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 



