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they can and will supply us with, and we can only obtain this if we are pro- 

 tected against foreign impor tuitions by a tariti", not exorbitant, but suHicient 

 to j)ut us at least nul at a disadvantage with foreign competitors. I have 

 tried to give yuu a brief outline why I have faith in the ultimate success of 

 gra])e culture. If 1 was not afraid of tiring your patience, I would give 

 you twenty pages more, but I give way to abler pens and brighter, more 

 entertaining di.><cussions. 



With an unbounded area adapted to successful grape culture, with the 

 results already obtained, which are certainly encouraging enough, I can see 

 no reason why this continent should not become the Vineland of the old 

 legend, and its inhabitants the freest, the most sober and happy among the 

 galaxy of nations. I have abiding faith in the ultimate result; and though 

 it may be but the dream of an enthusiast,and I may not live to see its fultill- 

 nient, I shall believe in it through good and evil to the end of my existence. 



DISCUSSION ON PROF. HUSMANN's PAPER. 



President Earle, ot Illinois — 1 trust that the importance of" the 

 subject of grape culture will be fully recognized by menibcrs of this 

 Society, and as it is now so ably j)resented to yoti by the paper of 

 Prof. Hiisinann, I shall ex{)ect of you a lively di.scussioii of the 

 topics opened up by the writer. 



Mr. Hubbard, of New York — The conditions of grape culture 

 in California are radically dilferent from those east of the Rockies. 

 I can most heartily agree with Prof. Husmaun on tnnst j)()ints. I 

 prefer, however, lo use ray grapes in their native state rather than 

 when manufactured into wine. In my state grape cidttire is raj)- 

 idly increasing. There arc hundreds of acres now being planted 

 where ten luul twenty acres would have been tiiought sufficient a 

 few years ago. There are certain sections of New York where 

 grape-growing is very succe.ssful. Our yield is from three to four 

 tons per at.'re, and the price for which they aie gent-rally sold is 

 from two to three cents per pound. The Concord is the most prof- 

 itai)le variety, tiie Catawba next. Eastern methods of paekiiiii; and 

 shipping grapes to market are very different from ('alifornia meth- 

 ods. We ship almost altogether in ten-pound l)askets which are of 

 such shape as to pack closely and securely in the eai>. These bas- 

 kets cost about three cents each, and are .sold with the fruit They 

 pack in sucii a way as to thoroughly ventilate ail portions of the 

 cai". rhe fruit should be exposed to the air for a day or two after 



