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turn as any American grape. He had a vineyard of five acres of Isabellas, which 

 had never failed in ten years to ripen the crop, though he did not mean to assert 

 that it ripened all the grapes. Four years ago, that piece of land paid him, at ten 

 cents a pound for the product, three thousand two hundred and sixty-four dollars. 



Mr. Shaw of Middlesex, Yates County, said his choice of all varieties was the 

 lona, and, next to it, the Diana. The latter had always borne good crops, with 

 the fruit evenly set, and had been the most profitable of any variety he had cul- 

 tivated. The Lydia was an excellent white grape, and had not shown any 

 disease. 



Mr. Wagener of Crooked Lake had one piece of lonas that had borne 

 crops for two years, and had done well. The vines grew satisfactorily, and bore 

 heavily of well-ripened fruit. They were as ripe on the 15th of September as the 

 Catawbas were on the 15th of October. The Israellas had done well, and were 

 sufficiently advanced to send to market the first of September. The Creveling 

 bore scattering and loose clusters, though planted in with other varieties. He 

 regarded the lona as best, the Delaware next, and, perhaps, the Catawba and 

 Diana next. For an early grape, he would plant the Israella. It had proved 

 with him to be a good keeper, being good until the following January, and retain- 

 ing its flavor well. 



Mr. Underbill of Broctoa called the attention of the association to an insect, 

 which, in his locality, had committed ravages upon young vines. Two years 

 since, he discovered in August, in a vineyard planted that year, that the leaves of 

 his Delawares, Israellas, and lonas, and especially Adirondacs, were badly rid- 

 dled by a little drab-colored bug nearly a quarter of an inch long, which so set 

 back the growth, that, at the end of the season, the roots were but little stronger 

 than when they were set out. The past year, he looked out for the trespasser, 

 and applied slacked lime early in the morning. He was inclined to believe it 

 checked their operations, though not certain that it was the best remedy. 



Hon. E. B. Pottle of Naples, E. F. Underbill of Brocton, F. L. Perry of Ca- 

 nandaigua, Dr. E. Van Keuren of Hammondsport, Dr. A. Bushnell of Peekskill, 

 and C. L. Hoag of Lockport, were appointed a committee to investigate, in their 

 respective localities, the causes of the diseases of the vine, and its enemies, and 

 the best remedies ; each member of the committee to report at the next annual 

 meeting. 



It was decided to hold the second annual fair of the association at Canandai- 

 gua, on the fifth and sixth days of October, 1869 ; and the next winter meeting 

 at Rochester, on the third Tuesday in January, 1870. 



Ploughing Orchards. — The following experiment by Mr. H. Dayton of 

 Alden, Erie County, N.Y., is better than a column of theorizing. His orchard 

 of two acres and a half, which had produced very little fruit for a number of 

 years, and most of that wormy, was carefully ploughed less than two inches 

 deep late last fall, and harrowed and cultivated two or three times in the early 

 part of the present season. The result is, he has picked, this fall, over four hun- 

 dred and fifty barrels of fine, smooth apples, bringing in about sixteen hundred 

 dollars. The soil was a sandy gravel, and had been in grass about ten years. 



