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Next came Rogers' Hybrids, a number of which are grown by 

 most grape growlers now, yet Goethe, Massasoitt, Lindley, Wilder, 

 Merrimack and Barry are the most popular. I was the first man in 

 Pennsylvania to fruit the Concord, and also a number of Rogers' Hy- 

 brids, the originators kindly sending me a start of them before they 

 were offered to the public. Rickets' Hybrids made another advance, 

 and among which are some of the finest grapes grown in this. State. 



Empire Stale, Jefferson, Lady Washington, Secretary, Excelsior 

 are among the most prominent. Geo. U. Campbell, of Delaware, Ohio, 

 sent out a number of valuable ones. The Triumph, which, with his 

 consent I named, is, in my opinion, the best white grape for table that 

 we have, but is not quite hardy in our severest winters. Underhill's 

 Irving (white), Black Eagle and Defiance are superb black ones which 

 he allowed me to name. The Norton is also going back pretty far, and 

 it has no equal as a red wine grape except in the Cynthiana, which some 

 claim to be the same grape, but is singular, if so, when one originated 

 near Richmond, Va., and the other in Texas, somewhere on the Red 

 river. 



Jacob Moore, of Ithaca, N. Y., produced the Diamond, as good a 

 hardy white grape as we now have. Herman Jaeger, of Neosho, pro- 

 duced a number. The late John Burr, of Leavenworth, Kan., gave us 

 quite a number of excellent varieties, and T. H. Munson, of Denison, 

 Tex., has perhaps surpassed them all in his excellent seedlings. I can- 

 not name all these varieties, but any one can get their catalogues that 

 desire them. 



To comment on some of these new ones I will state that I con- 

 feider Burr's Early Victor the best early black grape we have. Early 

 Ohio is another valuable one. Moore's Early is a large berry, but not 

 large in bunch, and with me is not productive as is desirable. 



But I am not done with the valuable seedlings. My friend across 

 the river here, Jack Russell, has added quite a number of valuable 

 ones, many of which were never brought before the public. Wood- 

 roff's Red is among the most valuable of the red ones — bunch and 

 berry large, very showy and of good quality. 



And now we have Campbell's Early that from all I can learn, is 

 going to fill the bill. It is growing finely here to the tune of $2 per 

 vine. Am promised a basket of the fruit when ripe, after which I can 

 give an opinion of it. Then McPike, of Alton, 111., has a seedling of 

 the Norton which is a marvel of size and beauty, but which is not yet for 

 sale. Some fifteen years ago the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 

 iogton sent out a number of Haskell's seedlings of which I received 

 about one dozen varieties. Of these some were wild rampant grow- 



