Reports on Grapes. 



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Oar State Fair promises to be a 

 grand affair this season ; will come off 

 tlie r2tli of October next. 



Hoping to hear from j^ou at your 

 earliest convenience, I remain, 

 Yours, respectfully, 



Theo. Jacobi. 



[We are glad to hear so good a re- 

 port from our sister State, and shall be 

 glad to give the vine you speak of a trial. 

 —Ed.] 



Savanxaii, Mo., August 27, 1869 



Geo. Husmann, Esq. : 



Dear Sir: The only grapes planted 

 to any extent here are the Isabella, 

 Catawba, Concord, Clinton and Dela- 

 ware. All except the Delaware have 

 rotted badly this season. The Dela- 

 ware has lost a few leaves, but its fruit 

 is sound and abundant. All the Dela- 

 wares hereabouts are on sf)uthern ex- 

 posures. I expect they will be about 

 perfect on northern and eastern expos- 

 ures. Summer pruning is not prac- 

 ticed here, but has been introduced 

 this summer, and I think the appear- 

 ance of the vineyard that was pinched 

 thoroughly four times before the mid- 

 dle of July will make comment on the 

 system unnecessary. The vines now 

 look beautiful. The fruit has not rotted 

 half so much, and is much larger than 

 on vines that were not summer pruned. 

 Vines trained to high trellises have also 

 done better than those on low ones. 



A little louse has injured the leaves 

 of the Clinton pretty badly. It appears 

 in great numbers, and causes a warty 

 looking knot to grow on the leaf, and 

 when in sufficient numbers will kill the 

 leaf, and make it look as if scorched. 

 Any preventive ? 



Yours truly, L. L. Seiler. 



[The insect you speak of we think 

 is the gall-fly, which is also very des- 

 tructive in some of the vineyards here, 

 on the foliage of the cordifolia varieties. 

 We have seen it so far on the Clinton, 

 Taylor, Hurttingdon, and Franklin. 

 The only remedy we know of, is to burn 

 the leaves when they have dropped, and 

 thus destroy the brood. — Ed.] 



Baltimoue, Md., August 20th, 1869. 



Messrs. Editors : In the August 

 number of the Grape Cultdrist your 

 correspondent at Bohemia Farm sug- 

 gests reports about the rot on Concord 

 (more or less prevalent this season), 

 and bj' extending them to other popu- 

 lar varieties, they ma}^ help to an ap- 

 preciation of different varieties for 

 different parts of the country. 



My vineyard is on a hill, the top 

 about 200 feet above the Patapsco 

 river, with a northeastern, eastern, 

 southern and southwestern exposure, 

 sheltered by high hills north and north- 

 west. Soil what they call here rotten 

 rock, a kind of clay shale. 



There has been a little rot on Hart- 

 ford, full ripe now, and Concord, now 

 ripening, say about two per cent. More 

 rot on Rogers' Nos. 3, 4, 15, 19. Some 

 mildew on Salem, one year old. Black 

 rot on the stem of the vine and on 

 the berries of Alvey ; not worth much 

 here on that account. Eot and mildew 

 on Israella; entirely worthless here. 

 No rot or mildew on Ives ; very sweet 

 now, fit for market, but not yet for wine 

 making. Christine, large berries, com- 

 pact bunches, sweet but not full ripe. 

 The Ives I consider the sweetest of all, 

 but Christine is very good here. Frank- 

 lin (planted last year), jet black, not 

 yet ripe for wine. Maxatawiiey, excel- 



