ILLINOIS HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 175 



VINEYARDS. 



Wm. Jackson called attention to an article written by Prof 

 Standish, of Galesbur^, Illinois, and published in the Prairie Farmer^ 

 in which the writer condemns the report on grapes made by J. S. 

 Browne at tl^e last meeting of the State Society, and strenuously 

 defends the Concord and Noah grapes. He charges our want of 

 success in growing, to lack of proper cultivation, citing as proof his 

 own success; saying that from a fourth of an acre he realized a net 

 profit of 8125. This would be $500 per acre, or $40,000 for eighty 

 acres. 



E. A. Riehl — The Professor isn't posted. Being a professor as 

 well as a horticulturist, he ought to know that we are troubled with 

 the black rot, and farther north where he lives, they are not because 

 of the difference in the climate. The rot is caused by a fungus 

 which perishes from cold, whenever the thermometer falls below 

 sixty degrees Farenheit, even if but for an hour, which happens 

 often in the morning, farther north; hence, they are free from that 

 dread disease which so worries southern growers. Being on the Ad- 

 Interim Committee for the State Society some years ago, I went to 

 Galesburg on purpose to see Mr. Standish 's vineyard. I found his 

 vines looking finely, but the soil is made from stock-yard manure, 

 put on to the depth of two feet. If any of our members think they 

 can afford this, let them try. 



Mr. McPike — I agree with Mr. Standish in one point only. 

 We should not give up the Concord. It has given better crops than 

 any other variety, and can be prevented from rotting by bagging. 



Mr. Browne — The Concord, aside from its other faults, is too 

 late to be grown for profit here. It ripens at a time when the 

 markets are over-stocked with better grapes from other localities, 

 and then does not command a high enough price to pay for the 

 trouble in growing it. The kind that will pay us here are the early 

 ones; such as Moore's Early, for instance, something that will get to 

 market early and bring a fair price. Noah has proven itself utterly 

 worthless, and has been condemned even by those who sent it out. 

 And the idea of a man taking a quarter of an acre and bestowing 

 upon it all the work and care of an enthusiast, and then multiplying 



