_Other Varieties of Currants._--The White Currant grown in California is not the true raisin grape which produces the Currant of commerce. The bunch and berry resemble the Black Currant, but differ in not being black, and in lacking the peculiar aroma and flavor alone possessed by the Black and true Currant. There are in Greece several other varieties of Currants, such as red and gray, but these are used for wine and not for raisins. The White and Red Currants were introduced from Crimea in 1861 by Colonel Agoston Haraszthy. _Thompson Seedless._--This variety has been growing in California for many years, but has only lately come into notice. It was imported from Rochester, New York, from the establishment of Elwanger & Barry, about 1872, and was by them described as a grape from Constantinople under the name of Lady Decoverly. Thompson Seedless is the name given this grape by the local growers around Yuba City, and not the original name. I am inclined to believe that this grape is related to, but not identical with, the oblong, seedless grape which is grown around Damascus in Asia Minor, and there dried into a raisin of very good quality. This Damascus grape is brownish when ripe. Thompson Seedless is an oval grape, greenish yellow, as large as a Sultana, seedless, with thin skin, good but not strong flavor, and without that acid which characterizes the Sultana grape and raisin. The bunches are large, or very large, and the vine is an enormous bearer. As yet it is principally grown around Yuba City and Marysville in limited quantities, but the raisins are in good demand. When sun-dried and cured, these raisins are bluish and dark like Muscats, but narrower and more tapering, and only a quarter the size. Their sweetness and taste commend them for cooking purposes, and the bearing quality of the vine will no doubt make their growing profitable in all places where the seasons are too short to thoroughly ripen the Sultana. In Yuba this grape ripens early in August. _Other Seedless Grapes._--In the Islands of Lipari and Pantelleria a coarse but seedless grape is grown, out of which a variety of Sultana raisin is made. We have no further notices and description of this variety.