The head and front of all American grapes, when quality is brought into question. For a grape as large in bunch and berry, and productive, hardy, and free from mildew and rot, as the Concord, and as good as Ohio Delaware, I would stop but very little to offer a premium of one hundred dollars to the originator, to be produced within the next five years. But what would be a hundred dollars to such a lucky individual ? his fortune will be made.

Le Noir, Norton's Virginia Seedling, Herbemont's Madeira, are all well worth cultivating.

Sage, or Charter Oak, Northern Muscadine, Early Amber, Early August, Ac, are only worth cultivating where the fox flavor is desirable !

Black Hamburgh, Sweetwater, Canadian Chief, Concord, and Isabella, were sent me from Canada West; the three first named, and Isabella, would have weighed very near a pound to the bunch. The Concord is far inferior to those grown here, in point of flavor, although the berry is larger than mine. But such Hamburghs, Sweetwater, and Chief, make one almost wonder what glass-houses are for, for these were grown in the open air, and as free from rust as a new pin. The mode of keeping the mildew from them, shall be given to you in some future communication by me, unless the grower of these splendid grapes gives it to you himself (W. H. Reade, of Port Dalhousie, C. W.), who is one of those substantial horticulturists and who does a thing right when he undertakes it.

That the knowing ones may be helped to distinguish a Canadian Chief from a Sweetwater, the following will be a pretty correct guide: Canadian Chief is more compact and shouldered in the bunch, the berry more inclined to oval than round, and has an amber tint not common to Sweetwater; not quite as sweet as the latter, but more sprightly; has not often more than one seed, and that straight and blunt at the small end, while Sweetwater has usually two, and sometimes three seeds, which are a little curved and pointy at the small end.

No one need call the Chief a native, nor need he expect it to stand our winters unprotected; those who do, will be disappointed.