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ninety- five per cent, of the total production, are of these varieties. The 

 principal reasons for this are : First, because we can grow them ; and, 

 secondly, because they come nearest to the standard of quality established 

 by mutual consent. 



Not many years since, the Concord was spoken of as poor in quality, 

 among grape growers, but they must have been mistaken. It was quite 

 the correct thing to say : " The Niagara is fine to look at, but it is off in 

 quality"; but nevertheless, after having stood the test for some years, we 

 seem to be wrong again, for the Niagara as well as the Concord is a good 

 seller. The Concord, without a doubt, establishes the price of grapes east 

 of the Rockies. The Delaware is more particular in its habitat, while the 

 Catawba is still more particular, though both are successful vineyard varieties, 

 and very much better in quality than Concord and Niagara. Yet the money 

 test is bringing them more and more to a level, without regard to the opinions 

 of the fruit men. 



One reason why the natives succeed best is that they are self-fertile, 

 or partly so, while most of the hybrids of Labrusca and Vinifera are imperfect, 

 or the ovaries start to develop but soon fall away or persist as abortive fruits. 

 This demonstrates one grave source of the failure of the foreign hybrids. 

 Of the new varieties which have been introduced during recent years may 

 be named : Worden, Moore's Diamond, Green Mountain, Eaton, Elvira, 

 Early Ohio, Jefferson, Moore's Early, Moyer, Ironclad, Pocklington, Pough- 

 keepsie Red, Vergennes, Superb, all pure natives or nearly so, and each 

 one has proved of value. These facts necessarily lead to the presumption, 

 at least, that we must look to the native stock for our hardy grapes. — American 

 Agriculturist. 



The Triumph Peach was highly spoken of at the recent meeting of the 

 Ohio Horticultural Society. In the report it is spoken of as follows : The 

 Triumph is a yellow free-stone peach from Georgia, which ripened with the 

 Early Alexander and was about the same size. This is the first and only 

 early free-stone yellow peach in existence. Notwithstanding fears that it would 

 not succeed in Ohio, from having originated in Georgia, it has proved to be all 

 that could be desired in an early peach and is bound to become very popular. 



Germany, for purposes of her own, has almost cleared the whole of 

 France of apples, besides having taken all the common fruit obtainable in 

 Belgium and Holland. What she requires them for is a mystery, and one can 

 only conjecture. It may be for cider, or syrup, or it may be that she requires 

 them for the new kind of champagne whieh it is rumored the has discovered 

 the secret to ; at any rate, whatever the purpose for which they are intended, 

 the German merchants have taken between 60,000 and 100,000 tons of apples 

 from France alone. — Fruit Trade Journal. 



