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many pounds on a vine of that vai'iety 

 as of Concord ; I obtain from one to 

 two cents per pound more for them; 

 they ripen earlier ; the vine is quite as 

 hardy, and, which is far from being the 

 case with Concord, every bunch is fit 

 to sell ; if therefore it paid to raise 

 grapes in this locality for market, 

 which at this season's prices it certainly 

 does not, I would grow nothing but 

 Delaware. 



I have a few vines of the Brant — 

 Arnold's No. 8 — a variety that origin 

 ated with the late Chas. Arnold, an 

 which deserves, I think, more att' 

 tion, especially in the north, tha' .t 

 has received ; it has stood next to the 

 Delaware with us this year in with- 

 standing the effects of the drouth, 

 having ripened nearly all its fruit. It 

 is a rampant grower, and runs so much 

 to wood when young that it bears but 

 little fruit ; quite as much, however, 

 as the Clinton, but both improve in 

 this respect by age. The vine is ex- 

 ceptionally hardy, its vitality being so 

 great that I have never known a vine 

 to die or fail to grow, when first 

 planted ; the berries run a little larger 

 than Clinton, are not quite so acid, 

 have smaller seeds, and ripen a week 

 or ten days earlier, coming in about 

 with Moore's Eai-ly, and a week earlier- 

 than Concord. The bunches are long — 

 double or treble the size of Clinton — and 

 the bexTies packed so close on them that. 



in a wet season, they are apt to squeeze 

 each other to bursting ; this is a fault, 

 a well filled bunch is a good thing, 

 but a bunch filled to bursting is not 

 desirable, but it is certainly the case 

 with Brant : the flavour is vinous, less 

 acid than Clinton, and should I think 

 be equal, if not superior, to that old 

 standard as a mne grape ; it cannot be 

 called a table grape, neither is the 

 'in ton ; but the late Editor of the 

 lorticulturist has frequently said that 

 he prefers a perfectly ripe bunch of the 

 latter, to any other grape for his own 

 eating, and in some seasons 1 think he 

 is right, but I believe Brant is better ; 

 I certainly prefer it as grown this year 

 to any other grape on my grounds, not 

 excepting even the Delaware, but it 

 must be thoroughly ripe, and so must 

 the Ciinton, and so must the Concord, 

 before their good qualities can be 

 palatably experienced, or their value 

 ,as table grapes properly appreciated. 



I can imagine a person growing any 

 or all of these three varieties for years 

 — in fact I have done it myself — with- 

 out being aware of the perfection they 

 will attain when really ripe ; they are 

 generally plucked, for fear they may 

 be stolen, as soon as coloured ; when 

 they are certainly far from being ripe. 

 Is it too much to say that half the fruit 

 grown by private individuals is plucked 

 in an imperfect state from a fear of 

 this kind ? 



NOTES FROM 

 EXPORTATION OF APPLES. 



C. P. Dewey, in the American 

 Agriculturist, says that the plan of 

 sending American apples to Europe, 

 was first devised by a Scotchman, named 

 Buchanan, who, in 1845, sent five 

 barrels from Boston to Glasgow. The 

 venture being successful, he repeated it 

 year after year, until he had established 



EXCHANGES. 



a regular trade. The business has now 

 become general, and instead of five 

 barrels, seven or eight hundred thou- 

 sand are shipped annually. 



During ten years, from 1876 to 1886, 

 Canada alone has shipped to England 

 721,813 barrels of apples, and the 

 prospect is that the business will reach 

 gigantic pi'oportions in time to come. 



