One word as to native Grapes, and my offering for the present shall be closed.

Among those which have come to notice recently in this region, may be named - Stetson's No. 1, Ames, Bulxs, Richardson's, and Davis' Seedlings. These are all earlier than the Isabella, but with the exception of the two first have a slight touch of the foxy odor, either in fragrance or flavor. The Richardson, although a seedling from the Catawba, which, by the by, is the parent of many new varieties, ripens about the 1st, and the others from the 10th to the 20 th of September.

I am happy to know that attention has at last been awakened on the subject of raising native varieties of the Grape, adapted to our own locations. Of these I have tested more than twenty sorts which have lately fruited in New England, and I can no longer doubt that we shall soon be abundantly supplied with American Grapes of excellent quality.

N. B. - If the Brinckle Grape should prove perfectly hardy, it will take a high rank among the natives.

P. S. - I find that in my article on New Pears, in your last number, I ommitted to give the description of the Beurre Judes. Here it is:

Native Grapes #1

The tourist to Lebanon Springs, New York, is of course familiar with the settlement of the United Society, two and a half miles south of that watering-place. They are familiar with the long high hill to be climbed in going from the latter to the former, so that we say, on reaching the settlement, that we are a good thousand feet above tide-water. The high bluffs of the Taconio, south and east, whose summits are far above them, tell of the seclusion of the earliest morning sun, on one hand, and break the sweet influence of the soft southern breezes on the other; while that valley, opening far to the north-west, shows conclusively that old Boreas can travel with telegraphic speed to vent his fury on the abrupt hill-side.

It was at this unpropitious locality that Philemon Stewart, a member of that enterprising Society, some twenty-five years ago, with the noble object of producing a palatable and hardy variety of grape, commenced their cultivation from the seed, and as the first fruit of this effort he was rewarded with the "Northern Muscadine " - a grape which is every year becoming better known and more popular among cultivators.

The excellencies of this grape, are, in the first place, its entire hardiness; for, as Mr. Stewart has lately informed us, he leaves the vino wholly unprotected in their severe exposure during our long, cold, and sometimes fluctuating (as to temperature) winters. Then, the grape has ripened well on his grounds for the last fifteen successive summers. It is a hardy grape, and ripens its fruit as far north as Detroit in Michigan, and Quebec in Canada. Amateurs pronounce it a good table grape, and the wine, the pure juice of the grape, made from it, of which Mr. Stewart shows several specimens, is beautifully flavored for the invalid, and sparkling. Its popularity as a grape worthy of general cultivation is increasing as it becomes better known, as the increasing demand for the vines fully affirms. But Mr. Stewart's ambition is not satisfied, nor do his labors rest here. He has now some fifteen hundred seedling vines under cultivation, from which it is no more than reasonable to suppose that some valuable varieties will originate. Indeed, some of these vines came into bearing last year, and several varieties, ripening from August through September, promise well.

As the vines mature, the qualities of the fruit of these will probably improve.

Mr. Stewart is a philanthropist. His labors, watchfulness and care in grape-culture, have been arduous and unremitting, and Providence we have no doubt will give them success. What a blessing it will be to mankind if he brings out several new, hardy, and choice varieties, so that choice grapes may in due time overspread the poor man's cottage as well as the rich man's arbor, and become the comfort and healthy luxury of all! God speed him and give him full success, for the labor in which he is engaged is a labor to bless mankind.

Tours truly, William Bacon.

Richmond, Mass., June 1,1859.

[The Northern Muscadine is valued at the North for its ripening where most other grapes do not succeed. We are not prepared to recommend it where we can have better. Will some one favor us with a sample the coming season from a vine of some age? - Ed. ]

Native Grapes #2

A glorification of that miserable excuse for a grape, the Northern Muscadine.

What can induce any person who has ever compared this fruit with a decent grape to cultivate it, passes my understanding, unless he is so unfortunate as to be compelled to live in a place where no other is obtainable, in which case he is to be pitied.

Mr. Thomas some time since stated that it was not to be distinguished from the Brown Fox, and that he had frequently so told the originators of it, who, however, seem to place little reliance upon Mr. TVs pomological acumen, as they continue to promulgate its praises as if it were the sum-mum bonum of all grapes.

1 have grown and tasted - I will not say eaten - this grape, and was once a member of a committee under whose notice its wine came, and I can say - as a certain horticulturist of this State is reported to have said of the Cooper apple, - "I would not have it within forty miles of my farm," (if I had one).

I sincerely believe that this thing is a humbug and imposition, and that the Charter Oak, Sage's Mammoth, et id omne genus, are in the same category. There may be a place where these will ripen, and nothing else will; for that locality they may be of some value.

Native Grapes #3

P. B. Mead, Esq. - Opening Downing the other day, I was struck by his description of the Concord.

"Skin rather thick, with more of the native pungency than the Isabella, which it resembles, but does not equal in quality".

Surely, Mr. Downing must have had a poor sample, or it has improved much since then. The quality is partly a matter of taste; the thickness of skin, part of it one of fact. And I beg to say, that of eight kinds I have growing, the Concord this season had the thinnest of any.

1 can not find the "native pungency" when fully ripe. If I were limited to one vine, I should be puzzled to decide between it and Delaware. With me, it was ripe October 1st, ten days after Delaware, and ten ahead of Diana, Rebecca, Catawba, Anna, Isabella, and Herbemont, which I rate in the order they are placed.