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By going more into detail, as to varieties, their derivations, and com- 

 binations, the report could be extended into the volume of a book, but it 

 is thought enough is said to indicate general principals, so that any apt 

 vineyardist, can deduce and readily apply correct practice in almost every 

 case. 



T. V. MUNSON, 



Chairman of Com. 

 Denison, Grayson Co., Texas, 

 Dec. i4th, 1904. 



P. S. Along with my report I hand you the very valuable report of 

 Mr. Geo. C. Husmann, another member of the Committee. 



Owing to ill health, Prof. W. J. Green could not make a report, and 

 no response has yet been received from Mr. A. H. Pettit, of Ontario, Can. 



T. V. M. 



NOTES ON ADAPTATION 



WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 28, 1904. 

 Prof. T. V. MUNSON, 



Chairman Committee on Grapes, American Pomological Society, 



Denison, Texas. 

 Dear Mr. Munson : 



I have just returned from an extended trip of viticultural investigations 

 to the Pacific Coast, and your letter of November 5th addressed to me to 

 the University of California, has been chasing me and has just caught me. 

 Not knowing that a report was expected from me, it will be hasty and in 

 the shape of a general letter. 



That great differences exist in the adaptation of varieties to special 

 soils and climates, latitudes and altitudes, there can be no question. 

 Would mention a few striking instances. The Thompson seedless, which 

 in the counties around San Francisco Bay, is a comparatively late ripening 

 variety, has been grown in the Imperial regions near Coachello in southern 

 California, as an early ripening variety. The Green Hungarian which my 

 father and myself grew at Talcoa vineyards on adobe soil, near San Fran- 

 cisco Bay, produces fruit that was exceptionally fruity and heavy in sac- 

 charine, going as high as 26 and 28 degrees Balling saccharometer, and 

 producing little or no second crop, whereas at my own place up in the 

 mountains 30 miles from there at an elevation of 900 feet on gravelly loam, 

 it produces enormous first and second crops and often a third crop, but in 

 the best of seasons, never going above 23 degrees Balling, making a wine 

 of Hock type. 



Zinfandel the leading red wine grape of California, on hillside loca- 

 tions suited to it, makes a first class heavy bodied red wine, and on low- 

 lands in the valley often not half a mile away from the former, only a vin 



