Mr. J. H. Babcock, at Lockport, New York, reports as follows: Hartford is the first for market. First shipment, August 31st; September 14th, crop nearly all marketed at good prices. The crop will net five or six hundred dollar* per acre. Delaware, a week or ten days later than Hartford. The foliage is considerably affected by the thrip, otherwise healthy. Fruit meets a ready sale. Concord is a full crop, and now ready to market. For a near market, there is much profit in this grape. But it is tender to handle long distances.

Iona is apparently as late as Isabella, and whatever may be said of the high quality of its fruit, this is certainly not a variety for safe and profitable cultivation here. Adirondack is a fine table grape, but will never yield much profit-as a market sort. Isabella makes close, compact bunches, but cannot be recommended for general cultivation.

Wilder promises to surpass all the black varieties as a market sort. Its bunches are as large as Concord, and much more showy and of better quality. It is an enormous bearer. I think it is producing for me at the rate of four tons per acre, and making a strong growth. Its period of ripening is a few days earlier than Concord. Its shipping qualities are equal to the Isabella.

This is my third year of fruiting the Salem, and I am more pleased with it than ever before. Among red grapes this surpasses all others that I grow. It makes a good bunch. The berry is large and very showy, and my whole crop is fit for market September 12th. They are already in the Buffalo market, and a dealer says, "they are giving better satisfaction than any variety in the market".

Rogers No. 15 is bearing a good crop and for keeping in winter this is probably not surpassed. Rogers No. 3 is nearly or quite as early as Hartford, and may prove a valuable sort for market.