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to imitate. Every box of Peaches, Apricots, 

 Plums, Oranges, even Cherries, is made up 

 of specimens of exactly one size only, and 

 shows off to best advantage by such unifor- 

 mity, and the regularity of packing. 



Fruits of uniform size, of course, allow 

 of closer and firmer packing; and saving of 

 space means a great aeal in shipping such 

 goods to a market that is several thousand 

 miles distant. This consideration alone, 

 with that of increased safety of carriage 

 secured by the firmer packing, added, 

 would make the strict grading of fruits 

 compulsory upon the California grower. 

 The better prices realized for the graded 

 fruit, on account of more tempting appear- 

 ance, and generally better condition, should 

 show to eastern growers the importance of 

 the advantage of which they have hereto- 

 fore failed to avail themselves. The near- 

 ness of the market, and the fact that 

 good fruit, no matter how miscellaneous- 

 ly put up, will bring a fair price, should 

 not induce the shipper to neglect reach- 

 ing for better prices by more attractive, 

 and more economic and safer packing. 

 Every kind of produce that is worth 

 marketing, is worth grading. Now that 

 our Californian competitors have set the 

 ball to rolling, there will be no stop to it. 

 The east will have to adopt this practice 

 of strict grading. 



The grading devices and sorting bench- 

 es now OQ the market and in use, were 

 primarily intended for the handling of 

 Oranges, Lemons, and other Californian 

 products, and thus far they are advertised 

 almost exclusively in Orange-growing 

 states. Our illustration shows one of 

 these Orange sizers in operation. Similar 

 devices might be brought into use for other 

 fruit everywhere. 



COMMENTS BY READERS. 



A department to which aU are invited to send notes 

 of experience and obseri'ation concerning topics that 

 recently have been treated on in this journal. Many 

 such contributions are welcome monthlu. 



Amaryllis Treatment (page 184). It may do 

 to separate tbe young offset bulbs if you want to 

 increase the plants. If plants are wanted, how- 

 ever, never remove a young bulb from an old 

 one. I let mine' increase until I had a cluster of 

 seven bulbs. In the summer I set the pot out of 

 doors and give it no attention, except once in a 

 while a little water. Along In February I put it 

 on a cane bottom chair over the register, or 

 where it would have direct heat. I also poured 

 on ?iot water, taking care not to get the water 

 directly on the bulbs. In three or four days the 

 flower buds start, and I have had from twelve to 

 fourteen stalks with nearly fifty blossoms at one 

 time,— Henry Bahcock. 



The Peter Porter Apple. This red Apple is 

 named Peter Porter, and not simply Porter. 

 The Red Porter I have known for over fifty 

 years. Are there not more than one Mary or 

 Anna among women? and may there not be more 

 than one Porter among Apples/"— S. Miller. 



BPDDED KosES. Tou are right that the man 

 who doesn't know a Persian Yellow from a 

 Gen. Jacqueminot does not deserve to have 

 them, and you may be pretty sure such don't 

 have them. I am an advocate of budding, and 

 some of the finest Roses I have are bud Jed. 

 Marechal Niel in particular is far superior when 

 budded on a strong stock for out-door culture, 

 than on its own roots. In fact I have never seen 

 it in perfection on its own roots out-doors; and 

 then it is very difficult to keep over winter. 

 Mine is budded three foot from the ground, the 

 tree easily bent down and the top covered in 

 winter. It has been for a tew weeks past and 

 still is giving us some of the noblest flowers the 

 world can produce. To give a list of some of my 

 varieties, will mention the Marechal Niel, Etoile 

 de Lyon, Perle des Jardins, Gen. Jacqueminot, 

 American Beauty, Gen. Washington, Paul Ney- 

 ron {this is a superb one, measuring four and 

 five-eighths inches in diameter), Madame Clinot, 

 Baron de Bonstetten, La Reine, Caroline de 

 Saasall, Triumph of Luxenburg, Agrippina, San- 

 guiniana. Pink Daily, Vick's Caprice, etc. But I 

 must not omit Morgan, a new Rose that some 

 day wUl have a name in the land, and of which I 



have perhaps the only plant in existence. One 

 of the most famous horticulturists in the land 

 said that it it were pure white instead of a pale 

 pink, he would give a thousand dollars for it. 

