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ripen earlier and be a surer crop. The 

 Salem does well with me, producing 

 fair crops of choice fruit. It has never 

 mildewed, but in the season of 1884 it 

 bursted badly. Nos. 4 and 15 do very 

 well too ; but, owing to their being 

 planted too near other trees, they seem 

 not so healthy and productive as the 

 Salem. Those three of Rogers' ripen 

 about the same time, and are ten to 

 twelve days before the Isabella. I 

 have Rogers' Nos. 3 and 9. They bore 

 fruit for the first time the past season. 

 They are both good growers, but the 

 fruit of my No. 3 is much larger and 

 finer flavoured than No. 9. I would 

 give it a place next to the Salem in 

 every respect. I planted Rogers' Nos. 

 43, 44 and 19 last fall. They made 

 fair growth during the summer, and 

 look to be healthy vines. I have a 

 vine of the Eumelan that yielded some 

 fruit for the first time the past season. 

 The fruit was very small. I do not 

 think much of it, and would not plant 

 any more of them. Still, another year 

 may make a change. I planted a vine 

 each of the Champion and Brighton 

 about four years ago. The Champion 

 was planted about five feet from a 

 small peach tree. Each year it would 

 grow from one to two feet, and be all 

 dead the next spring, when it would 

 start again from the roots. Last win- 

 ter the peach tree was killed, and this 

 summer the vine grew vigorously, and 

 seems quite difiierent. The Brighton 

 has grown well, and this year it would 

 have borne fruit, but they got picked 

 off". Two years ago I planted a vine 

 each of the Pocklington and Lady 

 Washington, and in the spring of 1 884 

 I got the Prentiss from the Fruit 

 Growers' Association. The Lady Wash- 

 ington is the most delicate-looking vine 

 I have, and if it does not do better an- 

 other year it will have to go. The 

 Pocklington is also a slow grower, and 

 as yet I have a poor opinion of it ; and 



I may say the same about the Lady ; 

 still the Lady has not had the same 

 chance, being only a one-year vine 

 when I got it, and not a very healthy 

 looking one. Last year I sent you a 

 report of the Prentiss I got from you, 

 and spoke very highly of it. This year 

 I can do the same. It is one of the 

 most healthy-looking vines I have got. 

 It has a dark green leaf with a marked 

 freshness about it, and it keeps its 

 color longer than any kind I have. It 

 has made very fair growth, and gives 

 every appearance of being a very 

 healthy plant. I have a vine, too, of 

 the Delaware, which seems healthy, 

 and does not exhibit the same tender- 

 ness that I hear others speak of. It has 

 grown well with me, and I would have 

 got some fruit ofi* it this year had it 

 not met the same fate as the Brighton. 

 Last spring I planted a Jessica, a 

 Moore's Early, as well as a few Wor- 

 dens, two Concords, and a vine each of 

 Burnet, Martha, Cottage and Early 

 Victor, and a Niagara. All of them 

 have grown very well and look healthy, 

 and have made quite a length of per- 

 manent wood. I will only particu- 

 larize the Cottage and the Nia^jai-a. 

 The Cottage I got from Chas. A. Green 

 of Rochester. It is a seedling of the 

 Concord, and, although it was the last 

 one I planted, it more than doubled 

 the growth of any of the others planted 

 the same year, with the exception of 

 the Niagara. It seems strange to me 

 there is so little said about it if it grows 

 as well with others as it has done with 

 me. I will conclude with a brief 

 sketch of the Niagara. I got a vine of 

 it in the spring from Mr. White of 

 Owen Sound. It took root and began 

 to grow soon after planting, and by the 

 fall it had grown about ten feet, and 

 most of that permanent wood. It far 

 outstripped any of the others of the 

 same age, and if it does as well other 

 years with me as it has done this, and 



