STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 245 



COEEESPONDENCE. 



Arenzville, December 6, 1869. 



Dear Sir : Some time ago you requested me to give my experience in rearing new 

 varieties of grapes from seeds, but I believe you will have to excuse me for not com- 

 plying with your request, for two reasons: The first reason is that I do not consider 

 myself enough master ot the English language to undertake the task of writing an 

 article for such an intelligent body of men as the Illinois Horticultural Society; and the 

 second reason is, that I must have a few more years' experience with most of my 

 seedlings before I can form a definite opinion about any of them. I will, however, say 

 this much to you individually: that my present experiments are almost made exclu- 

 sively with the Creveling, of which I have some three hundred seedlings, besides a 

 few of other kinds. My former experiments ^^ere mostly made with Concords, but 

 the seedlings from it that I had in bearing had all, more or less, that flat, foxy, Concord 

 flavor, which some people delight to call rich and aromatic; as in the case of the 

 Martha, which is praised almost into the heavens, of which I had the pleasure of fruit- 

 ing twice, and which is probably a little sweeter and also a little more " aromatic" 

 than the Concord, but can not, in my estimation bear comparison with the Delaware 

 and Creveling, my two favorites. I have this foil planted aljout one pound ot seeds 

 again, of the following varieties : Delaware, Creveling, Cynthianu , Louisiana, Rulander, 

 and a few seeds of the Riesling, a Gennan grape which I fruited in the open air. 



As to other fruits, I have not much personal experience. 1 will, however, mention 

 a cherry called the Belle Magnifique, which I think valuable, if grafted on the Morello 

 stock. I grafted a few trees at my former place, (at Beardstown), which has never failed 

 since the grafted top was three years old to produce enormously. It blossoms two 

 weeks later than almost any other cherry, which made it bear here, in 18G8, a full crop; 

 while the Early Richmond and the common Morello were a perfect failure, because 

 they were in full bloom when we had a hard frost. There is another cherry here, 

 without a name, that I am propagating a few from. It also belongs to the Duke 

 family, is almost as sweet as a Heart cherry, and is a good bearer. From description 

 that I have of the Belle de Choisey I would pi'onounce it that, but is more produc- 

 tive, which they claim is not the case vdth the Belle de Choisey. 



Of Strawberries I tried over fifty varieties, including Jucundas, Golden Queens, 

 Agriculturist, Ida, Brooklyn Scarlet, Rippowan. Durand's, &c.,&c.; but my three 

 best are the Green Prolific, French Seedling and Wilson Albany, 



Yours truly, 



HENRY" TIEMEYER, 



Dear Sir:— You ask for my experience with individual varieties of apples, and 1 

 will attempt to give the facts with pleasure, premising that this northern fruit district 

 is adjacent to the south banks of the Fox river of the North, in -i-i degrees north 



