Mr. Pottle — Grapes are often deceptive because 
they are sweet. The Isabella has been tested and 
stands it well. Is particularly rich in sugar. 
Mr. Van Kuren —Iutended no reflection on the 
Isabella. Had been reported as high as S4 under 
some circumstances. Thought it safe to give it 
from 75 to 79. 
Mr. Hoag of Locbport —Said the grape had been 
a success in his locality the present jear. The Tona 
and Israella have been all that Dr. Grant claimed 
for them ; but this year was an exception. There 
had been no grape disease. 
Dr. Perrins of Dansville — Said the grape had 
done well in his region the present season, and the 
vintage promise wa9 good. Plants on a clay soil 
with a southern exposure. His favorites are the 
Catawba, Isabella and Concord. 
Mr. Keech, Waterloo — His locality grew the 
grape well with the exception of the Delaware. 
Has marketed of the latter only 1% tons from 12 
acres. Cut lonas September 10th. The Israellas 
have done well, but the Delaware and Rogers’ Hy¬ 
brid No. 19, suffered considerably from the thrip, 
and in the-spring were ravaged by a species of bee¬ 
tle, Has loDas on land nearly all sand and doing 
well. Has all sorts of soil in grapes. 
Mr. Young love, Vine Valley —Has been but two 
years in the business. Has planted all the common 
varieties which have ripened well. Picked lonas on 
the first of September. Isabellas and Catawbas did 
well. Delawares ripened well, too. Follows no 
particular line of treatment. Has all the varieties. 
— [To be continued. 
lORTTCULTUEAJL: 
sin; calyx, large for size of fruit, broad, open, with 
short segments, basin medium depth, round, regu¬ 
lar; flesh yellow, coarse granulated, sweet and melt¬ 
ing, rich, juicy, very good; core small, seeds long, 
pointed, almost or quite black; season, November. 
HOW TO LAY OUT AND BEAUTIFY OUR 
CITIES AND TOWNS. 
waste of time and money to lead with this variety of 
grape. Samples sent from North Carolina to Hammonds- 
port, and there tested by the saccharometer, marked less 
limn 55 on the scale. No grape marking less than 80° is 
fit for wine; by the addition of sugar and whisky a dark 
colored cordial may be produced, but we should advise 
grape growers to aim higher. 
Tiiat Paris is already becoming the brightest and 
most beautiful of all the cities in Europe but few 
who have bad the opportunity of making the con¬ 
trast will doubt, and 1 think that It, will be pretty 
generally conceded ; also, that it is principally in¬ 
debted for these distinguished characteristics to the 
good taste and judgment displayed by Its engineers 
and horticulturists In ornamenting the streets and 
boulevards so profusely with beautiful trees. That 
treep, as an element of beauty, do enter largely into 
the composition of Paris is well knowu. Within the 
last fifteen years eighty-flve miles of streets have 
been constructed there, and the work of improve¬ 
ment is still progressing. No sooner is a street or 
boulevard made, then the trees which are to adorn 
it are planted, and these, when set, are as carefully 
protected and tended, as any in the finest and best 
kept gardens. The kinds of trees which are prlncl- 
DISCUSSIONS AND REPORTS. 
The meeting was called to order by Hon. E. B. 
Pottle, Naples, who occupied the Chair. He 
called on grape growers for information as to grape 
prospects in their several localities. 
Marshall P. Wilder of Massachusetts, said he 
had taken a deep interest in the cultivation of the 
soil and in the production of fruit. Was gratified 
with the display of grapes made on the present 
occasion—the most imposing one ever made on this 
continent. The complete success of the organiza¬ 
tion was assured. There need be no fears of failure 
for the future. A large portion of his active life 
had been spent in horticultural pursuits, and his 
faith was strong that this country is destined to be 
one of the greatest grape growing ones in the world. 
