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The Grape Gulturist. 



yariety), 64; Adirondac, 83 ; Israella, 

 86. 



The following is the result of the 

 test lor acid, the numbers denoting that 

 the must contains so many one hun- 

 dred thousandth pai'ts of acid. As 

 with the saccharometer test, when more 

 than one sample was tried, the highest 

 result is given : 



Catawba, 775; Isabella, 710; Diana, 

 675 ; lona, 775 ; Delaware, 560 ; Wal- 

 ter, 375 ; Earitan, 560 ; Eumelan, 400 ; 

 Putnam, 400; Norton's Virginia, 900; 

 Clinton, 1000 ; Concord, 550; Theo- 

 dosia, 1330 ; Israella, 500. 



The meeting was one of great inter- 

 est, as well as benefit to the grape- 

 growing community, in obtaining and 

 recording facts in regard to the grape 



crop of this remarkable year, which in 

 future time will be of great interest in 

 the history of grape culture. What 

 added much to the pleasure of the 

 occasion was a collation and speeches 

 at the close of the first day, and still 

 more, the presence of the ladies at a 

 collation in the middle of the day. 



For this report we are under obliga- 

 tions to the Chairman and Secretary of 

 the Special Committee. The official 

 report of the Secretar3^ will contain, be- 

 sides the result of the tests, a state- 

 ment of the soil, exposure, cultivation, 

 distance apart, mode of pruning and 

 training, age of vines, and time of 

 picking, from which it is hoped that 

 useful deductions may be drawn. 



Friend Husmann : 



What cheers me most in the No- 

 vember number of the Grape Cul- 

 TURisT, is your report on the Louisi- 

 ana. At the same time, our friend, 

 Sam Miller, writes to me: '^I deem 

 the Louisiana perfection itself; it is 

 the quintessence of a serious thing ; 

 I never knew its real value, until re- 

 cently, as' a late grape." 



I will add, that year by year, and 

 without failure, the Louisiana jdelds 

 me a full crop of beautiful fruit, 

 makes at the same time a very con- 

 siderable growth of sound wood, keeps 

 its foliage as Avell as any of our hard- 

 iest varieties, and will endure even a 

 higher degree of winter frost than the 

 Herbemont, Cunningham, etc. It did 

 not suffer by the late frost in April 

 last, as the Herbemont did. Yet it 



is more tender than the Labrusca va- 

 rieties, and chiefly adapted for the 

 latitude of St. Louis and further south. 

 Its seedlings are altogether hardy and 

 of firmer w^ood; very likely fit for 

 higher latitudes. I hive my Louisi- 

 ana vines on a spot in my vineyard 

 by no means peculiarly favored. The 

 exposure is a western one, the ground 

 nearly level, consisting of sandy loam, 

 only tolerably rich, receiving some 

 manuring by ashes scattered over, 



I am confident, Mr. Editor, your 

 hope " that the Louisiana will make 

 the finest white wine in your cellars," 

 will not be disappointed; it makes 

 precisely that sort of wine which 

 stands highest in the estimation of 

 European connoisseurs. 



Frederick Muencii. 



