196 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Eepenlaub — T lay the Goethe down every fall. It is not 

 liardy enough to stand onr winter. I just lay it on the ground and 

 not cover at all. I can lay down an acre in a day and a half. Yon 

 must keep up a new growth from the ground every year, so you can 

 lay them down. 



Dr. Green — I once planted half an acre of the Agawam. Five or 

 six years later I had to grub them out. I was induced to plant them, 

 by the great success of one vine in town growing in an apple-tree, but 

 in the vineyard they failed. If grapes can be had for fifteen or twenty 

 cents a basket, what is the use growing them ? It don't pay. 



Mr. Blanchard — In starting a grapery and training the vines. I 

 train to three stocks, one perpendicular, two others slanting, I have 

 fruit growing from the bottom. I conceive it a great advantage to sa 

 train your vine as to have fruit all over them and not all at the top. 

 You can soon get a sprout from the bottom by pinching back. 



Mr. Morrill — Grape-growers in Michigan say there is money in the 

 business, and lots of it, at ten to twelve cents per basket. I under- 

 stand Dr. Green to say that they would not pay at fifteen to twenty- 

 cents per basket. What do you want ? 



J. C. Bender — Grapes retailed in St. Joseph at fifteen cents for 

 basket and all. I think the time of high prices generally is over. How- 

 many do you raise per acre ? 



L. A. Goodman — We can make one hundred dollars per acre — that 

 is enonghj 



A. Nelson — Two years ago I visited New York at the grape season. 

 In the Lake Erie region I fell in with a gentleman who thirty years 

 ago had a large orchard. Now the orchard is dug up and the land 

 planted in grapes. I asked at what prices they could afford to grow 

 them. They claimed to put nine pounds in a basket. At twelve and 

 a half cents they make a good profit. At eight cents it is like growing^ 

 wheat at fifty cents per bushel. I don't believe it is a good record to 

 go down that we can't grow grapes. Let us grow grapes. I keep 

 planting all the time. 



Mr. Baxter — I began in 1858 and have tried almost everything. 

 Concord, Worden, Moore's Early and Niagara are the leading kinds. 

 There is more money in the Concord than any other, though it is poor 

 in quality. It is the grape for the money. We can ship it all over the 

 United States. We average twelve and a half cents per basket. Wor- 

 den is fine, large, better flavored by far than Concord, but is not known 

 in the market by its true name. Shipped as Concord it is called 

 "fancy," and sells at an advance of five cents per basket. We plant 

 Concord eight feet by seven. I have tried them at various distances. 



