Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-03-08
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National
Coustitutiosal Union Party have Fixed upoA the
ON of Nav for holding their nominating Con.
veusion q Baltimore, This is six days before
the Republican National Convention, and
among the Union candidates named are Bell Of
Tenn, Crittsnden Of Ky, Bates ofMo., Graham
of North Carolina, Everett of Mass, Hunt and
Fillmore Of n. Y, and Bolts of Va. Not un>
likely that Bates will be selected.
CincinnRu Peach + -sspects---LHko Grapes
AT the meeting of the Cincinnati Horticultu-
raj Society, held March Sd, the reports in regard
to probabilities Of the peach crop in the vicinity
of Cincinnati indicate from third to half
crop. In some localities nearly all the buds
are black in the center, and in others but few
are injured. In bleak exposures the more ten
der cherries are killed.
The following letter from DR.. Edward Tay-
lor, President of the Cleveland horticultural
Society, chiefly on the subject of grapes, was
read and ordered to be published:
| CLEVELAND, 2Sth of February, 1860.
D. B. PIERsoN, Esq.-Dear Sir: have de-
layed answering, hoping to find time to give
you my views on few matters pertaining TO
our favorite pursuit, but can not at present
As to the new varieties of grapes, have for
| two seasons observed the Diana ripening here,
and il bids fair to sustain all the good Il do not
say extravaganD opinions that have been ex-
pressed in regard to it. The Delaware has
proved a very feeble grower, believe, univer~
sally, in this vicinity. l hope, as the vines grow
older, they will increase in strength.
A few words in regard to our other varieties.
find that our old favorite, the Catawba, is not
the Catawba Of Cincinnati-that is in quality
I have not seen what l regard as 4 moderately
good Catawba grown here, even when they
have ripened well, which it seldom does. But
those brought here from Kelly's Island, in the
same latitude, appear to ripen well every season,
and arc equal in quality to those grown in Gin
cinnati in their best state. Why is itl Our sol
on the lake shore is a warm, loose, sandy one
that should, to our ordinary notions, ripen the
grape as early, if not earlier and better than the
colder clayey limestone soil of other localities
as Kelly's Island.
These facts, am satisfied, must drive III
Il from mere considerations of latitude, to have
regard to elementary constituents of soils II
the adaptedness to the different variety Of fruit
and we must not decry truit because Whel
grown in one character of soil it does not CONF
up to what has been said of it when grown il
a soil of different character. know that DIFF
ferent estimates of fruits will be formed from
different causes Much depends upon the taste
and the taste depends much upon the manne
! of its cultivation. A person accustomed Il
feast upon some one variety comes to regard i
as the standard of all excellence, and judges al
others as they approach to or depart from tn,
conventional standard. The poor Israelites hat
, so long been held in Egypt that (pOOr souls
pity their task) they looked back longing from
the grapes of EscOl to the lssks and onions o
Egypt. May our tastes be formed upon bette
model. But must close for the present.
5 Yours very truly,
EDWARD TAYLOR.