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it with a standard. The pear orchard planted by the late Abram I. 

 Chittenden, of some five hundred trees, has died out, in a great measure 

 from blight; but of those varieties still producing, his son tells us that 

 the Duchesse d'Angouleme, Bartlett, and Scckel, have given the best 

 crops. 



CHERRIES. 



W'e have not yet many cherry orchards of large size; but among the 

 \'arieties so far planteil for profit, the Early Richmond has given the most 

 satisfactory results. The early sweet varieties arc preyed upon by the 

 birds so as to render them unprofitable. 



Charles Hay, 

 Wm. N. Grover, 

 A. C. Hammond, 

 H. M. Crouse, 

 E. McCuNE. 



Committee. 



REPORT ON (iUAPES. 



The Committee on Grapes would respectfully report: 



As far as our observation extends, most varieties have done finely this 

 year. There have been a few sorts that have not averaged more than 

 half a crop; but they had not probably recovered from the wet summer 

 of 1869. 



The Catawba seems to have taken the lead this year — setting and per- 

 fecting its fruit even better than the Concord. One vineyard, belonging 

 to John Rinkel, of one and a fourth acres and nine hundred vines, made 

 thirteen hundred gallons of wine, or nearly six quarts to each vine. 



The Delaware did only tolerably well, and that is as much as could 

 be expected, as the vines lost all their foliage by mildew the year previous, 

 before they had ripened their fruit or wood. 



The lona has done better than ever before, having held its foliage and 

 ripened its fruit. One of the Committee has been able to make five 

 gallons of wine from three hundred vines three years old ! \Notc by the 

 Secretary — The birds are said to have taken two-thirds of the fruit, and 

 the family used them quite freely — two facts certainly exjjressive of the 

 quality, at least.] 



Clintons rotted a good deal in some vineyards, and the fruit did not 

 set as well as usual. They may have sullered from the drouth. 



Concords did well, as they always do; and when the shoots were 

 pinched to two bunches, the bunches were very large. 



The Virginia Seedling perfected a very heavy crop where the fruit 

 was grown on spin's. 



All of the Rogers' Hybrids that have been fruited here have given 

 good satisfaction. 



Ives' Seedling did well, and the wine is preferred to the Concord by a 

 good many persons. 



Below we give the weight of the must of the wine grapes raised in 

 28' ■ 



