TRANSACTIONS OF HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ILL. 287 



REPORT UPON GRAPES. 



P. A. BouvALLET, of Belle Park, sent in the following report, which 

 was read by the Secretary : 



We live sixty-three miles due south from Chicago; our vineyard is 

 planted on a sandy bluff, from ten to forty feet above the prairie level, 

 three hundred feet above Lake Michigan and six hundred feet above the 

 Gulf of Mexico, the soil being pure sand. 



Herewith is the list of grapes in their order of quality and profita- 

 bleness, all doing well, improving with age, and with no mildew : 



(i) Oporto, for wine; (2) Delaware, for market and wine; (3) 

 Martha, do.; (4) Concord, do.; (5) Perkins, do.; (6) Catawba, do. ; (7) 

 Isabella, do.; (8) Rogers' No. 4, do.; (9) Rogers' No. 15, for market; 

 (10) Rogers' No. 13 (Salem), market and wine; (11) Hartford, market; 

 (12) Rogers' No. 9 (Lindley), market and wine; (13) Maxatawney, do.; 

 (14) Rogers' — , market. Norton wants water and sugar to make wine; I 

 do not like it; Clinton I destroyed by uprooting five hundred of them 

 for the crime of breeding a noxious insect that stings the fruit and makes 

 it rot. 



On trial — Brighton, Eumelan and Ives. 



We would say — Down with the Clinton ; and we have the proof that 

 we did well in destroying our Clintons. 



We would also say — Away with extra care in pruning and cultivation. 

 This we call assassination in pruning and dyspepsy in extra cultivation 

 and manuring. 



In marketing grapes we get the highest prices for Martha, Delaware, 

 Rogers' No. 15 and Perkins, for their earliness; and, after them, Rogers' 

 No. 4 and Concord. Oporto is the leader for red wine, and Martha for 

 white wine, and next comes Delaware. Wine from Rogers' hybrids 

 imitates foreign wines; Concord makes a very red wine. All the grapes 

 marked "for wine" make a true wine without the addition of sugar, 

 water or alcohol ; and there is no other way of making wines to compete 

 with foreign wines. 



Secretary Galusha also, by request of the President, read the fol- 

 lowing : 



REPORT ON VEGETABLE GARDENING. 



BY E. C. HATHEWAY. 



Mr. President and Members of the Horticultural Society of Northern Illinois: 



Should we, like Fortunatus, wish to be blessed with a purse, which 

 the good dame had bestowed upon him, which, to relieve him from star- 

 vation, was to be always full, then surely we should not choose market 

 gardening as our occupation ; not that market gardeners do not make 

 money, for undoubtedly those who are blessed with a considerable amount 

 of capital, backed with brains, energy and good executive ability, can 

 make this branch of industry, in most cases, a success. 



