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1874. Downing Grooseberry and 

 Salem Grape — Both very satisfactory. 

 The gooseberry is perfectly free from 

 mildew, bears well, and in my opinion 

 is one of the best small gooseberries I 

 have seen, being nearly double the size 

 of the Houghton Seedling, and just as 

 hardy and prolific. The Salem Grape 

 is so well known much need not be 

 said. It ripens well here, and we 

 esteem it one of the very best out-door 

 grapes for the table, being sweet and 

 luscious. The vine, like most of Rogers' 

 Seedlings, is a very strong grower, 



1875. Swayzie Pomme Grise Apple 

 and Flemish Beauty Pear — The apple 

 tree was very poor, being nearly gnawed 

 through by mice when it came ; with 

 care it has lived but not borne any 

 fruit yet. The Flemish Beauty Pear 

 is hardy. The fruit needs no descrip- 

 tion, but with me it has a tendency to 

 fire-blight. There is no pear has suc- 

 ceeded so well with me as the Buerre 

 d'Anjou ; it passed last winter — the 

 severest we ever knew here — without 

 injury, when almost every variety were 

 hurt. The fruit is jSrst-ckss, and 

 ripens at a season when fruit is getting 

 scarce in the market. 



1876. GlassSeedling Plum— A hardy 

 tree and good grower. The plum, being 

 late, is a good market plum ; preserves 

 well. 



1877. Diadem Raspberry — Straw- 

 berries — The plants received were rul> 

 bish ; the raspberry a shoot broken off 

 an old root, and two strawberries, 

 apparently third or fourth runners. 

 Neither grew, as might have been ex- 

 pected. 



1878. Burnet Grape — The vine re- 

 ceived in good order has grown well, 

 fruited a few bunches last year, but not 

 sufficient for a test. The grape does 

 not appear to set its fruit well, — some- 

 thing like the Creveling and Eumelan. 

 The vine being now strong, this year 

 will probably test its quality in that 



rpsi ect as well as the flavor and time 

 of ripening. 



1879. Arnold's Ontario Apple — Re- 

 ceived in good order, lias grown fairly 

 but of course not yet fruited. 



1880. Saunder's Seedling Raspberry. 

 No. 72 — A good plant, made good 

 shoots this year. Will not be able to 

 form an opinioir of the fruit till next 

 summer. 



1881. Dempsey Potatoe — A strong 

 grower ; the excessive drought this 

 season, causing a failure of crops in 

 most places, prevents mo giving an 

 opinion respecting their p.oductiveness 

 or quality. 



Yours respectfully, 



GiioRGE Elliott. 



THE GRAPE. 



{From the address of the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Prt' 

 sident of the American Poirwlogical Society, at its 

 last session, Sept. lU, 1S81.) 



In the order of discussion I have 

 placed the Grape first on our roll. No 

 other fruit, unless it be the strawberry, 

 is now attracting so much attention; 

 and perhaps no other, if we except the 

 apple, is of more importance as a source 

 of revenue, or as an article of luxury 

 for our tables, as the Grapa. No other 

 country possesses such a vast extent of 

 territory, or possibilities for its success- 

 ful culture, and in no other section of 

 the globe is there, at the present time, 

 such encouragement thereto. In fact, 

 it seems as though Providence had de- 

 signed many parts of our continent 

 especially for its cultivation. The 

 Scandinavians, as the Sagas have it, 

 eight hundred years ago, here found 

 the vine growing so abundantly that 

 they gave to our coast the name of 

 Vinland. Chamj)lain, in his voyages 

 on our coast about five hundred years 

 afterwards, saw vines in abundance. 

 The Pilgrim Fathers, at Plymouth, 

 found grai^es, ** white and red, and very 

 strong," and should the phylloxera con- 



