88 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Canton, Mo., May 21, 1^94. 

 Hon. L. A. Goodman : 



My Dear Sir — Your answers to queries received. Thanks. I 

 will trouble you again. 



I enclose leaves of grape. Those brown spots I think the start of 

 brown rot* I find quite a lot of it on the unsprayed vines; found only 

 two leaves affected on the sprayed ones, one of which I send you. It 

 is somewhat crimped, but the foliage as a rule on the entire vineyard is 

 fine and healthy-looking. Quite a vigorous growth of vine for thus 

 early. I am pinching back some of the vines ; is it too soon ? I have 

 some 2-lb. paper sacks to bag a lot. The practice here is to put the 

 bags on as soon as the bloom is fully shed oft". In a few instances 

 when the bags were removed it was evident that the grapes had dried 

 up without making any growth at all, but as a rule the bags were a per- 

 fect success. If you have anything late on the subject, I would like 

 to know. 



Thanking you for past favors, and wishing you abundant success 

 in promoting horticulture in our grand State, I am 



Yours truly, 



G. W. Waters. 



P. S. — We have had three days of severe wind ; the foliage of 

 trees has been considerably bruised and some of the vines blown from 

 the trellis. A slight frost Saturday morning showed on tomatoes, etc. 

 and slightly on corn in some spots. 



I^EOSHO, Mo., May 30, 1894. 



Very dry and exceptionally warm weather up to about January 20. 

 Then a soaking rain, followed by more warm weather, and about Janu- 

 ary 25 a Dakota blizzard, sending the mercury down to 27'^ below zero 

 {lower than ever before observed here). This was the kind of "Italian 

 climate" we enjoy<;d here last winter. 



A close examination of vineyards soon after the blizzard showed 

 great damage done to all varieties of grape-vines generally known und 

 cultivated. 



Elvira and Delaware, kept healthy by thorough spraying last sum- 

 mer, came out best, having live buds enough to make one-half crop. 



Concord — Nearly all main buds killed, but side-buds enough left 

 to yield about one-third crop. 



Norton — Perhaps one-tenth of a full crop. 



Ives — No live eyes, though wood looked green ; Perkins, likewise. 

 Rogers, Niagara, Triumph and other vinifera hybrids, all eyes dead and 

 wood injured; likewise all American crosses containing Herbemont 

 blood. 



