Large Black Bigarreau

In your work on Fruits and Fruit-Trees of America, in describing the Large New Black Bigarreau, you attach a note, mentioning that it is the same as the Black Tartarian, in a former edition. Now I received grafts from A. Saul, three years ago; among other varieties the New Large Black Bigarreau, which is by no means a Black Tartarian ; it is quite as large as the Black Tartarian, but much firmer fleshed, and about eight or ten days later - I consider it a first rate cherry. I mention this so thai if Messrs. Saul & Co. have trees of the kinds sent out as the New Large Black Bigarreau, in the spring of 1848, they need not call them Black Tartarian, as they are not it by any means.

Large Bunches Of Grapes

The town of Stowmarket, a Suffolk town of some repute, gave a gold medal at the Great Exhibition at Bury St. Edmund's in July last for the three heaviest bunches of grapes. This was won by Mr. W. Meads, gardener to Raikes Currie, Esq., Minley Manor, Farnborough, with, probably, the three heaviest bunches of Black Hamburgh grapes ever seen; one bunch alone weighed 10 lbs. The aggregate weight of the three bunches was 26 1/2 lbs. They were not only large in size but well-ripened and colored, and the berries of good average size.

Large Cluster Of Grapes

Mr. Fowler, gardener to the Earl of Stair, Castle Kennedy, produced at a recent show in Glasgow, the most extraordinary bunch of grapes, for size and weight, that has been exhibited in modern times. It all but rivaled the famous bunch of Speechly at Welbeck. It weighed 17 lbs. 2 1/2 ozs., and was of the White Nice variety. The same grower had enormous Black Alicante, with berries the size of Victoria Hamburgh, and bunches compact and pyramidal to a fault. Trebbiano, too, was the largest and best formed bunch of the kind probably ever exhibited. Mr. Fowler also produced a bunch of the Duchess of Buccleuch variety, much larger both in cluster and berry than any of this variety before exhibited. The size of bunch which Mr. Fowler induces in all the sorts under his cultural care is something wonderful, and if he does not at all times show them quite up to the finishing stroke in point of color, it need not be wondered at Florist.

A Large Crop Of Cherries

Our friend Mr. Marie, who has some forty cherry trees, has sent us, as he says in his note, just one half of his entire crop of cherries, with an intimation that he will share the other half with us if we will go to Tubby Hook and dine with him. We have tried pretty hard, but by no kind of arithmetic known to us can we make more than three individual cherries out of our half; so we have concluded to back down on the dinner this time. It -is a consolation, however, to have seen even so many as three cherries this season.

Large Duchess Pears

The premium pears, exhibited at the American Pomological Society's meeting in Richmond, by G. F. B. Leighton, of Norfolk, averaged two pounds each - a record, we believe, not equaled or exceeded in any other part of the country.