With respect to New England the grape, the past 
season, as is the case occasionally in all countries, 
was pretty much a failure. Excessive rain was 
mainly the cause of this. In and around Boston, 
the month of September gave them 13% inches of 
rain, while the average, for the same month, during 
the preceding fifteen years, was but 3% inches. 
The excessive humidity had prevented the grape 
from ripening. But they were not disbeaitened by 
this. A charge will take place. New England will 
have good grape seasons yet, and Western New York 
may catch the drenching as the former ha& done. 
The grape wants high ground and a sunny exposure. 
In Germany they are not afraid of climbing hills to 
plant grape vines. The present exhibition was full 
of encouragement to grape growers, though the 
present year there was a pretty general failure east¬ 
ward, with occasional exceptions of Israella, Hart¬ 
ford Prolific and Iona, which had reached maturity. 
John A. Warder, Cincinnati —Regretted to re¬ 
spond to a call where he had so little encouraging 
to say. In past yeare the grape growers of his re¬ 
gion had had eminent success with the vine. The 
Catawba was then the favorite, but lately her lady¬ 
ship has had a set back—a malady so to speak, and 
the consequence, has been most wretched crops— 
not one-fourth of one this season. On five acres of 
formerly good producing vines, the yield this year 
will not be five bushels. Mr, Longworth intro¬ 
duced the Delaware, but it has proved worse than 
the Catawba. Of 1,000 well grown roots in good 
soil in 1865, there were not 10 alive the succeeding 
year and two only of Ihese bore fruit. Thought the 
Ives has all the qualifications of a perfect plant; 
bears well and makes delicious white (?) wine. 
Mr. Wilder — Would like to hear more about 
the Ives grape, whether it was the best or not, 
for wine. 
Mr. Warder — There is no best grape for wine, all 
the States considered. One grape does well in one 
locality and poorly in another. Must consult the 
soil and climate and grow the variety best suited to 
each. Alluded to the premium awarded the Ives at 
Cincinnati. This was done because it best tilled the 
bill at the time, and has proved successful. Is re¬ 
garded as the wine grape for Ohio, except along the 
lake shore. The Concord was regarded as a supe¬ 
rior table grape. 
A. 8. Fuller, N. J.—Came to listen to others and 
not to talk. Does not reside in a strictly grape grow- 
Fruft and Vegetable Markets 
ing of ornamental trees. How well I remember the 
impression that was made on my mind when first 
visiting New Haven, by the noble elms which adorn¬ 
ed the streets, forming over some of them perfect 
arches of green, the branches springing from the 
trunks like the groined arches from the columns of 
an old cathedral,—an impression which more than 
thirty years has failed to efiace. The city from 
where I write has also no mean reputation for the 
beauty of the immense number of trees which lino 
the streets,—bnt I think we can scarcely expect to 
attain such superb results in the laying out and or¬ 
namenting our cities and towns as the Parisians have 
in remodeling their city, until we adopt some better 
organized plan of operations. Here, every man 
builds to suit his owu taste and convenience, aud if 
he plants trees on the street he uses only such kinds 
as he likes best. If variety is aimed at, the purpose 
is accomplished,—but there are other things to be 
considered in the laying out of cities aud towns. 
There are such features as Unity, Harmony, Breadth 
and Magnitude, In citiCB and towns, stright lines 
should predominate; but in the country, curved 
ones. Contrast, for instance, gome of the old Dutch 
towuB on the iludeon River where the lines of streets 
have not been altered, with towns of the same size 
of recent construction. In the former the streets 
conform to the tracks made by the cowb going to 
and from pasture in former times, aud, consequent¬ 
ly, present a succession of curves and angles, and 
however much these streetB, with their quaint build¬ 
ings and intricate windings may be pleasing to some, 
they hardly come up to the requirements of modern 
ideas. 
Let us suppose an avenue to be constructed from 
twoto three miles in length perfectly straight, and 
l: one 
number eleven. 
