390 THE GRAPES OF NEW YORK. 



ROGERS' HYBRIDS. 



I. Mag- Hort.. 23:86. 1857. 2. Horticulturist. 13:86, ug. 1858. 3. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt., 

 1860:35, 85. 4. lb., 1862:148. 5. U. S. Pat. Off. Rpt., 1864:135, 136, 137. figs. 6. .V. Y. Ag. 

 Soc. Rpt., 1865:338. figs. 7. Horticulturist, 20:81. 1865. 8. Strong, 1866:31, $ii). 9. Mead, 

 1867:204. 10. Fuller, 1867:228, 246. 10. Rcc. of Hort., 1868:46. 11. Horticulturist, 24:126. 

 1869. 12. Grape Cult., 1:153, 193. fig-, 194, 262. 1869. 13. Am. Jour. Hort., 5:261 . 1869. 14. 

 Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt.. 1875:39. 15. Bush. Cat., 1894:173. fig. 16. Mcehan's .I/oh., 9:94. 1899. 

 17. Am. Pom. Soc. Rpt.. 1901:166. 



The forty-five seedlings known as Rogers' H}'brids were originated 

 b}' Edward S. Rogers of Salem, Massachusetts.' Rogers states that the 

 suggestion which started him in this work was an article l^y Dr. Lindley 

 of the University of London, originally printed in the London Horticulturist 

 and reprinted in Downing's Horticulturist for September, 1847. This article, 

 which is entitled "Remarks on Hybridizing Plants," is a general discussion 

 of the results of this practice so far as they were then known. 



The female parent used by Rogers was a four or five year old, large- 

 fruited Labrusca known locally as Carter or Mammotli Globe, and very 

 similar to, but not identical with Sage. The pollen for fertilizing the 

 blossoms of this vine was secured from vines of Black Hamburg and White 

 Chasselas growing in a cold grapery near by. In the summer of 1851, 

 clusters of the Carter were fertilized with pollen from the Vinifera vines 



' Edward Staniford Rogers was born in the old family mansion on Esse.x Street, Salem, Massa- 

 chusetts, June 28, 1826, and died in Peabody, Massachusetts, March 29, 1899. He was the son of 

 Nathaniel Leverett Rogers, an old-time Salem merchant, who, with his brothers John and Richard, 

 was engaged in the maritime trade. Edward Rogers was educated in Master Ira Cheever's school, 

 a famous Salem school of the day, and, later, he made several voyages in his father's ships as clerk 

 and supercargo and, finally, passed a number of years in the counting-room of the firm in Salem. 

 After his father's death, Mr. Rogers lived in the old family home with his brother and their mother, 

 and in the garden back of the house, (juite large for a city lot, he indulged his natural taste for 

 horticulture and conducted his experiments in grape hybridization. 



By temperament Mr. Rogers was quiet and retiring and so generous that he gained practically 

 no profit from his horticultural productions, for he freely gave cuttings and rooted plants of the 

 hybrids he raised to friends and visitors before his own stock was by any means large. Mr. Rogers 

 possessed literary ability and was an extensive reader, but could rarely be drawn into conversation 

 excepting among his most intimate friends who were wont to " drop in " at his long, low greenhouse 

 in the garden or at his office, extemporized in the old colonial bam at the rear of the house. After 

 the death of his mother the old house was sold and the brot'ners removed to another house in Salem 

 and some years later, after the death of his brother, Mr. Rogers bought the place, his last home, in 

 Peabody, Massachusetts, where he cultivated trees and flowers for pleasure and experiment. An 

 accident which resulted in a permanent lameness prevented much physical labor during his last 

 years and probably in a measure hastened his death. 



