CA A^A DIA N IIOirriCUL TURIST. 



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I also have a number of the Versailles. 

 T like it well for its fruiting (jualities, 

 but it has one bad fault — in a high 

 wind the bush suffers badly. After 

 one windy day last summer, while the 

 fruit was ripening, I picked up whole 

 limbs yards away from the bushes. 

 Ostheim Cherry, received last spring, 

 did well for a time, but has since died. 

 Russian Yellow Transparent Apple 

 and Niagara Grape Vine, received in 

 past years, are doing well, but the 

 Niagara seems to be a slow grower. 

 Catalpa Speeiosa (of which I have six) 

 is a fast growing tree ; it attracts much 

 notice around here. The wood is 

 slightly tender, gets touched a little 



every winter, but not rnougli to stop 

 the growth. I like the Horticul- 

 turist much in its new dress. I have 

 for some time been trying to extend 

 the circulation around here, but there 

 are not many interested in fruit grow- 

 ing. I have a strawberry in my 

 mixed bed which I wisii you could 

 name for me, that I may avoid it in 

 future. I must have got the plant 

 from a friend, and got no name with 

 it. The plant is large, the berry is a 

 pale pink color, di.scolors when ripe, 

 shape of berry very flat, taste miser- 

 ably sour. I am rooting them out 

 when I come on them in fruiting 

 time. 



VITICULTURAL. 



Keeping Grapes. 



Sir, — In your September number 

 I notice an article on Keeping 

 Grapes. For the last two winters T 

 have kept a few of my grapes witii 

 good success by packing them in a crock, 

 with first, a layer of hardwood sawdust, 

 then a layer of grapes and so on till 

 the crock is full and cover with a piece 

 of board. I packed them in October 

 and took out the last of last winter's 

 lot on May 31, just as fresh and good 

 as wiien they were packed. I think 

 they were Hartford Prolific and grown 

 in a greeniiou.se without artificial heat- 

 ing, 



1 iiave grown two sorts of gooseberry, 

 the Crown Bob and Downing, for the 

 last nine years, and have never seen .i 

 speck of mildew. The only manure I 

 apply tn them is wood ashes in the 

 Autuiini. F. . Fprf/its, Sepf. IS, ISSS. 



The Grape Cure. 

 Hefkhuin(; to the virtue of the new 

 grape cure, the Farm and Vineyard 

 says : — Much interest has been excited 

 in medical circles and the public mind 

 for years past in regard to the alleged 

 curative qualities of the grape, and its 

 efficacy in a large class of stubborn 

 and chronic diseases. The grape cure, 

 as it is properly called, has been in 

 vogue for a considerable length of time 

 in France and Germany, and the 

 method of treatment has been to let the 

 patient eat all the ripe grapes daily 

 that he or she desired in vintage time, 

 and many remarkablecures are regarded 

 as liaving annually occurred. 



The grape cure has become a well- 

 established fact in America as well as 

 in Germany, ami every day is develop- 

 ing new truths in support of its won- 

 derful efficacy. The eminent Irving C. 

 Koss, M.D., speaking from personal 

 experience, says of it : 



•' Some years ago. on arriving at 

 Cadiz, after a long vovage and the 



