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regions of the St. Lawrence basin. Dr. Hoskins makes the 

 following list, for this occasion, of the fruits which have proved 

 most reliable for the region of Lake Memphremagog : 



Apples — 



Yellow Transparent. Alexander. 



Peach of Montreal. Antonovka. 



Tetofsky. Mcintosh Red. 



Oldenburgh. Longfield. 



Shiawassee. Scott's Winter. 



Wealthy. Bethel of Vermont. 



Pears — 



None yet except the Bessemianka. Probably several other Russians will 

 prove valuable. 



Cherries — 



Griotte du Nord. Ostheim Weichsel, and probably a 



Brown Brussels. dozen more kinds from North Ger- 



many and Russia. 



Plunis — 



Moore's Arctic. 



August Red, and probably other Russians. 



Grape growing is practiced to a large extent in some parts 

 of our northern borders. Dr. Hoskins makes the following 

 statements concerning this grape industry : 



"Very few of the fruit growers in the Middle States are aware of the 

 progress, of grape growing in Canada and along our northern border, in 

 New York and New England. There are some favored localities along the 

 border — as Mr. Jack's, Chateauguay Basin, P. Q., — where even the Concord 

 and the Niagara prove a commercial success ; but as a rule, the Concord is 

 too late, and even the Worden is uncertain. I have been growing grapes on 

 Lake Memphremagog for now nearly 25 years with success, yet the locality 

 is not so favorable as on Lake Champlain and the St. Lawrence river. Even 

 on the Ottawa, grape culture is proving pecuniarily profitable. There is 

 nothing whatever in the way of this crop except the shortness of the sea- 

 son, and as we are getting earlier varieties constantly, this is not insupera- 

 ble. The Talman is sure in the worst seasons, and though too poor, yet it 

 finds a ready sale at a fair price. The Delaware, Adirondac, Moore's Early, 

 Brighton, Salem, Hartford, Eumelan and Israella, all succeed well, and the 

 new Green Mountain seems likely to prove a first-rate early white grape. 

 It does not appear improbable, in view of these facts, that lower Canada and 

 northern New England shall eventually be able to supply its own markets 

 with a sufficiency of home-grown grapes." 



