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SALEM GRAPE. 



Emil Baur, corresponding secretary of the Washtenaw County Ponioloo;ical 

 Society, as the result of his experience, speaks very highly of the Salem. In 

 a letter he says : ''I find no grape of better keeping qualities and of finer 

 flavor than the Salem, on account of its thick skin and sugary contents. It 

 does not color the lips and the vines are immense bearers if given the proper 

 protection in winter. Unless in a very exceptional location it must be covered 

 in Avinter." 



THE SALEM GRAPE AND ITS NUMBERS. 



Very often in pomological gatherings discussions arise in connection with the 

 numbering of some of Mr. Rogers's hybrids. Mr. George W. Campbell, sec- 

 retary of the Ohio Horticultural Society, settles this matter for the Salem. 

 He says: "The Salem grape was first sent out by Mr. Rogers as No. 22, and 

 I received it from him so labeled; but afterwards, for some reason unknown 

 to me, he changed the number to 53, and subsequently gave it the name of 

 iSalem. So Rogers' Hybrid 22, 53 and Salem all represent the same variety." 



WINDSOR CHIEF VS. CHAMPION. 



The Windsor Chief is a Michigan berry and numbers of growers believe it 

 identical with the Champion, but so prominent a grower as A. M. Purdy takes 

 the opposite view. He remarks : 



How any experienced strawberry grower can pronounce these sorts the same 

 is beyond our comprehension. We have them growing side by side on same 

 soil, and we venture nothing in saying that the first named, with us, bears on 

 an average four large berries to the last named one ; that the first averages 

 much larger and yields by far the heaviest crop. In fact, in our thirty years' 

 experience we have not grown a variery (and Ave have grown at least 200 sorts) 

 that will yield such a large crop of uniform large strawberries the season 

 through as the Windsor Chief. The Crescents are earlier and Avill yield as 

 many in bulk, but they do not run as large and are not such a beautiful sort. 

 Quite a number of parties in Ncav Jersey and near New York City have been 

 sending out the Champion for the Windsor, and therefore hundreds of growers 

 will not have the genuine Windsor Chief. Other growers who had the Cham- 

 pion by the scores of thousands, reading that Mr. So-and-so and Mr. So-and-so 

 pronounced them the same as Windsor Chief, have sent them out broadcast as 

 Windsor, and hence the country is full of Champions for Windsor, and many 

 that have bought Windsor as they suppose, have the Champion, The Wind- 

 sor plant is the rankest grower, has the darkest foliage, and the berry has 

 certain characteristics of its parent plants (the Charles Downing and Cham- 

 pion) to show that it is a cross of the two. It is very similar in shape to the 

 Charles Downing, having the same bright scarlet gloss and even, uniform 

 shape. 



