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affected by rot. Transparent was very fine, but not very productive 

 nor tit for market, the hunehes bein<^ small, but making a wine of 

 hi;^h (juality. W'ildinjj; ^^ave a fair crop, but it, too, is no market 

 grape, bunches are loose and skin very tender; only «?ood for wine. 

 Slontetiore gave a good crop of fine grapes, bunches about the size of 

 Ives, but of much better f|uality, very promising for the ])roduction 

 of fine dark wine. Etta did not set as good a croj) as in former 

 years and ripened unevenly. It greatly resembles Elvira, only larger 

 in berry and much better in (juality. It is late and not to be recom- 

 mended farther )U)rth. Faith did well. It requires age and long 

 pruning to make it productive. Hunches fair, berry small, excellent 

 in quality, exceedingly early, and on that account miuli injured by 

 liirds and gra])e-eating animals. Missouri Riesling is a late grape 

 that 1 like. It is ])roductive, healthy, and of very good quality. 

 Brighton was fine, but geiuu-ally it fails; not relialjle with us. Noah 

 was good, but is not so generally. Neosho had a heavy crop; only a 

 wine grape. White and Black Hermann were both fine this season, 

 and matured their crojis, which they do not always do. Bacchus, so 

 much like Clinton that it can hardly be distinguished from it. Lady 

 Washington and Highland were winter-killed, and had but little 

 fruit. It may ])e said that all of Ricket's hybrids are worthless with 

 us. Cottage did finely. It is a fine black grape, snudl, com])act 

 bunch, })roductive and reliable, better in quality than Concord; fine 

 fornnirket. Moore's Early; I can see nothing in this to recommend 

 it in our section. Some seedlings that I have I believe will become 

 valuable, but they will need a more extended trial." 



Mr. Adoli)h Engleman, of Shiloh, St. Clair County, 111., reported 

 as follows: 



" With me the past season has also been a very unf avoral^le (Uie 

 for most varieties of grapes. Great damage was done in December, 

 1882. On the 0th of that month the weather was damj). and at 5 

 p. M., when a snow storm set in from the Northwest, thi^ thermome- 

 ter stood at 'iV2,° F.; at sunrise the next day it stood at 8°. Such 

 a sudden change from mild damp weather will always do damage. In 

 this instance it killed two-thirds of the l)uds of all hybrid grapes, 

 also Herbemout. Cimninghani. aud others that were not W(dl j)ro- 

 tected. When Spring oi)eiied there was still a fair [)rospect tor most 

 varieties of hardy gra])es, and such as had been well protected daring 

 the winter, and they set a sufficiency of well sized forms. On the 

 morning of the 22d of May there was a heavy frost, and again on 

 the 2;5d. It was disastrous; most of the fruit trees were in bloom, 

 and the Taylor and Clinton had just commenced to bloom. 



"The frosts of May 22d and 23d were very erratic. My 

 brother's vineyard, which is a half mile soiith and fifty feet lower 

 than ]uine, was not perceptibly injured.. There was also but little 

 damage in the lower portions of the vineyard southeast of my sister's 



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