Editors of the Horticulturist: - In the present number of the Horticulturist, you notice No. 15, of Rogers's Hybrid Grapes.

This season I fruited No. 1, and am highly pleased with it, being the first season it bore; the clusters, of course, were not so large as we may expect them. Bunch medium, berry a trifle above medium, oval, much like Isabellas in color, texture and flavor resembling Diana; vine free from mildew, and quite hardy. Some twenty varieties of these hybrids on my grounds (and of which I hope to be able to send you fruit of next fall) seem to be perfectly hardy and free from discase. With me Diana has behaved herself by no means well. Concord and Delaware are some, however.

Is it a common thing for black grapes to produce white ones from seed? Out of five Concord seedlings, old enough to bear, two bore fruit last fall, both white, one of them a grape of merit, if I am a judge, at least so far as flavor is concerned. But it must combine all the good qualities if it ever leaves my grounds as a grape for the public.

Lebanon, January 9th, 1862. Yours truly, S. M.

[We are obliged to you for this additional knowledge of Rogers's Hybrids. We are glad to find that you agree with us in regard to the Delaware and Concord. The value of the Delaware can not at present be overrated. It is quite common, as we have remarked on former occasions, for black grapes to produce white or green seedlings. Seedlings from the Isabella are often green. We should be glad to see your seedling, but like your determination not to let it go out till it is found to "combine all the good qualities." That is the only kind of seedling that should now come before the public. - Ed].