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The Grape CuUurist. 



Goethe — Splendid in every respect. 

 Fine fruit, fine foliage, fine growth, a 

 perfect feast to the eye. 



Hartford — A very abundant crop, as 

 usual. 



Herhemont. — The crop is scant, for 

 the same causes which aftected the 

 Cunningham, but we hope to bring it 

 in next year. 



Herbert. — (Eogers' 44.) Young yet, 

 vine healthy, quality of fruit very fine, 

 even better than Wilder, which it much 

 resembles. Very promising. 



Hermann — A splendid crop of very 

 perfect fruit. The most promising new 

 "wine grape we know. 



Hettie — Very indifferent, of the Isa- 

 bella type. 



Huntingdon — Small bunch, small 

 berry, sets abundantly, but ripens un- 

 evenly, and drops badly. 



Zona — Behaved better this season 

 than we have ever seen it. Has a 

 good crop of fair fruit, on the only 

 vine we have. 



Israella — Also tolerably fair, but in 

 our opinion not equal to Creveling, and 

 certainly not earlier. — E^ditor.] 



[Continued in our next.] 



Editor Grape Culturist : 



I see that you are publishing reports 

 from different localities on Grape 

 Growing and Wine Making. Perhaps 

 a few lines from Miami county, Kan- 

 sas, would be interesting. 



I commenced dabbling in grapes in 

 1863-4, as you know, for I purchased 

 some of you. I planted mostly Clin- 

 ton and Concord, and have a speci- 

 men of about twenty other varieties, 

 but I have not given them as thorough 

 cultivation as I Avould like. I have 

 no horse, and I have to depend on 



hiring, and consequently I cannot 

 have Avork done when it ought to be. 

 I have about six hundred Concords in 

 full bearing, and five hundred Clin- 

 tons planted, SxlO feet. I think that 

 about the right distance ; would plant 

 that distance if I were to plant one 

 hundred acres. Concord and Clinton 

 are bearing good crops ; Clinton 

 sheds the leaves and rots some. Most 

 of the fancy grapes are worthless 

 with mo. The AValter, I paid five dol- 

 lars for, has not made any progress 

 in two years; just as large now as 

 when I planted it. Adirondac — I paid 

 thirteen dollars to get a start at that — 

 it proves an entire failure Creveling 

 is not adapted to my soil. Catawba, 

 Isabella, and some other varieties are 

 doing better this year than usual. I 

 have a single specimen of lona grow- 

 ing on a fine sandy loam, on the top 

 of a hill, that appears to do Avell ; I 

 shall experiment further in that direc- 

 tion with other varieties. 



There are growing, in Miami county, 

 about fifteen acres of grapes of vari- 

 ous kinds, and by as many persons. 

 Wo are not as enthusiastic as when 

 we first entered the arena, but we are 

 not entirely discouraged. I com- 

 menced with nothing, and had to 

 experiment and find out Avhat varie- 

 ties would grow and make good Avine. 

 I think if I had planted Norton's Vir- 

 ginia, in the place of so many Clinton 

 and Concord, 1 should have done 

 better. 



I made about one hundred gallons 

 of wine last fall, as an experiment ; 

 mashed the grapes and pressed them 

 with one of Hiebek's apple mills; 

 fermenting on the lees from twenty- 

 four to thirtA'-six hours, and one lot I 



