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and died at the age of forty years. The 

 original Mcintosh is now over eighty 

 years old, is still a good bearer, and 

 bids fair for many yeare more. It will, 

 I believe, outlive in Eastern Ontario 

 four generations of the best hardy win- 

 ter apple that is known on this Con- 

 ent. 



Yours paternally, 



Allan McIntosh. 

 Dundela P.O., Dundas Co., Ont., 

 December 28th, 1885. 



SLANTING GRAPE TRELLIS. 



I can most strongly endorse Mr. 

 Fuller's system. (See Horticulturist 

 for December, 1885, page 284.) I have 

 three Clinton grape vines planted to 

 hide the back of a lean-to shed. They 

 bore very little fruit, the bunches were 

 small, and always so mildewed they 

 were not worth gathering. By accident 

 the top shoots grew over and spread 

 down the other side of the nearly flat 

 roof, facing the north, until they half 

 covered the surface, quite rotting the 

 li ingles. And now every year this 

 slightly sloping roof is by the end of 

 September one mass of beautiful dark- 

 blue bunches. It is quite a sight to 

 stand upon a ladder and look down at 

 them. And though they are so close 

 together, often in a tangled heap, lying 

 one upon the other, flat upon the shin- 

 gles, with no ventilation under them, 

 they all ripen, and there is little or no 

 mildew. My other grapes, on upright 

 trellis in the open garden, are a com- 

 j>lete failure. The situation near the 

 Lake (Ontario) is too low and damp. 

 A mile or two back, where the ground 

 iH'gins to rise, they succeed better. I 

 take no pains with these grapes on the 

 roof, never pruning them, only cutting 

 out any dead wood occasionally. And, 

 of course, they are never covered or 

 protected in any manner. 



With reference to page 211, Annual 

 Report for 1884, 1 can fully recommend 



Mr. Beadle's plan of making grape jelly 

 or jam, adding the skins. We formerly 

 threw away the skins with the stones, 

 but it was always too thin. Now, by 

 using the skins, it is much stiffer, and 

 nicer to eat besides. Also it is much 

 less trouble than one would think. 



COBOURO. 



GRAPES IN LAMBTOX COUNTY. 



To THE Editor of the Canadian Horticulturist. 



Dear Sir, — You card, dated 12th 

 November, re varieties of grapes grown 

 in the open air in this section of coun- 

 try, was duly received, but sickness and 

 deaths in my family prevented me from 

 sooner attending to it, and left me in 

 sorrow to look across that bourn from 

 whence none return. 



The arduous efforts put forth by 

 yourself and other members of the 

 "Ontario Fruit Growers' Association," 

 in disseminating useful information res- 

 pecting fruit raising, and cultivating a 

 taste for the adornment of our homes, 

 through the Canadian Horticulturist, 

 merit the gratitude of all who sincerely 

 desire the welfare of our country. 



The cultivation of fruit is one of the 

 most interesting pursuits that can en- 

 gage the mind of man, furnishing an 

 endless variety of objects for contem- 

 plation, exciting our wonder, and lead- 

 ing forth the soul in adoration of the 

 providence, wisdom and goodness of the 

 Almighty hand which bespangles the 

 heavens with radiant orbs, and carpets 

 the earth with living gems no less bril- 

 liant and wonderful. All is now locked 

 in the cold embrace of winter, but with 

 the beautiful flowers that spring up 

 with the fii*st impulse of spring, when 

 all nature seems to teem with gladness, 

 we are filled with adoration at the onler 

 and infinitude of His works, in which 

 we see goodness, beauty and glory 

 blended. 



We place wreaths on the tombs of 



