RANDOM NOTES 



Bishop''s Early Dwarf. — Blooms 

 freely. Short pods. Eighteen inches 

 high. Not profitable. 



Green Prolijic. — Eighteen inches 

 to two feet. Short pods. Productive. 

 Not extra early. 



Blue Imperial. — Two to three feet. 

 Full, showy pod. Productive. One 

 of the good ones. 



Early Washington. — Nearly as 

 early as Early Dwarf. Vines not 

 as strong. Pods about same. 



Champion of England. — Three to 

 four feet. Vines strong ; sets full. 

 Pods large ; eight to ten peas in 

 each one of the very best. 



Large Dwarf Marrowfat. — Four 

 feet. Side by side with Champion 

 of England. Two weeks later. 



Sugar or Eatable Pod. — Four feet. 

 Strong vines. Not as productive as 

 Champion of England, but one of the 

 good sorts. 



Prince Albert. — Two to three feet. 

 Early. Pods medium, full. Vines 

 strong. Very good. 



Your correspondent, "A Peun- 

 sylvanian," in July, last year, 

 says: " I place Belmont or Mam- 

 ma Beam Apple as from Vir- 

 ginia." Please ask him to refer 

 to ray book, and state just what 

 I do say. There has been ranch 

 dispute as to the origin of this 

 apple, and others have written 

 who claim to know as much as 

 "A Pennsylvanlan." 



Pruning the Grape Vine. 



The Best Grapes. — The largest and finest forced grapes we have seen this 

 season were produced by the care of Mr. William Chorlton, on Staten Island, 

 X. Y. Such glorious bunches of Cannon Hall Muscat, and Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria, have never before met our view. Mr. Chorlton practises well what he 

 teaches so thoroughly in his book on the grape. 



