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crop, equal if not superior to anything I have. It wants to be put in the open ground. 

 I had it alongside a building at first, and it did not seem to like that. It is quite as 

 early as the Hartford Prolific. 



Mr. Gott. — It is not always the most valuable grape that sells best. The Hartford 

 Prolific is profitable in the amount of grapes that it produces, and in the supplying of 

 the demand. We do not claim for them, however, first class quality. Their falliuf^ off 

 the bunch is the fault of the grower — not their own fault absolutely. Rogers' No. 1 5, 

 Agawam, is not a success with us, although a very fine grape. All grape vines must be 

 fed to some extent, and it makes very little difference what they are fed on so lon,f^ as it 

 is something good and substantial. I suppose the food mine gets is of that character. 



Mr. Dempsey. — The varieties of Rogers' hybrids that do best with us are 3 4 9 

 15, 19, 43 and 44. 



Mr. Beall. — When you were speaking of the kinds of grapes you sent to market, 

 you did not mention the name of the white. Will you be good enough to tell us which 

 one it was 1 



Mr. Dempsey. — It was my No. 25. It requires some degree of care to cultivate it ; 

 it is liable to mildew. I thought at one time that I would try and make some money 

 out of it by having it propagated, but I have not done that from the fact that the foliat^e 

 seemed tender. It is a rapid grower. The vine is easily propagated. It is enormously 

 fruitful, and requires to be thinned in the bunch and in the branches. It has made 

 more money for me this year than any other two varieties. 



Mr. Bucke. — We grow Mr. Dempsey's No. 60. He was kind enough to send me a 

 vine a few years ago, and I have found it a very rapid grower, and a very good bearer. 

 I have only had a very few berries from it that were ripe, however. It is of course 

 very necessary to get an area of country in which a new grape will grow. I think this 

 No. 60 is a grape that ought to be tried over various parts of the country. Some grapes 

 mildew with Mr. Gott that grow perfectly well with me, and some grapes mildew with me 

 that grow well with him. 



Mr. Gott. — Another grape that should have been mentioned, inasmuch as the Society 

 had something to do with its dissemination, is the Eumelan. With us it is a failure, 

 inasmuch as it mildews very badly both in leaf and in berry. 



Mr. Carpenter. — I may be styled the largest grower in this section of the country 

 at the present time. Still I have been but very few years in it. I gr»w different varie- 

 ties from most other persons about me. I have quite a number of Rogers' varieties, and 

 for profit I would select of Rogers' varieties, the 4, 9, and 15, as far as I have cultivated 

 it, although the 15 is not as valuable as the other two varieties. Last winter, a year ac^o, 

 about half of my Rogers' varieties perished with the frost, so that I do not feel quite as 

 enthusiastic on the Rogers' grapes as I did a year or two ago. I would consider the 

 Concord, the Delaware, and the Rogers' 4 as among the leading varieties. We require 

 more of the pink grapes to supply some of our markets. Our customers in the west 

 as well as in the north require pink grapes as well as black ones. Some in London when 

 sending for grapes will ask for Rogers' 9 and 15 and the Concord. In Sarnia they wish 

 for some of the pink grapes as well. I have not fruited any o£ Rogers' 43 and 44 as yet. 

 I have quite a number out. My Rogers' vines, particularly Rogers' 4, a year ago last 

 summer, produced about 40 pounds to the vine, about two-thirds of them. The over- 

 bearing might have had a little to do with the winter killing. The greater portion of 

 my Concords have this year borne about 30 pounds to the vine. My vines of that variety 

 are five years old. I have the Rogers' 3, and I do not think much of it. The bunches 

 are very inferior with me. It is an early grape, and it will hang on the vines until the 

 end of the season. It ripened up a year ago. Last year it did not. It never ripened 

 but once. 



A Member. — What did you think of it when you saw it ripe? 



Mr. Carpenter. — Very good. The lona with me did very well last year. That 

 was the first year that I had any success in ripening it. It bore heavily. I believe Mr. 

 Gott's vines are a little closer together than mine. Mine are twelve feet apart in the row. 

 The Hartford Prolific I am not very much in favour of. Last year I picked once off them, 

 and the remainder of them seemed to dry on the vines and to fall off. 



