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connection with peach orchards on the lake shore, for I am satisfied it increases 

 the tendency to affliction with the yellows. 



Thursday Morning Session. 



The session was opened with prayer by Kev. V. L. Lockwood. 

 The Secretary read a communication from Jacob Ganzhorn, Secretary of 

 the Ann Arbor Pomological Society, on 



THE WHITE ANN ARBOR GRAPE. 



About twelve years ago Mr. Charles H. Woodruff, of Ann Arbor, engaged 

 himself in the cultivation of the grape. He planted and cultivated carefully 

 all the varieties that were then known and grown by the general public, and 

 has since kept on planting and testing every new, promising grape as soon as 

 introduced. He is known in our city and throughout the county as one of our 

 most intelligent and experienced grape growers, and fully enjoys the confidence 

 of our people. 



Mr. Woodruff has had unusual success in the raising of seedling grapes, but 

 he is too modest to come forward and make known to the general public the 

 fruits of his labors in this direction, and I have therefore volunteered to say a 

 few words for him and his seedling grape called White Ann Arbor. I have 

 had occasion to speak of this grape at one of our pomological meetings here, 

 and what I then said is recorded in the State Pomological report for 1878, 

 page 230. 



ITS HISTORY. 



In the spring of 1870 Mr. AVoodruff planted a small lot of Concord seeds. 

 From these a good number came up and made plants. The following spring 

 he removed these seedlings from the nursery bed for the purpose of giving 

 them more room to develop. One of these bore fruit in 1873, which proved to 

 be a white grape and of excellent quality and appearance. The rest of the 

 seedlings, as they came into bearing, proved worthless. Specimen bunches of 

 this white grape were shown at the county fair in the same year (1873) and 

 received a special premium. At the same exhibition were White Nice grapes, 

 grown under glass in the grapery of C. H. Millan, with which Mr. Millan's 

 gardener mixed some bunches of this new white grape in the absence of Mr. 

 Woodruff, and when the latter returned to his exhibit he was asked to pick out 

 his white grape with these White Nice, but both being so near alike he was 

 unable to pick out his own. I mention this to show that the vine has a strong 

 constitution or it could not have borne any good sized clusters in its first bear- 

 ing, but three years old and transplanted once in this period. The next year 

 the fruit was destroyed by fire. In 1875 it bore again, and was awarded the 

 first premium as the best grape on exhibition, competing with all the popular 

 varieties at that time, including the best of Kogers' hybrids. That year was a 

 trying season for the grape, as many varieties had failed to hold the leaves till 

 the fruit was ripe. I admired the vine of this grape very much in that year, 

 as I saw many of the popular varieties all around this one give way to mildew, 

 but this stood without flinching, and proved an equal match with its parent, 

 the concord. Now, when we consider the rugged constitution of this vine, 

 thereby prepared by nature to resist diseases and severe cold weather in the 



