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THE CANADIAN HORTICDLTUKI8T. 



cites the case of Messrs. Knill & Gi'ant, 

 of Nova Scotia, who have a great apple 

 storehouse capable of holding 40,000 

 barrels of apples. The temperature is 

 kept all winter at 35°, and here apples 

 are kept with very little loss until they 

 can be sold at the top of the market. 

 P. M. Augur, State Pomologist of Con- 

 necticut, recommends the co-operative 

 plan among apple-growers, for the erec- 

 tion of these storage houses. 



The Cortland Seedling. — The Windsor 

 Record of Friday, Aug. 12, says: 

 Messrs. Lambert & Son have shown lis 

 a large sample of their Cortland Seed- 

 ling grapes, now quite ripe and i-eady 

 for picking. This is the earliest grape 

 we know of. It is a fine flavored grape, 

 and although, owing to the diyness 

 of the season, the fruit is not so lai-ge 

 as usual, the yield is prolific. Several 

 of the bunches were picked from 

 vines that had been planted only two 

 years ago. Indeed, Mr. Lambert 

 assures us that their vines, if properly 

 cared for, will always bear the second 

 season after planting. Grape gi-owers 

 ought to call on Messrs. Lambert & 

 Son, and see these grapes, or write 

 them for particulars. 



The Jewell Grape is a novelty from 

 Leavenworth, Kansas, said to be the 

 earliest of grapes, and as hardy as the 

 Concord, and excellent quality. 



SAMPLES OF FRUIT. 



Seedling Plum.— Mr. W. H. Wylie, of 

 Carleton Place, sends us a sample of 

 his seedling plum, to which reference 

 has ah'eady been made. It is i-ather 

 attractive in appearance, being of a 

 bright red color. The form is oval, and 

 the flesh yellowish, juicy, and of a mild 

 sub acid and rather agreeable flavor, 

 and would be excellent for preserving. 

 Like all these natives it is a prodigious 

 bearei", but is excelled by some of them 

 in size though not perhaps in quality. 



The samples sent measure about three 

 inches in circumference. Of course 

 they are all far inferior in both size and 

 quality to our cultivated European, 

 plums, but where these latter cannot be 

 successfully grown, such natives as 

 Wylie's Seedling should by all means 

 be given a trial. 



We sent a few samples of this plum 

 to Mr. Beadle and his verdict is as 

 follows : — 



" They are no better than Weaver, 

 Wild Goose, De Sobo, Marianna, Rol- 

 ingstone, etc., etc., and others of our 

 native wild plums. This seedling of 

 Wylie's is a native plum, the only special 

 point that I see in its favor is that it 

 i-ipens early." 



Advertising in the columns of this 

 Journal pays well. Here is what an 

 advertiser wiites : — 



Sir, — Please withdraw my advertise- 

 ment in your valuable book, and let me 

 know how much I owe you. Through 

 it I am getting too many shippers. It 

 is the finest thing that ever I subscribed 

 to. I do not intend to give up my 

 advertisement altogether, but just for 

 the time being. Yours respectfully, 



W. H. S. 



It is with the deepest regret we an- 

 nounce the death of Mr. Robert Notman 

 Ball, the pioneer fruit gi-ower of the 

 Niagara district, which took place on 

 the 26th July, 1887. Mr. Ball was 

 born in 1823 upon the farm on which 

 he died, his father and his grandfather 

 having lived there for 100 years before 

 him, the latter an officer in the British 

 army, being one of the U. E. Loyalists 

 who left America at the time of the 

 war ot Independence, receiving a large 

 grant of land as compensation for their 



