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or more tons. The foliage mildewed, the grapes rotted, and 

 there was bunch after bunch with not one perfect berry upon 

 them. 



Take the Delaware. And right here I wish to say, that the 

 theory that the vine makes too much wood, and is more apt to 

 become diseased when over-cropped and over-pruned, will not 

 apply to the Delaware. It is a slow grower — makes but little 

 wood. I do not have to trim my Delaware extensively, and yet 

 the Delaware mildewed with me so that I did not get a ripe 

 bunch of grapes. It has mildewed, so far as I have heard, all 

 over this part of the country very badly. About the Crevelling, 

 I say, nearly as my friend the chairman has said, that it does 

 not ripen its fruit well, and it does not yield as it did, though I 

 admire it as a grape. Rogers' 15 has worked badly with me. 

 It is a very rampant grower indeed. It will not bear cramping. 

 You cannot confine it to a stake and have it do anything at all, 

 I am perfectly satisfied. I know a vine that yielded seven hun- 

 dred bunches of perfectly well-developed fruit that ripened 

 nicely ; and yet my large vine, that I cut in on the spur system 

 and train spirally fails entirely. It makes an immense amount 

 of wood and foliage, produces grapes that set sparsely upon the 

 bunch, and then rot and drop off. It is as utterly impossible to 

 grow them on a post as it is to grow some other of the more 

 rampant growers in that way, and I should not recommend it. 

 If a man wants to plant one of these vines he must give it room 

 — allow it to grow. 



Rogers' No. 4 did not ripen. It is no earlier than the Con- 

 cord with me. Where it will ripen, I think it is one of the 

 best market grapes — not for quality, but for appearance. No. 

 19 resembles it very closely, and rotted badly. No. 3 rotted 

 badly. No. 7 mildewed so badly, that I have thrown it off the 

 list. It will lose every leaf before the first of August. Nos. 3 

 and 9 I have thought considerable of, though I find that No. 3 

 mildews. With regard to the lona, it has never mildewed very 

 badly, but I have never ripened its fruit so that it was good. 

 It is a grape of rare excellence — in the mere matter of quality, 

 behind no grape in the country. My Israellas are not well 

 established, but even they mildewed badly. My Hartford 

 Prolifics, which have never shown any unfavorable tendency 

 until this year, about the last of July showed a kind of rot that 



