secretary's budget. 325 



Commenting upon .this, the gentlemen remark. " Every line is 

 untrue ! No Austro-Hungarian grape growers are importing American 

 vines — they at most intend to import them next winter, provided per- 

 mission can be obtained. So far it is prohibited, and none can be sent 

 before late in November. Their plants are not destroyed by oidium' 

 and if they were, American vines would be no remedy. Ours are used 

 as a remedy against phylloxera. And thus we could show that every 

 line, from beginning to end, is erroneous. No resijectable agricultural 

 journal ever published claimed that the American grape vine defies 

 oidium, but simply that this kind of fungus does not exist here — while 

 the American fungi — mildew of another kind, 'Peronospora ' and ' rot,' 

 are much worse than oidium. Furthermore, grapes are and will be 

 procurable for the St. Louis market; if not as abundant as in some 

 years, it is not owing at all to oidium, which, as said, does not exist 

 here, but to rot, and the late season." 



GRAPE MILDEW REMEDY. 



I am well aware of the difficulty in dealing satisfactorily with a 

 fungus which may in a single night, with scarcely any warning, 

 manifest itself all over a vineyard, but it is a great point gained to 

 know how to check it, even if the knowledge may at tim^s be of little 

 practical avail in large vineyards. I would strongly recommend, there- 

 fore, the use of the ordinary milk kerosene emulsion prepared after the 

 formula given in my late official reports as U. S. Entomologist, with 

 from two to five per cent, of carbolic acid and the same percentage of 

 glycerine, and then diluted in twenty to fifty parts of water to one of 

 the emulsion, and sprayed upon the under surface of the leaves by 

 means of a cyclone nozzle of small aperture so as to render the spray 

 as fine as possible. A soap emulsion made with cresylic soap, and the 

 glycerine subsequently added, would doubtless prove an excellent 

 substitute. Prof. 0. V. Riley. 



THE BEST grape VARIETIES, 



We were shown over the vineyard of about five acres, consisting 

 of an acre each of Worden and Delaware, two acres of Concord, and 

 fifty vines each of Martha and Brighton. Replying to a question Mr. 

 M. stated : The one acre of Worden has paid as much each year as the 

 balance of the vineyard. I consider it the best blue grape grown. It 

 has all of the good qualities of the Concord, is from ten days to two 

 weeks earlier, of better bunch, which is very compact with larger 

 berries of better flavor. Our crop was contracted before picking, at 



