Mr. Elliott writes us, under date of August 10th, that he has "recently visited very many of the large vineyards along on the south shore of Lake Erie, and that as a rule the crop promises very abundant, and with but two or three exceptions no rot of any amount has exhibited itself. The vineyard of George Leick, at Collamer, east of Cleveland, of about thirty acres, is especially vigorous and healthy; and so also a small vineyard of Mr. Pellot, some twelve miles west; while the extensive vineyards of E. Boyd, at Avon Point, numbering something more than one hundred and thirty acres, are as vigorous, healthy, and promising as could be desired. In these Lake Shore vineyards the Catawba is the leading variety grown; but a fine vineyard of three acres of the Delaware, on clay ground, highly enriched with bone and slaughter-house manure, may be found on Captain John Spalding's farm, just west of Cleveland; and in other locations the Delaware, with high manuring of specific manures, is a good grower and great bearer. The Rogers' varieties, Iona, and many more, as Ives, Norton, etc., are planted more or less by almost every grower; but their value, as compared with Catawba and Delaware for wine, is yet to be tested in that vicinity.

In Mr. Leick's grounds the Norton gives promise equal to the best results in Missouri; and some fifty or more vines, fruiting in the grounds of Mr. John Hoyt, have ripened their fruit for several years earlier than Catawba, and of superior quality for wine."