THE CANADIAN HORTICULTUKIST. 



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Aminia, Wilder, Essex, Barry and 

 Herbert, Rogers' f\\mous blacks, are 

 our most valuable varieties, when we 

 consider their fine appearance and good 

 keeping qualities. These hybrids should 

 have made E. S. Rogers, of Roxbury, 

 Mass., a wealthy man, if he had shown 

 the acuteness of the introducers of the 

 Niagara. 



For commercial purposes grape grow- 

 ing is not entered into in this Province 

 to any great extent. 



SEEDLINGS FROM THE NIAGARA GRAPE. 



BY D. W. BKADLE, ST. CATHARLNES, OXT. 



Mr. Geo. W. Campbell, of Ohio, has 

 been raising some seedlings from the 

 Niagara grape, and thinks that many 

 of them will prove to be more valuable 

 than the parent. It is most remarkable 

 that while the Niagai'a has a very 

 decided foxy smell and taste, several of 

 the seedlings have been entirely free 

 from this fault, and seem to him to be 

 better in flavor than the parent. The 

 one that he considers to be thus far the 

 most promising bears a large handsome, 

 oval berry, of a light lemon color, and 

 ripens its entire crop while the Niagara 

 is yet hard and green. 



A grape of such earliness, if it 

 possessed the requisite hardiness of vine 

 and good qualities of fruit, woiild be 

 nmch prized in many parts of Canada. 

 We are yet in the infancy of grape 

 culture. Wondeiful strides have 

 already been made in a comparatively 

 short pei'iod of time, but the coming 

 ten years will probably give us grapes, 

 of higher quality which will ripen in 

 our noi'thern climate, than is possessed 

 by any we ai'e now cultivating. 



What are our producers of new fruits 

 doing I We had our Arnold and Saun- 

 ders and Dempsey, and othei'S. The 

 first named of these is living on the 

 banks of the river that flows amid the 

 groves of tiiat tree which yields its fruit 

 every month ; but what of the others I 



Mr. Bucke, of Ottawa, is in just the 

 climate where by careful hybridizing he 

 should raise a grape as hardy as the 

 northern pine, and as luscious as any 

 we are now growing. 



I have two vines of a native Russian 

 grape. They ai-e as hardy as any iron- 

 clad, but the fruit is small and not of 

 as fine a flavour as many of the grapes 

 we already are growing. But it seems 

 to me that this Russian grape vine, 

 which ripens up its wood so very early, 

 should be the mother of a race of very 

 hardy grape vines, yielding fruit of 

 superior quality, and which would ripen 

 in our coldest latitudes. This can be 

 soonest accomplished by hybridization. 

 I will cheerfully supply cuttings from 

 these Russian vines to any one who 

 would plant them, and try the eftect of 

 crossing with some of our best early 

 ripening grapes, such as the Delaware, 

 Jessica, etc. 



^er(dable0. 



SWEET CORN TESTED. 



T. C. ROBISSOX, OWEN" SOVSD. 



Our lake climate, with its chilly 

 spring winds and sudden extreme 

 changes of temperature until July, is 

 peculiarly unfavourable for that class 

 of vegetables which requires the whole 

 season and a high degree of heat in the 

 soil as well as in the atmosphere. 

 Hence, Sugar-Corn is a risky crop with 

 most people, except skilled market 

 gardeners, and early varieties are ex- 

 tremely desirable. 



With a view of finding out the earli- 

 est and best, I experimented last sum- 

 mer with the following kinds : — Cory, 

 Squantum, Marblehead Early, New 

 Self Husking, Perry's Hybrid, Shaker's 

 Early (long grain, from Henderson), 

 Shaker's Early (broad grain, fromVick), 

 Henderson's Sugar, Old Colony, Boston 

 Market, Amber Cream, Asylum, Mam- 



