Editor's Letter Box. 



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BDITOE'S LETTER BOX. 



East Bethlehem, Pa., Oct. 14th, 1870. 



Oeo. Husmann, Esq.: 



Dear Sir — I am very much pleased 

 with your journal. Its teachings are 

 plain, practical, and alwa3's to the 

 point — just the paper the grape grower 

 needs. My name shall be upon your 

 list from this time onward, and also 

 my efforts to increase its circulation. 

 Have just closed up my grape crop, 

 making most of them into wine. Have 

 been guided by j'our book as far as it 

 was practicable to bring its teachings 

 into use in combination with D'Heu- 

 reuse's Air Treatment. Yes, I am the 

 :fir8t to test this discovery in our county, 

 and you may well imagine how anxious 

 I am to know the final result. 

 EespectfuUy, &c., 



John H. Jenkins. 



[Please let us know about your suc- 

 cess Avith D'Heureuse's Air Treat- 

 ment. — Ed.] 



Leroy, Coffey Co., Kas., Oct. 15th, 1870. 



Mr. Geo. Husmann : 



Dear Sir — I hereby acknowledge 

 the receipt of the September number 

 of the Grape Culturist. I think I 

 shall like to read it. I like the way 

 you have of answering questions. The 

 experience of practical men is worth 

 more, on any question, than any 

 amount of theory. Inclosed you will 

 find the inducement to send me the 

 Grape Culturist for six month's 

 *' trial." Please tell me through your 

 paper if it will ever pay to plant grapes 

 on ground rather poor for corn (in 

 dry years, but would grow tolerably 

 ^ood corn with plenty of rain,) with- 

 out manuring; gentle southern slope, 



clay sub-soil, no hard pan. Would 

 manuring after planting (on the sur- 

 face) answer as well as before plant- 

 ing? Would the grapes be as subject 

 to rot on poor, dry ground, where the 

 vines made but slow growth, as where 

 they grow more thrifty!' Is the Hart- 

 ford Prolific as good a bearer and as 

 hard}^ with you as the Concord? Will 

 the Clinton stock be as good as any 

 for grafting other kinds on? I had 

 several Concords to bear full this year, 

 the second year from grafting, on 

 Clinton stocks. I have not waxed in 

 grafting the grape. I don't know why 

 I should not ; I read I should not, but 

 could see no reason. I have not had 

 good success, getting only about 25 

 per cent, to grow. I grafted some by 

 common cleft, and some by side graft- 

 ing. Please give us your new method 

 of grafting the grape in your next, 

 and tell us why should the grape graft- 

 ing not be waxed as well as any other. 

 Please publish the time of ripening of 

 different kinds of grapes at Bluffton ; 

 it will enable one to plant for the whole 

 season. How will Mary Ann compare 

 with Concord in size of fruit and 

 growth of vine? Please answer, and 

 oblige. Yours, trul}^, 



C. C. How. 



[We guess 3'ou are a true Yankee, 

 by the manifold questions 3'ou ask. 

 We will try to answer ihem as con- 

 cisely as possible. Questions one, two, 

 and three may be answered together. 

 The soil need not be rich for grapes ; 

 one of very ordinary fertility, even 

 poor, will do, if stirred and worked 

 deeply' and thoroughly, and you need 



