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Turnbull's Seedling No. 2. 



TunihulVs Seedling No. 2.— Size six, or large medium; form 

 flat conical, slightly angular; color yellow and light red, striped on 

 the sun side; stalk long and slender, set in a broad, deep,russetted 

 cavity; calyx closed, set in a medium deep ribbed basin; flesh rich 

 yellow, finegrained; flavor sweet or slightly sub-acid, very good; 

 season, late winter. Specimen secured from John Turnbull, May 

 27th, 1897, in good condition. 



Origixating New Varieties of Grapes.— "A splendid example 

 and most valuable lesson is given in the results obtained in grape 

 culture by hybridizing native wild grapes with cultivated sorts by 

 Prof. T. V. Munson. Very few, perhaps, are aware of the extent of 

 Mr. Munson's experiments. He tells us in a recent catalogue: Out 

 of about seventy-five thousand hybrid seedling grapes, he selected 

 about one thousand of the most vigorous, healthy and promising, 

 planted them in a vineyard from time to time, and put them through 

 a series of careful, rigid experiments, along with leading standard 

 varieties and under the same conditions. After fruiting from six 

 to eight years on his own and numerous other grounds in different 

 parts of the country, he has up to the present time offered plants 

 for sale of forty of the seventy-five thousand that have given great- 

 est promise of value. As we remarked, very few people have any 

 conception of the tremendous amount of patient toil involved in the 

 production and testing of so many thousand seedlings to procure 

 less than forty that are believed worthy of extended trial."— Dr. 

 A. M. Ragland. 



