. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $ per year, eutitlng the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees, REMITTAKCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Eaton Grape.—According to a writer in the Rural New Yorker, the Eaton grape has little to recommend it except its size. In quality it could s
. The Canadian horticulturist [monthly], 1892. Gardening; Canadian periodicals. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $ per year, eutitlng the subscriber to membership ot the Fruit Growers' Association of Ontario and all its privileges, including a copy of its valuable Annual Report, and a share in its annual distribution of plants and trees, REMITTAKCES by Registered Letter are at our risk. Receipts will be acknowledged upon the address label. NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Eaton Grape.—According to a writer in the Rural New Yorker, the Eaton grape has little to recommend it except its size. In quality it could scarcely be distinguished from the Concord. The Crosby Peach.—We are in receipt of a letter from Mr. H. E. Van- Deman, Chief of the Division of Pomology of the United States, criticising the colored plate of the Crosby peach, which appeared in our October number, as being overdrawn with respect to the size of the peach. He says that Mr. Hale had a lot of the Crosby peaches at Washington at the time of the last meeting of American Pomological Society there, and that none of them were over 23^ inches, in diameter. We are particularly desirous of giving our readers a correct description of fruits through this journal, for our work is purely disinterested, having no connection whatever with any nursery concern, either in Canada or the United States. Our only object is to work for the benefit of fruit growers in Ontario. We are, therefore, glad to receive this criticism from Mr. ^'anDeman, and shall welcome similar criticisms from any of our readers, should anything appear in our pages which seems to over-estimate the value of any fruit, new or old. The Finer of Grapes.—The public is slow to appreciate the higher classes of grapes. The experience of a writer in the Rural New \'orker is largely verified in our own experience in Canada. Here is the clipping referred to : "'Have you any Agawaiii, Lindley or Wilder grapes on hand?" I said to a New York ooiiimia
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