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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



the course of a day or so, and Uncle 

 Billy packed them in with a barrel of 

 the nicest grapes that ever made boy's 

 mouth water. They got to New York 

 all right, and made a good sale. Uncle 

 was delighted, and, like all speculators, 

 wasn't satisfied. Nothing would do 

 but he must send off another barrel, and 

 he rolled another cedar block to my 

 father's shop, and I was set to work to 

 knock the spots out of it. 



"If this industry keeps growing, I 

 said to myself, " this part of the coun- 

 tary don't hold me." 



*' I peeled the second block down to 

 nothing, though, and Uncle shipped his 

 his second barrel of grapes to New 

 York. Time went along, and one day 

 Uncle got a letter from the party he 

 had sent the grapes to. My father 

 asked him how the business looked. 



" Well," said he, '' I made thirteen 

 shilling clear on my first barrel, but my 

 second one bust the market. It woti't 

 do to put too many grapes in the New 

 York market at once." 



"I went out behind the shop and 

 howled for joy over the failure of the 

 grape growing industry. But that 

 pioneer shipment of Uncle Billy's set 

 people to thinking, and now the New 

 York market can't get enough of Ham- 

 mondsport grapes. — iV. W. Sun. 



KING HUMBERT TOMATO. 



I have been much interested in this 

 variety, because it seems to offer a new 

 type of fruit. So far as I know, this is 

 the first strictly two-celled red Toma- 

 to that has been sufl&cieTitly large for 

 table use. The two-celled Tomatoes 

 are invarably smooth, and are usually 

 earlier than the many-celled varieties, 

 facts that should not be forgotten by the 

 growers of new varieties of this vege- 

 table. 



The plant of the King Humbert is 

 very vigorous and productive. The 



fruit is oval, slightly flattened longi- 

 tudinally, and thickish towards the 

 blossom end ; very smooth ; with neither 

 cavity or basin, bright scarlet, about 

 one-and-three-fourths inches in longest 

 diameter, and two-and-a-half inches 

 through the axis ; borne in clusters of 

 from five to nine. The flesh is remark- 

 ably thick and firm ; so firm indeed, that 

 fruits picked and placed in a dry room 

 will shrivel like an Apple before decay- 

 inor — " Elm " in American Garde7i. 



RASPBERRY NOTES. 



Shaffer's Colossal still maintains a 

 high place among the newer raspberries. 

 Its color is all there is against it, and 

 that is a mere prejudice. Superb has 

 never pleased us. It bears for a long 

 time large berries, with large drupes 

 that part or " crumble " too easily. It 

 is not for market at all. The Marlboro' 

 holds its place well. The berries are 

 of the largest — firm, of a fair color and 

 fair flavor. The variety seems quite 

 hardy and strong. The Rancocas is 

 very early, very firm and of medium 

 quality. The plants are bushy and 

 hardy. It ripens more berries in the 

 early season than the Hansell. The 

 Hansell is a less vigorous grower, less 

 fruitful, though it ripens Jew berries 

 the first of any red raspberry we have 

 tested. Crimson Beauty is praised by 

 some and not by others. It seems 

 the flowers are imperfect and that the 

 plants should be set among those of 

 other varieties to insure perfect fruit. 

 The berries ripen early and are of good 

 quality. The Rural finds this the same 

 as the Imperial, if we may judge the 

 latter by plants sent us by Secretary 

 Holnian, of Missouri. The Cuthbert 

 still holds its place as the best late red ; 

 the Caroline as the best very hardy yel- 

 low. The Montclair is an improved 

 Philadelphia. It has never been ad- 

 vertised much and is not perhaps fully 



