22 THE CANADIAN HORTlCULTUlilST. 



the Bartlett, and ripening appearantly about the same time, or possibly 

 a little earlier. The color was a very handsome yellow, washed with 

 carmine on the sunny side. 



The great sensation in grapes was a seedling raised by Mr. John 

 B. Moore. On the first of September it received the first prize for the 

 best early grape. The committee state that on the fourth of September 

 they visited Mr. Moore's farm and found several hundred vines of this 

 grape, which is called Moore's Early, growing in near proximity to the 

 Concord and Hartford Prolific, and that the Moore's Early was fully 

 ripe, and bearing an abundant crop on all of the vines, while botli of the 

 other varieties were yet unripe, and seemed to require two or three 

 w^eeks yet to bring them to maturity. The soil of the vineyard was a 

 light sandy loam. This grape was first exhibited in 1872, and for the 

 last four years has received each year the first prize for the best early 

 grape. The committee recommended that the prize of sixty dollars be 

 awarded to it for the best seedling grape, 



A very good early grape is yet in demand. Most of our earliest 

 grapes are deficient in some respect; the Eumelan is wanting in flavor; 

 Hartford Prolific .drops from the bunch; Creveling does not set its fruit 

 well ; Massasoit has small bunches, &c. We shall be most happy to 

 receive from any member the result of his trial of Moore's Early, and 

 to give it a place in these pages for the benefit of all. 



DISEASES OF APPLE TREES. 



Inquiry is made by Thomas E. Turnbull, Hall's Corners, Ontario 

 Co., N. Y., as to the cause of the disease in the young apple trees know^n 

 as "black fungi," its description and remedy. It is a matter for con- 

 gratulation indeed, if there be a disease to which any of our fruit trees are 

 liable, arid they have so entirely escaped it as to leave us in ignorance 

 of its existence. The editor is very happy in being able to say that 

 he does not know what that disease is. Young apple trees sometimes 

 become what is termed black hearted, from improper fall pruning, and 

 the equally improper attempt to grow them in undrained soil. If this 

 be the subject of our correspondent's enquiry, we have given him the 

 cause and cure. 



He also asks "the cause of trees casting the bark to the height of 



