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five years of cultivation, after which never cut out a branch unless it 

 blights. Keep out water-sprouts and borers, and you will have apples 

 and money if you have planted Ben Davis, Willow Twig and Jonathan. 



Thos. Luke. 



Leavenworth, November 27, 1889. 

 L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir — Yours of the 11th, with the program, was duly received. 

 I very much regret to say that since its receipt I have been too unwell 

 to be able to write an article on the new grapes. I have waited some 

 time hoping to be able to do so but find I cannot. You will hardly 

 wonder at my disability to do so when I inform you that I am to-day 

 89 years old, am very much crippled, and suffering much pain contin- 

 ually from rheumatism and cannot move about only with the use of a 

 cane in each hand or with crutches, and am now troubled with some 

 affection of my eyes so that I am not able to see plain enough to read 

 ordinary print — so you will see that my days of grape-growing must 

 soon close, but the vines will continue to grow all the same. Wishing 

 you and your society great succes, which I think you deserve, I am 

 most 



Eespectfully yours, 



John Bure. 



Leavenworth, Kan., July 28, 1889. 

 L. A. Goodman, Esq. : 



Dear Sir — I have had in mind to send some specimens of niy 

 grapes, but so far have missed doing so, and have concluded that it 

 will be much more satisfactory to see the fruit on the vine, the charac- 

 ter and growth of the vine, etc. I shall be pleased to have you, also 

 Mr. Evans, come up and take a look at them. The early ones are be- 

 ginning to color and will probably be ripe about the 10th to 15th August. 

 (I can notify you as to best time.) I am anxious to have you see my E. 

 Victor which has been spoken of as a feeble grower and the fruit too 

 small to be profitable. Such is not the case here, the vine is more vigor- 

 ous than Concord, perfectly hearty and healthy and one of the most 

 prolific known, entirely free from rot or mildew, the clusters will aver- 

 age nearly or quite as much in weight as Concord and-are very compact, 

 but never crack, ripen quite two weeks before the Concord, and in this 

 market sell for double the price of Concord. 1 have no interest in it 



