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Grapes: Select Varieties. 



1037. SiR.^I want to plant a few grape 

 vines in my garden here, and I would like to 

 get your opinion on varieties. I would like 

 to put in all three colors — red, white and 

 black. Kindly send me the names in the 

 order of your own preference, of three or 

 four varieties of each color, mentioning 

 whether they ripen early or late, and whether 

 they are quite hardy and capable of resisting 

 mildew. I want to get vines that have begun 

 to bear, partly to have them true to name, 

 and partly because I want them to bear 

 soon. 



VVm. Houston, Toronto. 



In reply to your letter of the 25th 

 inst., I would recommend the following 

 list of grapes for planting at Toronto, 

 black — Moore's Early, Concord, Wild- 

 er ; white — Lady, Green Mountain, 

 Niagara ; Red — Lindley, Brighton, Del- 



aware, Agawam, Salem. All these 

 should succeed with you so far as hardi- 

 ness is concerned, and in ordinary sea- 

 son all should ripen their fruit well. I 

 have named them under each color in 

 the order of ripening, and they will 

 cover the grape season pretty fully. A 

 few of them will keep for winter use, 

 especially Lindley, Agawam and Salem, 

 if kept at a temperature below 40° with 

 plenty of ventilation. 



I would not advise you to plant bear- 

 ing vines, as they are liable to be stunted 

 in removal. You should rather plant one 

 year old vines which will suffer less in 

 removal. These will come into bearing 

 within two or three years, and give bet- 

 ter satisfaction. 



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Our Fruit at Omaha. 



Sib, — We have received good specimens of 

 fruit from British Columbia, Ontario and 

 Nova Scotia. We received this week 3 bbls. 

 from Mr. Starr, Nova Scotia, one bbl. of 

 Gravensteins, half Red Banks, which were 

 very fine. We made two pyramids of them, 

 one of each kind. On the top we put two 

 large apples, one of them the largest apple in 

 the grounds, weighing 26 ounces and measur- 

 ing 15 inches in circumference. The Okla- 

 homa Exhibit has one larger around but not 

 as heavy. Our large apple is a Chebucto 

 Beauty from N. S. We have now about 200 

 square feet of surface covered with fruit, all 

 fresh, making the largest, if not the finest 

 collection on the grounds, which is a great 

 surprise to a large number of people who 

 think Canada is such a cold place that we 

 cannot grow anything but ice-bergs. We 

 have had intelligent-looking people tell us 

 that they didn't believe we raised the fruit 

 we are showing in Canada. Though they 



raise large quantities of apples here in the 

 Western States they are way behind Cana- 

 dian fruit for flavor. Nebraska prides her-, 

 self as being the banner apple growing State 

 of the West. This being the off-year for 

 apples in the Western States she cannot 

 make a very fine display ; not half as good as 

 she made at the opening of the Exposition 

 with the crop of 1897, which were kept in 

 cold storage and lasted until new fruit ap- 

 peared. The Exhibit the Canadian Govern- 

 ment made here has been a success. The ob- 

 ject the Government had in making it was to 

 attract settlers to the North -Western 

 provinces, and it has, and >vill still further in 

 the years to come, be the means of inducing 

 thousands of good settlers to go there to 

 make for themselves and their children good 

 homes under the freest Government in the 

 the world. 



H. C. Knowlton. 



Canadian Court, 



International Hall, 



Omaha, 



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