Mr. Lorin Blodget, Broad street, Philadelphia, says: " I am greatly obliged by your generous notice of my grapes. They are abundant yet, and if I could send conveniently I would put up a box in fine condition. My son picked twenty-five pounds on Monday - all from the one vine of Lindley, which gave us the first ripe grapes August 7th. They never mildew, rot or decay from any cause other than the birds.

" I also have a seedling Eestivalis bunched very much like your beautiful 'Bertrand,' but mine is not worth propagating, although good, bearing twenty bunches this the second year. I do not see any grapes in market from the New Jersey vineries, or any locality southward. I believe the Lindley would stand the climate perfectly and furnish a marketable grape far superior to Catawba".