■-30 THE CANADIAN IIOllflCULTURlST. 



EESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS. 



BY A. JIILNE, LANGFORD. 



I received two trees of the Ontario Apple last spring in good order, 

 which I planted directly on their arrival, and they took kindly to the 

 soil and treatment, and are now looking healthy and thrifty. Th6 

 Saunders Kaspherry was likewise received in good order, and promises 

 ^prosperity in its new location. The Arnold Hybrid I turned over the 

 fence as being an incumbrance to the groilnd. The Salem Grape gave 

 ^about a peck of grapes last year, and the past season set abundance of 

 fruit, which dropped 6ff as the season advanced until there was none 

 left to ripen ; still I shall give it another chance, and if it fails the 

 'coming season it will be cast out. The Flemish Beauty pear has 

 never fruited yet, although I have two fine trees grafted from it, one 

 'of which gave me a bushel a^id a half fine pears — luscious fruit. I 

 •had almost forgotten to say that the Burnet Grape has not yet fruited 

 Vith me, but is in a healthy condition, and promises to fruit next year. 



INQUIRIES ABOUT WINE MAKING, — GOOSEBERRIES, &c. 



BY JOHN KNOWLSON, LINDSAY. 



If any of the members of the Association have knowledge or 

 'experience in wine making from the Brant Grape, I should be glad to 

 •liear the result through the medium of your valuable periodical, and 

 1 s^ioiilcl also feel obliged for information from any of the readers of 

 your journal who may have experimented in making wine from the 

 'mixed juices of different varieties of grapes, and if so the varieties so 

 mixed that have proved satisfactory. And, Mr. Secretary, I would 

 beg to suggest that a subject of this nature might be included amongst 

 'others for discussion at some of the society's meetings, if not considered 

 'out of place for horticulturists to examine questions relating to the 

 manufacture of wine. 



I planted in the spring of 1879 about an acre of grape vines with 

 'sixty varieties, intending to plant more when these have been fairly 

 tested. I hope to be enabled to report on at least half the number of 

 these varieties next autumn. 



Nearly all the trees that I have got through the first three or four 

 .^ears distribution of' the Association failed — apples, pears, grape vines, 