No. 11 — Fruit small, yellow, mostly overspread 
with cinnamon russet; form from oblong pyriform 
to ovate pyriform; stem long, set without depres¬ 
sion ; calyx very large, round, open, but with strong 
connected segments, basin very shallow; flesh yel¬ 
lowish, granulated, juicy, moderately sweet, but not 
particularly rich, not quite “very good; ” core me¬ 
dium ; seeds long, broad, ovate pointed; October 
and November. 
The practice of allowing pear trees to stand in 
grass has been strongly commended 
The experi¬ 
ence of a correspondent of the Journal of Agricul¬ 
ture is a fact worth thinking about: 
Mb. Meehan, In his excellent paper on this sub¬ 
ject berore the Homological Convention, in your 
city, advised allowing the sod to grow round pear 
trees in preference to clean cultivation, and you, Mr. 
Editor, endorse his position as far as standard trees 
go, on pear bottoms. I can go further than you, and 
cordially endorse it in treating dwarf trees on the 
quince. Quite a number of years ago, in Inquiring 
of one of the best pear growers I ever knew, the 
secret of his success, he said it consisted in a very 
few words,—let the grass grow all arouud your trees. 
I afterwards found in some horticultural paper, the 
advice given by one of the Newark, N. J., cultivators, 
in addition to this, always to add a wheelbarrow load 
of manure round every tree, every autumn. AnxiouB 
to do anything to avert the terrible slaughter of my 
trees from blight, this advice was carefully followed, 
and whether it was efficacious or not, I have never 
lost a tree since, although several years have elapsed. 
If I dared say that anything would cure pear blight, 
I should certainly say that this would, for it has 
given me more complete satisfaction than anything 
of the sort I have ever found in a book or paper, or 
tried before or since this trial. 
To those who are suffering from pear blight, and 
they are certainly a legion, 1 would say, never cul¬ 
tivate the ground at all, particularly for dwarf trees, 
add a wheelbarrow load of manure every fall, and 
keep the grass cut dose all summer. My success 
with this has more than satisfied me, and I intend 
filling up my^vacant spaces next spring, and go into 
pear raising again. 1 prefer the dwarf sorts. They 
take np less room, bear earlier, and don’t hurt your 
feelings quite so much when they Buccumb to their 
invisible hut resistless enemy as so many thousands 
have done, us ',vbcn a large, tree perishes. 
A good deal has been 6aid about growing ever¬ 
greens among pears to enre blight. I have given it 
a full trial, and though it stands to reason that they 
would greatly ameliorate the rigor of the climate, 
success has not been 
NUMBER THIRTEEN. 
No. 13 —Fruit, small, globular, obtuse, pyriform 
pale russet bronze on yellow-green ground j stalk, 
three-fourths inch long set in a shallow broad cavity; 
calyx with short, erect segments, open; basin, verj 
shallow, sometimes indistinct; flesh, white, juicy, 
half melting, sweet, good, not rich flavor; season^ 
early October. 
TO PRESERVE AND DRY CITRON 
Eds. Rural :—Recently I saw in your columns a 
request for a recipe to preserve and dry citron. 
The accompanying one will be found very good : 
Cut ripe citrons in halves ; peel and scrape out the 
core and pick out every seed; for every live pounds 
of citron thus prepared allow one ounce of ginger 
root, bruised but not ground; put them In su Uicient 
water to cover the citron, and boll until they can be 
pierced with a fork. For five pounds of citron allow 
three pounds of good sugar and two fresh lemons. 
With a sharp knife cut off the yellow peel of the 
lemons into the sugar, being careful not to cut the 
white of the rind. Then squeeze the juice of the 
lemons into the sugar. Whan the citron ns boiled 
sufficiently, take It out to drain from the water, 
and be sure and pick off every particle of the giuger 
root. When drained, lay it in the sugar until the 
next day, keeping it covered closely; then stew it, 
covered tightly, until the sugar has thoroughly pen¬ 
etrated the citron; then drain from the sirup, and 
dry as quickly as convenient. This will be found as 
good as that bought at the grocers. The sirup left 
can be used in making citron preserves, or if sealed 
up while hot can be kept for flavoring mince pies. 
