32 THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



At length a letter was received from a gentleman who stated that 

 he had seen Mr. Gallagher, the partner of Mr. Menzies, who said that 

 the Beaconsfield is a new variety raised from seed in Kochester, New 

 York, and introduced by him to Mr. Menzies. Inquiries were then 

 •made of several of the best informed and leading nurserymen and 

 dealers in grape vines in Eochester, but they all replied that they had 

 never heard of the Beaconsfield grape, and felt confident that no grape 

 by that name could have been cultivated to any extent about Roches- 

 ter without having come to their knowledge ; and that the description 

 given in Menzies & Gallagher's circular was .very closely that of the 

 Champion Grape. 



About the same time information was received that Mr. Gallagher 

 called it by that name (the Champion,) when he first sold it to Mr. 

 Meiizies, and that Mr. Menzies had told others that he had planted 

 five hundred vines of the Champion grape. Following up this clue, 

 we have ascertained that George F. Gallagher has resided in the 

 vicinity of Rochester from his youth; that he has been for some 

 time engaged in the business of selling trees and other nursery pro- 

 ducts, as a travelling salesman and dealer, and that in the spring of 

 1877 he bought three thousand five hundred vines of the Champion 

 grape. 



We are further informed that Menzies and Gallagher have not yet 

 raised young vines of their so-called Beaconsfield, sufficient to supply 

 the additional four thousand vines which Mr. Menzies says he intends ' 

 to plant next spring, and that all the vines they sell of it for planting 

 in the spring of 1879 must come from Rochester. 



There is but one conclusion possible from these facts: Beaconsfield 

 is only the Champion under a new name. Under that name the firm 

 of Menzies and Gallagher offer to sell vines of the Champion grape 

 at the modest price of twelve dollars per dozen, the same vine that is 

 advertised in the catalogues of the Rochester nurseries at fifty cents 

 each, and may be bought, vines two years old, at fifteen dollars per 

 hundred, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars per thousand. Let 

 no man after this ask "What's in a name?" There is much in a name- 

 A name may double the value of a grape vine, if you do not know it 

 by any other name. What's in a name ? That which man holds 

 dearest may be in a name — Tidhor. 



