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orapos as of black and this may partly aeeount for tlie preftTonce 

 in the market. 



Mr. AVood said he has in his grape house eighteen foreign grape 

 vines, with one Golden Hamburg at the end of the row of seven- 

 teen colored. When he sends the crop to market, he finds the one 

 white grape vine has supplied (juite as large a proportion of the 

 fruit of that color as is desired. 



Mr. Strong said that he formerly grew the Muscat of Alexan- 

 dria and always got the first prize for it. The Golden Hamburg, 

 however, is not of as high quality as the Muscat of Alexandria. 



Mr. Wood considered the Golden Hamburg as good as the 

 Black Haml)urg or Wilmot's Hamburg. "He had found tliat wiiite 

 currants do not sell as well as the red varieties. 



Mr. Van Deman held that the reason Avhite grapes are less 

 profitable than dark colored fruit, lies in the fact that although 

 white ones do not bruise au}^ more than the others they show their 

 bruises more, and look damaged while the dark ones appear fair. 

 This inference is based upon statements of dealers, — wholesale 

 and retail. In Florida they are planting the Niagara grape by ten 

 acre lots to supply the demand for this fruit. Some are sold to 

 wealthy persons at high prices to make a fine show on their tables, 

 but the general market does not seem to want them in large quan- 

 tities. As to quality they are quite as good as many dark 

 varieties. 



Richard P. Walsh, who had had fifty-five years' experience in 

 gardening, said that while located about twenty miles south of 

 Boston, and ten miles from the sea, he received, with other trees 

 and shrubs from a Rochester, N. Y., nursery, a Purple Hazel, 

 grafted upon a plain hazel stock. The latter was very thrifty and 

 threw out suckers, which were at first cut away, but as the green 

 mingled with the purple foliage was a pleasing combination both 

 Avere allowed to grow. After two years the purple was choked 

 out, and then the stock produced nuts which proved it to he the true 

 Filbert, Corylus Avellana, and a crop of nuts was gathered each 

 succeeding year thereafter. From his observations of both stock 

 and scion, he was convinced that they were both perfectly hardy 

 there. He said they could be grown in hedge-rows, and required 

 but little cultivation, and he was confident that they would succeed 

 in the neighhood of Boston. 



Robert Manning said that a few years ago he set out several 

 fill)ert bushes, one of which produced fruit last year. He showed 



