It is a question whether the large grower for profit enjoys his horticultural work as much as that amateur who takes care of his dozen vines or so, in his garden.

Indeed, we rather believe the latter has the most pleasure - certainly less disappoint-ment. When we get this word profit expunged from the horticultural vocabulary, and growers learn to value plants for the pleasure they can give, and appreciate their peculiarities and beautiful characteristics of growth, we can hope for a wider spread of horticultural taste.

We are asked the question: Which are the best grapes for the Family Garden? We answer briefly as follows:

Do you want quantity or quality? Do you want growth - something sure and reliable - or are you willing to do a little nursing? All these points need considering.

The Concord is out old stand-by - sure, safe, reliable, good enough for ordinary eaters. But the amateur naturally asks for something better. Then take the Eume-Ian, earlier still; a fine healthy vine, not as rampant as the Concord, but fully as healthy. Berries are of moderate size, black, shiny, well filled with the most delicious of winy juice; has little or no pulp or seeds, and sweet enough for the birds. The best of early grapes, in our opinion.

The Isralla, in warm latitudos, is a marked success, and bears the handsomest clusters that ever graced a vine; is fully as healthy and rampant a grower as the Concord, but no better in quality; valuable for its earliness, which is two weeks before the Concord; a few days later than the Eumelan - which latter grape is the best and earliest grape of its season that we have.

The Ives is gaining friends daily. This, too, is black, and is adapted mainly to latitudes where the winter climate is moderate.

Among the later grapes, nothing is so luscious and fruity as the Scnasqua; ripen-ing after all the other black grapes are gone. It hangs tenaciously to the vine, and bears its large round berries soundly to the very verge of winter. It is the perfection of a black grape; seeds trifling and not troublesome; melts in the mouth like globules of nectar, and seems almost to have elements of perfection of flavor.

Next, among the white grapes, who would miss that gentle, sweet and modest Rebecca, who bears the neatest of bunches, with berries of clearest white, and flavor so refined? Make a place for that. And who would leave out the Croton, that paragon of wonderful hybrids? American vigor, with foreign characteristics; large bunch, somewhat loose; berries medium, white, fine, sweet delicate flavor.

We might prolong this list. Even the Walter, and some of those famous hybrids of David Thompson (the Carpenter) might deserve special mention. To any one wishing for agreeable variety, and disposed to consult quality as well as quantity, the above named sorts will not be forgotten. Our summary, then, may be scheduled as follows:

Good new sorts for amateur garden, Carpenter, Telegraph, Salem. Rogers No. 4.

Among the sorts so often praised, but not to be depended upon, are the Iona, which needs a long, growing season, and does not often mature its fruit well; the Catawba, often subject to blight, rot and mildew. The Isabella is still a favorite with old-fashioned families; but with so many new and better sorts of later origin, it is not now to be thought of for a moment.