120 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



Raspberries. Red, Cuthbert, Herbert. 



Black, Plum Farmer, Gregg. 



Purple, Schaffer. 

 Blackberries. Snyder and Eldorado. 

 Currants. Fay's, Wilder, and Perfection. 

 Gooseberries. Downing. 



Grapes. Concord, Niagara, Delaware, Worden, and Moore's 

 Early. 



The list for the house or amateur garden will of necessity be 

 much longer and while it will include some of our best commercial 

 varieties, there are others of \ery high quality which for some 

 reason or other cannot be adapted for market conditions. Some are 

 too soft, or are unproductive, do not make a strong tree, vine or 

 bush, are not the right color to suit a particular market, yet surpass 

 commercial varieties in the all essential point of quality. In 

 particular is this true of our native grapes, the market demand 

 being only for Concord, Niagara, Delaware, and Catawba, while 

 there are over twenty varieties which surpass all but the Delaware 

 in quality. Among some of these desirable varieties for the garden 

 are the following: Worden, Moore's Diamond, Salem, Agawam, 

 Green Mountain, Barry, Herbert, Gaetner, Lindley, Wilder, 

 Downing, and Hidalgo. 



So much in the quality of the grape depends upon its culture 

 that it may not be amiss to go into the matter a little. The grape 

 should always be planted in the sunniest part of the garden and a 

 light rather sandy soil is preferable; a soil with good drainage will 

 give higher quality grapes than a cold, damp soil. The grape likes 

 an abundance of phosphoric acid and potash which should be 

 supplied in the form of bone meal and sulphate of potash. In 

 pruning, care should be taken always to select good strong wood 

 of the previous season's growth, and whatever system you may use, 

 bear in mind that the less wood you have on a vine the better 

 and larger will be your product. The grape can be used in so many 

 ways that no garden, however small, should be without it. As a 

 trellis vine on a house or over an arbor, or to cover up the wood 

 pile or shed, it cannot be surpassed, and when you add to its orna- 

 mental value that of a delicious fruit it should be valued and ranked 

 highest in our garden fruits. 



