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Catawba, mildewed badly and rotted, half a crop of inferior grapes, 

 some bitter ; second crop. 



Diana, mildewed, rotted, and ripened very unevenly. 



Delaware, a slow grower, set a heavy cro]), many vines lost their leaves 

 and did not ripen ; first crop. 



Elsingburg, a fine, healthy vine, no rot ; first year. 



Goethe, bore a good crop of fine, large grapes, well ripened; first 

 year. 



Hartford, healthy and productive, bunches fine and large, no rot ; first 

 and second years. 



Herbemont, bore a fair crop of delicious grapes, especially the young 

 vines, the old vines rotted badly ; first to twentieth years. 



Ives, a strong grower, healthy and productive, large crop, ripened 

 well ; first year. 



Isabella, a heavy crop, some ripened well, the roots of some destroyed 

 by grub w^orms. 



Israella, mildewed and rotted so badly as to lose nearly all its fruit; 

 £rst year. 



lona, worse than the Israella, bringing very little fruit to jjerfection ; 

 first year. 



Le Noir, produced less than half a crop, more than half the bunches 

 shriveled before ripening; first year. 



Lindley, many of the grapes mildewed and rotted, manj' of the gTapes 

 bitter; first year. 



Lydia, a slow grower, has not yet born^ fruit. 



Mary Ann, a healthy vine, bore a few bunches, ripened well; first 

 year. 



Merrimac, mildewed and rotted ; first year. 



I*^orton, vine and fruit healthy, large croi), ripened well ; first year. 



]N^orthern Muscadine, vigorous grower, vine and fruit healthy, large 

 crop; first crop. 



Perkins, vine and fruit healthy ; first year. 



Eogers's Hybrids, oSTos. 2 and 33, both mildewed badly, and grapes 

 rotted ; those that did not rot ripened badly ; first crop. 



Eebecca, poor grower, vine unhealthy, killed to the ground some time 

 in winter ; no grapes. ^ 



Salem, very slow grower, vine h^^j^^, lu'oduced a few bunches of 

 fine grapes, ripened weii; first crop. ^/ 



Taylor, i)roduced larger bunches and better grapes than usual ; un- 

 productive from second to eighth crop. 



The first mildew on the vines was noticed May 31. On the 29th very 

 damp fogs had prevailed. There were also fogs on the 2d, 3d, and 4th 

 of June, the last very heavy, A caterpillar {Procris Americana) did 

 much damage to the leaves of the vines, especiall}" to the smooth ones 

 of the Clinton, Delaware, Taylor, &c. Although thousands of these 

 pests were killed, some of the vines were almost completely stripped of 

 their leaves, in consequence of which the grapes did not ripen. 



TOBACCO IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Bucks County, Pennsylvania. — In the lower section of the county the 

 attention of farmers has been turned to raising tobacco, where it pro- 

 duces exceedingly remunerative crops; often $500 i)eracre is realized on 

 the sandy soil known as " Penu's manor." Almost every farm has been 

 provided with a large frame building for drying purposes, which is gen- 

 erally paid for, and all other necessary expenses or outlay, by the x^roduct 



