SUMMER MEETING. ' 89 



All above-named varieties (except Elvira and Delaware) I cut off 

 at the ground, preferring to grow vines of young and healthy wood. 



Unfortunately, these young shoots were again killed by white 

 frost, May 20, on all but the highest situations. 



The only vines that stood last winter without injury, and still 

 promise a full crop, are selections from the best native Linceeumii, or 

 Post Oak varieties (Nos. 43, 13, etc.), and especially crosses between 

 these and the steel-clad native Vitis Rvpestris. Of the latter, Nos. 

 72 and 70 are the best. They not only resist winter cold, but also late 

 frosts, far better than any other grape-vine. 



The bearing vines of No. 70 (now named T. V. Munson) today 

 promise more grapes than all other cultivated vines in this county 

 taken together. Hermann Jaegee. 



Treatment for Mildew and Rot. 



By Hermann Jaeger, Neosho, Mo. 



Black rot and "Peronospora," or downy mildew, have been the 

 two most formidable foes of American grape-vines. The ravages of 

 these microscopic mushrooms discouraged and disheartened nearly all 

 our grape-growers. The few men that kept their vineyards came to 

 the conclusion that profit from grape-growing could not be expected, 

 except, perhaps, very few varieties, resist rot and mildew better than 

 most others. 



Nothing, therefore, could have pleased us better than the fact, es- 

 tablished after three years' experimenting with copper remedies, under 

 the direction of our National Department of Agriculture — the fact, I 

 «ay, that not only mildew (as had already been proved in France), but 

 likewise the still more fatal pest of black rot, are under our control, 

 and can both be entirely prevented by correct spraying with Bordeaux 

 mixture or other copper solutions. This was in 1890. Our experience 

 in 1891 fully verified this claim. The season of 1892, with an extremely 

 wet spring and early summer, proved that by spraying we can succeed 

 in most unfavorable years, not only with Norton, Ives and Perkins, but 

 with Rogers' hybrids, Delaware, Triumph and the long list of varieties 

 that even in fair seasons used to be a mere source of disappointment. 



Last summer it required from five to eight sprayings to keep our 

 Tines free from rot and mildew, while three to five applications are 

 <3uite sufficient in ordinary seasons. A neighbor of ours who post- 

 poned his spraying, because the incessant rains would be sure to wash 

 off the solution, made almost as complete a failure as another neighbor 



