41 6 The Canadian Horticulturist. 



New Grapes. 



I am glad to corroborate what has been said regarding the Victoria grape. 

 It has proved vigorous, productive, and of fair quaHty at Ottawa, but does not 

 ripen early enough for growers in this latitude. Woodruff is an exceedingly 

 handsome variety, productive, but rather poor in quality and later than Concord. 

 El Dorado is my favorite white grape, but is not profitable, and is partially self- 

 sterile. Vergennes is one of the most satisfactory red varieties in the experi- 

 mental vineyard. Combined with great productiveness are good quality and 

 excellent keeping properties. It is the best winter grape in our collection. 

 Miller grape is a very happy combination of the European V. vinifera and the 

 American V. cordifolia. It also keeps excellently. Secretary is a variety of 



the same type. 



Figs. 



The note referring to " Canadian Grown Figs," recalls the fact that a sample 

 package of figs grown by H. Pafford, at Niagara-on-the-Lake, mailed to this 

 office, but for some unknown reason never came into my hands. I think the 

 credit of growing this sample (without glass) should be awarded to Mayor 

 Pafford. 



Ottawa. J. Craig. 



Note by Editor. — The figs came to hand, with a tag on which was printed 

 " From the Central Experimental Farm." Evidently they were forwarded here 

 by mistake. 



THE LIEBIG APPLE. 



The Russian apples were introduced in the belief that they would prove of 

 special value for what is familiarly called the cold North, and their introduction 

 will undoubtedly make it practicable to successfully grow this fruit several 

 degrees further north than would otherwise be possible. A variety that is now 

 being planted in large quantities in severe sections in Iowa, Minnesota and 

 Wisconsin is the Liebig. It is a variety of poor quality for dessert purposes, 

 though not to be despised for this use where other fruit is scarce. Its chief 

 value, however, is a cooking apple, for which purpose it is doubtful if it can be 

 excelled. It is a winter apple in north Iowa. The fruit is large, broadly conical 

 in form, and when ripe, well colored with red. The tree is a vigorous grower of 

 spreading habit, seldom, if ever, blighting badly, and very much hardier than 

 the Duchess of Oldenburg. It is, perhaps, the hardiest of the valuable kinds 

 of apples, and well worth trying by those living in the extreme North and by 

 those who are situated where the common belief is that only crab apples can be 

 grown. It is not a new variety, and can be bought of the general nursery trade 

 in the Mississippi valley. The Hibernal resembles it closely, and the two names 

 are by many nurseries applied to the same kind. — Rural World. 



