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growing seedlings. Of course no sane person would think of 

 sowing the seeds of our wild frost and fox grapes, when we 

 have varieties greatly superior from which seeds may be ob- 

 tained. The Concord has produced more good seedlings, prob- 

 ably, than any other hardy variety known. It counts among 

 its descendants the Cottage, Worden's Seedling, Lady, Moore's 

 Early, Martha, Pocklington, Hayes, and White Ann Arbor. 

 Other new varieties of good repute are the result of crossing 

 or hybridizing with the Concord, namely, Brighton with Diana 

 Hamburgh ; Hiland with Jura Muscat ; Irving with White Fron- 

 tignan ; Triumph with a foreign variety ; Jefferson with lona ; 

 and the Duchess, a cross of a white seedling of the Concord, 

 with the Walter ; Monroe, a cross of Concord and Delaware. 

 Here we have a family of children of which any father or mother 

 might well be proud. Why not erect a monument at Concord, 

 Mass., the place of its origin, to the Concord grape, and E. W. 

 Bull, who introduced it? 



Dr. Fisher, of Fitchburg, in an address on Grape Culture 

 before the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, says, "I last 

 year set two thousand vines nineteen hundred and seventy- 

 five Concords, and twenty-five other varieties for playthings. 

 If the Concords were blotted out, after twenty years' experi- 

 ence I would not grow a grape to sell." J. F. C. Hyde agreed 

 with Dr. Fisher, and stated that he had never made a dollar on 

 any grape except the Concord. It is undoubtedly a grape which, 

 more than any other, adapts itself to a great variety of soil, and 

 to all situations and conditions. Notwithstanding its fruit 

 ranks as only second or third rate in quality, yet it is more pop- 

 ular and profitable than any other variety grown in the country. 

 This is owing to the healthy, hardy, and vigorous character of 

 the vine, enabling it to bear neglect, ill treatment, and no treat- 

 ment at all, and still yield an abundance of good fruit. It is a 

 better grape for the table or for wine West and South than at 

 home. Worden and Moore's Early are pressing the Concord hard 

 for first place. 



After what I have written, I will only suggest that in planting 

 seeds of the Concord we may have a reasonable expectation of 

 obtaining new varieties of high merit. The fruit should be well 

 ripened, and selected from perfectly healthy vines. Crush the 



