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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, 



Budd is th'e very astringent cvab found 

 growing wild in many parts of Ontario, 

 known as the Pi/rus coronaria of bot- 

 anists. 



of cigars will do, and dip the branches 

 that are infested with the lice in the 

 tobacco water iis often as the lice 

 make their appearance. 



A NEW HARDY MULBERRY. 



MORI'S FAKIVA. 



We clip the following Ity Professor 

 Bndd from the 7i'M?v//f Xew-Yorker : — 

 " On the tine sjiecirnen grounds of A. 

 Rosenthal, near Vienna, Austria, I 

 was much interested in a ])ecnliar 

 looking and growing mulberry with 

 the above name. It is a clean, upright 

 grower, with medium-sized, thick, re- 

 gularly shaped leaves. The fruit was 

 said to be large, and of excellent 

 quality. I failed to learn its native 

 clime, and I have not l)een able to find 

 the naine in Kock's Dendrogie, or to 

 hear of it from any other source. It 

 ]iroves on our grounds hardier than the 

 Russian Mulberry introduced from the 

 section north of the sea of Azoff, by 

 the Mennonites ; hence is of interest 

 to the West. If any reader of the 

 liural knows of the origin of this in- 

 teresting species or aught for or against 

 it, I hope it will be reported." 



QUESTION DRAWER. 



Can you tell me a remedy for moss 

 in lawn graas % John' L. Warken. 



Brooklin. 



Reply. — The presence of moss in the 

 lawn is probably owing to superabund- 

 ance of water in the soil. If this be the 

 case the best remedy is thoi-ough drain- 

 age. If the soil be already well drained 

 lr\' a top dressing of hai'd wood ashes. 



Please tell me how to get rid of 

 green lice on black current bushes. 



JoHX S. Warren, 

 Brooklin. 



Reply. — Steep some tobacco, the 



stems or refuse from the manufacturers 



WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY. 

 GIJAPES AND GRAPE CULTURE. 



BV P. E. BL'CKE, VICK-PKESIDEN P F. O. A. 



The cultivation of no fruit has made 

 such an advance in so short a time on 

 this continent as the grape. It is true 

 the grape we have always had with us ; 

 they were found here wild when Ame- 

 rica was first discovei'ed in the year 

 1492. 



The cultivated grapes of the North- 

 ern States and Canada are chiefly de- 

 rived from two wild native types — 

 Vilis lahrnsca and V. riparia, or cur- 

 difulia. Sometimes these are crossed 

 with the European V. vinifera. 



V. labriisca has its home between 

 the Atlantic and the Alleghany Moun- 

 tains. From this wild vine sjirings 

 most of our table grapes ; its offspring 

 are considered to be over-estimated for 

 wine. There aj-e two ty[)es of the 

 Labrusca : the northern is of a foxy 

 nature ; the southern has a musky 

 flavour. The earliest vai'ieties culti- 

 vated derived from this class are — 

 Early Victoi-, very early, black; Moore's 

 Early, very early, black ; Worden, 

 earh', black ; Cottage, veiy early, 

 black ; Vergennes, not very early, red ; 

 Lady, early, white ; Martha, early^ 

 white ; Perkins, very early, white. 

 These are all children of the northern 

 or Fox grape. The descendants of the 

 southern type are : — Prentiss, medium 

 in ripening, white ; Adirondac, early, 

 black. 



V. r'lparia, or cordifolia, is called 

 the frost grape. Its home is in the 

 Northern States and Canada. Its most 

 noi'thern limit is on Lake St. John, 

 ninety miles north of the City of Que- 



