362 TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 



Dr. Crowell. — I rely upon four varieties, the Concord, Hart- 

 ford Prolific, Isabella and Catawba. The grape which takes the 

 pre-eminence, when well ripened, is the Catawba. I find that it 

 pays to erect rough board fences to protect my grapes. 



Mr. Carpenter. — The Isabella and Catawba cannot be grown 

 generally with success north of New York. The great bulk of 

 the grapes for this market will be grown north of New York, and 

 the Concord and Hartford Prolific have given general satisfaction 

 there. I have Isabella and Catawba vines twenty-seven miles 

 north of New York, and I can only ripen them once in seven 

 years. My Hartford Prolific and Concord were ripe several weeks 

 ago. 



Mr. Robinson stated that the finest show of Isabella grapes in 

 the State was to be seen in Yates county, upon the top of a high 

 hill, and grown upon a stiff clay loam ; the biggest berries, the 

 biggest bunches in the State. 



Mr. Pardee. — I have lived fifty miles north of Yates county, 

 and every year I had ripe Isabellas grown Avithont ringing and 

 without protection, excepting that they had a southern exposure, 

 being upon the south side of a building. For twenty-five years 

 I never knew one instance when my Isabella vine and my Catawba 

 vine, trained above my wood-house, did not ripen grapes enough 

 for my family. 



Mr. Carpenter. — These grapes come in the same category with 

 the Newtown Pippin ; they are local. 



Mr. Fuller. — I do not believe in the doctrine of location, for 

 apples or any fruit. If the Newtown Pippin will grow in one 

 location, I believe it will grow anywhere else, within the range 

 of temperature, with the right soil and culture. There are more 

 failures south of New York than north of it, in growing the Isa- 

 bella grape. Not one vine in twenty ripens its fruit well. But 

 it is not the lateness of the fruit which is the cause of the failure. 

 It is the peculiarity of the leaf, which is thin, and easily destroy- 

 ed by the wind. If the leaves of a vine are destroyed before the 

 fruit is ripened, it never can ripen. That is the trouble with the 

 Isabella vine ; and I do not think the Rebecca is any better. But 

 I have never seen the leaves of the Concord whipped to pieces by 

 the wind. The Concord is a model grape, so far as the leaf is 

 concerned. 



