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ments which are not going to hold out. Our price is $500 per 

 thousand, but if the public desire to buy other varieties from llochester 

 or elsewhere, at higher or lower prices, they are quite at liberty to do 

 so, but if they are willing to pay more for what we claim is a better 

 article than is asked for a poorer one, surely they have an undoubted 

 right to do so. 



Yours truly, 



Geo. F. Gallagher. 



Our correspondent states that in the spring of 1877 he " obtained 

 the vine wliich we have since named the Beaconsfield." Mr. Menzies, 

 however, says (see page 28) that it was not a vine, but 2,500 vines of 

 the Beaconsfield, then called Champion, that he planted in the spring 

 of 1877; so that this vine, called the Champion in 1877, had been 

 cultivated by some one near Eochester in sufficient quantity to be 

 obtained by the thousand. Mr. Gallaglier does not say that he bought 

 up the Champion alias Beaconsfield, so as to secure the control of the 

 entire stock, hence it is quite possible that tlie person from whom he 

 procured these 2,500 vines may have some of the same sort left, and* 

 which he may now have for sale. 



Perhaps the following quotations from a letter received from Mr. 



J. S. Stone, of Charlotte, near Eochester, N. Y., may throw some light 



on the source of supply. He says, " by referring to my books I find I 



first sold to Shanley & Gallagher, (this being the name of the firm at 



the time), 



In April, 1873, 124 two year old Champion vines. 



" 1875, 430 



" 1876, 300 



" 1877, 3500 one, two, and three years old. 

 "S. & G. had vines of me in 1874, but memorandum is not at hand, 

 cannot state the number." 



Again, Our correspondent says, " the Champion and the Beacons- 

 field differ very materially in their leading characteristics," but does 

 not. state in what that difference consists. Mr. Menzies describes the 

 Bea'consfield thus, "ripening fully between 25th of August and the 5th 

 of September. It is very prolific, and of rapid growth ; the fruit is 

 large, of a dark purple color, sweet and luscious." Mr. Stone, in des- 

 cribing his Champion, says, "it has proved to be the earliest good grape 

 yet introduced. The fruit is large, black, and fine looking, and of a 

 good quality, ripening from ten to twelve days earlier than the Hartford 

 Prolifc with the same exposure; the bunches are large and very com- 



