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THE CA.NADIAN H0RTICULTUKI8T. 



I used to gather in my mother's garden 

 more than fifty years ago. It has the 

 flavor of the Catavvissa and about the 

 same texture. Not firm enough for very 

 distant carriage, but it will be a splendid 

 one for home use and a near market. 

 It is not sweet like the Turner, but has 

 a pleasant acid mingled with it, which 

 makes it superior for pies, tarts and pre- 

 serving, and with cream and sugar, I 

 can endorse it fully from experience. — 

 Samuel Miller, in Fruit Grower. 



THE HIGHLAND GRAPE. 



I am not sure but we should review, and 

 perhaps modify our opinions about the 

 Highland Grape, as, when quite ripe, it 

 loses its objectionable acidity, and as it 

 has no foxiness, it may be, for southern 

 regions and wherever the Catawba will 

 ripen, a desirable grape. It is unfortunate 

 that its period of ripening has been so 

 misrepresented, for many have doubtless 

 planted it in northern localities, where it 

 will never ripen. This has been an unusual 

 season, and many grapes have been a full 

 month later in ripening than in other more 

 favorable seasons ; but I cannot believe the 

 Highland should be classed as an early 

 ripening grape under any circumstances. 

 It is healthy and vigorous in growth, and 

 the clusters are unusually large and hand- 

 some, and I think, from my experience 

 with it this year, it will be found at least 

 " good " in quality for southern planters, 

 and for all places where it will ripen 

 perfectly. G. W. Campbell. 



Delaware, Ohio. 



Hem ARKS. — ^With the above Mr. 

 Campbell sends us a bunch each of High- 

 land, Lady Washington, and Naomi, the 

 first two of which ripened with us per- 

 fectly this season, as until Nov. 3rd we 

 had no frost. The berries of the High- 

 land bunch were large and showy, but 

 sour. As to the Lady Washington, 

 there is nothing remarkable about it as 

 to quality. The Naomi is a green grape, 

 without bloom or color. Its flavor is 

 peculiar, but not agreeable. — Rural 

 New Yorker. 



FLAT CULTURE FOR POTATOES. 



Eds. Country Gentleman — Several 

 years ago I became a convert to flat cul- 

 ture for potatoes, and every season con- 

 vinces me that this mode is preferable 

 to the forming of hills around the plants. 

 This season being a very moist one in 

 this section, fully demonstrated with me 

 that in moist as well as dry seasons flat 

 culture is the better of the two. Just 

 across the fence from my potato patch 

 was a field of my neighbor's, of about 

 four acres, planted about ten days before 

 mine. The ground is alike on both 

 patches — clayey loam. My neighbor 

 manured more liberally than T did. 

 He adopted the hilling method of cul- 

 ture, and I the flat method. In the 

 early part of the season his made a m\ich 

 more vigorous grovvth than mine; in fact 

 the foliage in his field covered the ground 

 before mine had apparently well begun 

 to grow. As the season advanced mine 

 gained in growth upon his, and main- 

 tained greener foliage longer. His 

 ripened about a week ahead of mine, 

 but while his crop averaged 180 bushels 

 to the acre, mine averaged 250 bushels 

 to the acre. There was seventy bushels 

 difierence, upon soil similar, his having 

 the advantage of more manure than 

 mine. I consider that flat culture re- 

 quires less labor than hilling, produces 

 heavier crops, and the quality is just 

 as good, with all other conditions the 

 same. M. Milton. 



•Mahoning County, O. 



Strawberries at Rochester. — T. T. 



Southwick writes to the Gardener's 

 Monthly that the fruit dealers in Roches- 

 ter have paid out for strawberries this year 

 ^84,000. One canning establishment ab- 

 sorbed 10,000 quarts a day, which at only 

 five cents a quart would be $500 daily, or 

 $1,000 at ten cents. The same hou.e is 

 said to have canned ten tons a day of 

 cherries, or 200 tons in all. 



