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Mr. Lawton: We have found that Mr. Engle's grapes are better 

 than those of Mr. VYoodwoeth of Ann Arbor, none of the latter being 

 good here. 



Mr. Lews: Did this Mr. Engle originate the Engle's Mammoth peach? 



Mr. Engle : 1 suppose so. 



Mr. Lawton: Yes; and the Susquehanna and other good ones. 



[Privately, Mr. Engle denied the responsibility for the questionable 

 addition of "mammoth" to the name of his really excellent peach.] 



Prof. Taft: No answer can be made to Mr. Glidden's question, save 

 that Mr. Engle has tried it and found it so. 



Mr. Morrill: As our good president has said, I am quite inclined to 

 view things from the commercial standpoint. So I ask Mr. Engle if he 

 has found a grape equal to the Concord for market. 



Mr. Engle: I can not say; but I have a dozen or fifty which I prefer 

 for myself or to give to my friends. I do not know that there is any grape 

 I would prefer to the Concord to set for market. I may have some; I 

 think I have; but it will require more than my own grounds or my own 

 lifetime to determine if any of them are preferable. 



Following this discussion, Mr. C. P. Chidester of Battle Creek pre- 

 sented the following paper: 



GRAPE CULTURE. 



What I shall say will be from my own experience and calculated for 

 those who are just beginning in grape-growing, and not to your veteran 

 vine-growers, many of whom have had greater experience than myself; 

 and I am firmly impressed with the belief that I run some risk of telling 

 you many things which you already know. Yet, you should remember 

 that what we need most is line upon line and precept upon precept, to 

 have these truths indelibly impressed upon our memories, in order to be 

 successful. 



WHERE TO PLAGE A VINEYARD. 



The location for a vineyard, in my estimation, having the greatest 

 advantages, would be a high elevation sloping gradually to the east, from 

 the fact that the snow does not blow off and thus leave the vines exposed 

 to so great an extent as from a south or western slope. It seems to be an 

 established fact that our prevailing winds during winter are from the 

 southwest. Taking this fact into consideration, it would appear to be evi- 

 dent that the hybrids or half-hardy varieties of grape would be much more 

 liable to winter-killing if placed upon the western hillsides. The high 

 elevation of the vineyard prevents to a good degree the liability of injury 

 to the grapes by early frost. We should remember that very much of the 

 success or failure of the grape-grower depends upon his wisdom in locating 

 his vineyard. 



