THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Glasgow. It is not a produce for Cov- 

 ent Garden. American grapes will not 

 take the place of the Guernsey or Eng- 

 lish grown grapes, but they will com- 

 pete in the market with the Spanish and 

 Portuguese grapes at any season that 

 the grapes can be delivered in these 

 markets. 



The class that would eat these grapes 

 would be the mechanic class. The 

 classes that eat the grapes of Guernsey 

 and of English growth are the upper 

 middle class and aristocracy. The low- 

 er middle and the mechanics are a large 

 public, ready to buy in small lots. 



Before the "Lazy Club" at Cornell 

 he spoke quite positively, asserting that 

 he believed there is a profitable market 

 for American grapes in the old world. 

 If we could place our grapes in English 

 markets for six cents a pound, tons and 

 tons could be sold in a week. Mr. 



Spencer here called attention to the fact 

 that a carload has been sent over from 

 Chautauqua County for a number of 

 years, but with discouraging returns. 

 The difficulty seems to be not so much 

 in the cost of transportation, for that 

 hardly reaches two cents a pound, as in 

 the market. It needs a man to push 

 matters at the other end. For a num- 

 ber of years English and continental 

 gardeners have been shipping their high 

 priced hothouse grapes to America. At 

 first it did not pay ; the market was too 

 cautious and prices too uncertain. Last 

 year a hustling Englishman came over 

 to represent English grape growers and 

 push their interests. The result was an 

 immediate advance in returns, so that 

 shipments became profitable. Our Am.- 

 erican grape growers might apply this 

 business stroke to their profit. 



ELEAGNUS LONGIPES. 



LEAGNUS LONGIPES, or 

 Japanese Oleaster, is a hardy, 

 deciduous ornamental shrub 

 of recent introduction, and 

 upon trial it is found to be as valuable 

 an addition to our list of fruits as to our 

 ornamental shrubbery. In cultivation it 

 forms a shrub of bushy habit, growing 

 from four to six feet in height by as 

 much in breadth, with oval foliage, dark 

 green above and silvery underneath. 

 The bark is also quite attractive in win- 

 ter, being a reddish brown color. It 

 blooms during the month of June, the 

 bright yellow flowers being borne in the 

 greatest profusion on long stems around 

 the branches, and are succeeded by 



small oval-shaped fruit about half an 

 inch long, and of a deep orange red 

 color, studded with small golden scales 

 or spots, giving it a very attractive or 

 ornamental appearance. Not only is 

 the fruit edible, but to most persons it 

 is very palatable, possessing a sharp but 

 pleasant flavor, while by many it is pre- 

 ferred to currants or gooseberries. And 

 it bids fair in time to have a market. 

 A shrub so interesting, and promising, 

 well deserves special attention and a 

 place on the lawn as well as in the fruit 

 garden ; but wherever grown it should be 

 given an open situation and sufficient 

 space in which to properly develop. — 

 Vick's Magazine. 



