. — If our 
people fail in grape culture, it will not be for lack of a 
sufficient number of teachers. The literature of the sub- 
ject is becoming voluminous, and one who would have 
all that is written upon grape culture must invest in a 
moderate sized library. The hooks on grape culture 
since Fuller, are so much alike, that, as a general thing, 
one is about as good as another, and we find a dreary 
sameness about them. The fact is, IX one only compre- 
hends the structure and mode of growth of the vine, he 
can easily follow any of the many systems of training. 
"We have now before us three hooks, which we mention 
in the order of their publication : 
American Gkape Culture and "Wine Making, by 
Peter B. Mead, N. Y. Harper & Brothers, pp. 4S3. Svo. 
Price, $3.00. This is by far the most sumptuous grape 
book that has yet appeared, good paper and type, a most 
liberal margin, and illustrated by engravings that are, for 
the most part, of great excellence. In all the practical 
part we find scarcely anything that has not been told be- 
fore. In this case the story is clearly and well told, and 
the book will doubtless be a safe guide. The chapter on 
varieties will attract attention. As there are few grapes 
commended save the Iona, Israella, and Eumelan, the 
book is open to the criticism of having been written in 
the interest of the originator and owner of those vari- 
eties. "We arc not aware that this makes it any bet- 
ter or any worse ; books and grapes must stand on their 
own merits. In one point we must dissent from the author. 
He introduces a new word for lateral— thallon, and from 
this derives aXJiaUize, dethaUize, etc. This appears learned, 
but is useless, for the reason that the word lateral has 
become well understood as applied to the grape vine, and 
people will not unlearn it to substitute so uncouth a 
word as thallon. There is just as much need of a new 
word for stake or post as for lateral. Despite a rather 
extravagant use of adjectives, the work is generally well 
written, and will be acceptable not only to the many per- 
sonal friends of the author, but to those grape growers 
who wish to read all sides of the subject. 
Vineyard Culture, by A. Dii Brenil, with notes by 
John A. "Warder. Cincinnati, Robert Clarke & Co. pp. 
33T. 15mo. Price, $2.00. This is a translation of a work 
by one of the highest European authorities, and is brought 
out in a remarkably neat and beautiful style. The orig- 
inal was written for a different climate, and other vines 
than ours, but the very copious notes of Doctor "Warder 
have quite naturalized it. "We should have preferred that 
Dr. TV. had given us a work entirely his own ; as it is, he 
has embodied a great deal in his notes, and the work can- 
not fail to have a large sale. 
The Grape Vine, Br Frederick Mohr, Translated 
by Horticola. New York, Orange Judd & Company, pp. 
132. 12mo. Price, $1.00. This work takes up its subject 
quite differently from any other, and devotes more atten- 
tion to the structure of the vine and its manner of growth 
than it does to particular methods of training, though it 
is not by any means deficient in practical inst met ions. 
One who fully masters the teachings of Doctor Mohr will 
be able to work among his vines understandingly. The 
translator, (Dr. Chas. Seidhof.) has added a chapter on the 
propagation of American varieties, as the practice with 
these is different from that followed in Europe with their 
vines. "We think that this will prove a most useful little 
hook, and it will, doubtless, in its English dress, take the 
same high stand here that the original holds in Germany. 
"An Opinion as is an Opinion."— 
Some horticultural Jack Bunsby, in the American Jour- 
nal of Horticulture, answers a 1; subscriber, 1 ' who asks, 
" Can good wine be made from grapes grown at the 
North ?" as follows : "We very much doubt it ; what are 
or have been called native wines, are fixed-up stuff- 
grape juice and water sweetened, not wine.'" "What did 
its " "Western Editor " think when he read this? What 
do the Hammondsport people think ? "What do the mem- 
bers of the Lake Shore "Wine Growers 1 Association say to 
this ? Can Mottier and the Longworth Wine House sub- 
scribe to the statement that native wines are fixed-up 
stuff? — Oh, we forgot — "the North" means the country 
within sight of Boston State House. 
'JTlie Strawberry Chas. Downing. 
— In describing this berry in our August No., we omitted 
to say that the engraving was from fruit borne upon young 
plants, set out in October last. The illustration, there- 
fore, fails to do justice to the fmit, which on old plants 
attains a much larger size than is there represented. 
ExniX>ition of the Americau In- 
stitute. — The American Institute will hold its thirty- 
seventh Annual Exhibition in New Tork at the armory 
on 14th st., near 6th avenue, beginning on September 
12th, and closing on October 26th. The programme, 
which is well arranged, and a marked improvement on 
those of former years.as well as all necessary information, 
may be had by addressing Prof. S. D. Tillman, Corres- 
ponding Secretary. The Department of Agriculture and 
Horticulture includes all products of the farm and gar- 
den, as well as all the tools and implements used in cul- 
tivating them. Liberal premiums will be offered, and we 
hope to see this department better fllled than it has been 
of late years. The Institute seems to have taken a turn 
in the right direction, and as we see a disposition to shed 
its shell of old fogyism, we shall try to second its efforts. 
