boundaries, where Nature has created none 
and simply considered Phylloxera in the 
light of vermin attacking every diseased or 
weakened plant, they might probably have 
had recourse to the most rational way of 
riddiug their Vineyards of such pests, i. p„ 
looting them alone—’Without pruning at all 
for a few yeans. Good long wild canes 
would tend to promote good long roots and 
healthy rootlets, and thus choke off the pest 
by means of sap. Of course, the weakest 
plants might dio, but part of the vineyard 
might bo saved. It would be incredible if 
cart load after cart load of primings could be 
taken awav from ft, vinrvrfl.ril t*oo n nff am 
one of this year’s roses, 
of its class. The flowers 
flesh color, with pale 
carmine centre, the coloring being very 
distinct. 
Diana; another of this year's roses, of 
are likely to assume in the hands of skillful vigorous habit and a fine bloomer ; flower 
hybridists. The illustration here given is of large and cup shaped ; color bright pink. It 
a new Zonale, called “ Mrs. Smith,” raised . is especially valuable for ordinary garden 
and sent out by an Euglish florist of that I cultivation. 
name. It represents a new type, quite rlis- > Peach Blossom; is a valuable addition to 
GRAPES FOB WINTER-KEEPING. 
Fresh grapes in the family are a whole¬ 
some luxury at any season of the year ; but 
it is only within a brief period that this de¬ 
licious fruit has found its way to any extent 
upon the table, even in the ripening season. 
In hundreds of families good grapes, ripe 
grapes, in their season, are yet unknown It 
III-IMPBOVED PELARGONIUMS 
ZONALE “ IV 
the list of light colored roses. Flowers light 
pink and of good form. 
St. Georoe.; a tine, dark variety; flowers 
deep crimson, large, full and of most ex- 
i cellent form. 
Reynold's Hole; flowers of average size : 
form good ; color rich maroon crimson ; but 
scarcely up to the standard of an exhibition 
I rose. 
Baron de Bonstetlcn; is an improvement 
on Monsieur Boncenne, no flowers being 
larger and fuller, and the ; lant of more 
vigorous growth ; color dark, velvety crim¬ 
son. 
Abbe Ummerrl ; color bright crimson, 
shaded with deep purple ; flowers large but 
too flat and coarse to be considered a first- 
class rose for exhibition purposes. It is 
nevertheless a good garden rose, as the colors 
are bright and decisive, and the flowers are 
borne in large trusses. 
Etienne Levet; color very flue carmine 
red; flowers large and full ; of vigorous 
growth. Tt i3 one of the best for garden 
decoration and also an excellent variety for 
exhibition purposes. 
Francois Michelon ; color clear rose, the 
reverse of the petals silvery, centifolia- 
shaped, large and full. An excellent garden 
rose. 
Madame Lacharme; flowers very large.; 
centifolla-shaped ; color white, lightly 
shaded with rose, sometimes passing to 
all white ; growth vigorous. Not a first-class 
exhibition rose but a good garden rose. 
Perle tics Blanches; color pure white; 
flowers large and full, produced in large 
clusters. It surpasses Mad. Lacharme as an 
exhibition rose. 
Coquette den Blanches; color pure white; 
flowers medium size, centifolia-shaped. An 
excellent variety. 
Ferdlnad de Lesseps; color crimson, with 
a violet shade ; large, full and of line form. 
One of the best roses of its color for exhibi¬ 
tion purposes as well as for the garden. 
Paul heron; color deep rose; large fill 
and of good form. Not a very new rose, but ; 
an excellent one for exhibition as well ns for 
the garden. 
Marquise de Castellane; color fine roRG ; I 
flowers very large, full amd of fine shape. 
Like the preceding it is not a verv new rose 
but excellent for exhibition as well as for the 
garden. 
Duchess of Fdtnburph; is in the wav of 
La France, but superior to it; the flowers 
are larger fuller and of better form, and the 
color is several shades deeper. 
