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If a grape like the Concord is wanted, I would j)lant the Wordeu, a 

 Concord seedling ripening about a week earlier, larger in bunch and 

 berry and of better quality, but otherwise just like its parent, exce|)t 

 that it is not quite so strong a grower and much more difficult to 

 propagate. 



Catawba we do not grow at all. It not only rots and mildews, 

 but is subject to Phyloxera. 



Elvira is a tine grower and very productive, but is not of high 

 quality — the bunch so compact and skin so thin that it cracks badly. 

 With me it has never been a satisfactory grape. 



Etta, a seedling of the Elvira, looks very much like its parent, 

 bunch and berry a very little larger, not so compact, and much better 

 in quality; did finely in '84 and '85, but this year the berries ripened 

 unevenly on the bunches and it cracked badly. It ripens later than 

 Elvira and on that account would never be a good market grape 

 with us. 



Vergennes is a fine early red grape of excellent quality; rots 

 badly ^iid is tender; should be laid down during winter and the 

 grapi's bagged, but is so fine a grape that it is worth all this trouble. 



Goethe is, to my taste, the best late grape we have and should 

 be in every collection. It is tender and should be covered. It rots 

 and mildews, and must be bagged. It is worth the trouble if any 

 grape i^ 



Early Victor is the best early grape now before the public; 

 ripens wi'h Hartford and Ives, and is a gra))e of the finest quality, 

 whi(di Ives jind Hartford are not; has rotted but little, is tender and 

 .should be covered. 



Amber, Noah, Grein's Golden, Wilding, Pearl, Beauty, Missouri 

 Reisling, Ulmnd and many others, I have discarded, being unsatis- 

 factory from one cause or other. 



Pocklington grows well, but ripens late and uneven, caused, I 

 believe, by root-lice; will plant no more, and if it does not behave 

 better soon will be grafted to something better. 



Norton's Virginia and Cynthiana are small black grapes with 

 large bunches, of the highest quality, liable to injury from over- 

 bearing, seldom ever rot, and worthy of being more generally grown, 

 at least for home us^. 



Marsala is a red )(rape that 1 have fruited three years; has re- 

 mained sound with rotnU around it. It is perfectly hardy and im- 

 mensely productive; nt»t of the highest quality, but still a good 

 grape. Should it hold i^j as well in the future it will be a boon to 

 grape-growers in our section. 



Jewell, a seedling grovn by Mr. Burr, of Leavenworth, Kansas, 

 has fruited two years with uie; black; bunch and berry below me- 

 dium; quality very best; pei"*ectly free from rot or blemish of any 

 kind; needing no trimming U fit them for market, but can be put 

 into the packages as they come from the vines. It is also the earli- 



