. Catalogue of home grown seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Flowers Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs; Grain Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Implements Catalogs. 70 JAMES J. H. GREG OB Y & SON'S BE TAIL CATALOGUE. S3IALL FRUITS.—Continued. GRAPES. Theprices given are for one-year-old vines. Will send twoyear-old vines for half as much more. Soil should be dry and warm. Plant nine by six. Cut back in fall to two eyes. Cedar posts and wire for trellis. Campbell's Early Grape. (New.) Campbell's Ear
. Catalogue of home grown seeds. Gardening United States Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds United States Catalogs; Flowers Seeds United States Catalogs; Fruit Seeds United States Catalogs; Grain Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Implements Catalogs. 70 JAMES J. H. GREG OB Y & SON'S BE TAIL CATALOGUE. S3IALL FRUITS.—Continued. GRAPES. Theprices given are for one-year-old vines. Will send twoyear-old vines for half as much more. Soil should be dry and warm. Plant nine by six. Cut back in fall to two eyes. Cedar posts and wire for trellis. Campbell's Early Grape. (New.) Campbell's Early was produced by several crosses made between Hartford, Prolific, Moore's Early, Concord, and Muscat-Hamburg. The result was a thick, leathery-leaved vine, which produces large black grapes, some of them an inch in diameter, on well-shouldered bunches, sometimes weighing as high as 19 ounces. These grapes are as early as Moore's Early, while in quality they markedly surpass any of the early class. We enjoyed the pleasure the past season of testing Campbell's Early Grape. In our own garden we have found it lias all the good qualities claimed for it in vigor of growth, thick, healthy leaves, earliness and deliciousness of fruit. The bunches look very much like the Black Hamburg. The fact that the seeds part readily from the pulp will make it a favorite with those who do not swallow grape seed. We agree with that veteran fruit grower, E. B. Lewis, " It is much the best native grape I have ever ; Hon. Benj. G. Smith, of the Mass. Horticultural Society, considers it a grape of great promise, and probably the greatest acquisition thus far achieved in hardy grapes. Mr. Irwin, of the Division of Pomology at Washington, writes: " I have been testing every new grape that I could buy in the market, but have found nothing that would equal Campbell's ; The Rural New Yorker, one of the best of authorities, says: "It is a delicious grape; one that com
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