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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



The Eaton Grape. — According to a writer in the Rural New Yorker, the 

 Eaton grape has little to recommend it except its size. In quality it could 

 scarcely be distinguished from the Concord. 



The Crosby Peach. — We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. H. E. Van- 

 Deman, Chief of the Division of Pomology of the United States, criticising the 

 colored plate of the Crosby peach, which appeared in our October number, as 

 being overdrawn with respect to the size of the peach. He says that Mr. Hale 

 had a lot of the Crosby peaches at Washington at the time of the last meeting 

 of American Pomological Society there, and that none of them were over 23^ 

 inches, in diameter. 



We are particularly desirous of giving our readers a correct description of 

 fruits through this journal, for our work is purely disinterested, having no 

 connection whatever with any nursery concern, either in Canada or the United 

 States. Our only object is to work for the benefit of fruit growers in Ontario. 

 We are, therefore, glad to receive this criticism from Mr. ^'anDeman, and shall 

 welcome similar criticisms from any of our readers, should anything appear in 

 our pages which seems to over-estimate the value of any fruit, new or old. 



The Finer Varietie.s of Grapes. — The public is slow to appreciate the 

 higher classes of grapes. The experience of a writer in the Rural New \'orker is 

 largely verified in our own experience in Canada. Here is the clipping referred 

 to : 



"'Have you any Agawaiii, Lindley or Wilder grapes on hand?" I said to a New 

 York ooiiimiasion man a few <litya ago. ' None to-day,' said lie, ' and I am lieartily glad of 

 it Tlie general grape-hnyiiig public and especially tlie dealers who l)uy of us, don't 

 know anything about these fine grapes and it is very hard work to sell them. Tliey look 

 them over, wluike their heads and then buy Concords, because they know what they are. 



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