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Dr. Fisher said that sometimes a particular insect will breed in 

 a vineyard, and feed upon the vines. The only way to deal with 

 insects is to exterminate them early. Like the flea-beetle {Haiti ca 

 chalybea), so destructive of the grape foliage, the caterpillars 

 mentioned might have been checked in the early part of the season 

 by some spraying mixture. Paris green would undoubtedly have 

 destroyed them if they ate of it. 



Richard T. Lombard said that Paris green did not appear to 

 kill the cutworm. He had used Paris green on his carnation 

 plants under glass in such quantity as would kill vegetable- 

 eating insects, yet the cutworm destroyed the foliage with appar- 

 ent impunity. 



A stranger remarked that in Western New York the Worden 

 grape brought better prices than the Concord. 



Dr. Fisher said he had had the Worden grape in cultivation 

 for twenty years and had never had it ripen a week earlier than 

 the Concord. Generally it colors only one or two days before the 

 Concord. It has a larger berry, but he considers it a diluted 

 Concord. Like Moore's Early it splits badly with fall rains ; it 

 has not the sparkle of the Concord, when both are thoroughly 

 ripe ; will not bear transportation as well, and is always a poorer 

 keeper. 



The loria being mentioned, Dr. Fisher said that at Fitchburg 

 the season is not quite long enough for it to ripen. He had got 

 tired waiting for it. It may do well if grown in a favorable 

 corner of a well protected garden. 



Samuel Hartwell said that his first experiment in grape culture 

 was to set four hundred one year old vines of Moore's Early. 

 They were planted in a well tilled field, in drills. The next year 

 he reset them in the same field, in vineyard form, eight feet apart 

 in the rows, which were nine feet apart, thus covering one acre, 

 and giving ample space to drive through with a horse and cart. 

 With liiin, Moore's Early proved a good grape, ripening well every 

 year. It is not so great a bearer as the Concord, but generally 

 sets as much fruit as the vines are able to mature thoroughly. 

 He has not pruned as severely as Dr. Fisher has done. His 

 vines have two arms from three to four feet long each way. The 

 l)rices received for the fruit have averaged from five to six cents 

 l)er pound, in Boston market. He received nine Imndred dollars 

 in one year, for the fruit and cuttings sold from the first acre. 



