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Mr. John Craig, Horticulturist, ILxiJcrinicnlal Farm, Ottawa, writes : The 

 Moore's Early ripened in 1890 at Ottawa on Sept. sixth— five days after 

 Champion. Last year all varieties in this vicinity were a week to ten days later 

 in ripening than usual. Moore's Early matures Sept. 14th — seven days after 

 Champion. Its good ])oints are its early ripening habits, hardiness and freedom 

 from mildew. Among its weak points may be noted, slowness of growth, and, 

 on some soils, lack of vigor, light bearing habits and perishable character of 

 fruit. As an amateur variety in northern localities and for near market, Moore's 

 Earlv has much value. As a commercial variety in grape-growing sections, I 

 should not care to advocate the planting of this in a large way for profit. 



Mr. D. Nichol, Cataracjui, says : What I have seen of Moore's Early grai)e, 

 I believe it is well suited for this district. It ripens earlier th^n the Worden, 

 and the fruit is of large size : (juality as good, yet I cannot say it is more pro- 

 ductive. 



Mr. Thos. Beal, Lindsay, says: — Every grower of grapes for family use 

 should have a few vines of Moore's Early : but the (jua)itity of fruit produced 

 is so small, it is worthless as a market variety. 



Several vines of this variety has been destroyed t)y Phylloxa-a in this neigh- 

 borhood lately. Is this variety more liable to destruction by this pest than most 

 other varieties ? While examining the cause of ill-health and making careful 

 enquiries respecting some of these vines, my attention was directed to the fact 

 that while some vines were rapidly dying from the effects of Phylloxera, others 

 of the same variety were quite healthy. And upon further encpiiry. I learned that 

 in every instance the diseased vines had been obtained from the Lnited States 

 or south of Lake Ontario, whilst the healthy ones had been produced 

 to the north of Lake Ontario. Is this a subject worthy of investigation ? 



Pruninc; Plum and Cherry. — More care is reiiuired in pruning plum and 

 cherry than other fruit trees. All trees should be pruned when young, so as to 

 prevent the removal of large limbs, which removal is always injurious, but with 

 the plum and cherry the removal of large limbs is often fatal, and always more 

 injurious than with other fruit trees, as the wounds do not heal so rapidly, and 

 often not at all ; thus, often disease steps in and the trees die. I once cut off a 

 large branch of a thrifty plum tree and grafted it. The graft grew and the next 

 spring I cut off all the remaining natural branches but one. 'I'he graft grew 

 rapidly, and the third year bore an immense load of plums, nearly as large as 

 hen's eggs, and so close together the fruit vouched everywhere. It was a wonder- 

 ful sight, almost a solid block of plums ; but next year the tree died. The 

 wounds had not healed and the bark was dead for several feet below them. C. 

 A Green, in Popular Cmrdeiiini:;. 



