90 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Trees are set out in a very careless way — perhaps cultivated a 

 year or two, then run over with grass, and nothing more is done 

 for them. But if a man will cultivate his orchard as he does 

 his corn-field, dressing his trees, pruning them properly, and 

 cultivating root-crops among them, using manures judiciously, 

 he will bring them forward so that in ten or twelve years he 

 will have an abundant crop of apples every year. 



The Chairman. The Chair agrees entirely with the remarks 

 of Mr. Clift. In referring to the glut of grapes in the market, 

 I alluded to the vines, and not to the fruit. We have not yet 

 begun the production of grapes for our country. 



On the 19th day of August we had 1,200 pounds of Concords 

 and Delawares sent from Southern Illinois ; and I may mention, 

 in connection with that fact, that we had from Georgia, on the 

 same day. Duchess and Beurre d'Anjou, and other autumn 

 pears. And I may mention also this fact, that as foreign grapes 

 grow very well in California, we shall probably have, within two 

 years from this time, Muscats, Black Hamburghs, and other 

 foreign grapes, in six days from California, sent to our markets. 

 But we have not yet got a grape apiece for our population — 

 certainly not a bunch. 



I should be guilty of neglect if I did not recognize, whenever 

 the grape is alluded to, the gentleman whose name is immortal- 

 ized as the producer of the Concord grape. No occasion like 

 the present can be complete, unless we hear from Mr. Bull. 



Hon. E. W. Bull, of Concord. It was not my intention to 

 say a word here this evening, if I could avoid it, though, I con- 

 fess, I came into this room with some misgivings ; for I was 

 warned by the orator, in advance, that he should probably run 

 against my opinions, and I feared it would lead to a conflict 

 which I could not avoid. I need not say how gratified I have 

 been with that discourse of his. I find in his experience, in 

 other localities, not that which upsets the propositions I have 

 had the honor to offer to this Board before, but that which, in 

 almost every respect, corroborates them — that too close plant- 

 ing, too close pruning and summer pinching, are pernicious to 

 the grape, and that to avoid mildew and blight, and other grape 

 diseases, you must give them room according to their strength. 

 His position is, that the American grape, the hardy grape, must 

 have extension ; and he has brought to your attention the fact 



