ordium, which, however named, is, I insist, perfectly curable with sulphur: if we can control it, the black rot will scarely hinder our progress. And yet, with certain varieties, on low lands, on compact and undrained grounds, badly aired and subject to fogs, the black rot alone, in a very wet season, may nearly destroy the entire crop. I ask a fair trial of the remedy.

The Adirondack was pronounced by Capt. Spaulding feeble and unproductive; and Israella as a fair grower, very productive, and of good quality.

The Iona was considered one of the best and most profitable grapes, being earlier than Catawba. It is, however, apt to overbear, and, as well as the Catawba and Delaware, should be thinned. Mr. McMahon of Cleveland, who had a fine display of Ionas and Delawares, regarded the Iona as almost if not quite as early as the Delaware, and a good deal earlier than Catawba the past two years, but not as early as usual the present year; and this was the common experience.

Among the fine grapes from the Dover-Bay vineyards, Dr. Beckwith called special attention to the Franklin, of which a fine plate was exhibited. It resembles the Clinton, but is superior to it, and deemed especially promising as a wine-grape.

The First Committee George W. Campbell, Delaware, O.; Frank Knapp, Geneva, O.; James C. Dudley, Geneva, N.Y.; D. C. Richmond, Sandusky, O.; S. Underhill, Croton Point, N.Y. — made the following awards:

Best six bunches Catawba, — J. A. Hall, Collamer; second, George Morgan, Cleveland.

Best six bunches Delaware, Capt. John Spaulding, Cleveland; second, Dover-Bay Company. [The committee had great difficulty in awarding this premium, as the specimens were so nearly equal, excellent in all respects, and all worthy representatives of this fine grape.]

Best six bunches Diana, — R. P. Vorce, Euclid; second, George Morgan, Cleveland.

Best six bunches Isabella, — O. D. Ford, East Cleveland; second, George Morgan, Cleveland.

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Best six bunches Ives's Seedlings, L. Harms, Euclid; second, Dover-Bay Company.

Best five bunches Iona, - Capt. John Spaulding; second, A. M. Searles, Collamer.

Best five bunches Israella, Capt. John Spaulding; second, J. S. McMahon. Best five bunches Creveling, Capt. John Spaulding.

Best five bunches Salem, H. Babcock, Lockport, N.Y.

Best five bunches Massasoit (Rogers's No. 3), Capt. John Spaulding; second, J. S. McMahon.

Best five bunches Wilder (No. 4),— Capt. John Spaulding; second, J. S. McMahon.

Best five bunches Agawam (No. 15), — J. S. McMahon; second, T. R. Chase, Cleveland.

Best five bunches Merrimack (No. 19), — J. S. McMahon.

The Second Committee - Charles Downing, Newburgh, N.Y.; F. R. Elliott, Cleveland; M. B. Bateham, Painesville; and I. H. Babcock, Lockport, N.Y. — made the following awards. —

Best ten varieties Native Grapes, — O. D. Ford, East Cleveland, - Catawba, Delaware, Isabella, Diana, Rebecca, Concord, Iona, and Rogers's Hybrids, Wilder (No. 4,) Massasoit (No. 3), and Agawam (No. 15); no second premium. [Several other fine assortments entered for this premium were ruled out by the committee, because the same plates were entered separately for other premiums.] Best hardy White Grape (Rebecca), George Morgan, gardener for J. B. Perkins, Esq., Cleveland; second, O. D. Ford (Rebecca), East Cleveland. [The Croton variety, exhibited by Mr. Underhill of New York, would have received the first premium if the committee had believed there was sufficient proof of its hardiness.]

Best new Seedling Grape. — This premium was divided equally between S. Underhill of Croton Point, N. Y., for the Croton, as the best new white grape, and Hasbrouck & Bushnell of Iona Island for the Eumelan, as the best new black grape. The Senasqua, another new grape nearly black, exhibited by Mr. Underhill, was also highly commended by the committee.

Best single cane of Catawba, -Dunham & Son, Collamer.

Best single cane of any of Rogers's Hybrids, - T. R. Chase, Cleveland, — Agawam (No. 15).

Best single cane of any other variety,

Capt. John Spaulding, Cleveland.

The following premiums were awarded in the class of "Discretionary: ". Best specimen of the Walter Grape, A. J. Caywood, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Best specimen Norton's Virginia, L. Harmes, Euclid.

Best specimen Detroit, Quaker-Valley Nurseries.

Best specimen Eumelan, Hasbrouck & Bushnell, Iona, N.Y.

Best Rogers's Hybrid No. 5, — J. S. McMahon, Cleveland.

The new grapes at this exhibition attracted much attention, especially the two very promising seedlings, Croton and Senasqua, presented by Mr. Underhill of New York. If the Croton vine proves sufficiently hardy and productive, it is the best of all American white grapes, and supplies a long-felt desideratum. The Eumelan, by Hasbrouck & Bushnell (successors to Dr. Grant), was presented here for the first time, and in better condition than before seen in Ohio. It was pronounced the best new black grape.

The Walter, by Mr. Caywood, was in fine condition for this cool season, and won many friends. A branch of a vine laden with fruit gave ample proof of the productiveness of the Walter. The Modena, also by Mr. Caywood, resembles the Concord, of which it is a seedling, and is not any improvement on that variety.

The Diana Hamburg, of Mr. More of Rochester, N. Y., grown at Dover Bay, was of fine appearance, but not quite ripe; and reports of the vine are not satisfactory.

