The Canadian Horticulturist. 



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Grapes, ripe and unripe, picked for wine, showing the product of each vine, in addition 

 to a share of the 183 pounds picked indiscriminately as the bunches ripened. 



Date. 



Oct. 5 



Name of Vine. 



No. 2 Lindley. 



" 4 



., 5 



" II Salem . 



" 12 



" 1&13 " 



" 20 



" 21 



Name of Vine. 



No. 22 Salem 



F.G.A. , old vine, Burnett.. 

 Slips of F G. A. 2 young " .. 



F.G.A. , Eumelan 



Mixed " 



End of house, Burnett .... 

 3 vines front of house, mixed 



Total. 



Pounds 

 OFF Vine. 



II 



16 



7h 



4 



9 



249 



Time of gathering ripe grapes : 

 Sept. 



1 8th, 

 22nd. 

 23rd. 

 25th. 

 26th. 



I lb. 



3 " 

 12 " 

 27 " 



6 " 



Sept. 27th 25 lbs. 



Oct. ist 68 " 



" 3rd 41 '■ 



Total 183 lbs. 



The Lindley is my favorite, from its many good qualities; 

 very vigorous grower and good bearer; Salem, a little 

 higher flavor, but not so fruitful; Burnett, when fully ripe 

 grape in the garden, but rather shy in bearing;' Moore's 

 ripen ; Niagara, I have only fruited twice, appears rather 

 my largest black ; Moyer and Vergennes not yet fruited, 

 of these hints may be useful to T. B. 

 Lake Rosseau, Muskoka. 



vine hardy, a 

 larger berry, 

 finest flavored 

 Early, first to 

 late ; Worden, 

 Trusting some 



AMATEUR. 



RATIONAL PRUNING OF THE RASPBERRY. 



THE raspberr3^-plant is a sort of compromise between a perennial herb 

 and a shrub. Its stems are woody, but instead of living on from year 

 to year, and bearing an indefinite number of crops like the currant, 

 it lives but about a year and a half, and, like a multitude of other plants, 

 perishes after maturing its seed, while its roots live on indefinitely. Like 

 many of the herbs, the stems make a very rapid growth until they have 

 attained their normal stature, when, in common with their branches, they 

 terminate in a cluster of flowers, followed in due time by the fruit. Such 

 would be the case, at all events, but for the fact that winter usually inter- 

 venes before the normal growth is completed, and destroys the terminal bud, 

 leaving the future growth to be made by the axillary buds that have not yet 

 started into vegetation. 



This explanation should give us a clue to a rational method of pruning 

 the raspberry (and blackberry as well), which has long been a sort of 



