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The locality of the vines is on a southeast exposure, protected on the north 

 and northwest by a hill ; the soil sandy. The first vines examined had 

 received a coating of clay to a part of the vines. On this the growth was 

 twelve feet on the average. On other vines was superadded a coating of 

 horse manure. The bunches averaged seven inches in length. The next 

 vine examined had been manured with animal manure, viz., two dead 

 calves. On this vine the bunches were from six and a half to thii teen 

 and a half inches in circumference, while the berries were two and a quar- 

 ter inches in circumference, though not so highly colored as on other vines 

 where no animal manure had been applied. Well water alone had been 

 applied since the spring manuring. The vine was allowed to mature sixty 

 bunches, many of which were, in the estimation of those conversant in 

 the growth of the Black Hamburg, deemed to weigh a pound, if of that 

 variety. 



Another set of vines had received one peck of guano to fifteen hundred 

 and eighty-four square feet of ground. In the rear of a row of vines, one 

 hundred and twenty-seven feet in length, Mr. Bull had placed barrels, 

 allowing one barrel to every two vines, which had been filled with leaves 

 collected indiscriminately from the adjoining woods, well pressed down, 

 on the top of which he put a peck of wood ashes to neutralize the acidity, 

 and through each barrel leached a bucket of water twice a week previous 

 to the first of June. On a portion of the vines the grapes appeared ripe, and 

 those tested the following Saturday were in condition. 



Of its seasonableness and productiveness the Committee are favorably 

 impressed. Mr. Bull had an Isabella vine at the southwest end of his resi- 

 dence, on which the berries were just beginning to color, which he consid- 

 ered as occupying a more favorable locality for ripening than the former. 



The Committee would have been pleased to have found growing side by 

 side, the Concord and Isabella, as more surely testing the ripening. Should 

 this grape in other localities prove early, as in the hands of the originator, 

 we predict a general cultivation, where the Isabella fails to ripen. 



Mr. Bull has some fifteen hundred seedling plants, showing a great 

 variety of leaf. 



From the sample of wine made from this grape, we were fully of the 

 belief that this grape will prove exceedingly valuable as a wine grape. 



It is known that A. W. Stetson, Braintree, has given much attention to 

 the raising of seedlings, with the view of producing hardy vines, and in 

 order to accelerate the fruiting he has grafted the most promising (judging 

 from the leaf,) on strong vines under glass. This season he fruited several 

 of them, two of which were of such marked superiority, as to elicit high 

 praise from all those who tested them, many of whom were members of the 

 Pomological Convention. 



The two above referred to are " Winship," a dark grape of good size, high 

 flavored, and free of pulp ; and " Wight," a white grape, of the size of the 

 White Chasselas, well flavored, and free of pulp. 



Those shown by Mr. Stetson this season, are additional to those hereto- 



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