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that of the gentleman from New Jersey. Wherever I have 

 trimmed an Isabella vine, I have not got so good fruit. I 

 have seen it, in the southern country, from forty to sixty feet 

 high, and I do not believe the Scuppernong grape can be 

 pruned to any advantage. 



Mr. . I will tell you my experience. I have culti- 

 vated one vine for nearly twenty years. It is protected on 

 the southeast. I let it grow until it gets as big round as a 

 quarter, or a little larger. Then, when a sucker comes up 

 from the bottom, and gets about the size of my thumb, I cut 

 up the old stock and let it run. I have not failed for twenty 

 years in getting a crop of nice, large, splendid Isabellas. I 

 wiH guarantee that any man who will try that method will 

 succeed. I have had them* entirely ripe the thirteenth of 

 September. 



Mr. RoDGERS. I think that the difficulty is this : that if 

 vines are not summer pruned, as a general thing, the fruit- 

 eye will not form a vigorous growth, and, if the vine is 

 trimmed, the eyes will not develop and produce fruit, and a 

 great deal of the crop is lost in that way. 



Mr. Blot. I would like to know of those gentlemen who 

 do not prune grape-vines how many they can set out to the 

 acre, and how far apart they would set 'them? 



Mr. Rale. One will cover an acre, I guess, if you give it 

 a chance. 



Mr. Blot. There is such a thing as cultivating grapes on 

 an outbuilding and around the house, but my question relates 

 to profitable field-culture. 



Mr. H. L. Jeffries, of Washington Depot. I would like to 

 inquire of Mr. Hale and Mr. Augur if they have noticed, dur- 

 ing the past season, a louse, very much like the green aphis, 

 at work on the under side of the grape-leaves, and also a hole 

 punctured in the green wood, about a foot from where the 

 shoot starts ? After several of those holes have been punc- 

 tured the stem dies. I have been called on by quite a num- 



