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Kupestris. I used as a male parent a seedling of Brighton in conjunc- 

 tion with "America." This cross was made June 14 to 18, 1904, seeds 

 saved of best berries from the America vine and planted in the fall of 

 1904. The seeds are planted in a specially prepared seed bed, put in 

 drills and covered about one and one-half inches deep. A fence board 

 was then laid along on top of the drilled row to prevent any animals 

 from making tracks in or disturbing in any way the seed bed. Last 

 season was their first season's growth. At the close of the season there 

 were left, after the season's culling of weak and diseased paints, twenty 

 vines. Of these twenty plants, four have continuous tendrils. I con- 

 sider that a remarkable feature, since these seedling vines are sup- 

 posed to contain the blood of four species. This peculiarity was 

 pointed out to Professor Emerson during his visit at my place last 

 summer. 



From Professor Munson I secured the vine "Ponroy." It is a 

 pistillate variety of the species Doaniana. With it I used pollen from 

 a Bacchus vine. I found the Ponroy yielded fruit of very good quality 

 for a wild vine. Its clusters are small, ten to fifteen berries each, yet 

 its mature berries are as large as Ives seedling. Last winter one vin3 

 fully exposed upon the trellis endured a temperature of 27 degrees 

 below zero and sent out a cane, at the upper arm, four and one-half feet 

 above the ground, set two clusters of grapes, and carried them to ma- 

 turity. The vine, however, was badly crippled by the severe cold, 

 showing it had passed through the limit of its endurance to cold. The 

 Bacchus vine was used as a male parent with Ponrby, in the hope of 

 giving additional hardiness and enlargement of cluster to the Doaniaoa 

 seedlings. The next cross in prospect is to mate these Doaniana seed- 

 lings with a parent yielding fine table qaulities. 



From Professor Munson I secured his "Xlnta" vine. It was pro- 

 duced by crossing a Post-Oak hybrid with Munson's America. Upon 

 it I used the pollen of a Brighton seedling. This cross was made two 

 years ago but as none of the seedlings have as yet borne fruit they are 

 passed with the above notice. 



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From Professor Munson I secured two varieties of Lincecumii, or 

 Post-Oak species, being "Jaeger 43" and "Early Purple." These two 

 native or wild vines from the Panhandle country of Texas are not hardy 

 enough to endure the Nebraska climate. About 10 degrees below zero 

 is their limit of endurance without protection. They are very late in 

 blooming, being June 20 to 25 last summer. 



From Mr. J. Smelter of Carver, Minn., I secured one dozen cuttings 

 of his "Dacota," a vine claimed to have endured 50 degrees below zero 

 and borne a good crop of berries the following season, after being fully 



