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quality first class. Vigorous in growth in Frontenac, but a shy bearer ; some report it 

 as equal to Black Hamburg. Grows slowly in McGillivray township, in Middlesex ; 

 has not fruited yet, but looks healthy and hardy. From the Ottawa district we get the 

 encouraging report that the Burnet has fully realized every anticipation of the fruit 

 grower. They call it a "glorious variety." One grower said that the "originator 

 deserved a monument from his country." Some growers in that section complain that in 

 some instances the grapes, when they had attained nearly half their size, stopped growing 

 and ripened early, but the flavour of these was perfect although they were seedless. Can 

 some experienced grower account for this peculiarity] Is it occasioned by a want of 

 fertility in the pollen 1 Burnet was winter killed at St. Catharines, and in two cases in 

 Middlesex, one in Waterloo, three in Perth, and four in York. A prominent and intel- 

 ligent grower at Whitby classes this as the poorest variety among a long list that he 

 cultivates. He says it is better flavoured than the Champion, but its bunches are very 

 imperfect, seeds large, skin thick and tough, very late in ripening, and so liable to 

 mildew. He has the past fall dug up the plant and replaced it with another variety. A 

 remarkable grower at Arkona, and fruit good. At Peterboro' it has done well and gives 

 satisfaction in a majority of cases reported. In Oxford, Kent, Essex, Victoria, said to 

 be a very strong grower. Has fruited satisfactorily in Northumberland, Russell, and Prince 

 Edward counties, and one grower near Cornwall thinks it one of the best in very way he 

 has seen. 



Early Baton is too small in bunch to be of market value, when compared with other 

 varieties coming in the same season. 



Mr. J. K. Gordon, of Whitby, is testing over fifty seedlings, mostly from Champion 

 and Delaware. Some are very vigorous in growth and give promise of strong constitu- 

 tions. They will be reported upon hereafter according to merit. 



Pete7- Wiley. — About same form as Duchess, half shouldered, compact, large berry, 

 slight musky flavour, and unpleasant after taste, white. 



^0. 1, or Dotoning, large bunch and very large berry, resembling Black Hamburg in 

 form. Specimens examined were not fully ripe ; colour dark to reddish. It might suit 

 well for curing to raisins. 



Mr. D. W. Beadle, of St. Catharines, has two white seedling grapes of great promise. 

 No. 1, named Jessica, is medium in bunch and berry, little loose in form, very sweet, skin 

 tough and pleasant to chew, berries adhere well to stem, good to very good, foliage 

 strong and vine a good grower. No. 2, large bunch and berry, shouldered, flavour not so 

 rich as No. 1, but good. Both these give promise of value, and certainly are superior in 

 general character to any of the new white grapes now being introduced. 



Prominent among Canadian hybridists we have Mr. W. H. Mills, of " Fernhurst," 

 Hamilton, who has done so much to bring to perfection and stimulate the hybridizing of 

 grapes. Oat of a large number he has now selected the following five, which possess more 

 than ordinary excellence. They possess in common an entire absence from foxiness, free- 

 dom from pulp and colouring matter in their skin. They are meaty, with skin adhering 

 to the flesh like the Bowood Muscat, apparently as hardy as our long-cultivated varieties, 

 standing in an open three-acre garden without protection along with about fifty other 

 varieties, among which may be found many of Rogers' hybrids, Delawares, Concords, 

 Crevelings, Diana, lona, Hartfords, and many others, affording the best opportunity for 

 comparison. 



Lavega, a cross between Chasselas and Diana, red, very thin skin, medium to large, 

 compact in cluster, larger than Diana, ripans about 1st of September, wood short jointed, 

 foliage strong and good; one of the sweetest open air grapes we know of. 



Mills, a cross between Black Hamburg and Concord, cluster largo and well shouldered, 

 berries large and black, covered with bloom, ripens with Concord, vine a strong free 

 grower with excellent foliage. 



Sultana, produced from Muscat Hamburg for male, and Crereling for female, black, 

 very large cluster with heavy shoulder, thick skin, will keep easily until mid-winter. The 



