With samples, we have the two following notes from Mr. Lorin Blodgett, of Broad street, Philadelphia :

"I bring a sample of the growth of my Lindley this year - hoping to meet you here. I leave it here, after handling for four days, to show how persistent the grapes are. The general growth of the vine is greater than in any former year, and it bears an enormous crop. Many hundreds of the bunches show the apparent separation of the two original varieties hybridized, and while I cannot now find an explanation of the original varieties hybridized, I assume that the smaller is the European parent. It looks like the Delaware, and my belief last year was that the Delaware vine growing alongside and intermingled with the Lindley caused the new departure, which was then only on the side so exposed. Now the divided bunches are more general, and among the most lusty of the growing branches, and largest bunches. It is certainly an anomaly, and an illustration of the possibilities of hybridization. I will send a larger box, possibly at the same time to-morrow".

" August 25th, 1886.

" I send from my house this morning a second small box»of Lindley grapes - Rogers' No. 9 - put up from picking last evening and an average of five times as many picked. They are still not fully ripe, but the sparrows are about, and I wish you to see the peculiar separation of the two varieties on the bunches as they have grown. I could cut many growths of the vine 14 feet long and well ripened this year. It was never more vigorous, and altogether has a large crop of some thousands of bunches".

[It must be a very interesting sight to see this vine loaded with fruit, one-half looking like bunches of Delaware, and the other half what it is, Lindley, and some of the bunches with the large sized berries of Lindley on part, and the rest of the bunch with these half size berries like Delaware.

Without a very wide experience, an observer would be pardonable for believing that in some way a Delaware would be answerable for the result.

But when we come to taste the small berries we find that the flavor, as well as the color, are exactly Lindley with nothing of the Delaware there, and we also find that not one of these berries has a seed. This explains the whole circumstance - they are simply seedless Lindleys. Those who have had experience with growing the foreign grape under glass understand this perfectly. The Muscat of Alexandria often produces seedless grapes, and these are only half the size of the normal seed bearing berries. It looks just as if a Sweet Water had fertilized the Muscat, while really it is imperfect fertilization that produces the result.

The case is an excellent illustration of the fallacy of a very prevalent opinion that there is an immediate influence of pollen on fruit by cross-fertilization. Only from the knowledge that comes from wide experience, and the noting the absence of seeds in these berries, it would be quite reasonable to quote this in favor of that hypothesis. - Ed. G. M].