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Society endorse it at its next meeting. This fine apple is rapidly becoming 

 popular, and there are already large commercial orchards of it planted by the 

 introducer. It has been a success at the experiment station at Geneva, N. Y., 

 where a fine crop of the fruit was grown the past season. The original tree 

 bore some excellent fruit at the age of seven years. The tree is hardy and a 

 fine grower. 



Description. — Fruit large, irregular, sometimes flattened and at others 

 slightly elongated, inclining to conic ; skin light waxen yellow, with a red cheek 

 in the sun : stem medium length, inserted in a rather deep cavity, often sur- 

 rounded with russet ; calyx small, basin of moderate depth ; flesh yellowish 

 white, crisp, very fine grained, juicy, with a very pleasant sub-acid flavor, and a 

 very fragrant and agreeable aroma ; season November to late winter. — N. Y. 

 Farmer. 



CAMPBELL'S EARLY GRAPE. 



VER since the introduction of the Concord, which has 

 marked the most important epoch in the development of 

 native American grapes, innumerable seedlings have been 

 raised from it, with the hope of improving upon their 

 parent. Many of these have become standard varieties of 

 the present day, and yet none of them is quite free from 

 one or more objections. Campbell's Early is the most 

 recent competitor in this class. 



It originated with George W. Campbell, of Ohio, and is a seedling of 

 Moore's Early, a seedling of Concord. When we first saw^ the grape, at the 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society at Washington, D.C., we became 

 at once so favorably impressed with its good qualities that we predicted for it a 

 grand future- We are, therefore, pleased to learn that so soon as a sufliicient 

 stock of it has been raised it will be offered for sale by George S. Jocelyn, in 

 whose hands the entire stock has been placed by the originator. It is described 

 as earlier than Moore's Early, with no tendency to shell off" or fall from the 

 stem, as it can remain on the vine from four to six weeks after ripening. It is 

 free from foxiness and has a delicious and sprightly flavor, far superior to that 

 of the Concord. Its growth and foliage are all that can be desired, the leaf 

 being thicker than that of the Concord. The skin is thin but tenacious ; the 

 pulp has no acidity, is a little mealy, and sweet from the skin to the centre, and 

 the seeds part readily from the pulp. From what we have seen of this new 

 grape we consider it a decided improvement over the Concord, to which it will 

 no doubt become a strong competitor after its introduction. — American Agri- 

 culturist. 



The entire soil where an orchard is growing should be either mulched, or 

 cultivated, or hoed over so frequently during the growing season, that all vege- 

 tation will be completely subdued. — S. E. Todd, The Apple Culturist, 1871. 