Sir Garnet T FolseJey; is a high colored 
variety of great merit ; the flowers are 
large, globular and full ; the color brillant 
black, which is so clearly defined as to have 
the appearance of a black ring lying upon 
the surface of the leaf. 
Another variety, called “A Happy 
Thought,” has a leaf shaped somewhat like 
the old “Commander-In-Chief,” or Cerise 
Unique, and about the same shade of green, 
but each leaf is marked in the center with a 
large cream-colored blotch, which has a very 
singular appearance, .and is so different from 
everything else that one is inclined to won¬ 
der where and how such strange forms orig¬ 
inated, there being nothing clso like it in 
cultivation. 
It is evident, too, that the next few years 
will be still more prolific in new forms in this 
class of plants than the past, as some of the 
leading Pelargonium raisers of England 
claim that such an affinity exists between 
the Zonale Pelargonium and the old-fashion¬ 
ed garden plant, Geranium prat cnee, as to 
admir. of cross fertilization ; in fact, it is 
claimed by some that seedlings, the result of 
such cross fertilization, are now iu existence. 
These are termed by the raisers thereof as 
“Qu-t Seedlings,” which is suggestive of 
appearances entirely new to florists. The 
subject, however, is at present in controver¬ 
sy, and will require a year at least to decide ; 
but if it should transpire that such botanical 
affinity exists, a new and very extensive field 
is open to hybridisers, and we may reasona¬ 
bly hope to see some novelties altogether 
different from anything at present thought 
of. F. E. Cmrrv. 
Paterson, N. J. 
press a desire to have me occasion illy report 
progress in flsh-culture, I write, not exactly 
to report progress, unless It be in the wrong 
direction ; but 1 have had a bit of dear ex¬ 
perience, similar to that of several others 
who have engaged in the business, and I 
write to warn others against such mishaps. 
I have a pond containing about 2,500 cubic 
feet of water, backing to three or four 
springs, the source of supply. This pond I 
have constructed at great expense, as it is on 
sandy soil, and have it carefully guarded 
from invasion by surface water. In this 
pond I had a small but valuable stock of 
brook trout, about two years old. 
Early the past autumn I was at the North 
and had an opportunity to secure a small 
stock of young salmon trout, which I 
brought home with me. As the pond re¬ 
ferred to is within a hundred feet of my resi¬ 
dence, I Was anxious to have It occupied by 
the young salmon trout, that I might readily 
watch their habits, &c. Having a small res¬ 
ervoir at the head of a copious spring in a 
neighboring grove, I transported the brook 
trout there until I could complete a some¬ 
what elaborate pond wlu*h I am preparing 
for this variety of fish, adjoining the said 
grove. All the salmon trout are alive and 
doing splendidly in my first named pond. 
But the brook trout, where are they 1 I had 
supposed them iu very safe and 
predation of their value. In this latitude, 
from early September to December wo may 
easily have In succession a family supply of 
the different varieties, and with a proper se 
lection of sorts this supply may be extended 
as much longer, or until March or April. I 
think the time is not far distant when well- 
regulated families will make it as much a 
poiut, to lay in their winter supply of grapes 
as they now do of winter apples. But some 
of our most popular sorts, which are abun¬ 
dant in market during “grape season,” are 
perishahle and cannot be kept into winter. 
Among these, and most widely known, are 
Hartford, Coueord and Delaware. Like tho 
summer apples, they are good in their season 
and perish with their using. Another class, 
like Iowa, Catawba, Diana and Isabella will 
ripen perfectly and uniformly only in a few 
favored localities. Some of these sorts are 
good keepers, but on account of lateness can¬ 
not be relied upon by the people at large. 
