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'I'liK Canauian MokiicuLruRisr. 



AMOXC. I'm-: FRUIT CKOWT.KS OF \i:\V \()RK STATF. 





,1)11" is due to Professor F. H. Bailey, 

 of Cornell University, for his persevering 

 industry in compiling useful books on 

 horticulture for fruit grow- 

 ers. The bulletins issued 

 by the Station under his 

 direction are all got out in 

 a most unique, attractive 

 fashion. The Professor has 

 lately been making a tour 

 among the fruit growers of 

 Western New York, and 

 his " Notes of Travel." 

 which appear in the Garden 

 and Forest, are of much in- 

 terest to us in Canada. 

 He speaks of an immense Niagara vineyard at Romulus, N.Y., of 590 acres, 

 divided into three parts, from one of which seventy tons of grapes was expected 

 this season, and from another 140 tons. When the vineyards are eight years 

 planted, the yield is calculated to reach from two to three thousand tons annu- 

 ally. Only a small portion of this will be marketed as green fruit ; the greater 

 part of it will be made up into grape juice, for which there is a growing demand. 

 The process of making this article is as follows : (kind the grapes coarsely, 

 taking care not to crush the seeds. This is done in the afternoon. Place the 

 material in tubs. Next morning filter through paper and heat nearly to the 

 boiling point, remove the .scum. Filter again, heat nearly to the boiling point, 

 and bottle. These immense vineyards are trained on the Kniffen system, and 

 the tying is mostly all done by women. 



The great fruit region of New York .State begins near (leneva and stretches 

 away to Niagara Tails and Fake Ontario on the northwest, and to Chautauqua 

 County on the south-west. Orcharding is the dominant industry in nearly all 

 this portion of the country. 



Professor Bailey speaks of an immense plum orchard near (ieneva belonging 

 to the Maxwell Bros. It covers 85 acres, and every tree was carrying a bounti- 

 ful crop at the time of his visit. The orchard was kept scrupulously clean. 

 The tops are started at four or five feet from the ground. There are about two 

 dozen varieties in the orchard, of which the most profitable are, Reine Claude, 

 Purple Egg, Tields (often called Early Bradshaw), and Bradshaw. On this same 

 fruit farm there are 80 acres of (juince:; of Orange and Rea's Mammoth, but, of 

 the two, the Orange is preferred. In another place, this same farm has a block 



