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varieties were not thoroughly ripened ; that in some varieties the wood 

 was rather soft to the l-cnifc, in others tlie upper halves of the canes (grown 

 four feet high on the double-arm plan) were green. This unripened con- 

 dition of the wood left the vine in a too tender state to resist the cold, and 

 especially the repeated thaws, of the winter ; and though I took great care to 

 shorten the arms of such vines, and to give them more covering than be- 

 fore,- they suffered to such an extent, that I had not more than a third of 

 my usual crop. The bunches and berries were small, and the flavor more 

 or less injured ; the skin being very acid, and irritating to the lips and 

 mouth. 



The vines which came through the season unaffected were the Delaware, 

 Creveling, Hartford Prolific, Northern Muscadine, and Clinton. Among the 

 affected vines, the Concord and the Josephine were the least injured : all 

 the other vines suffering more or less ; some, including nearly all those 

 planted last fall, being destroyed. You can judge of the grapes we are 

 growing in this North-West by the list I exhibited at our State Fair in Sep- 

 tember last. The Delaware never before so fine, the Creveling ditto, Clin- 

 ton ditto, Hartford Prolific and Northern Muscadine ditto. The Concord 

 and Josephine never before injured with me ; Rogers's Hybrids Nos. i, 2, 

 4, 9, 15, always before this season doing splendidly; Isabella, Anna, Allen's 

 Hybrids (this year affected with mildew and rot). Union Village, Rebecca, 

 Mount Lebanon, To Kalon, Ives's Seedling, Diana, Cassady, Charles, 

 Hyde's Eliza, and Catawba, all more -or less injured, but ripe, with 

 the exception of the Catawba, which, though it grows fine bunches, has 

 never ripened with me. The Mount-Lebanon, exhibited for the first time 

 here, is poor in every respect, smaller than the Charter Oak, but of the 

 same character, and worthless. Its odor is offensive. The Janesville, oui 

 new seedling, ripe, but injured. The Charles, first time exhibited at oui 

 State Fair, is little or no better than the Clinton, which it very much resem- 

 bles. In all, twenty-six varieties ; nearly all of these varieties, and some 

 others I have exhibited before, excepting the Catawba, having ripened 

 thoroughly, and done well. 



Rogers's No. 3, Adirondac, and Norton's Virgina, bearing-vines, were 

 killed to the ground, and the Cuyahoga killed outright. 



yoseph Hobbins. 



