STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 249 



REPORT ON GRAPES TESTED IN CARVER 

 COUNTY. 



Bv Charles Ludlupp, op Carver, Minn. 



We read in the Bible that Noah, after the flood, began to be a 

 husbandman, and he planted a vineyard. This is supposed to have 

 been at the foot of Mount Ararat, which travelers tell us is sit- 

 uated at about 40'^ north latitude and 62° east longitude. This 

 ancient time, 4,000 years ago, and this locality, we take to be the 

 origin of grape culture, and from then and there it has spread over 

 the whole earth. We, in Minnesota, are from three to seven 

 degrees farther north, where not every kind of grapes will grow; 

 but as wherever the wild American apple, Pyrus Mains Sijlvestris, 

 is found, a better apple can be made to thrive, so in all regions 

 where the Fox grape, Vitus Lubrnsca^ is at home, there a better 

 product of grapes can be cultivated with success. Every climate has 

 its kind that can be grown there, but we can only find it out by 

 trial and observation; and as for several yeai-s I have carried on 

 experiments to advance the culture of the grape in Minnesota, I 

 present the State Horticultural Society my notes on different 

 varieties, for such use as they may please to make with them, all 

 based upon plantings and fruitings of my own : 



Allen Hybrid — Has not done well here ; discarded. 



Atvey — Poor for us ; discarded. 



Agawani — Rogers' Hybrid No. 15 ; takes after Concord ; discarded. 



Aminia — Sweet ; fine flavor for table and market. 



Antochan — Arnold's No. 5, poor grower ; discarded. 



Black Hawk — Ripens with Concord ; discarded. 



Beauty of Minnesota — Good flavor ; the best grape for Minnesota. 



Blood's Black — Foxy ; discarded. 



Barry — Roger's Hybrid No. 43 ; productive, early ; sweet. 



Brighton— »Riipens early ; flesh tender, sweet, juicy, slightly aromatic, pleasant 



flavor. 

 Belvidere — Like Hartford ; discarded. 

 Brand — Arnold's No. 8; poor grower ; discarded. 

 Concord Chasselas — Poor grower ; discarded. 

 Canada — Arnold's No. 16; poor here; discarded. 

 Cataicba — Ripens too late; discarded. 

 Cassidy — Too late; discarded. 