Qardening: for Profit.— The sale of this 
book has been something unprecedented, and shows that 
it was just the work that was needed. It gives the ex- 
perience of a practical market gardener, who, cultivating 
valuable land, was obliged to make it pay. "While it is 
written by a market gardener, its teachings are none the 
less applicable to the family garden, as the best mode 
of culture in one place is the best in another, and 
if it will pay a market gardener to get two or three crops 
a year from the same soil, it will be profitable for the 
farmer or owner of a town or village lot to do the same. 
If the doctrine of tins book, high manuring and thorough 
cultivation, should find an application outside of the gar- 
den, we do not think that the farmer would suffer. No 
one who raises vegetables of any kind for sale, can afford 
to do without this book, and indeed the same remark 
will apply to those who have only private gardens. Those 
who intend to try market gardening, should begin this 
autumn. The work covers the whole ground, from se- 
lecting and preparing the soil to marketing or storing the 
crops. It has a particularly valuable chapter on the con- 
struction of houses for forcing vegetables and propagat- 
ing plants. The demand has been such that our stock 
has several times been exhausted. We have made ar- 
rangements for a constant supply. Price, $1.50 by mail. 
"Wlxat wiH Secure tiic Agricultur- 
ist?— SI. 50 pays for a copy of the American Agri- 
culturist for the whole of 1S6S, and a new subscriber 
sent us this month, (September.) will receive the paper 
free the last three months of this year. 
S5.00 pays for four copies for 1S6S, and each neio sub- 
scriber will receive the paper for the rest of this year free. 
The same rates for five, six, seven, eight, or nine copies. 
$12.00 pays for ten copies for 1S63, and each new sub- 
scriber will receive the paper for the rest of this year 
free. The same rates for any number of subscribers up 
to nineteen. A free copy to the sender of the club. 
S20.00 pays for twenty copies for 1S6S, and each new 
subscriber "will receive the paper for the rest of this year 
free. The same rates for all copies over twenty. A free 
copy to the sender of the club. 
XIae American I B omological So- 
ciety.— The President of the Society, Col. Marshall P. 
"Wilder, writes us from Paris that he shall sail from Europe 
in company with Air. Barry, in time to be present at the 
meeting at St. Louis, on the 11th of this month. This 
promises to be a largely attended and important meeting. 
All interested in pomology should join the society, at- 
tend its meetings, and get its Transactions. 
Tine Practical I3nfoniologist. — "We 
regret to learn that this most excellent monthly is about 
to cease, unless adequate support be immediately ten- 
dered. The journal is devoted entirely to the interests of 
cultivators, and we should hope that there might be 
enough of these, sufficiently awake to the importance of 
the subject, to sustain it. The price is only 50 cents a 
year. E. T. Cresson, Philadelphia, receives subscriptions. 
Sundry Hnmbngs. — Letters received 
during the last month, with reference to various swindling 
operations, though numerous, indicate a decided falling 
off in this line of business. "We have reason to believe 
that our blasts arc telling upon .them, and the sums of 
money which, we are assured by correspondents, have 
been saved to their owners by our timely warnings, 
would be sufficient to set up several respectable establish- 
ments in "Wall-street, and leave enough to buy out the 
whole stock in trade of a hundred or two of these villain- 
ous sneaks, who filch money from the unwary by means of 
confidential circulars, nice little tickets put up in nice 
little envelopes, as if they were worth something, offer- 
ing valuable articles for one tenth, or less, of what they 
are reported to he worth. Respectable dealers don't do 
business in this way, and those parties who have written 
us in the last month for special aid in their particular 
cases, because they have sent money, and got no returns, 
are advised to take the Ag?ieul(urist, heed our general 
warnings, and in future save their money Clark, Web- 
ster & Co. come out as follows : " A Card to the Ticket 
Holders and Agents of the Bankers'and Merchants'Grand 
Presentation Enterprise. Wc are sorry to say that we 
have been obliged to extend the time of drawing to 
August 24, 1S6T, on account of the city authorities claim- 
ing that the enterprise was a violation of the law, so wc 
have at a great deal of trouble and expense secured a 
United States License to carry the enterprise through, and 
we have obligated ourselves to make the Grand Distribu- 
tion of Prizes on the evening of the 24th of August, 1867. 
As we have the L'nited States License in our possession, 
we will guarantee that there will he no fnrther delay in 
bringing this stupendous scheme to a close.* 1 The claim 
of the city authorities is just, and, we think, will be sus- 
tained. The United States license is no protection, and 
gives them no authority to carry on their illegitimate 
business. A decision from Chief Justice Chase, published 
in the city papers July 21st ult., settles this question. 
We cannot quote the whole of this lengthy document; 
a few lines arc sufficient. Speaking of the U. S. License 
Law, as to giving authority to cany on business against 
State laws, he says: "Bat it is not necessary to regard 
these laws as giving such authority. So far as they relate 
to trade within State limits, they give none, and can give 
none.'''' Clark, Webster & Co. are still under bonds 
for trial, and, we hope, they will gel their deserts. 
Their new obligations and guarantees, we suppose, arc as 
