484 AGKICULTUKAL REPOKT. 



AUudiug to Milwaukee as a fruit-depot, au article is quoted from the 

 Sentinel, of that city, stating that the receipts of green apples at this 

 port during the present year have exceeded double that of any previous 

 year. One fruit-house received the unprecedented number of 22,314 

 barrels of apples, principally from growers in New York and Michigan, 

 and forwarded them on orders to Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. 



In an essay on grafting, Mr. Benjamin Hathaway states that the 

 vigor of the graft is greatly dependent upon the vigor of the stock. lie 

 has ten trees of root-graft Northern Spy, on which the frait is always 

 very nearly alike as to size and color, except what results from the 

 amount of fruit on a tree ; while on forty trees, of the same variety, put 

 on large seedling stocks, the variation is marked and constant. That 

 is, some trees give more highly-colored fruit than others, and do so 

 from year to year, without regard to amount of crop, and the same va- 

 riation is found in size and quality. His Northern Spy on Ehode Is- 

 land Greening gives him his largest specimens, though of a pale color. 

 Two trees, close by, grown on Esopus Spitzenberg, always give fruit 

 Mghly colored, but not so large. He advocates the propriety of propa- 

 gating a uniform class of stocks, to be grown from some one of our most 

 hardy varieties, and of quality that is unexceptionable. 



In a discussion before the society, on grape-culture, Mr. Mason L. 

 Shofer stated that the Concord, Delaware, and Clinton were the only 

 varieties that should be recommended for general cultivation in this lat- 

 itude. In an address on the same subject, Mr. Edward Bradfield recom- 

 mends the following varieties: for hardiness, the lona, Delaware, 

 Catawba, and Concord ; for productiveness, the Clinton, Delaware, Con- 

 cord, Hartford, lona, and Union Tillage. All grapes do better if pro- 

 tected in winter. 3Ir. J. G. Eamsdell states that strong, healtby, one- 

 year-old vines are the best to plant — that where the vines are -what 

 they-should be when received from the grower, and are carefully and 

 properly attended, an abundance of fruit may be had the third year af- 

 ter planting. 



]Mr. H. G. Wells gives the following history of the "Kalamazoo" 

 grape : 



This grape, named here by Mr. Davis the " Kalamazoo, " I brouglit, somo ten years 

 since, froni the city of Steubenville, Oliio. There I found it ia possession of Mr. 

 Dixon, an Englishman, who informed me that he had grown the parent vine from seed 

 that he knew bad been taken from the Catawba. * * * This grape is a 

 strong and rapid grower, generally maturing its wood well ; the fruit is larger than 

 the Catawba, and grows in bunches larger than those of that A-ariety, and more mark- 

 ed in the peculiar richness of its deep-blue bloom. Its season for ripening is somo ten 

 days later than the Catawba. Considering the prompt and vigorous growth of this 

 vine, its hardiness, the facility of reproducing it in the open air from cuttings, its bear- 

 ing qualities, and the appearance and peculiarities of the fruit, I should deem it Avor- 

 thy to receive the careful attention of fruit-culturists generally. 



Mr. J. Chopel, of Eastmanville, says that the Concord, Delaware, and 

 liogers No. 4 are the best grapes for that part of the country. He has 

 sixteen varieties in cultivation, and the three above named are all ho 

 would recommend for general cultivation. 



The climate of Michigan seems to bo well adapted to the growth of 

 all kinds of fruit. The January cold of both peninsulas, the upper and 

 lower, especially in the vicinity of the lakes, is much less than that of 

 Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota, in the same latitudes, at a distance 

 from the lakes, Muskegon, for instance, has a January temperature 

 four degrees higher than Prairie du Chien, both being on nearly the 

 same parallel. Grand Haven and Port Huron are 5^ above Milwaukee, 

 all being on the same parallel, while Detroit is C^ above Dubuque in 



