nine] tons of grapes 



remarkable productions, Moore's Early and Dia- 

 mond. 



Looking over select lists of grapes, I often won- 

 der if we hopelessly differ in our tastes, or if those 

 who make the lists have ever tasted the grapes they 

 advertise so confidently. I have grown eighty vari- 

 eties, besides a large number of seedlings of my 

 own, and I am constantly compelled to protest 

 against the dissemination of many of those that are 

 sent out as of the highest quality. 



If set down to the selection of half a dozen best 

 grapes, I should begin with Worden, black; Herbert, 

 black; Niagara, white; Hayes, white; Eldorado, 

 white; Brighton, red; and Lindley, red. Already I 

 am running over my number, yet am loth to leave 

 out Goertner. Lady is as good a white grape as has 

 yet been produced, and it is the earliest of all good 

 sorts, but with me it bears very few and poor clus- 

 ters. I think the difficulty is largely due to lack of 

 self-poUenization. I have not found it easy to sup- 

 ply this lack. Jefferson should come into the list 

 of prime sorts for a homestead as far north as South- 

 ern New York. It does not always ripen in this 

 latitude, although the vine and fruit are perfectly 

 hardy. In all the list of excellent varieties the two 



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