Naming the. Rogers Hybrids. 



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NAMING THE ROGERS HYBRrDS. 



In response to the request of the 

 committee of the Lake Shore Grape 

 Growers' Association, Mr. E. S. Rogers 

 of Salem, Mass., has consented to give 

 names to the leading varieties of his 

 hybrid grapes, in place of the numbers 

 by which they have hitherto been desig- 

 nated. He proposes the following, 

 with the renmrk that the English and 

 German names are of persons who 

 have been eminent either in the botan- 

 ical or horticultural world, or for scien- 

 tific or literary attainments, and to 

 whose woi'ks he feels much indebted ; 

 and the Indian names are those of 

 counties and towns in Massachusetts : 



For No. 1, Goethe ; No. 3, Massasoit ; 

 No. 4. Wilder ; No. 9, Lindley ; No. 

 14, Gsertner ; No. 15, Agawam ; No. 19, 

 Merrimack ; No. 20, Requa ; No. 41, 

 Essex; No. 43, Barry; No. 44, Her- 

 bert. M. B. Bateham, 



Secretary L. S. G. G. Association. 



[We are glad to see that at last Mr. 



Rogers has done something to dear up 

 the confusion which existed in regard 

 to his truly valuable hybrids. What- 

 ever may have been the reason for 

 sending them out with only numbers 

 attached to them — whether modesty, 

 distrust of their merits, or any other 

 reason — certain it is that many mis- 

 takes have been made, which it will 

 take a good deal of labor to correct, 

 for the only reason that simple num- 

 bers will not convey the same pregnant 

 meaning as a name. We have long 

 been convinced that many of them de- 

 serve a name, much more, indeed, than 

 hundreds which have been named and 

 excessively lauded, and that the grape 

 growers of the country should be justh' 

 grateful to him for their origin. But 

 why have not Nos. 2 and 8 also re- 

 ceived names? We think they are 

 worthy of them, at least to us here 

 "out West," especially for wine making 

 purposes] — Ed. 



THE GRAPE VINE FIDIA— -F^VZia viticida, Walsh. 



( Coleoptern , Ch rijsomelidct.) 



One of the worst foes and it is almost universally miscalk-d 



to the grape vine that the ''Rose-bug/' which is, however, a 



we have in Missouri is very different insect. 



the Grape-vine Fidia, j The Grape-vine Fidia was first de- 

 - which is represented in | scribed by Mr. Walsh in the May, 186 < 



the annexed Figure. | number of the Practical Entomologist 

 It is found in the woods on the wild 

 grape-vine and also on the leaves of the 

 I'ercis Canadensis ; but of the tame 

 vines it seems to prefer the Norton's 

 Virginia and Concord. It makes its 



It is of a chestnut 

 brown color, and is densely covered 

 with short and dense whitish hairs 

 which give it a hoary appearance. I 

 have found it very thick in most of 



nave louna it very tnicK in luusu ui r^g.^.c -- , p t 



the vineyards which I have visited, ' apearance during the month of June 