What we want, then, is varieties early 
enough to ripen almost everywhere, and 
haviog keeping qualities that may be relied 
on after the perishable sorts are gone. Have 
we such varieties in cultivation with which 
to fill this void ? I think we have, and that, 
till something better is introduced, some of 
the Rogers Hybrids may be safely adopted, 
as they have been to quite an extent. Al¬ 
though encountering some opposition, these 
sorts have been steadily gaining in public 
estimation. At the head of them in quality 
stands Salem ; next among the red varieties, 
Agawam, and Wilder and Merrimac among 
the black. These all ripen with me as early 
as Concord, and are of course available for 
early market or family suppy, and if desired 
can, with but little care, be packed away for 
use all through tho winter. They are excel¬ 
lent in quality, hardy in vine, requiring no 
winter protection, heavy and uniform bear¬ 
ers. There are other of Rogers which it may 
be desirable to grow, but these are the best 
calculated to fill the void in the particular I 
have named. I. h. b. 
Lockport, N. Y. 
snug quar¬ 
ters in the small reservoir, but they are not 
there, nor the reservoir either. From the 
point where the reservoir was located, back 
of the grove, the ground rises abruptly, at¬ 
taining an altitude of some 30 feet, in 200 
yards, where is reached a sandy plain of five 
acres in extent, very nearly level, but as it 
appears slightly dishing. This is my third 
year here, and 1 have never seen any water 
on this plain, it being, as stated, a mass of 
sand. 
During the past three weeks we have had 
a series of sleet storms, alternated by unusual 
freezing weather, which transformed this 
particular tract into a basin as impervious to 
water as if-coated with a thick layer of hy¬ 
draulic cement. On Sunday, the 24th inst., 
we had our first snow storm of the season. 
After a lively fall of two hours’ duration, it 
changed to rain, which fell copiously, ve>ry 
soon flooding the basin referred to" The 
lowest depression of the surrounding ridge 
seems to be in direct range with the site of 
my late reservoir, and here the water evi¬ 
dently rushed down in a torrent, sweeping 
away the. reservoir with its stock of speckled 
beauties. The only consolation I have in 
connection with the matter i8 that a beauti¬ 
ful little stream running something over a 
fourth of a mile through my premises is now 
stocked with trout, but the consolation is a 
poor one, for a few weeks hence the stream 
will be infested with voracious pickerel that 
will make short, work with the trout. 
Parties commencing in (lie comparative 
new industry (in this country) of fish cul¬ 
ture, will lcurn from this dear lesson of mine 
that they cannot too carefully examine their 
surroundings in order to guard against all 
contingencies. Milton P. Peirce, 
Wlnonah, N. J., Jan. 28, 
NEW ROSES, 
A CORRESPONDENT of the London Floral 
World, (edited by Shirley Hibbard), notices 
some of the best of the new roses grown or 
exhibited in England during the past two or 
three years. In his prefatory remarks he 
takes occasion to say “There can be no 
doubt the French raisers send us every year 
a large number of most worthless varieties, 
and the prudent amateur, whoha 3 bub little 
money to spare in the purchase of new 
flowers, should not buy any French roses 
until an opportunity has been afforded for 
competent critics to give their opinion on 
them. Every year some thirty or forty 
varieties are sent over, and of these not 
more than three or four are really 11 rat-class, 
and to buy at random is to incur the risk o? 
wasting money. In buying English-raised 
roses t.he case is altogether different, for 
before a raiser in this country (England I 
ventures to offer a new variety, blooms or 
plants are submitted to the criticism of the 
rosaries at the public exhibitions. Were 
this not done it is questionable whether 
it would be purchased by the trade.” 
Of the Hybrid Perpetual or Remontant 
class of Roses he not ices the following : 
Annie Laxton ; a good, globular, light 
colored rose, but the petals are wanting in 
substance. If the flowers are exnosed to 
THE BEST CURE FOR VINE PE8T 
F. T. P. writes the London Garden that 
Luxuriant Vine Growth is the best cure for 
Vine PestM. Bignoret has just sent in to 
the Academy of Sciences an interesting 
paper on the different species of Phylloxera ; 
he has, moreover, made known a new type 
of that insect possessing all the characteris¬ 
tics of Phylloxera, but, in some respects, 
differing from it. If, instead of ascribing 
the Phylloxera epidemic to a few solitary 
insects possibly imported from Ohio or Cali¬ 
fornia, viticulturists had dropped that part 
of science which consists in raising artificial 
