THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



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country, and the manufacture of it into 

 syrup and sugar. It will be found of 

 great value to those who feel interested 

 in experimenting in the production of 

 syrup and sugar from sorghum. 



Twelfth Annual Report of the 

 State Horticultural Society of Mi- 

 chigan, 1882.— This is one of the most 

 important of the reports which we re- 

 ceive. This year it is a volume of over 

 four hundred pages, full of ])mctical 

 matter of great value, ably edited by 

 the secretary, Chas. W. Garfield. Some 

 half dozen copies are for distribution to 

 those of our members who apply for 

 them to the editor of the Can. Horti- 

 culturist. 



Agricultural Return of the Bu- 

 reau OF Industry for May, 1883. — 

 This is a digest of the reports received 

 at the Bureau regarding the present 

 appearance of the crops of fall wheat, 

 winter rye and clover, and a^ives in- 

 formation regarding the surplus of last 

 year's crop still in the farmers hands, 

 the condition of live stock, of fruit 

 trees, and progress of spring work. 



Proceedings of the Grimsby Fruit 

 Growers' Association. — This pamph- 

 let of sixteen pages contains the papers 

 read at the meeting of this Association, 

 with the discussions thereon ; it gives 

 the experience of the members with 

 apple, pear, plum, peach, and small 

 fruits. 



The Grasses of Tennessee. By J. 

 B. Killbrew, M.A. — This is a pamphlet 

 of about one hundred and forty pages, 

 replete with information upon meadow 

 LMM.sses, pasture grasses, and the man- 

 uL^oment of meadows in the State of 

 Tennessee. 



The Acadian Scientist, Edited by 

 E. J. Pineo, Wolfhill, Nova Scotia, is 

 published in the interest of the Acadian 

 Science Club, at thirty-five cents per 

 annum. As its name indicates, it is 

 devoted chiefly to Botany and Zoology. 



The Biographer is published at 23 

 Park Row, New York. Devoted to 

 short mention of the leading men of the 

 present day, together with their likeness 

 taken from photographs. Subscription 

 $2 50 per year. 



THE BRIGHTON GRAPE. 



At the meeting of the Western New 

 York Horticultural Society, the Brighton 

 grape received high commendation. Vines 

 set at Fredonia have proved so profitable 

 that 20,000 more of this sort will be set 

 this spring. It is said to be a week earlier 

 than the Concord and equal to the Cat- 

 awba in quality. Its great fault is a ten- 

 dency to overbear, which renders the fruit 

 insipid, which accounts for the unfavor- 

 able reports from some places. — Michigan 

 Farmer. 



The Editor of the Canadian Horti- 

 culturist has not found the Brighton 

 equal to the Catawba as grown on the 

 Lake Erie Islands, but it is an excel- 

 lent grape, ripening a little earlier than 

 Concord, and much superior in quality. 

 It should be used when ripe, as it loses 

 instead of gaining in quality by hang- 

 ing long on the vine after it is ripe. 

 This variety succeeds well at Trenton. 



APRICOT-GROWING IN CALIFORNIA. 

 The Win^ and Fruit Grower says : 

 — We learn from the Marysville Ap- 

 peal, that apricot orchards are the 

 rage in its immediate section. The last 

 season, trees three years old paid ten 

 dollars to the tree. The Appeal adds 

 its testimony to the fact that there is 

 not the slightest danger of overdoing 

 the buisness, as the canneries can handle 

 all the fruit that can be produced. It 

 is stated that some of the farmers in 

 the vicinity of Berryessa, located on 

 what they have recently learned to call 

 apricot lands, are preparing to engage 

 extensively in fruit culture. Thousands 

 of apricot trees are to be set out on lands 

 heretofore ** wasted" engrain culture. 