 I omitted Meteor and Dinsmore, two more of the 

 new ones. 



The G been Mountain and Winchell Grape. 

 The Winchell first appeared in Ellwanger & 

 Barry's catalogue in 1888. J. M. Paul, of Mass., 

 first introduced tbe Green Mountain Grape and 

 named it. He sent us sample of the Grape, and 

 described it to us in autumn of 18&5. Continuing, 

 he says: "1 now have something that suits me, 

 and I intend to make a little something out of it. 

 I think of growing the vines and furnishing 

 wood to some large nursery and have them prop- 

 agate and sell it, paying me a royalty." In 

 December of same year we went to North Adams 

 and made arrangements with Mr. Paul to prop- 

 agate the vine. He had already propagated the 

 vines and sent one or two to the New York Ex- 

 periment Station at Geneva, and had sold some 

 to parties about North Adams. It must hive 



DEVICE FOR 8IZ1NG FRUIT. 



been as early as 1880 or 1881 that he started in to 

 propagate the Green Mountain Grape, and this 

 name he gave it himself. When we arranged in 

 December, 188.5 for the propagation of the vine, 

 Mr. Paul stated that he had the entire stock, and 

 no one had a vine, of which he could not control 

 the wood. In the winter of 188.5 and 1880 Mr. Paul 

 sent us wood for propagation. We commenced 

 selling the vines in 1887, and have advertised and 

 sold them since. In February, 1889, we sent in 

 our application to the Patent Office at Washing- 

 ton, for our trade mark name and received it in 

 August of that year. In the spring of 189U, Messrs. 

 Ellwanger & Barry wrote us they were propa- 

 gating a Grape under the name of " Winchell," 

 which they believed to be the same as the Green 

 Mountain. In reply, we wrote expressing our 

 surprise and our doubts as to its being the same. 

 We know that we have the genuine Green 

 Mountain stock, as originally propagated and 

 sent out by Mr. Paul, under the name he gave 

 it, viz.. Green Mountain Grape. It must be evi- 

 dent from above facts, that we are not sending 

 out a Grape under the name of Green Mountain, 

 propagated and named by others.'years before the 

 Green Mountain was introduced and sold, not- 

 withntanrHng it is reported to he none other than 

 the Winchell. It is not at all sure that the two 

 are identical. Prof. W. F. Massey of the North 

 Carolina Experiment Station writes to Garden 

 and Forest as follows: A Grape called Winchell 

 was sent to us this year with the statement that 

 it is the same Grape that has been sent out as 

 "Green Mountain." We planted it alongside 

 the Green Mountain received last year. So far 

 it differs widely in the appearance of its foliage 

 from the Green Mountain.— StcpTten BoyVs Sons, 

 New Canaan, Conn. 



The Garland Flower. I am glad to note 

 your good words for Daphne cneorum in your 

 last issue, and wish to add my testimony in sup- 

 port of its hardiness and beauty. On our exper- 

 iment grounds it is the onl.v one in the genus 

 that has come through uninjured— without pro- 

 tection — every winter, blooming freely every 

 spring. This year almost before the frost had 

 left the ground its fragrant pinkish red blossoms 

 appeared, and continued blooming for six weeks. 

 Layering is probably the easiest method of prop- 

 agating it, but I was very successful last year in 

 rooting plants from greenhouse cuttings set in a 

 cold frame. Daphne mezeron is only partially 

 successful here.— John Craig, Gnvertimcnt Ex- 

 periment Farm, Oltawa, Canada. 



How THE " Winchell " Grape Came Thus to 

 BE Named. We received the Winchell Grape 



from Mr. C. E. Winchell, in the month of Decem- 

 ber, 188.5, who then lived at Stamford, Vermont. 

 Mr. Winchell sent it to us as a seedling without 

 a name, and we therefore gave it his name. We 

 have since been growing it in our vineyard 

 under that name for the purpose of testing it 

 and for propagation, and it has proved to be a 

 superior early Grape. We first offered it in our 

 wholesale catalogue in the spring of 1888, and in 

 our retail catalogue of that year it was correctly 

 described for the first time in print, hence we 

 think the name Winchell has the right of priority. 

