I02 JVotcs and Gleanings. 



Nova Scotia Apples. — We are indebted to Mr. Charles E. Brown, of Yar- 

 mouth, N. S., for a very interesting collection of apples, mostly grown by Mr. 

 Jos. Christopher Starr, of Starr's Point, Cornwallis, N. S., and comprising fifty 

 varieties. Among them were several of the noted Canadian and English varie- 

 ties, well known by name, but not often seen here, besides some of the leading 

 kinds of this country, and a number of local varieties. The most remarkable 

 circumstance connected with these apples is their freedom from fungus. With 

 the single exception of the Fall Pippin, which showed a few spots, they were 

 perfectly fair and free from blight. The variation in shape from specimens grown 

 here was noticeable, the Baldwin and many others being much elongated, while 

 only one variety, the Gloria Mundi, was flattened. The Canada Reinette was 

 very curiously and prominently ribbed, more so than any other apple we have 

 ever seen, not excepting the Red and White Calvilles of the same collection, 

 which are always strongly ribbed, and in this instance were at least as much so 

 as usual. We have never seen a better specimen of the Yellow Bellflower than 

 we found among these, though this kind is generally supposed to be best adapt- 

 ed to a more southern climate. 



Mr. Brown mentions some unusually fine specimens of the Bradshaw plum 

 grown there, six of which weighed fourteen and three quarters ounces, and adds 

 that " in Yarmouth County we are only beginning in fruit culture, and have yet 

 to learn what varieties will succeed in different parts of the county ; upon the 

 coast, the average summer temperature is low, modified by frequent fogs ; ten 

 or fifteen miles inland, however, I am persuaded most varieties will do well. I 

 have imported, and distributed gratuitously, thousands of scions within the last 

 five years, have fifty or sixty varieties on trial in my own garden ; in a few years 

 more there will be fruit from most of the well-known kinds, and such as have 

 done well elsewhere north. In strawberries we are eminently successful, the cli- 

 mate suiting that fruit exactly. Wilson's Albany, Jucunda, and Triomphe de 

 Gand are the only three I have thought worthy of reserving out of thirty varie- 

 ties in fruit in i363." 



The Conqueror and Challenge Grapes. — We received from William 

 F. Bassett, Esq., of Hammonton, N. J., specimens of the Conqueror and Chal- 

 lenge grapes, which, however, were too much decayed to judge of their quality. 

 The editor of the Gardener's Monthly, who visited the vines, and saw them in 

 bearing, says that they are good grapes, no better perhaps than scores of others 

 which have been brought out, but better than a great many for which high 

 prices have been paid. 



These two grapes were produced by Rev. A. Moore, as he supposed, by hy- 

 bridizing the Royal Muscadine on the Concord ; but the committee on native 

 fruits of the American Pomological Society could discern no trace of foreign par- 

 entage in them, and they are probably only natural seedlings. 



It is said that these vines bear a strong resemblance to the Vitis cordifoUa, 

 and it has been deemed very remarkable that they should have travelled out of 

 the species {V. Labruscd) to which the Concord belongs, to the cot'difolia. In 

 speaking of this point with Mr. E. S. Rogers, he remarked that he had suspect- 



