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troiu a judicious investment in this 

 business. Farmers no doubt would be 

 well pleased if they could be assured 

 of say 30 bushels of wheat to the acre, 

 and especially so if they could also be 

 assured for many years in the future 

 that they would obtain $1 25 per 

 bushel therefor. Yet in this case the 

 gross sum i-ealized per acre would 

 amount only to $37 50. 



A vineyard producing a crop of 

 grapes proportioned to the yield of 

 wheat, even if sold at the small sum of 

 one cent per pound, would produce 

 over $100 per acre. 



Now we have — as shown in pp. 80— 

 82 of the present volume of the Gan- 

 adian Horticulturist — an almost un- 

 limited ai"ea of land in Central Ontario, 

 where both soil and climate are more 

 suitable for the prolitable production of 

 grapes than that of the larger portion 

 of the wine-producing countries of 

 Europe. Scott Act speakers are already 

 predicting an over-supply of grapes for 

 dessert purposes at an early date, and 

 fear ( 1 wouldn't they like it) the sur- 

 plus may be made into wine. We have 

 no sympathy with such croakers, and 

 sincerely hope the time may soon arrive 

 when a very small proportion of the 

 grapes grown in Ontario will suffice for 

 dessert purposes for all our people, even 

 though excellent fruit may be obtained 

 at five or six cents a pound. The 

 balance can then be made into wine, 

 for which purpose good sound grapes 

 are worth from 3 to 5 cents per pound. 

 For Canadian wine there is an unlim- 

 ited demand ; England alone will be 

 glad to get all Ontario can prodvice for 

 generations to come, and at highly re- 

 mvinerative prices. 



The vineyardist may therefore reason- 

 ably expect that for generations to come 

 from $300 to $500 per acre per annum 

 may be realized from his vineyard if he 

 sold his grapes to the wine-maker, and 

 yet a larger sum if he became his own 



wine-maker. At the price of grapes 

 given above, say from 3 to 5 cents per 

 pound, a much better and more whole- 

 some wine can be produced for less 

 than .$1 per gallon than can usually l)e 

 obtained in our markets. 



Wine has been made in this vicinity 

 by amateur wine-makers for many years 

 past which has been pronounced by 

 connosieurs to be " good sound wine," 

 many dozens of bottles of which have 

 been sold in Montreal at more than 

 double the price above named. 



Thos. Beall. 



Lindsay, August, 1885. 



BLACK RASPBERRIES FROM LAYERS. 



I notice one of your correspondents 

 wants to know if Black Cap Rasp- 

 berries can be grown from layers. I 

 answer, "Yes." I have grown all mine 

 that way, and consider it the best. 

 F. W. Porter. 



Mount Forest. 



FRUIT NEAR MOUNT FOREST. 



All small fruits around this part of 

 the country are a plentiful crop. Plums 

 are nearly a failure, the more tender 

 sorts are dying off from the effects of 

 last winter's frost, even the hardy 

 Lombard did not escape altogether. I 

 don't consider the much puffed Arctic 

 plum to be hardy at all ; mine got 

 nearly killed the winter before last, and 

 this last winter finished them. Neither 

 is the Wealthy apple hardy with me, it 

 too got cut to the ground these last two 

 winters, although it still lives and has 

 made good growth this season. (See 

 page 224.) But the most complete 

 fraud of the so-called Iron-clads is the 

 Russian Mulberry. With me it would 

 not stand a summer's frost. The Ca- 

 talpa sent me by the Fruit Growers' 

 Association this spring is doing first- 

 class so far. 



F. W. Porter. 



