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The Grape Culturist. 



EDITOE'S LETTER BOX. 



Arenzville, January 20, ]870. 



Mr. Geo. Husmann, Bhiffton, Mo. : 



Dear Sir : In the December num- 

 ber of the Grape Culturist, 3-011 are 

 expressing a doubt, whether you will 

 continue the publishing of the Grape 

 Culturist or not; but I would ea}^, 

 "Do not give np the ship/' and I 

 hope that you will get enough sub- 

 scribers, so that you will be enabled 

 to go ahead with it. Please set me 

 down as one of your subscribers. I 

 would enclose you the subscription 

 price, but I have hopes of getting up 

 a small club here, and I will send the 

 money together. 



I see in the description of varieties 

 you give in one number of the 

 Grape Culturist, that you have not 

 fruited the Miles there. I will give 

 you my experience with it. About 

 three years ago I received of George 

 W. Campbell, of Ohio, among others, 

 three vines of the Miles. They grew 

 well, and this last summer they bore 

 a small crop of grapes, bunches small, 

 berries medium, of a poor frost flavor. 

 It has nothing to recommend it, save 

 its easiness of propagation of the 

 • wood, of which every eye, with a 

 little care, will grow, and make a 

 strong plant in one jear. It is a day 

 or two earlier than Hartford, but can 

 bear no comparison with it in yield 

 and quality of fruit. I don't want it. 

 Mottled bore a few bunches of 

 small size, berries medium, finely 

 colored, but the vines lost their leaves 

 too soon. I cannot call it valuable. 

 Could I have but three grapes for 

 table and wine, I would select, with 

 jny present experience, the folloAying : 



Creveling, Delaware, Cynthiana; with 

 three more, they would be Concord 

 Hartford, Norton's Virginia ; but have 

 also good hopes of the Martha, Her- 

 bemont, llulander, and some of 

 Piodger's Hybrids, all of which fruited 

 with me the last summer. 



If I can make it convenient next 

 summer, I shall visit Bluffton and 

 Hermann sometime. 



Yours truly, 



Henry Tiemeyer. 



[TJianks for your notes on those 

 grapes. Shall be glad to see 3-ou any 

 time. — Ed.] 



Warsaw, III,, January 31, 1870. 



Editor ; I have an acre of Cataw- 

 bas that have never succeeded very 

 well that I intend to take up in Springy 

 and would like to have you name 

 some grape to replace with. I want a 

 grape that is hard}^, that will make a 

 white wine, and that will also do for 

 market. The land laj's on a ridge,, 

 about 100 3'ards wide with deep hol- 

 lows on each side. Is a blue or gray 

 loam with cla}^ subsoil. Have now 

 Concord, Clinton and J^orton's. Have 

 seen Martha and Rogers' JSTo. 1 spoken 

 well off; which of the two is best for 

 me. Respectfully, Subscriber. 



[Both of the varieties you mention, 

 would, we think, suit your purpose f 

 they are both so good that we are un- 

 decided which to give the preference^ 

 Goethe is the largest and most showy 

 grape of the two, ripens late, and 

 will keep well. Martha ripens before 

 the Concord, and would do well for 

 earlier marketing. Plant both and 

 you cannot go amiss. — Editor.} 