Chester Seedlings. — Specimens of several numbers of these grapes were exhibited from the garden of Joseph Perkins; but they did not seem to present any special merits, and too little is known of them as yet.

The Martha was not on the tables; though good samples were on the vines of George Leick at Collamer, he supposing that Mr. Campbell would bring better from Delaware; and Mr. Campbell, having used his best clusters for other exhibitions, supposed Mr. Leick or Mr. Knox would bring some.

It was unanimously agreed to change the time of the annual meeting from February to December; and the next meeting was appointed at Dayton, on the first Wednesday of December, the time and place of the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society. This change was made that an abstract of the proceedings may be published in the annual report of the Horticultural Society, and also to secure a larger attendance of members.

M. B. B.

FRUIT-CULTURE IN NEBRASKA. "The Central Union Agriculturist," published at Omaha, Neb., gives encouraging accounts of the cultivation of fruit in that State. Delaware, Catawba, Concord, and other grapes, have borne and ripened finely. The Bartlett, Belle Lucrative, Louise Bonne of Jersey, White Doyenné, Seckel, Duchess, and other pears, are bearing bountifully, and, with the over-loaded apple-trees, declare that Nebraska is the best fruit-growing State in the North-west. Prince's Imperial Gage has succeeded well, grafted on the wild plum of that region. Of apples, the Cooper's Early, White, Hawley, Hocking, Detroit Red, English Red-Streak, and a beautiful scarlet apple called the "Monarch," are highly praised. A new seedling-apple, called the "Nebraskian," is commended to all desiring hardy and valuable fruit. A fine variety of the native plum is also mentioned.

PEANUTS. A million bushels of peanuts a year are raised on the south shore of the James River, between Norfolk and Petersburg. A Norfolk man has invented an improved peanut-picker.

FROZEN APPLES.

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Michigan lost a million dollars' worth of apples by the cold snap about the first of November. An immense quantity was also frozen in Vermont.

THE CIDER-CROP in New Jersey is said to be immense.

CALIFORNIA PEARS are for sale in New Orleans.

The Sublime of IMPUDENCE. We do not think a better exemplification of impudence rising to the height of sublimity could be found than in the following anecdote of a tree-dealer, whose place of business was not a thousand miles from Boston. This person called himself a nursery-man, and had a little piece of land a few miles from the city, just enough for him to talk about his "nursery-grounds." One day, a gentleman who wanted a good-sized Bartlett pear-tree called on Mr. the tree-dealer. He found him at his "grounds," and stated his wishes to Mr. who at that moment had hold of a pear-tree standing by him. "Well," said Mr., "this tree that I have got hold of is a Bartlett; and I should think it is just about what you want." The customer asked the price, and Mr. - replied that he would sell it for five dollars: it was worth more; but it had been dug up and heeled in; and, sooner than set it out again, he might have it for that price. It seemed to be a good tree, and cheap : so the gentleman took it, paid his five dollars, and carried the tree home, and set it out; and, being of good size, it was not long in coming into bearing. Its owner then put some of the fruit in his pocket, and went to see Mr. again.

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"What kind of pears are these?" said he, showing the tree-dealer a handful. "Well, I don't know," was the reply; "but I should think they were buttonpears." "Button pears, indeed! wouldn't you think they were Bartlett pears?" Bartlett pears! they're no more Bartlett pears than a French turnip is a Bartlett pear." "Well, Mr. —, at any rate, these pears grew on a tree that I bought of you for a Bartlett pear-tree." — "Are you such a d———d fool,” was the rejoinder, "as to expect a tree is going to bear Bartlett pears the first year?" Of course, there was nothing to be said after that.

"THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN" is the best of all our agricultural papers, as is shown, if other proof were wanting, by its frequent extracts from this Journal. It could not possibly pay us a higher compliment. We do not wish to be hypercritical; but we must correct one or two slight mistakes which we find in its pages, as when it says, in quoting from the Journal, that "the Clapp's Favorite Pear is pronounced by Robert Manning of Salem as undoubtedly superior to any other of its season." What Mr. Manning did say was, that, in size and beauty, it is superior to any other of its season. It is not superior in flavor to Rostiezer, Ott, or Brandywine, nor, indeed, equal to them; but its size and beauty, combined with its fine quality, more than compensate as a market-fruit.

The strawberry experience quoted was gained in Walpole, Mass., instead of Walpole, N.H.; a not unimportant distinction. And "The Country Gentleman " will be glad to know that the veteran horticulturist mentioned as "the late William Kenrick" still lives, and, though leading a retired life, is busily engaged in horticultural studies.

NOTES AND GLEANINGS FROM FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

LYCHNIS LAGASCÆ. Rock-plants, which are very properly engaging more and more of the attention of cultivators, will receive a choice accession in the pretty species of which Mr. Fitch has given so good a representation in the accompanying wood-cut. It is a low, glaucous, tufted, perennial herb, with densely dichotomous stems two to four inches long, having the lower leaves linear obtuse, the upper lanceolate, and the intermediate ones ovate-lanceolate; while every ramification is terminated by a showy, rose-colored flower, as large as, and not unlike those of, Silene pendula.

Dr. Hooker well observes that "this is at once one of the most beautiful and most rare of the rock-plants now under cultivation in England, its native locality being confined to a very narrow belt of the sub-alpine region of the Northwest Pyrenees; whilst for beauty it is difficult to conceive any thing more sparkling, and at the same time delicate, than the rose-colored, white-eyed blossoms. The tendency of the plant is to form a hemispherical mass." The generic names of Petrocoptis and Silenopsis have been applied to it.-M., in Florist and Pomologist.