GRAPES. 221 



Geo: Robinson: The Poughkeepsie Red has fruited three 

 years. 



Dr. Frisselle: How does the quality of the grape compare 

 with the Iona? 



Geo. Robinson: I think the Poughkeepsie Red is the finest 

 grape I have ever tasted. 



Geo. J. Kellogg: Have you fruited the Worden and Moore's 

 Early? 



Geo. Robinson : Yes, sir. They both do quite well. 



Dr. Frisselle. How about the size of the grape of the Pough- 

 keepsie Red? 



Geo. Robinson: It is larger than the Delaware. The grape 

 is copper colored. Year before last I took some to the state 

 fair and many supposed it to be the Delaware. I told them to 

 taste it, and they said it was not the Delaware. 



Pres. Elliot: We thank Mr. Robinson very much for this 

 paper, and we hope he will continue his investigations and re- 

 port to us from time to time, and if he will take it as an invita- 

 tion now and prepare his notes during the season and give us 

 a little more in detail anything in the way on insects, diseases, 

 or anything that troubles his vines, we shall consider it a great 

 faVor. 



M. Cutler: I wish to ask the gentleman which he considers 

 the best early grape, the earliest of all that is a good grape. 



Geo. Robinson: The earliest of all that is a good grape is the 

 Jessica. 



Prof. Green: Don't you find it a little bit tender? 



Geo. Robinson: I have not found it so. 



REPORT ON GRAPE INSECTS AND DISEASES. 



BY J. S. HARRIS, LA CRESCENT, MINN. 



Mr. President and Members of State Horticultural Society : 



The grape crop of 1890 was not nearly as great as average, but in the 

 section where my observations have extended, the shortage was not 

 occasioned either through the the depredations of insects or influence of 

 diseases, but rather from a killing frost that occurred in May, after 

 growth had started. I have never known fewer insects of the species 

 that prey upon the grape vine or fruit than we had last season, and in 

 fact the same was true of many other species of noxions insects. The 

 cause I am unable to explain. The previous winter was not severe, and 

 that is said to be favorable for the wintering of the eggs, larva, chrysalis 

 and parent beetle. The extreme wet of the earlier season may have been 

 unpropitious for the depositing or hatching of eggs. Upon my own vine- 

 yards I have not discovered any indications of mildew or any species of 