 The original vine from which Mr. Winchell ob- 

 tained the wood grew in Stamford, Vermont, 

 near his place of residence, and when he sent the 

 wood to us he was not aware that the variety 

 had any name, and, from what we can learn, if 

 it was known under any other name, it was 

 merely a local one which had not been published 

 in a way that would enable the public to learn 

 whether such a name was in existence or not. 

 We find on refering to the New York Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station Report of 18&5, page 

 224, reference, undoubtedly, to this Grape, in 

 the following words: "Received the past 

 season unnamed seedling Grape from James 

 H. Paul, North Adams, Mass." In report 

 for 1887, page 341, the following; " Seedling 

 from James M. Paul, North Adams, Mass. 

 first fruit ripe September first. Appears to 

 be a promising early white variety." And 

 in report of the exhibition of the American 

 Pomological Society, held iu Boston, Sep- 

 tember, 1887, is found, page 91: " Jas. M. Paul, 

 North Adams, Mass., seedling Grape said to 

 be early." In the New York Agricultural 

 F.xperiment .Station report for 1888, published 

 in 1889, page 105, the name Green Mountain 

 first appears. In the spring of 1887 we sent 

 twenty plants of this variety to Mr. Winchell. 

 We had, as will be seen from the facts above 

 known, been selling this Grape under the 

 name of Winchell before Messrs. Stephen 

 Hoyt's Sons, sent out their Grape under the 

 uame of Green Mountain. Furthermore have 

 they a right to take out a patent for the name 

 of a Grape that had been propagated and sold 

 under another name ? — Ellwanger <& Barry, 

 Rochester, N. Y. 



Simple Strawberry Planter (page lOB). I 

 have seen this plan adopted more than once, and 

 each time was amused. Ground fit to receive 

 this kind of plants should be mellow, in which I 

 can ijlant twice as many plants, with a lad to 

 drop them before me, than any man and boy 

 that I ever saw set plants, and do it better also. 

 I use a pretty broad-bladed garden trowel. 

 Thrust the tool into the ground, press it towards 

 me; bring the roots down so as to spread them 

 out, let the ground back, then with both hands 

 give a pressure of about fifty pounds around it 

 as we leave it. and as you are moving away, with 

 a touch of the trowel a little loose earth is drawn 

 over the pressed earth, so as to avoid baking in 

 case the ground is pretty damp. I have heard 

 the thunders of seventy-one years, but can still 

 plant si.Y thousand plants in a day alone, and it 

 the plants are good will not lose one plant in a 

 hundred. The roots should be cut off to three 

 inches. They can be spread with the fingers as 

 they are put into place. 



Michel's Early Stawberey. I am surprised 

 at Judge Miller's report on Michels Early, page 

 191. We procured our Michel's of Bauer of Ark- 

 ansas, and no doubt they are true. It is not as 

 early by two days as Warfleld, no earlier than 

 Crescent, does not bear one-fifth as much as 

 either, is small, a dusty miserable color, imless 

 crrefuUy picked, leaves the hull on the vine, 

 quality not to be compared with Warfield and 

 will not meet general favor; the only place we 

 can see for it is for pollen without any intention 

 of picking the fruit. Now can all this difference 

 be in location? We have dug up all we planted 

 this year and set Warfleld, Haverland, Sadie, Mt. 

 Vernon, Ontario and Thompson's No. 7. Just 

 finished planting. Shall pick Strawberries again 

 the 9th of July, which shall be the last. We 

 commenced picking Strawberries June 7th, 

 although the!boys picked some the 3d, of fiftj' nine 

 varieties. Warfield gave us the first two quarts; 

 and to-day Warfleld is gi\nng us more and better 

 fruit than annthing e.vcept Mt. Vernon and 

 Manchester. We shall discard Gaudy and twenty- 

 five of the other worthless sorts. We are looking 

 and poking around among the rubbish for that 

 ideal berry. F. W. Loudon has 326 new seedlings 

 selected from 4,600, which are worthy of trial. 

 Many of them are very large and wonderfully 

 productive.— Geo. J. Kellogg, Wisconsin. 



