The Grape Gulturist. 



CillAPES AT SANDUSKY, ETC. 

 13 Y M. H. LEWIS. 



{Conti7iucd.) 



The Mottled. This variety un- 

 doubtebly deserves more credit than 

 it has gained at home and abroad. 

 Our Mississippi friends need not take 

 alarm— no one this way proposes to 

 ■push it. As an anomaly, let it win by 

 its merit. Only, Messrs. Magnates, 

 do not brain it, till after fair trial 

 It was recorded by three competent 

 judges, Mr. Geo. Leick being one, that 

 its must a year since, before the Ca- 

 tawba was matured for the test, 

 weighed 94" with acid 4 ". 



Mr. Addison Kelly, large)}' interes- 

 ted in grapes and wine, is considerably 

 extending his planting of it. 



This year it yielded a tine crop, 

 though that of 1867 was better. 



It ships well and meets with favor 

 in the early market. It will prove of 

 principal value as a wme grape. It 

 should hang long. Worthy of exten- 

 sive trial, to say the least. 



XoRTONS Virginia. Strange that 

 any one at all conversant with the 

 Lake Shore— Avest end, where the 

 main grape crop is raised — should 

 declare that this splendid grape does 

 not succeed here. So Dr. Spalding in 

 his Minority Eeport claims.*) 



That is calumnious. Ask George 

 Leick of Cleveland, Geo. Van Ilausen 

 of Sandusk}^, Louis Hormes of Put-in. 

 Bay, all practical growers awd wine 

 makers, and of a fame outside of their 

 own locality'. This season, on Put- 



*)That is, claims that soma so declared. 



in-Bay, its berries were singularl}- in- 

 fected with an insect, which stung the 

 berries to deposit its egg. This injured 

 the crop somewhat. Otherwise, in 

 this vicinity, the Nortons made a 

 very fine showing. Tiie wine is so 

 superior, it has greatly widened it^ 

 circle of friends. Besides many are 

 sui'prized to find its berries fit to eat. 

 Its spicy, vinous juice, in many in- 

 stances of our observation, proved so 

 refreshing, that the ladies reached 

 past Delaware and Catawba to take 

 up the black compact hunches. 



Must 104*', even higher in one case. 



EoGERS Hybrid, JS'o's. 4 and 19. 

 These with us have so far shown most 

 good parts. Productive, good quality, 

 undiseased, free growing, early, large 

 and handsome, — this is the years re- 

 cord. No. 19 proves of better quality, 

 No. 4 larger and earlier. 



No. 15. Showed mildejv and bore 

 shj'iy. I am convinced that this No. 

 will do best on sandy, and perhaps 

 light gravelly soil. 



Taylor or Bullitt. This we "set 

 no store by," but in a few cases I find 

 it has given a fine crop, and greatly 

 encouraged the owners. It has been 

 pruned on our biennial renewal sys- 

 tem and consequent!}' made solely 

 wood growth. The success this sea- 

 son has been reached by long pruning 

 and fruiting on the laterals mainly. 

 Mayhap the increase ot years helped 

 the srop. , 



