Among the new grapes Walter has done well; foliage perfectly healthy; fruit of most excellent quality and very early ripening this season; the first of full fruiting along with Hartford and before Martha, Iona and some others. Martha is giving entire satisfaction. Iona not quite so fine as expected, but doing fairly; Goethe and Meramec are full of promise. Among those not yet fruited are New Haven Red and Vallees' White Concord, both doing well, fine healthy foliage and very short jointed wood. Hudson, a new white grape not yet sent out, is a beautiful vine with very fine foliage, and is doing very well so far. Eumclan is very healthy and thrifty, promising very well; the Herman is fully realizing expectations. The drouth and heat have been very trying on foliage, and some varieties have suffered considerably. Among those that have been conspicuously worthless with us are, Mary Ann, North Carolina and Creveling. The only point of vine in the Hartford, its earliness, has been very neatly laid on the shelf here, by coming into competition with points further south. - Rural World.