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shrub, grows from one to two feet high, 

 the t^vigs about the color of the ozier 

 willow, fruit more black and cherry 

 shaped, generally larger than the blue 

 or oblong. The leaves are also ditferent. 

 1 find the oblong to differ in flavor from 

 different patches. Some are a good 

 deal sweeter th;m others, like black- 

 berries from different localities. 



I have never tried to manure them 

 as yet, in fact I don't think it necessary 

 as they grow on very poor land among 

 the rocks and gravel, and sometimes in 

 a bed of sand. J notice those that 

 grow in sand to be the most thrifty 

 bushes. Old beds of forest leaves seem 

 to suit them as well. This is all the 

 manure I used on mine. I notice that 

 the older they are the taller the shoots 

 will grow in one season. I have now 

 no doubt of making a success of them. 

 - -Cor. Fruit ReturJer. 



GRAPES m THE UNITED STATES. 



The Florida Dispatch says : — "From 

 statistics recently published by the De- 

 j)artment of Agriculture at Washing- 

 ton, we learn that there are now 185,- 

 583 acres of grapes grown in the United 

 States. Wine from the product of 

 these vines is made to the amount of 

 24,453,857 gallons, having a market 

 value of $13,430,174.87. California of 

 course leads, having one-sixth of the 

 area, yielding nearly two-thirds of the 

 wine. New York comes next, having 

 12,643 acres, though but little is made 

 into wine ; the grapes find ready sale 

 in the market ; only 584,148 gallons 

 ai-e made. Rhode Island only returns 

 fifty-five acres ; while Illinois, from 

 3,810 acres, makes over a million 

 gallons of wine. Missouri, Ohio, Georgia, 

 and New Mexico are leading wine- 

 making sections. Colorado cuts no 

 figure at all in the report, but the day 

 is coming when grape culture will be 

 one of their prominent industries. 



THK ION A GEAPE. 

 This excellent grape !-eems to be 

 giving good results in Califomia. It 

 will not ripen well in the colder portions 

 of Ontario. The most beautiful grape 

 of the season, for color, taste, grace of 

 cluster, and rich ripening quality is the 

 lona. It is a first cousin to tlie CataAvba 

 with an Isabella spice. It is a glowing, 

 translucent garnet, with a purplish 

 bloom, and ought to make a favorite 

 table grape, as, framed in its own olive- 

 green leaves and tendrils, with yellow 

 pears for contrast, no prettier centre- 

 piece for a dainty lunch or dinner-table 

 could be devised. Only a few of our 

 vintagers as yet have found out how 

 well this grape does here, but those few 

 are making it a specialty." — Santa 

 Barbara Press. 



BOOKS RECEIVED, ETC. 



Catalogue of Selkct Rosks, EU- 

 wanger and Bariy, Rochester, N. Y. 



Supplementary List of novelties 

 and specialties for sale by Ellwanger & 

 Barry. 



The Thirteenth Annual Report 

 of the Michigan State Horticultural 

 Society, full, as it always is, of valuable 

 information. 



Science, a weekly journal published 

 by the Science Company at §5 a year. 

 No. 4 Bond Street, New York. Devoted 

 to the interests of science. 



Prize List of the World's Industrial 

 Exposition to be held all next winter 

 in New Orleans. The prizes for fruits 

 are very liberal, collections of apples 

 running from $15 to $200. Cannot the 

 fruit growers of Ontario take some of 

 these prizes. The Fiditor of the Cana- 

 dian Horticulturist will send a coj)y of 

 the prize list to any one who applies 

 therefor. 



