188 TIIE CANADIAN IIORTICULTUKIST. 



MOORE'S EARLY GRAPE. 



In the February number, page 22, we called attention to tliis new 

 grape as one of considerable promise, it having received from that ver^" 

 careful and cautious body, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a 

 prize for the best early grape. Since that time it has been tested 

 another season, and received brom that society the prize of sixty 

 dollars for the best new seedling grape. It has also been exhibited 

 before other societies, and received several first prizes. We have been 

 so fully persuaded that it was a variety worthy of the attention of 

 those who grow grapes in Ontario that we have requested Mr. Moore 

 to send us an engraving shewing the form and size of the bunch and 

 berry, so that the readers of the Canadian Horticulturist may be 

 able to form a correct estimate of its general appearance. We are 

 happy in being able not only to say that Mr. Moore has kindly 

 acceeded to our request, so that we are able to give the engraving in 

 this number, but has also sent an advertisement, which will be found 

 in its appropriate place, informing our readers where, and at what 

 price, they can secure plants that they can rely upon as being genuine. 



This grape first bore fruit in 1872, being one of a lot of two 

 thousand five hundred seedlings raised by Mr. Moore, and every year 

 since that time it has been under examination by the fruit committee 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, so that they have taken 

 ample time to test its merits before it received the sixty dollar prize. 

 The fruit, as wall be seen on looking at the engraving, is large both in 

 bunch and berry, the berries being as large as those of the Wilder or 

 Rogers' number four. The color is black, with a heavy blue bloom^ 

 and the quality considered to be better than that of the Concord. The 

 vine is stated to be exceedingly hardy, having been exposed -to a 

 temperature of twenty degrees below zero Mdtliout injury, and has 

 also been entirely exempt from mildew. It ripens ten days earlier 

 than the Hartford Prolific, and twenty days before the Concord. 



The fruit committee, who examined several hundred of the vines 

 growing in the same vineyard with the Hartford Prolific, found the 

 fruit fully ripe on Moore's Early, while the Hartford Prolific was not 

 ripe, requiring a considerable number of days more to bring it to 

 maturity. The earliness and hardiness of this grape are qualities of 



