Keeping of Grapes for Winter 



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Co., on Delaware — Second best, to 

 Pleasant Valley Wine Co. 



Best Still Catawba, diploma and 

 S20, to John T. Walter, Baden P. 0., 

 St. Louis Co., Mo.— Second best, $10, 

 to Bush & Co. 



Best Concord, (red) diploma and 

 S20, to Poeschel & Scherer, Hermann, 

 Mo.— Second best, $10, to Fred Will, 

 Hopewell Furnace, Mo. 



Best Concord, (white) $10, to C. D. 

 Yaeger, Webstei*, St. Louis Co., Mo. 



Best Norton's Virginia, diploma 

 and $20, Dr. C. W. Spalding, St. 

 Louis — Second best, $10, Bush & Co. 



Best Herbemont, diploma and $20, 

 Bush & Co. — Second best, $10, Poes- 

 schel & Scherer, Hermann, Mo. 



Best Clinton, diploma and $20, to 

 H. Clagett, Gray's Summit — Second 

 best, $10, same. 



Eed Wine, any other grape_, $10, to 

 Poeschel & Scherer. (Ives' Seedling 

 and Cynthiana). Second best, $5, to 

 Bush & Co. 



White Wine, any grape, $10, to 

 Buskett, Provinesit Co. — Second best, 

 $5, to Poeschel & Scherer, Hermann. 



Grapes, samples from one-half acrfr 

 vineyards, $20, to J. J. Kelley, Web- 

 ster, Mo. — Second best, $10, to E. E. 

 Mason. 



Catawba, six bunches, $5, to Bush 

 &Co. 



Concord, six bunches, $5, to Mrs. 

 Beardsley, St. Louis county. 



Virginia Seedling, six bunches, $5, 

 to Bush & Co. 



Grapes, six bunches, any variety, 

 Mi'S. Beardsley. 



Grapes, collection, six bunches of 

 each, $20, to Bush & Co. 



Grapes, foreign hot-house, $5, Alex- 

 ander Mitchell, Milwaukie, Wis. 



Gi'apes, collection of field, $5, to 

 Bush & Co. 



Grapes, largest and best bunches 

 on one vine, $10, Bush & Co. 



Any other infoi'mation required, 

 will afford me pleasure to furnish at 



any time. 



Yours truly, 



G. O. Kalb. 

 [Mr. Kalb will please accept our 

 thanks for so promptly and kindly 

 complj^ing Avith our request. — Ed.] 



For the Giiape C'ultukist. 



KEEPING OF GEAPES FOE WINTEE. 



Friend HusmaiNn : 



As a grape is always good to my 

 taste, as long as it is not spoiled, 

 whether in season or out^ I under- 

 took last fall to put up some to see 

 how long they could be kept. Thus 

 far my success has not been what I 

 expected. Ives, which was recom- 

 mended as a good keeper, has shriveled 

 up; and is to my taste more foxy than 

 when gathered. The skin seems thicker 



and tougher. The quality is hardly 

 good enough to make it worth keep- 

 ing, even if easily kept. Eentz; 

 which seemed so plump and solid^ 

 gave way first. Telegraph next, it 

 being too early for a keeping grape. 

 The Concord, which in my opinion 

 could not be kept over a month after 

 gathering, have done the best, a sam- 

 ple of which accompanies this. My 

 mode of keeping them has been in 