Brier Hill Farm, Mo. Mrs. H. 
there are two or more plans to choose from 
provides for the street being spacious, not less than 
one hundred feet wide, the houses in each block to 
be in unison so as to fotm a complete front similar 
to those of Michigan Terrace at Chicago; the car- 
rige way sixty or more feet wide, and Bide-walks not 
less than twenty feet, with a row of American Elms 
on the sides nearest the carriage ways thirty feet 
apart, properly protected with guards. Another 
plan is to make the avenue of the ordinary width 
of streets, say sixty-Bix feet, the houses in each 
block to be as diverse as the builders choose to 
make them, and the trees to he planted on the sides 
of the avenue of suck U'.u > as the owner’s taste 
may dictate. What would be the result by adopt¬ 
ing either of the aforementioned plans ? 
If the first were decided on the appearance would 
be satisfactory In the highest degree, as it would 
present that perfect Unity, Harmony, Breadth and 
Grandeur so desirable in all public thoroughfares of 
any magnitude. If the second plan were adopted 
the result would be the reverse of satisfactory, be¬ 
cause it would look more like a confused mass than 
a harmonious whole. 
Many of our New England villages are character¬ 
ized by loDg lines of beautiful trees 
very encouraging—not by any 
means equal to the other treatment as above recom¬ 
mended. In twenty years’ experience of growing 
pears, I have found bnt one variety that has outlived 
that space of time and is yet green and vigorous. 
We are indebted to Thomas H. Genin, Esq., of 
St. Clairsvilte, Ohio, f®r samples of many of his 
seedling pears. Mr. Genin writes that all 
and the 6ame 
may be said of plenty of western towns,— but in 
many cases there is a great want of Unity and Har¬ 
mony in the trees selected. Mr. A., for instance, 
has built a nice house, and he plants on tho side¬ 
walk opposite one kind of tree. Mr. C. has also 
built a good houBo, but he is determined to have 
something different from A., lest his neighbors 
should think he copied after him. Others follow 
with the same ideas, end then, by-and-by, somebody 
makes the discovery that there is a lack of Uuity,— 
for the whole appearance is entirely unsatisfactory. 
Now there is a way to remedy this, and I think 
that even much greater results may be attained with 
us, in the way of planting, than even with the plant¬ 
ers of Haris, if a more perfect system is adopted. 
No grander tree in the world can be found for this 
purpose than the American Elm. The Horse Chest¬ 
nut docs remarkably well with us and is a very good 
tree for avenues; then for the Ailanthus we can sub¬ 
stitute the Maple, either hard or soft. The Locust 
is entirely unsuited to our wants; and theHJane, al¬ 
though growing to a large size, i6 subject to disease. 
Although we have a large number of varieties of 
forest trees, there are none which will give more 
general satisfaction for planting avenues than the 
Elm, the Horse Chestnut, Maple, Tulip Tree and 
Linden, particularly in the Middle, Eastern and 
Noithern States. 
Having already occupied so much of your valuable 
space, 1 cannot now enter into the details of laying 
out and planting country towns and villages. That 
must form the subject of another communication. 
Rochester, N. Y. William Wkjistkb. 
were 
grown from seed of the Seckel, but the characters 
of the fruits are so varied that we cannot a moment 
doubt the association of cither the Windsor or Sum¬ 
mer Bonchretien, in fertility of the blossoms that 
produced the Seckel pears, from which seed was 
taken to grow these, Mr. Genin has a large num¬ 
ber of seedlings, and from them, if he gains one 
really superior sort, he should feel satis fled. At 
present we figure and describe some of them, more 
with a view to call attention of amateurs, (always 
crazy for new tbingB,) to their existence, than a dis¬ 
position to recommend them for cultivation. The 
trees we know nothing of, and there may be some¬ 
thing connected with their great hardihood, etc., to 
warrant the perpetuation of the varieties, and espe¬ 
cially may they be adapted to certain localities. From 
our knowledge of the fruits numbers 6 and 22 are 
worth trial in other localities and may prove quite 
valuable, as the former—number 0 — Mr. Genin 
writes, has a hardy, thorny native habit, and is a very 
rapid grower. This pear, although we have only 
kept it until November, Mr. Genin writes has been 
with him in eating during December and January. 
