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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



ductions, and in his opinion it is nothing but 

 the old Diana resurrected. 



Campbell's Early \s worth planting because 

 it is so early, and there is nothing better in 

 its season. It is not as productive as 

 Champion, but of course Champion is too 

 poor a grape for any purpose ; and in quality 

 Campbell is superior to Moore's Early. 

 Brighton is too tender for shipment, and 

 Eaton is a large black soft grape of poor 

 flavor ; Moore s Early does not make enough 

 wood, and consequently is not sufficiently 

 productive. Early Dawn is a good wine 

 grape. A good list of shipping grapes, said 

 Mr. Pettit, is the following : 



Worden, Moore's Diamond, Lindley, Dela- 

 ware, Niagara, Catawba and Vergennes. 

 " I think very highly ot the Vergennes for 

 winter use," said Mr. Orr, who was mak- 

 ing a fine display of them on the fruit tables. 

 ♦' I have about half a ton of them in my 

 cellar, for the use of my family and their 

 friends during the winter. They are one of 

 the best keeping varieties." 



STRAWBERRIES FOR SUCCESSION. 



IT was a splendid opportunity to take 

 notes of varieties for spring planting, 

 with so many of our fruit experimenters 

 present, and almost for the first time we 

 were privileged to question our strawberry 

 specialist, Mr. E. B. Stevenson, of Jordan, 

 so long known among us as the best Cana- 

 dian authority on this delicious fruit. His 

 list of commercial varieties was as follows : 

 Early ; Michel, Vandeman, Monitor, Beder 

 Wood and Clyde : Medium and Late ; Hav- 

 erland, Tennessee Prolific, Saunders, Glen 

 Mary, Sample, Brandywine : Very late ; 

 Aroma, Hunn, Gandy, Joe. 



NEW FRUITS. 



PROF. H. L. HUTT, Chairman of the 

 "New Fruits Committee," presented 

 the report of the committee which recorded 

 the receipt of a large number of samples of 



fruits during the season, some of which 

 were sent to himself at the College, 

 Guelph, some to Mr. W. T. Macoun, at Ot- 

 tawa, and some to Mr. L. Woolverton, 

 editor of this journal, Grimsby. 



Many of these were declared to be no bet- 

 ter than varieties already in cultivation, but 

 there were a few which were esteemed prom- 

 ising. An attempt will be made to secure 

 the latter for testing at the fruit stations, 

 for from among our native seedlings there 

 will no doubt arise the varieties best adapted 

 to our country. The following are some 

 fruits reported as " promising. " 



Pears — Bemans Seedling. 



Plums — (from Central Experimental Farm) 

 Consul, a seedling of Wolf, yellow in skin 

 and flesh, juicy and good, September to Oc- 

 tober. Sunrise, seedling of de Soto, yel- 

 iDw, with more or less bright red, flesh yel- 

 low, juicy and sweet. • 



Peaches — About thirty seedlings were 

 grown about Gueiph, some of which de- 

 veloped considerable hardiness, and from 

 these seedlings are being raised by Profes- 

 sor Hutt with a view to producing varieties 

 still more hardy. 



Currants — A new black currant, origina- 

 ted by Dr. Saunders, has proved of consid- 

 erable value, and has been named the Topsy. 



Crab-Apples — Of these five new seedlings 

 Dr. Saunders are of considerable value for 

 northern sections, viz., Prince^ Tony, Al- 

 berta and Elsie. 



Gooseberries — Several interesting seed- 

 lings were raised by Mr. Stephens, of Oril- 

 lia ; and in raspberries the Herbert, a new 

 variety of great promise, has been recently 

 offered for sale by Mr. R. B. Whyte, our 

 director at Ottawa. 



PROFIT IN TOMATOES. 

 *HERE was not much talk about toma- 

 to growing profit, but Mr. Peart re- 

 ported on the Honor Bright as a good va- 

 riety for export. 



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