The Canadian Horticulturist. 



THE BRILLIANT GRAPE. 



V the kindness of Mr T. V. Munson, we are able to give 

 our readers a representation of one of the most promising 

 of his many new hybrid grapes, the BriUiant. This cut is 

 from a Hfe-size photograph. Mr. Munson describes it as 

 follows : " This is a seedling of Lindley crossed by Dela- 

 ware ; produced by me in 1883. This vine is healthy, 

 vigorous and hardy, having endured the winters of New 

 York and Ohio with impunity. It ripens just before the Delaware, is very 

 prolific, berries and clusters as large as Concord, compact, translucent red, 

 similar to Delaware ; quality about the same as Delaware, with less pulp, seeds 

 one to three, skin thin and tough, berries adhere firmly to peduncle, making it 

 a splendid early market grape, suitable for long shipments, and it will command 

 the highest price It makes a fine white or amber wine. It has been tested in 

 Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, Texas, 

 Colorado and Connecticut. It mildews some in wet seasons in New Jersey and 

 Michigan, near large bodies of water." 



Mr. Munson, in sending the engraving at our request, says farther ; " The 

 Brilliant ought to be a great grape in Canada. It is larger in bunch and 

 berry by double than Moyer, better in quality, more than twice as heavy a 

 bearer. The vine is much stronger, and seemingly just as hardy. It is perhaps 

 a few days later, and clings to the cluster much better. The flowers are perfect, 

 while in Moyer they are practically pistillate, and must have erect stamened 

 varieties flowering at the same time, standing near them to give a fair crop. 



Market GaPdening. — This is a laborious occupation, yet one that pays 

 a very handsome percentage on the investment. Ten acres in vegetables, well 

 cultivated and properly managed, will prove more profitable than a fifty-acre 

 farm producing the ordinary farm crops. We have frequently observed a vast 

 difference in the accumulation of means between the ordinary farmer and the 

 gardener. The one will commence under very favorable prospects, on a farm 

 leased for a series of years, will labor industriously and study economy, and 

 rarely realize more than a comfortable living for his family. The other, com- 

 mencing under less favorable circumstances, with equal energy, does not only 

 pay an annual rent of from thirty to sixty dollars per acre, and support a large 

 family, but in a very few years realizes suflficient to purchase the place. A few 

 heads of cabbage will, in frequent seasons, sell for as much as a bushel of corn, 

 and a few bunches of early asparagus for as much as a bushel of wheat. Good 

 vegetables will always sell at a good profit, and our hungry cities can rarely be 

 overstocked with them. — Prairie Farmer. 



