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apple juice. The sugar was added to the newly extracted juice and all fermented 

 together, the same as in the making of rhubarb wine. 



If the cider was made from sweet apples, less sugar would be required ; but 

 then there would be the want of flavor. I could not expect to make a good 

 tasty wine from cider made from a mixture of coarse apples. Fine apple wine 

 can only be made from fine apples. I do not know that any substance other 

 than sugar should be added to apple juice in order to make good keeping wine- 



EARLY OHIO GRAPE. 



Sib, — We send you a sample of our new grape, the Early Ohio, with some of the 

 foliage. We have been picking the fruit since August 24th, and last year we picked the 

 vines clean by August the 17th and 18th. For the last four years we have tested it, and 

 it has proved to be one or two weeks earlier than Moore's Early. It is nearly as hardy as 

 the Concord, and nearly if not quite as vigorous a grower and very productive. 



Sept. 3rd, 1891. C. S. Curtice & Co., Portland, N.Y. 



This grape comes in very good shape, remarkably close-bunched, and 

 commends itself to our notice on account of its earliness. The samples 

 were dead ripe and in the very best condition for eating. The berry is 

 black, below the medium in size, and thickly covered with bloom ; the pulp is 

 soft, containing a couple of seeds, and the quality is good. 



WRONGLY NAMED. 



Sir, — I send you this day sample of plum for correct name. The tree was bought for 

 McLaughlin, but I have doubt as to its being that variety. 



George Smith, ManiUa, Out. 



The plums which you sent are excellent samples of the Lombard. It is 

 rather disappointing to buy trees for one variety and have them turn out another, 

 especially when one's object often is to become acquainted with particular kinds. 

 Many of our nurserymen are very careless in this respect. The writer has a tree, 

 bought for Duane's Purple, but it is, this year, producing a heavy load of Lombards. 



SEEDLING PLUM. 



Sir, — I send you a sample of a seedling plum which is growing in the garden of Mr. 

 Wootin, of Harriston. The pit was planted eleven years ago. It is a healthy looking tree 

 and has a heavy crop of plums this year. What do you think of its quality ? 



John Prain, HarruUon, Ont. 



This is a magnificent looking plum, and were the quality in keeping with its 

 beauty of appearance, it would certainly be desirable for propagation; but unfor- 

 tunately it is lacking in this respect. 



