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Creveling, doing remarkably well, the bunches being more compact than is usual 

 with that variety. 



Anna, succeeding well, crop fair, foliage good. 



Foliage of the Clinton almost wholly destroyed by the gall louse. 



In the latitude of Pittsburg, the season proves too short, and the winters too severe 

 for the Eerbemont ; young vines, not covered, were killed back last year. Old vines, 

 covered in winter, have a large crop, but fruit does not mature well. 



Diana, also requires a somewhat longer season, but is good when the frosts hold off 

 late enough for it to ripen. 



Elsinburg and Alvey are of fine quality, but suited only to amateur culture. 



Black Hawk. This new variety, a twin seedling of the Martha, is similar to Hart- 

 ford Prolific, somewhat better in quality, more tender in pulp, berry rather small, 

 bunch medium, with a foliage of the Concord class. The vines were yet young, and the 

 fruit may improve with age. 



The Catawba shows a healthy foliage and no rot. Owing to the shortness of the 

 season, the fruit does not ripen oftener than once in three or four years. 



Norton's Virginia is not suited to this section, and does not here develope its splendid 

 wine qualities. 



Maxatawrey succeeds well with Mr. Knox, and Iona tolerably well — foliage 

 defective. 



Twenty-two of Rogers' Hybrids, obtained from the originator, all in fruit, presented 

 a good opportunity of determining their relative merits. 



It is unnecessary to describe them here, and I only mention them with very brief 

 remarks : No. 4, best of the set, taking both fruit and foliage into the account. Salem 

 ranks next. After these, Nos. 9, 41, 3, 5, 19, 15, 13, 14, 30, 33, 30, 44, 7, 43, 32, 39. Nos. 

 2, 28, and 34 were yet too unripe to judge of their quality. The foliage of these 

 hybrids, is not such as would be chosen for the summer temperature of Central and 

 Southern Missouri, though some of them will probably succeed on northern slopes. 

 The seem, however, to be better adapted to cooler climates. 



The older parts of the vineyard were planted eight by eight feet, the later plant- 

 ings eight by six feet, with trellissee eight feet high. Omitting one foot for space 

 below the lower wire, each plant is allowed 50 and 42 square feet of trellis, respect- 

 ively. The trellisses are at least two feet too high for convenience. The renewal 

 plan on horizontal arms, is the general method of training, and has been well carried 

 out and preserved. 



Of the wines produced from this vineyard, that made from a mixture of Delaware 

 and Anna, was best ; and that, from Delaware, next. None of them were of superior 

 quality. 



In the vicinity of Cleveland, the foliage of lona and of Rogers' hybrids, was better 

 than at Pittsburg; the former, as elsewhere, being nearly defoliated before the matu- 

 rity of its heavy crop of beautiful fruit. It is, however, proper to state, that it was 

 claimed that the foliage of the latter varieties was not as good this year at Pittsburg 

 as formerly. 



Some of the Lake Shore growers give a preference to No. 3, among the hybrids of 

 Mr. Rogers, yet all agree that No. 4 is enormously productive, of large and excellent 

 fruit. It is due to the Salem to state in this connection, thai its foliage was in better 

 condition on the Lake shure, than that of any of the others of the Rogers' numbers. 



