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Mr. Dempsey. — The Adirondac is a very feeble grower. You have difficulty in 

 getting the plant, and when you get the plant you have to use very great care to get 

 a crop. 



Mr. Mattheson. — I find the Adirondac to be quite a thrifty vine, and that it 

 requires no special care more than I give to the Delaware 6r the Concord. In my estima- 

 tion these varieties of grapes would probably run in this order : — Delaware first ; 

 Adirondac second ; what we call in Ottawa the Chasselas de Fontainbleu is next ; after 

 that the Brighton ; then some of Rogers' varieties — 15 particularly, then 43 and 44. 



Col. McGill. — With regard to the Lady, I like it myself ; but we have to remem- 

 ber that we differ in taste in regard to grapes as we do in regard to eating butter and 

 cheese. I am very fond of a sweet grape. As to the Delaware I am aware that it is 

 inclined to overbear. And so of the Hartford. I have taken more than half off my 

 young Pocklington this season. If I can get ten good bunches of grapes I can make 

 more money out of them than I can out of twenty -five bunches of poor grapes when I go 

 into the market. We have not only to prune the vine, but we have also to thin the 

 fruit. I sometimes take the scissors and thin out the berries so as to give them more space. 



CUKRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES. 



The next question, "Is the cultivation of currants and gooseberries for market 

 profitable 1" was then introduced by 



Mr. Beadle, who said — I have got a letter from a gentleman who says he is selling 

 his gooseberries for three dollars a bushel. I should think that might be profitable. I 

 do not know how many bushels he could get off an acre ; but judging from the way goose- 

 berries generally fruit I think he would get a good many. I should think he would get 

 as many bushels of gooseberries off it as he would of raspberries or strawberries. 



Mr. S. S. Potter. — I think you can grow more gooseberries to the acre than you 

 can of any other fruit you can grow. We get from five to seven and eight cents a quart 

 for them. 



Mr. Croil. — Our friend Mr. Tait told me last year that he got 60 cents a gallon 

 for his. 



Mr. a. M. Smith. — They are quoted at from five to eight cents in the Toronto market. 

 Mr. Bristol. — I saw them selling in Picton market on Saturday at seven to eight 

 cents a quart. 



Mr. Wellington. — Houghton's are selling in Toronto at present at eight cents by 

 the basket. Downing and Smith's go at ten to twelve cents. Whitesmith's have gone as 

 high as fifteen cents. I think from the fact that gardeners around Toronto and large 

 cities generally go largely into the cultivation of gooseberries that they must be profitable. 

 In fact, from conversation with them I am satisfied that they are about as profitable a 

 fruit as they can raise ; and the variety chiefly planted is the Downing. _ Next is Smith's 

 Improved ; and in some places they raise the Whitesmith, though it is very liable to 

 mildew. In some sections about Montreal they grow the Whitesmith without any 

 trouble, and then in other sections near Montreal they cannot grow it at all on account of 

 the mildew. I presume soil or locality has all to do with the mildewing. On high, drj' 

 ground, as far as I can learn^ they do better than where it is low and damp. The first 

 time I ever had it brought to my notice that the Downing mildewed was when a woman 

 came to me with a specimen of it which was mildewed. 



Mr. Beall.— I sent a few bushels of Whitesmith's to Montreal this season, and I got 

 .$3.35 a bushel for them. I have about 300 bushels of them ; but this is the first year cf 

 growing ; and taking them and the old ones together — perhaps 35 old ones— I think 

 they would average about half a gallon each bush. 



Mr. James H. Peck. — I raise gooseberries near Belleville — the Houghton seedling, 

 and I have a good general crop each year. I have never had any trouble with them 

 mildewing. The prices we get are from five to eight cents ; and I consider that raising 



