16 MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 



good. Maine is destined yet to grow vineyards on her liill 

 sides. 



Your committee feel constrained to offer in this connection, 

 encouragement for a more general production of grapes under 

 glass. To elicit facts bearing on this subject, we submitted to 

 applicants for premiums the following questions : 



1st. What is the size and cost of your grapery? — and of 

 what materials are the walls ? 



2d. Do you introduce artificial heat at the opening or close 

 of the season ? 



3d. How many crops have you produced in your grapo 

 house ? 



4th. What quantity do you consider a fair crop for a house 

 the size of yours, when the vines are of good age? 



5th. What are the varieties you produce, and what the mar- 

 ket value of them ? 



Any other information on the culture will be thankfully re- 

 ceived. 



Mr. J, G. Huston of Damariscotta, responded as follows: 



" 1st. My grapery is 30 by 15 feet ; back wall of wood, about 

 12 feet high; all the rest glass; cost about $200. 



2d. I u.-^c no artificial heat. 



3d. This is the first season I have allowed the vines to bear 

 to any amount. 



4th. About 25 pounds to the vine, which would make 500 

 pounds ; this would be the full extent for vines at five years old. 



5th. My vines are mostly of the Black Hamburg, which I 

 consider the best for a cold house ; I have Wilmot's New Black 

 Hamburg, Grizzly Frontignac, White Sweetwater, and Cape ; 

 worth from 50 to 75 cents per pound. 



I consider the formation of the bed to be of the greatest con- 

 sequence ; the construction of the house next, and lastly, proper 

 care in ventilating the house, so that the temperature may not 

 go too high or too low. I have watered mine inside wholly 

 with soap suds, about six quarts to each vine, three times a 

 week, using a garden engine." 



S. L. Goodale of Saco, says : 



" My grapery is 50 by 14 feet, of wood ; cost of building about 



