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or trimming, and what is the proper 

 time ; also, best time for pruning 

 grapes 1 J. E. R. 



[The Catalpa should be trained to a 

 single straight stem until it is about 

 six feet high, and then allowed to 

 V)ranch so as to form a head. 



The early spring is the best time to 

 {•rune. If Grape vines are laid down 

 and covered in the fall, in order to pro- 

 tect them with some covering during 

 winter, it will be preferable to i)rune 

 in the fall just before laying the vines 

 down.] 



The first plant that I received was 

 ^loore's Early Grape, which made a 

 feeble growth and then died. The 

 next season I got the Worden, which 

 had some fine bunches of grapes this 

 season, but they were very bad for 

 dropping oflf as soon as ripe. Is that a 

 peculiarity of the Worden 1 [No.] I 

 next got a plant of the Prentiss, which 

 has made a fine strong growth this last 

 season. Last spring I got Fay's Pro- 

 lific Currant, and it has done very 

 well. So much for the premium plants. 

 I grow Concord, Wilder, Brighton, 

 Agawam, Pocklington, Martha, and 

 some Niagara seedlings. Of the Grape 

 vines, my Wilder, Agawam, Concord, 

 Worden, Brighton, and Pocklington 

 fruited this year, and I thought that 

 the Wilder, Brighton, Concord and 

 Worden were just splendid. I liked 

 them best in the order named. Another 

 year's experience may change my 

 opinion. I am also trying the Russian 

 Mulberry ; it has been planted three 

 years, and is about 7 feet high ; it was 

 about as thick as a wheat straw when 

 I got it, and root and all about 14 

 inches long. I got some seed of the 

 Catalpa speciosa last spring and planted 

 them ; they seem to be very easily 

 grown ; I have about forty of them ; 

 some of them grew about 14 inches 



from the seed. You told us that you 

 would like to hear from members, 

 hence this scribble. 



William Turnbull. 

 Brewster, P.O., Ont. 



I received last year the Fay's Cur- 

 rant which gre^V* nicely, but of course 

 it is yet too early to say anything as to 

 final results. 



Chatham. J. A. Walker. 



The Fay's Currant that I got of the 

 Association made a good growth the 

 last season, and I think that it will 

 bear this. The Grape Yine that I 

 received the season before has not 

 made growth of wood to my expecta- 

 tion, but was alive and healthy in the 

 fall. With careful treatment it may 

 do well yet. I am well pleased with 

 the way the Journal is conducted, and 

 the useful information it contains. 

 Paris, Ont. JoHN R. FOLSETTER. 



The Prentiss Grape Yine received 

 in the spring of '84 has done very well. 

 It is not so rapid a grower as the 

 Niagara. Senasqua is no good here ; 

 giving it the same care as others, it 

 does not make growth sufficient to be 

 classed with either Eldorado, Yergen- 

 nes, Martha, Delaware, Rogers No. 15, 

 Janesville, Moore's Early, or the two 

 first mentioned. I have one tree of 

 Yellow Transparent Apple planted in 

 the spring of '84, two years old when 

 planted ; it stood last winter without 

 even a bud being injured by frost. I 

 don't know the fruit, but if it is as 

 good as recommended, I would con- 

 sider it the best early apple for cold 

 countries. H. C. Reid. 



Enterprise, Addington Co. 



The Prentiss I had the spring before 

 last has made a fair growth, and is in 

 good shape for fruiting this year. 



