Multum in parvo may well be applied to such a sight. In the great Chinese Museum, our exhibition was almost a national one; the Committee, however, very ingeniously made the most of their space, and crowded it with many fine fruits, plants, and vegetables. The specimen plants were exceedingly well grown, though several of them had entirely too many stakes, wires, and other artistical trainings. Do away with such stiff taste; revise those prise lists, and in place of twenty plants, call for ten, and where twelve is required, adopt six, if you wish to diffuse competition, and to have even superior plants and more bloom. As it now is, the prises are necessarily confined to a few large private or public growers: open the way for fifty competitors instead of five.

Of grapes, nearly a ton was exhibited, and though there was not a nine-pound bunch of Hamburgs, this year, yet, we believe, some weighed over seven pounds; the competition very evenly contested. Muscats and Frontignacs were certainly in profuse abundances-large berried, and heavy. But why do competitors not carry their fruit more carefully, and retain all the bloom upon it? We did not tee * new foreign grape; while native grapes increase in variety, and roil upon us with a flood. Several sorts, purely native, promise fairly to equal the Isabella and Catawba, though all our expectations for grapes for the table must be accomplished by actual hybridization with the foreign varieties.

Pears

Nearly thirty native sorts were on the table; these will ultimately cut off all foreigners, with not over a dozen exceptions. The following beautiful sorts were remarkable: Howell, Jones, Moyamensing, Andrews, Preble, Washington, Philadelphia, and Seckel; there were several unnamed seedlings of the greatest promise.

Foreign Pears

Mr. Chambers, of Mount Holly, N. J., contributed the largest variety, and shall we say Mr. Baxter contributed the best. Mr. B.'s fruit farm is something less than half an acre; and from all the,faots and evidences before us, we say, rich soil and doable working suits the pear. Another fact: all pear fruit grown under the influence of the city atmosphere, has a finer skin, a brighter color, and their outlines more perfectly developed, than any grown on country lands, however well tended. We have yet much to learn on that subject. Our best growers are only learners; and the day dawns when only twenty-five to forty sorts of pears will be generally cultivated.

Apples

There were only two fairly passable lots.

Nectarines

We have never seen the equal of that pile of Stanwicks; if we were to grow only one sort such, it would be the Stanwick.

Peaches were good, bat in small variety. There was one new luscious seedling, too small in size for the vulgar eye.

Vegetables

This is a vegetable season. Every article was of California size; indeed, out of proportion, but beautifully fine. This is surely a beet country. The Radish Beet, or new Long Blood Beet: skin, perfectly smooth; root, two feet long, and finely tapered; diameter, five inches, with a color as bright as crimson velvet; crisp and solid. Every gardener and every fruit grower should plant this beet.