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THE CANADIAN H0KTICULTDRI8T. 



made from red wheat, take less of it by 

 half a cup, and so much more of the 

 white flour. If baking powder is used 

 it will require three teaspoonfuls heap- 

 ing. — Philidelphia Weekly Press. 



CIDER IN VARIETY. 



Sir : I send you an article from 

 Vick's ilfonthli/ which you might re- 

 print in the Horticulturist, if you think 

 it of sufficient interest to your readers. 

 Query. — Is it possible to make non- 

 alcoholic cider either from grapes or 

 any other kind of fruit I 



" Every fruit known will make cider. 

 That from pears is of ancient renown 

 ;is perry, but pear juice is worth more 

 for syrup or fruit honey, as it is rich 

 in sugar. Plum cider is very nice, and 

 "rape cider will yet be the American 

 beverage, having the strengthening 

 quality of wine without its alcoholic 

 spirit, and tasting better than anything 

 known in the shape of drinks. There 

 would not be a grape too many in the 

 United Statesif the juice, freshly drawn 

 from the clusters, undiluted, could be 

 put on sale in our cities. Its delicious, 

 pure refreshment justifies all that poets 

 have sung and writers have raved about 

 the blood of the grape, while for bene- 

 fit to feeble, consumptive or bilious 

 people its eflects outdo hypophosphites 

 or a trip to Italy, or Saratoga waters. 

 In the Erie wine regions and other 

 vineyard belts, when the grapes ripen, 

 salloV, liver-congested people fi-om cities 

 take board where they can drink the 

 ' must ' of new wine as it comes from 

 the press, and return built up for the 

 winter's dissipation. Consumptives, 

 especially, can not do better than to try 

 the grape-cure in this form, and the 

 ' vineyard season ' may yet be as fashi- 

 onable as the sea-side in July." 

 Yours truly, 



GRAPE GROWER. 

 Niagara Falls South. 



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 Monthly Journal, de- 

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Errata. — In the announcement of 

 our Summer Meeting at Gollingwood, 

 p. 142, for 

 and 30th. 



28tli and 29th read 29th ' 



