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compared with pears, tobacco, or vegetable gardening. None of the large 

 towns of New England will ever get grapes enough at five or six cents 

 per pound, and at that price they can be raised and pay a good profit. 

 I would recommend a trial of the Concord, the Diana, the Catawba, 

 and Isabella ; these are well known sorts, and wall ripen on the island 

 in great perfection. 



The display of apples was good, but the number of varieties was 

 small. The most prominent kind was a variety that probably originated 

 on the island, — they call it the " Pignose." I do not find it described 

 in my books ; it resembles in form, color, and taste, Somewhat the Yel- 

 low Bellflower, and is a valuable variety for the island. The follow- 

 ing varieties of apples I should think would succeed as well as the 

 " Pignose " : 



Summer. — Red Astrachan and Sopsavine. 



Autumn. — Mother and Gravenstein. 



Winter. — R. I. Greening, Peck's Pleasant, Ladies' Sweeting, Tol- 

 man's Sweeting, and Yellow Bellflower, and probably a much larger 

 list ; it is a well known fact that apples succeed the best that originate 

 near where they are cultivated. 



The display of pears was good but small, only showing that they can 

 be cultivated on the island with success. 



Among the fine displays of field crops and garden vegetables I 

 noticed very fine onions, and a valuable white turnip, and hard-shell 

 pumpkins, in great perfection. The climate, it is claimed, has the eflfect 

 to produce this variety. 



The butter on exhibition in the hall was of a very fine color, but 

 most of it was too salt to suit the taste of an epicure, and needlessly 

 salt to keep well. * 



The farmers of the Vineyard have somewhat neglected the cultiva- 

 tion of the soil for the, perhaps, more lucrative farming of the ocean. 

 But, gentlemen of the Vineyard, now that petroleum has, in a measure, 

 cut ofi" your fat voyages after the leviathan of the deep, you will have 

 more leisure to cultivate the beautiful land of your birth, and with the 

 dearest market in the world in close proximity, you can't help but grow 

 rich, and make the island a vineyard in truth as well as in name. My 

 hearty thanks are due to the officers and members of the society for 

 kind attention and hospitality. 



Henry R. Keith. 



