184 TEANSACTIONS OF THE ALTON-SOUTHERN 



Mr. 0. A. Snedeker — On the 12th instant I ate some peaches 

 called Arkansas that were as good as Early York. 



Mr. W. H. Fulkerson — From ray observation, I should judge 

 there would be about a half crop of apples in Jersey county this 

 year. 



VINEYARDS. 



Mr. Jackson — My grapes have about all rotted, except a few- 

 down in the bottom of a hollow ; and I know not how to account 

 for their escape, unless it be that during the cool nights of June the 

 temperature fell below sixty degrees, and destroyed the rot. 



Mr. E. A. Riehl — My grapes are nearly all gone, except Jewell, 

 Cynthiana and Marsala, which have not rotted very much. This 

 has been the worst year for rot that I have ever known. Where the 

 bags were good, and were put on well and in time, the grapes are 

 all right, but it is very difficult to get bags that will stand the rough 

 usage of the weather. I do not think that bagging will pay, unless 

 one has but little other work, and can attend to it at just the right 

 time. I shall give up growing them on a large scale. I experi- 

 mented a little with putting on the bags before blooming, and found 

 that some varieties, such as Worden, Cynthiana, Niagara, Etta, Con- 

 cord, and all of the Labrusca family are self-pollenizing, and with 

 these it will work all right ; but Vergennes, Goethe and Wilder did 

 not pollenize well. 



Mr. Browne — I will have about half a crop in the bottoms. I 

 think that it was one cool night which saved them. 



Mr. Pearson — I have not been through my vineyard lately, but, 

 judging from the appearance of the grapes on the end, I should 

 think that I will have a fair crop. 



SMALL FRUITS. 



BY J. S. BROWNE, ALTON. 



Mr. Pre f^i dent : In reporting the results in testing some of the 

 newer varieties of strawberries during the past season, it will, prob- 

 ably, be well to state that they were given no extra attention, but 

 were planted in the middle of the patch, and received neither more 

 nor less care than the balance. The soil had been enriched with 

 barn-yard manure, at the rate of about seventy-live loads per acre. 



Monmouth — This was the first to ripen, the, first ripe berries 



