12 



For profit, a variet}' must be of large size, vigorous and productive 

 and ripeu early. 



Ill the following table will be found the report of the behaviour of 

 both old and new varieties : 



VARIETY. 1 



c 



. Li. 



Agawani , 1 



Early Cluster 1 



Early Khig, 1 



Erie, 3 



Fred, 3 



Lncretia, 8 



Minnewaski, : 2 



Suyder, \ I 



Stone's Hardy, ' 2 



Taylor, ',2 



Wachusett, i 1 



Western Triumph, ' 4 



Wilson, 2 



I 



Dale of , Date of i 



Hloom- first j 



ing. : Ripeuiiigj 



June 6 

 June 8 

 Tune 9 

 June 15 

 June 8 

 June 9 

 June 15 

 June G 

 June 8 

 June 6 

 June 6 

 June 15 

 June 8 



July 16 

 July 8 

 July 14 

 July 25 

 July 25 

 July 15 

 July 21 

 July 21 

 July 30 

 July 21 

 July 21 

 July 30 

 July 30 



Again we have to report the Agawam and Taylor as being the most 

 satisfactory. 



The Erie is a large fruited variety, bat on account of its late ripen- 

 ing and poor quality will not prove profitable. 



The Snyder is very hardy, vigorous, productive, of good quality 

 and is valuable for a local market, but in shipping to market where 

 the fruit must stand from one to two days it so changes color as to 

 be very unsalable. 



The Wachusett has become so subject to disease that in most 

 localities it must be discarded. Spraying as for the black-cap rasp- 

 berry, should be practiced on all varieties to prevent the develop- 

 ment of the yellow rust so common to the last mentioned variety. 



THE GRAPE. 



Another season has passed in which the grape has generally 

 escaped fungous diseases, and frosts held off until October, enabling 

 almost all varieties to ripen perfectly. Upon high land, with south- 

 ern exposure, frosts seldom destroy the foliage until near the 1st of 

 October and there are few seasons when most varieties of out-door 

 grapes are not well ripened by that time. 



