Editor's Letter Box. 



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well filled tables of cake and wine; 



aud the thing was a ven' pleasant 

 affair after all said and done. This is 

 the end of the Ohio (irape Growers' 

 Association, said to have been killed 

 by wine. 



The truth of Ihe matter is, it was 

 killed b}- taking up the time of the 

 society in discussing the temperance 

 question, which should not have been 

 introduced. 



Yours, truly, 



D. O. ElCHMOND. 



[We think if the Society, instead 

 of excluding wine, had advocated its 

 general introduction, in the place of 

 ardent spirits, as a temperance measure, 

 it would have been more successful, 

 and have done more good. We do 

 not believe in the doctrines of men 

 who put on sanctimonious faces and 

 profess to be better Christians than 

 our Savior himself, who even changed 

 water into wine to promote innocent 

 hilarity. If they are too weak in 

 that respect, and must make sots of 

 themselves, even when drinking wine, 

 whj-, let them abstain ; but let them 

 not try to hinder those who use wine 

 as it was intended to be used — in 

 moderation. — Ed.] 



Elizabethtowx, Pa . Feb. 8th, 1870. 



George Hlsmaxx : 



Dear Sir: Enclosed find 82 for one 

 year's subscription to Grape Cultur- 

 IST for 1870. January No. received. 



I am glad to hear that the Grape 

 CuLTURisT is to be continued, and 

 hope it may receive the encourage- 

 ment it so richly deserves. I am 

 much interested in E. F. Underbill's 

 article in January number on '^ Treat- 

 ment of the American Grape-vine," 



and hope he may give us a better 

 method of training than any we yet 

 have. 



The grape here was only an aver- 

 age crop this season. Concord very 

 fine but Clinton was attacked by a gall 

 fl}-, which caused the leaves to fall 

 before the grapes were ripe, thereby 

 injuring the quality of the crop. 

 Young vines of Martha, Telegraph, 

 Ives', and several of Rogers' numbers 

 which bore their first crop gave pro- 

 mise of being well suited to our soil 

 and climate. 



Grape growing here is but in its 

 swaddling clothes, yet I think Lan- 

 caster county possesses a soil and 

 climate as well suited to the growth 

 of this noble fruit as any to be found 

 east of the Alleghany mountains. 

 Yours trulj", 



Addisox Eby. 



[We are sorry to hear that you are 

 troubled with the same enemy to the 

 Clinton vine, which threatens to make 

 it almost worthless here. We had sup- 

 posed that Clinton succeeded well in 

 most sections of your State. 



We like the spu-it which makes every 

 man believe he has a good if not the 

 best locality. It gives encouragement 

 to his efforts, lightens his labor, and 

 will bring success even against obsta- 

 cles where despondency would never 

 have achieved anything. Let every 

 one believe that nature has done a 

 great deal for him, and he will be all 

 the more willing to do his share also. — 

 Editor.] 



Mr. John Eeicherter, of Grasshop- 

 per Falls, Kansas, an old correspond- 

 ent and customer writes to us : that 

 all who have paid any attention to 



