A Philadelphia correspondent says: "The imperfect specimen of an abnormal growth on a grape-vine I beg to hand you, and am sorry that I could not hand it to you in a better state of preservation. The fruit herewith is one of a cluster of three, and in their growing state were a fair specimen of apples. Near by the vine stands an apple tree, bearing an indifferent fruit and growing in clusters of two or three apples, the same as appeared on the vine. The fruit herewith became detached from the upper joint of the vine".

[Entomologists who are well informed, and understand that these "hickory-nuts," "apples," and other things on the grape-vine, are simply galls from an insect, will smile at the suggestion that the apple had aught to do with hybridizing; yet eminent men of science have believed that smooth apples are produced by growing near Russet trees, and that apple trees will bear pears sometimes by the two growing contiguous. - Ed. G. M].