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Page 99 : " Giiyot's system of training improved." " We 

 say improved, because in our hands it has yiekled better 

 results. The improvement consists chiefly in making the 

 arm permanent instead of renewing it annually, and Avas 

 suggested by Dr. Grant." Page 122 : "To Dr. Grant be- 

 longs the merit of having brought the Thomery system 

 pre-eminently before the American public. It was he who 

 first studied and mastered it as a system," etc., etc. If 

 this be true, then the intellect of American horticulturists 

 must be weak indeed, and our author should have spared 

 them the humiliation of proclaiming to the world their 

 imbecility. Nearly or quite forty years ago the Thomery 

 system was described in American pomological works, 

 and has been repeated from time to time ever since ; but 

 if we are to believe ]Mr. Mead's assertion, to understand 

 the system was reserved for Dr. Grant. 



Dr. Grant's seedlings come in for the lion's share of 

 praise throughout the work. lona is placed as best in 

 quality for table, market, and for wine. Israella lieads 

 the Isabella group ; if it has any faults, we are not 

 informed what they are. There is one other grape which 

 we are assured is likely to be an acquisition, and avc are 

 gravely told, on page 220: "It is a pleasure to meet a 

 grape sometimes that is in no danger of being confounded 

 with something else. It is now in the possession of Dr. 

 C. W. Grant." We wonder if this last paragraph does 

 not account for its many good and promising qualities. 

 Enough has been quoted from the work to show the 

 general drift of the Avhole. 



All the exjjerience of the thousands of American vine- 



