FRUIT DEPARTMENT— NECTARINES 
and well enriched. Prune off all the 
out the fruit if bearing too freely. 
Champion. Fruit large, fair and hand- 
some. Tree handsome, surpassing other 
varieties in this respect, bears abundantly 
while young, flesh cooks as tender as an 
apple and without hard spots and cores; 
flavor delicate, imparting an exquisite 
quince taste and odor to any fruit with 
which it is cooked. 
dead and surplus branches, and thin 
Pineapple. The name comes from the 
flavor, which is suggestive of the pine- 
apple. The fruit in form and size resem- 
bles the Oregon Quince. Makes a super- 
ior jelly. Can be eaten raw and is said to 
cook as tender in five minutes as the best 
cooking apple, possessing most exquisite 
and delicious flavor not equaled by any 
other quince. 
NECTARINES ( Primus Persica, or P. laevis) 
A MOST delicious, smooth skinned fruit, which thrives wherever peaches 
will grow. Much superior to the peach as a dried fruit, and excellent 
for preserves. Commands a high price in the Eastern market; as it is con- 
sidered as somewhat of a novelty. 
Boston. Large and handsome, deep yel- 
low, with a bright blush and mottles of 
red; flesh yellow to the stone, sweet, with 
a pleasant and peculiar flavor; free stone. 
One of the most valuable sorts for market. 
Lord Napier. Large, cream color, dark 
red cheek; flesh white, tender, juicy and 
sugary; freestone. July. 
New White. Large, white, nearly round; 
GRAPES (vuis) 
T HE GRAPE is the most healthful of all fruits, and the most esteemed 
for its many uses. It can be secured by every one who has a garden, a 
yard or a wall. It can be confined to a stake, bound to a trellis, trained 
over an arbor or extended until it covers a large tree or building, and it 
still yields its graceful bunches and luscious, blooming dusters. Capable 
of most extraordinary results under wise management, it is prone, also, 
to give the greatest disappointment under bad culture or neglect. Other 
fruits may be had from plants that know no care, but grapes are only to 
be had through attention and forethought. We will give a few essential 
points in its successful culture, and refer the cultivator to other and more 
extended works for more details. 
Distance . — In setting out vines, the character and strength of the soil 
is a very important point to be considered, 8 by 8 and 10 being the popu- 
lar distance, 10x10 and 10x12 for the more robust growers. 
Soils. — Good grapes are grown on various soils, sandy, clayey, loamy. 
flesh white, tender, juicy, with a rich, vin- 
ous flavor; stone small and separates free- 
ly. August. 
Stanwick. Large, often as large as a 
peach, skin pale greenish white, shaded 
into deep rich violet in the sun; flesh white, 
tender, juicy, rich, sugary and delicious. 
For drying and shipping not excelled by 
any other variety. August. 
