THE MOVER GRAPE. 



Fig. 1665. — Moyer Grapes. 



N December 1888, we gave our 

 readers a colored plate and a 

 description of a new red grape, 

 called the Moyer after the intro- 

 ducer, Mr. Allen Moyer, of Jordan. 

 This gentleman had purchased the right 

 of propagation from Mr. W. N. Read of 

 Port Dalhousie, who had originated the 

 grapes about ten years previous by cross- 

 ing the Delaware with Miller's Burgundy. 

 Mr. Moyer brought us a basket of his 

 grapes which impressed us most favor- 

 ably as to quality and earliness. Now 



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after ten years more of general experience 

 with this grape, we are able to confirm 

 most of the statements there made con- 

 cerning it, and being of Canadian origin 

 we are all the more glad that it has 

 made so good a record, and that it holds 

 so good a place in the estimation of the 

 public. 



We do not commend it for the com- 

 mercial vineyard because the vine does 

 not seem sufficiently productive to give 

 large crops to the acre, but no one who 

 is planting a collection for his own table 