Our descriptions and figures are made from the me¬ 
dium specimens that we have received, and if any¬ 
thing, are below rather than above their standard. 
Some weeks since mention was made in the Rural 
of a bed quilt pieced by a girl in California, giving 
the number of squarea in it. This has brought for¬ 
ward several competitors for tho post of honor— 
so many, indeed, that we are compelled, for the 
purpose of economizing space, to reduce them to a 
tabular form, thus: 
California Girl.f 
Mrs. D, Fatten, Sweden Center, N. Y. a’figa 
-Kenosha, Wi* .... . 3,381 
Mrs. R. B. Ralston, Burlingame, Kansas. :i’3SS 
Mrs. N. J. Austin, Williamson, Wayne Co., N. Y... 8.918 
Mrs. Stanton, Tekonsha, Mich. 3 93:3 
Miss S. A. Howard, Le Roy, 111. ' a ’oho 
Mrs. Leete, Victor. N. V.. . 4 W 
Mrs. D. F. Beebe, North Stonington, C’t. .1 231 
Mrs. E. T. Lee, Little Valley, NY.! . 1,150 
Mrs. 11, Frayer, 'three Rivers. Mich .. 4 660 
Mrs. L. A. W., Denmark, Lewis Co., N. Y.. 1,811 
It will be seen that the race Is pretty close among 
several competitors, but so far the honors seem to 
remain with New York. 
No. 16 — Fruit, medium size, ovate, pyriform, pale 
greenish-yellow, with a russet bronzed shade in the 
Bun; stalk, stout, wrinkled, fleshy, set without de¬ 
pression ; calyx with short, erect segments, set in a 
shallow open basin; flesh white, rather dry and void 
of any special good flavor; middle of September. 
Hresekving CrDER.—The Maryland Farmer says 
that cider may be kept from getting hard in the 
casks by pouring Into the barrel, when first tapped, 
about half a pint of clear sperm or sweet oil. It 
will float on the liquor, exclude the air and prevent 
acidity. 
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS 
HORTICULTURAL NOTES, 
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recently succeeded in performing ore of the most remark able 
cures in the annals of medicine or surgery. Mrs. HIU, of 
Warwick, It. L, had been Buffering for years from a cancer in 
flic breast, which was rapidly gaining in virulence, and 
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August, 1SG7, five. Inches In diameter, Under the skillful 
treatment of these gentlemen she lias been entirely cured, 
without the use of the knife, caustic burning, or the loss of 
blood. This cure Is, as we have said, one of the most won¬ 
derful we have ever known or heard of. 
The ScurrEitNONQ Grape.—A sample of this grape, 
embracing the dark and the light colored varieties, was 
on exhibition at the New York State Fair, and also at 
tho New York State Grape Growers' Exhibition. They 
were in a box, and as free from stems as a lot of plums. 
In fact this grape is not capable of being shown with 
stems, as the dusters only contain rroni three to six 
berries, aud It is harvested usually by whipping the fruit 
from the vine with poles. Its characteristics were a very 
thick skin, tough pulp, plenty of seeds, and such an out¬ 
rageous strong “catty" smell that a Northern grape 
grower could hardly be persuaded to come within testing 
distance. Judged by our standards, it le not worthy of 
cultivation; It Is not eatable, and gives no promise of 
making a good aud popular wiuc. We believe it is gen¬ 
erally the practice, in making wine from it, to add two or 
three pounds of sugar per gallon, and tho product must 
be a heavy, dark, cordial wine. If some of our Southern 
friends will forward us a sample, with description of 
manufacture, ffce., we will submit it to competent judges 
and report. There Is at present a strong influence at 
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