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prices the purchasers saying these grapes did not grow out of 

 doors, how is it that you grow better grapes than any one else ? I 

 can show you a man to whom a dealer has witliin a month offer- 

 ed twenty cents a pound for Concord grapes. Quality rules. 

 At the same time we are caring for this year's crop we must 

 have a good look out for the next one. Upon the vines where a 

 strong bud starts, the shoot from it should be trained up and 

 along the wire in an opposite direction from the bearing arm ex- 

 cept the vine planted at the end of the row. This vine's fruit- 

 ing arm as also its arm for next year's fruiting is to be turned 

 the same way, take good care of the young arms for from them 

 comes your next year's crop. Pinch out the laterals at second 

 leaf, and if they start again repeat the operation, stop the shoot 

 when six feet in length. 



The fifth year we do as we did the fourth, excepting the first 

 vine in the row, the bearing arms grow one way and the grow- 

 ing arms the other, thus the vines are renewed year by year. 



A vineyard pi-'operly cared for is surely good for this genera- 

 tion and the next, and I believe for a longer period. 



The varieties I should recommend for Essex County are Con- 

 cord, a few Delawares, try Worden's seedling and John B. 

 Moore's Early Black when he will let you have them. 



A word about Peach culture. My soil is same as for grapes, 

 fertilizing also same as for grapes substituting salt for bone. I 

 have about one hundred and fifty trees in bearing planted eight 

 years ago. In 1872 I had fifty bushels of good fruit, in 1874 one 

 hundred and thirty bushels of first rate fruit. In 1873, in an or- 

 chard of about one hundred trees, the yellows appeared and are 

 spreading through the orchard. The rule should be if a tree is af- 

 fected by it immediately remove and destroy it root and branch. 

 A liberal use of salt and unleached ashes may be a preventative, 



