Editors' Letter Box. 



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by the buyers. We must bring our 

 grapes and our wines into the market 

 in the best possible condition. Our 

 grapes must be carefully handled, well 

 packed, and be brought to market as 

 fresh as possible, and as cheap as pos- 

 sible. AVe must have an abundance 

 for every demand ; we must be able 

 to furnish such every day kinds as 

 Concord, Hartford Prolific, etc., cheap 

 enough and abundant enough ffer 

 every laborer's family ; and we must 

 also furnish the very best in equality 

 for the dainty epicure. We must 

 furnish the Hei'bemont, the Delaware, 

 Clai'a, and varieties even better than 

 they, which we have yet to find from 

 our »' generations to come " of seed- 

 lings. We can not, of course, fur- 

 nish these at the same prices, but 

 those who are able to buy them will 

 not begrudge high prices, if the 

 grapes are good enough. 



It is tlie same with our wines. We 

 must learn to make all wines good 

 and palatable, and the market will 

 come easy enough. We cannot, of 

 course, make a wine from the Concord 

 equal to the Cynthiana, Herbemont, 

 or Delaware, but it can be made so as 

 to excel all the cheap French Clarets 

 or light white wines, and we can 

 make quantity enough of it to supply 

 the masses with a cheap and whole- 

 some beverage. And for the epicure 

 Ave can make wine just as well that 

 he can buy at $30 to $50 per ease, a& 

 the "far fetched and dearly bought" 

 wines of France, Burgundy, and Ger- 

 many. Nay, we can even undersell 

 them by $10 per case, and yet make 

 large profits. 



The further discussion of this sub- 

 ject, and our views about the waj's 

 and means to do this, we will reserve 

 for the next number. 



EDITOES' LETTER BOX. 



Perryville, Perry Co., Mo., May 1, 1869. 



Mr. Editor : Dear /Sir — Two years 

 ago I received about 400 grape roots, 

 of different varieties, from you -, they 

 promise this year a very fair crop for 

 their age (the thii'd year). Among 

 them were 100 Cassady, and I am 

 sorry that I did not know at that time 

 the right place (the north side) to 

 plant them. As a Labrusca, I planted 

 them on a limestone hill sloping to 

 south and north ; on the latter side 

 they grew vigorous, on the south side 

 the foliage scoi'ches badl}^, but those 

 rows Avhich are shaded by the adjoin- 

 ing Concord vines ai'e doing first-rate ; 

 they show this year plenty of forms. 



About Cunningham, Herbemont,. 

 etc., I will I'eport this fall, if it is of 

 interest tb you to hear something' 

 from Southeast Missouri, a country 

 entii'ely different in soil from Her- 

 mann. In our deep, red, porous sub- 

 soil, the Delaware grows nearly as 

 vigorous as the Virginia Seedling, 

 drops its leaves about one week ear- 

 lier than the Concord, and in the 

 fourth year I was compelled to train 

 my vines on the lateral system for 

 fruit canes. On the other hand I am 

 not well pleased with the Concord. 

 My first jjlantation was on a somewhat 

 low hill, fronting to east, well opened 

 to south and north ; trenched the 



